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First love unexpectedly returns, teaching the damaging power of secrets and the liberating lessons of love.
Ballantine
June 2006
Featuring: Phoebe Allen
368 pages
ISBN: 034548763X
Hardcover
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Women's Fiction
In this accomplished and dazzlingly written novel, Randy Sue Coburn brings to life with tremendous heart, humor and wisdom the Pacific Northwest enclave of Owl Island and its many unforgettable inhabitants. Widow Phoebe Allen has single-handedly raised a wonderful daughter and established a successful business supplying nets to the local fishermen, and now enjoys the amourous attentions of a longtime friend. When Phoebe learns that her old boyfriend Whitney Traynor has purchased a house neaarby, she must confront long-suppressed feelings for her charismatic first love, now a high-profile indie film director. For years Phoebe has concealed truths from her daughter and may now be forced to divulge them. As the past rushes toward to present like an inevitable tide, Phoebe must also confront the early loss of her mother, whose own mysteries are beginning to surface. Along the way, Phoebe discovers the life-transforming benefits of opening one's heart.
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