Author: Melanie Dobson
Publication Date: July 1, 2012
Publisher: Summerside Press
Series: Love Finds You
It's
the height of the Gilded Age, but Elena Bissette's family has lost most of its
fortune. The Bissettes still own a home on fashionable Mackinac Island, and
they spend summers there in hopes of introducing Elena to a wealthy suitor.
Quickly tiring of the extravagant balls at the Grand Hotel, she spends her days
walking along the island's rugged coastline. There she meets Chase, a young
fisherman who invites her to watch the ships from an abandoned lighthouse. The
two begin to meet there in secret, hoping to solve a decades-old mystery.
Meanwhile, Elena's mother contrives introductions between Elena and the
island's most eligible bachelor, an elusive millionaire named Chester
Darrington. When Elena's two worlds unexpectedly collide, she will be in for
the surprise of her life.
Mackinac
Island looks like a place that I desperately want to be. My favorite flower and
the flower that I want to use in my wedding is a hydrangea, which is
beautifully adorning the front cover of this book. The landscape is beautiful and
it looks to be the perfect place to have a vacation home. This is the kind of
book that displays the “summer read” feel, and many dedicated readers know what
I mean! And not to mention this is actually a real place in Michigan, how cool
is that?!!
Here
is historical fiction that is well written. Have you ever read a book and it
seems like the words just flow? Like they may even flow off the page, that’s
how smooth they are? Please allow Melanie Dobson to do just that for you. I
have never been so entranced by the description of any certain setting until I
began to read about Mackinac Island, Michigan. What beautiful and not too
overly done descriptions! I honestly got caught up in a daydream. This was the
first book that I had read by this author only because this is the first that I
have heard of her!
Elena
Bissette is the perfect rebel without a cause heroine. She wants nothing to do
with love, marriage, or even finding a man to have all of this with. During
this time period those three things listed above are pretty inevitable for most
women. Elena loves her mother, but constantly defies her wishes for Elena to be
betrothed to Chester Darrington by summer’s end. I loved Elena from the first
time that she snuck out her bedroom window!!
A
lighthouse played a huge part in this story and it was so romantic and fit like
a puzzle piece in all the right areas. Elena met a stranger one night at this
lighthouse that she adored so much and it was where their love and connection
started to form and develop. Lighthouses are such majestic structures and this
one was no different. Just how a lighthouse brings in lost ships or ships
looking for land, it brought Elena in and helped her decide who and what she
wanted to be.
Even
though the plot was somewhat predictable as most romantic ones are, I still believe
that this book was a nice little escape for me for a few days. The perfect book
to end summer with!
***Many thanks to Litfuse Publicity and Summerside
Press for providing a copy for review***
Great review! The story seems interesting and i like the cover.
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