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In the traditions of Leila Meacham and Dorothea Benton Frank comes a sensational debut novel in regards to a well-born Southern girl who discovers courage and durability to defeat tragedy with an urgent new love. One afternoon in 1839, Emily Lowry's husband vanishes from Wreckers' Cay, an isolated island off the seacoast of Key Western world where he tends the lighthouse. As days stretch into weeks, Emily has no choice but to take fee of Wreckers' Cay and her husband's duties tending the light to aid her three children - and a fourth on the way. Unexpected help arrives whenever a runaway slave called Andrew washes through to their beach. Initially, Emily is intensely wary of this strange, alluring man, whose very presence you can find highly illegitimate. But Andrew proves himself a massive help and soon wins the hearts of the Lowry family. Far from the exterior world and society's rules, his devote Emily's life, as steadfast now as the light, will permanently change their futures. When Emily's family is ripped apart once again, she faces untold hardships that test her love and perseverance and show the way the passionate love of the defiant, determined girl can defeat any obstacle. Joanna Brady's book was influenced by Key West's colourful history and its own female lighthouse keepers in the 19th hundred years. She divides her time between Key Western world and a rock cottage in a medieval community in the southwest of France.
