Backcover Description: When a mentally challenged little girl is lost in a hurricane, her only hope for rescue lies with a former Recon Marine, whose injuries sustained in battle have left him blind.
Trish Evers is an artist and single mother, who has inherited her grandmother's Bed and Breakfast in a North Carolina coastal town. She longs to keep the old house and start up the B&B operation again, with the idea of catering to visiting artists. But not only would the venture be too expensive for her meager resources, Lookout Island is probably not the right place to raise Bella, her daughter who has Down syndrome. Reluctantly, Trish decides to spend one last summer in her childhood home, boxing her beloved Gran's possessions and readying the house for sale. Then one day, her daughter wanders off and Trish finds her in the company of a stranger, a blind marine.
From childhood, Dan Conway wanted nothing more than to be a marine. Now blind as a result of combat injuries, and unable to "suit up," he feels he no longer has a purpose in life. He's come home to a beach in North Carolina, where he spends his days in brooding solitude. Apparently seeing in the marine some who needs nurturing, Bella befriends him. Thus, she is transformed from someone who is being cared for to someone who cares for others. Dan must learn to trust in the future and to love life again, which he begins to do through his interactions with Bella and Trish. Then a hurricane strikes, and Bella wanders off again. Her only hope for rescue is Dan. Working within the confines of his blindness, he must overcome his fear of failure and access his training in order to search for the little girl in the middle of the storm, and bring her to safety.
Available March 1, 2011
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