Miracle BeachIn a stirring debut novel, the discovery of a husband's troubling secrets after his death shakes his wife's faith in their marriage and herself. Macy Allen, an accomplished equestrienne, has relied on her horses and her husband, Nash, to pull her through. But after Nash dies in a tragic accident, Macy learns devastating secrets about his life that rock her belief in their marriage and herself. Nash's mother, Magda, blames Macy for her only son's death. When her husband, Jack, moves to Vancouver Island in a desperate attempt to feel closer to the son he's lost and never really knew, Magda's bitterness threatens to alienate the people she needs most. As this unlikely family questions how well they knew Nash and what love really means, still another surprise awaits them-an irrepressible child who will overturn all their expectations... |
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... smiling—almost laughing—at a story one of Nash's friends told, but it didn't feel right. Like outgrowing a favorite pair of blue jeans, it seemed Macy had outgrown happiness in one short chain of events. Her. The mare. Nash. She had ...
... smiling—almost laughing—at a story one of Nash's friends told, but it didn't feel right. Like outgrowing a favorite pair of blue jeans, it seemed Macy had outgrown happiness in one short chain of events. Her. The mare. Nash. She had ...
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... smile. She stopped herself then, midstride, and flipped through old memories until she found one where his features were whole and intact. Only then did she let herself step forward. But really, there was nothing the matter with her ...
... smile. She stopped herself then, midstride, and flipped through old memories until she found one where his features were whole and intact. Only then did she let herself step forward. But really, there was nothing the matter with her ...
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... smiles; another with the same man and woman in a rowboat, now much older, wearing life vests and each holding an oar, laughing; and the last a faded, reddishtinted portrait of a serious toddler posed behind a giggling baby, the baby's ...
... smiles; another with the same man and woman in a rowboat, now much older, wearing life vests and each holding an oar, laughing; and the last a faded, reddishtinted portrait of a serious toddler posed behind a giggling baby, the baby's ...
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... smiling babies still clutched tight against her breast. Upstairs, in her sewing room, Magda surveyed the shelf that ran along three walls and held framed pictures of every shape and size that had only two common threads: each was of a ...
... smiling babies still clutched tight against her breast. Upstairs, in her sewing room, Magda surveyed the shelf that ran along three walls and held framed pictures of every shape and size that had only two common threads: each was of a ...
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... smiling babies she had bought that afternoon at the estate sale between one of an AfricanAmerican toddler with wispy pigtails in her curly hair secured by purple bows, and another blackandwhite photo from the early 1900s of a wideeyed ...
... smiling babies she had bought that afternoon at the estate sale between one of an AfricanAmerican toddler with wispy pigtails in her curly hair secured by purple bows, and another blackandwhite photo from the early 1900s of a wideeyed ...
Contents
Chapter Five | |
Chapter Seven | |
Chapter Nine | |
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Chapter Eleven | |
Chapter Thirteen | |
Chapter Fourteen | |
Chapter Fifteen | |
Chapter Seventeen | |
Chapter Nineteen | |
Epilogue | |
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