“Rosemary Cottage” by Colleen Coble

Amy came to Rosemary Cottage to grieve, to heal, maybe even find love. But there’s a deadly undertow of secrets around Hope Island . . .

The charming Rosemary Cottage on the beach offers Amy Lange respite she needs to mourn her brother, Ben. She’s even thinking of moving her midwife practice to the Outer Banks community. It’s always been a refuge for her and her family. She also wants to investigate Ben’s disappearance at sea. Everyone blames a surfing accident, but Amy has reason to wonder.

Coast Guard officer Curtis Ireland has lost a sibling too. His sister, Gina, was run down by a boat, leaving him to raise her infant daughter. If anyone knew who little Raine’s father was, Curtis could lose his beloved niece. Yet he can’t help being drawn to Hope Beach’s new midwife, Amy. He even agrees to help her investigate what happened to both Ben and Gina.

Can two grieving people with secrets find healing on beautiful Hope Island? Or will their quest for truth set them at odds with each other . . . and with those who will go to any length to keep hidden things hidden?

You’ll have an inkling of who should fall in love with whom from the very first chapter of this book – but they won’t.  Better yet, you’ll fall in like with them, and you’ll keep turning those pages because you want good things for them – and they’re not readily forthcoming.  You won’t get bored, though, because you won’t be able to predict all the twists and turns in this story, which is what master storyteller Colleen Coble planned all along.

You won’t care that you can’t figure it out, because you’ll keep thinking that you have.  You’ll be able to piece a few bits of information together, sure that you’re on the right trail, only to have another mudslide come along and wipe out half of your supposition.  You’ll have to start all over again with the new information that the sliding mud uncovered, but that’s okay – you’ll be excited again to be on the trail of the answer.

With each page turned, your heart will become just a bit more attached to Hope Beach and its occupants.  With each patient of Amy’s you’ll pray for a safe delivery and for Curtis to come home after another daring sea rescue.  You’ll want Raine to be safe and for Heather’s motives to come to light and for someone to tell the lovebirds to get with it already and see the Cupid flying about overhead.

You’ll want to – but you can’t.  

They’re only characters in a book.

Only you forgot that.

It’s that good.

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