Penny S. (pennys) reviewed on 10/3/2006 + 194 more book reviews

Painter Honor Sullivan has made a life got herself and her three daughters-Regis, Agnes and Cecilia- at the Star of the Sea Academy on the magicial Connecticut shore. Here she teaches art at the convent school's beautiful seaside campus over which Honor's sister-in-law Mother Superior Bernadette Ignatius, keeps a benevolent and watchful eye. No one could have foreseen the day that a single letter-mysteriously delivered by an unseen messenger-would change all their lives forever. Six years agom Honor thought she had the perfect home, the perfect love, the perfect life. Then her husband , the brillant, fiery photographer and sculptor John Sullivan, broke her heart - and tore their little family apart. Now John is returning to the family he always loved more than anything on earth. What he finds is one daughter unable to come to terms with the past, another who barely remembers him and a third who may be in more trouble than anyone knows. And then there is Honor herself-and a passion that may have been interrupted but that has never wanted. Some things, like sandcastles, don't survive the changing tides. But love, family, and friendship-just as fragile-have a way of standing against anything. It will take nothing short of a mriacle to heal the rift between father and daughter, husband and wife, the past and the present-but a miracle is exactly what is in the works at Start of the Sea Academy. The only question is : Do you believe?

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