Sara Stevenson, the youngest daughter of the lighthouse
architect Robert Stevenson, is used to living in high
society and indulging her every whim. She knows what she
wants, and she goes after it without any thought to the
consequences. Unfortunately, this time her heart longs for
a sailor named Thomas Crichton, and she knows that her
family will not look favorably upon their union. In their
minds, she deserves a man higher than his lowly station,
but Sara learns that love has no qualms about social
status. She plans to marry him without their knowledge,
but he never shows at their meeting place. Where could he
be? Did he change his mind?
Sara, ever willful, does not let his disappearance deter her
for she knows that they will meet again; however, her
family has other ideas about her future. When she
announces another secret, she finds herself banished to the
lighthouse on Cape Wrath. Her surroundings are rather
remote, and her companions are nuisances rather than
friends. Her rocky start eventually straightens out, and
Sara embraces her circumstances gradually winning over the
stodgy lighthouse keeper. Life is pretty mundane until a
package arrives that changes everything. How will Sara
respond? Will her life be flipped around once again?
Darci Hannah spins a wondrous tale of boundless love.
Sara, our beloved heroine, narrates the story, and she does
give a rather biased view of her trial. Though she feels
abandoned by everyone she loves by being shipped off to a
remote location, Sara never loses hope that her love will
find her. Mysterious goings on, startling revelations, and
unexpected visitors propel this story forward. Ms. Hannah
is an excellent storyteller and she weaves an unusually
poignant tale. THE EXILE OF SARA STEVENSON leaves quite an
impression, and I am sure that the characters will linger
in your mind long after the story has ended.
In 1814, Sara Stevenson, the well-bred but high-spirited
daughter of celebrated Scottish lighthouse designer Robert
Stevenson, falls in love with a common sailor, Thomas Crichton.
On the day of their clandestine elopement, Thomas
mysteriously disappears, leaving Sara heartbroken, secretly
pregnant, and at the mercy of her overbearing family.
Refusing to relinquish her hopes that Thomas will someday
return to her, Sara is banished to an eerie lighthouse on
lonely and remote Cape Wrath. There she meets William
Campbell, the reclusive yet dashing light-keeper who incites
her ire-and interest.
Soon Sara begins to accept her life on the cape and her
growing attraction to William-until a mystifying package
from an Oxford antiquarian arrives, giving intriguing clues
to Thomas's whereabouts. Through her correspondence with the
antiquarian, Sara slowly uncovers the story of her beloveds
fate.
But what she doesn't immediately grasp is that these letters
travel an even greater distance than she could have
imagined-as the boundaries between time and space unravel to
forge an incredible connection between a woman and a man
many years apart.
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