Sea Glass And Fireflies
by Kate Ellington
GENRE: Romance
Elsie
Hayward moves into her uncle's seaside estate on what should have been her
wedding day. All she wants is peace and quiet, and to escape the guilt that's
haunted her since her betrothed was lost at sea. Any hope of tranquility is
dashed, however, when Charles Rockingham arrives in town. A lifetime ago they'd
been best friends and almost more. If there's one person she can't hide her
feelings from, it's him. Charles hasn't received a letter from Elsie in over a
year. He returns home hoping to recapture the deep bond they once shared, but
shadows of the past stand between them. One last secret must be revealed before
they can find their way back to each other.
Elsie Hayward cried through most of her wedding day. Or what
should have been her wedding day. Her betrothed, Gabriel, had been lost at sea
five months before. So instead of a white gown, she wore a traveling cloak, and
in place of the wedding march, she was listening to her mother trying to talk
her out of her impending journey.
Elsie had assumed that no more need be said about it, but
her mother had other ideas. She waylaid Elsie in the drawing room while she
waited for her father to take her to the train station.
“I don’t understand why you are so determined to leave.”
Mrs. Hayward stopped pacing and sat beside Elsie on the sofa.
“Uncle Max says I can stay with him for as long as I want
to. I’ll be better off away from all this.” Elsie waved her hand to indicate
the sofa, the drawing room, and the entire town of Holderness.
“But how can you be better off in Sherwood Bay?” Her mother
was not able to suppress a shudder.
“I like Sherwood Bay. I haven’t been there in two years.”
The solitude of Uncle Max’s home on the New Hampshire
seacoast was exactly what she needed right now.
“You won’t forget Gabriel there,” Mrs. Hayward said. She
crossed her ankles and smoothed the imagined wrinkles in her skirt.
BUY LINKS
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GIVEAWAY
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AUTHOR Bio and Links:
Kate
Ellington grew up in a woodsy New England town where summer days at the lake
seemed to last forever. She read her first historical romance at age eleven
when a teacher challenged her to find a book in the library written by an
author she’d never heard of. Thus began a life-long love of love stories.
After
graduating from college with an art degree she settled in the Pacific
Northwest, where she currently resides with her family.
Kate
wrote her first romance when she was sixteen, then set her pen down for years
until another story floated into her head out of the clear blue sky. She jotted
it down, just for fun, but soon it took on a life of its own.
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/29720924.Kate_Ellington
https://www.kateellington.com/
https://www.facebook.com/kateellingtonauthor
6 comments:
Thank you so much for hosting today.
The cover is really pretty. Looks great.
This sounds like a good book. Great excerpt
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Sounds like a really good read.
Great excerpt and cover
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