August 15, 2009
Returning to his sleepy Mirabelle Island home in northern Wisconsin after 15 years to recover from devastating Middle East war wounds, photojournalist Noah Bennett encounters a chilly town, a host of unresolved family issues, and his teenage love Sophie Rousseaunow his brother's widow and the mother of twins. A tangle of lies, false assumptions, and heartbreaking secrets underpin the emotional turmoil that bubbles to the surface with Noah's return. VERDICT Highlighting the eternal tension between safety and risk and the familiar and the unknown, this poignant, sweet, gently humorous story focuses on a pair of deeply conflicted protagonists and nicely sets the stage for the Mirabelle Island books to come. Brenna lives in Plymouth, MN.
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