Breakwater Bay
Author: Shelley Noble
Reading Level: Adult
Genre: Womens Fiction
Released: July 1st 2014
Review Source: William Morrow
An abandoned baby, a glorious old Newport mansion, and awakening romance combine in Breakwater Bay, an engaging story that echoes the flair, humor, and emotional depth of Kristin Hannah's popular novels.
Preservationist Meri Hollis loves her latest project, restoring one of Newport's forgotten Gilded Age mansions. And with summer approaching, she'll be able to spend more time with her Gran on the Rhode Island shore. She has a great job, a loving family and she's pretty sure her boyfriend is going to propose on her thirtieth birthday.
But everything Meri believes about family, happiness, truth and love is shattered when her family's darkest secret is exposed.
Thirty years before, Meri's neighbor and friend, Alden Corrigan, took his father's dinghy out to fish. In a sudden storm, he rushed to help a woman stranded on the breakwater. She was just a girl . . . a very pregnant girl who disappeared soon after they reached safety-But not before she left behind a very special gift.
Now that the truth it out, life will change for everyone in Breakwater Bay, and Meri and Alden will have to make decisions that could insure their future together . . . or separate them for good.
Revelations always catches my attention and this book opens with a life changer. Meri Hollis has an amazing family, a job she loves and a boyfriend. She thought she had her life planned out. On the day of her thirtieth birthday, she was pretty sure her boyfriend was going to propose. Instead, her family reveals a secret and turns her life around. On top of this, her boyfriend doesn't propose but tells her he is going away. What an awful way to start such middle age.
With such revelation at the beginning of the story, I was expecting more surprises, plot twists and well, drama. Unfortunately, the story felt short to my expectations. As the story proceeds, Meri begins to doubt her feelings toward her boyfriend. Yet she struggles because the one person she had always trusted, Alden, had known the truth and had kept it away from her. But as always, Alden is always and as promised, is there to protect her. I wish we could’ve read more about their new relationship as they discover their true feeling for each other.
Breakwater Bay is well written and well rounded in age group. Although the story did not exceed my expectation after the big reveal, Breakwater Bay is a book of discovery and new way to look at life.
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Sad that the story didn't stay as strong as the beginning
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