Category: Romance Type: Fiction
Copyright: November 12, 2010
ISBN-13: 9781594149207
Here is a journey to a new land, new hope, and new opportuniies for love that readers will savor.
Booklist, Whitney Scott
The sailing ship Merrywinds represents all the dangers and adventures of a tranasatlantic crossing to the New World, as well as hope for two young women with no marriage prospects in a tiny British village. Lacking much of a dowry, Gwenneth foresees her future as maiden aunt to her married brother's children, while her best friend, the orhphaned, dowryless Patience, must soon leave the convent where she has been raised. As they are transported over the Atlantic, so too, are readers as Griffey brings to life the sounds, sights, and motions of a ship at the mercy of wind that can quickly turn savage. Here is a journey to a new land, new hope,and new opportunites for lovers that readers will savor.
Excerpt
They were to sail at first light and there was quite a crowd waiting to board the Merrywinds. Patience looked up and saw a man in uniform standing beside he ship's railing. He was tall, stern and capable looking, as good looking as some of the posters the girls had seen of actors who played at the London theaters. He seemed completely unaware of this or any effect he might have had on the sea of humanity beneath him. His inattention mattered not; Patience's heart was gone, whether she willed it or not.
(large print will come out Dec. 2010)
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