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    The Lightkeeper
    The Lightkeeper
    The Lightkeeper
    Audiobook11 hours

    The Lightkeeper

    Written by Susan Wiggs

    Narrated by Patrick Lawlor

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    Once, the sea took everything he loved…

    Jesse Morgan is a man hiding from the pain of his past, a man who has vowed never to give his heart again. Keeper of a remote lighthouse along a rocky and dangerous coast, he has locked himself away from everything but his bitter memories.

    Now, the sea has given him a second chance.

    A beautiful stranger washes ashore, the sole survivor of a shipwreck. Penniless and pregnant, Mary Dare is a woman who carries painful memories of her own.

    With laughter, hope and joy, Mary and her child bring light into the dark corners of Jesse’s world. But when their friendship turns to passion and passion becomes love, secrets from the past threaten to take it all away.

    “A classic beauty-and-the-beast love story that will stay in your heart long after you’ve turned the last page.” —New York Times bestselling author Kristin Hannah

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateMar 4, 2014
    ISBN9781480561854
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    Susan Wiggs

    Susan Wiggs is the author of more than fifty novels, including the beloved Lakeshore Chronicles series and the recent New York Times bestsellers The Lost and Found Bookshop, The Oysterville Sewing Circle, and Family Tree. Her award-winning books have been translated into two dozen languages. She lives with her husband on an island in Washington State’s Puget Sound.

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    • 4/5
      Jesse Morgan was young, energetic and in love when he married Emily. Jesse, Emily, and their friend, Granger Clapp were all three from wealth families and were friends. When Emily accepted Jesse's proposal, Granger became livid. No one knew that he was in love with her also. Jesse and Emily married and were happy and very much in love. Emily became pregnant and no longer welcomed Jesse to her bed. Being young and healthy this did not sit to well with Jesse who found himself a lover. He realized when his lover started to become very demanding that this could hurt Emily deeply if she learned of the affair. He made plans for Emily to sail to her step-mother's home so that she wouldn't be around when he broke it off with his lover. Unfortunately there was a problem and the snip that Emily sailed on sank and all were lost. Many years later Jesse is the light keeper in the very area where Emily's ship was lost. It was the mouth of the Columbia River in Washington State where the water empties into the ocean. Many ships have been lost there. One morning while Jesse is looking out toward the ocean he sees something on the beach that catches his eye. He ran down to the shore and looked again. After he removed the seaweed he realized that it was a young woman and she was pregnant. She was breathing, but barely. He picked her up and carried her quickly to his house. What happens now is the heart of the book. This is well written with great characters, a multilayers plot and a budding romance. I loved it.
    • 3/5
      Jesse Morgan runs away from his painful past. A beautiful stranger washes ashore from a shipwreck. Mary Dare, who is penniless and pregnant is escaping a painful past. Secrets are revealed slowly as they come to love each other.
    • 5/5
      The lightkeeper by Susan WiggsStarts out in 1886, Jessie Morgan is the lightkeeper and he feels a disturbance in the air and then notices something has washed up on the shore.He then notices it's a female body, a pregnant one and the town soon learns of her living there as the doctor has been to visit. They figure out where she came from and help her recuperate.We also learn of Jessie's past, his two best friends Emily and Granger and how things change forever one night...Love hearing of the mermaid quilt and apples-we've always loved the huge apple when in WA.Liked learning what hsi job is at the light house. I recall visiting the area ourselves and enjoyed the day. They do come together and with fears her married man will come for the child Jessie marries her.One woman with many children comes with others from town to congratulate them and Mary has an idea of how she can remain in town and make money to survive on....Mary tells him the man's name of the babys father and it sends Jessie into a deep dark world. He will get revenge on Granger this time, who's now married to his sister and she's miserable...Sex scenes as they draw closer to one another and just want to survive the winter long months.Granger appears to his wife who's at the cottage with Mary and David and they all leave together...Jessie can follow what happened with Anna's scent of gardenias and he gets in the boat to take care of them all. he can make it happen as the gale gets stronger and the light is out...From NLS for my BARD player.
    • 4/5
      An unconscious pregnant woman is washed up on the beach, and the lightkeeper grudgingly nurses her back to health, still grieving over his wife who drowned at sea. Strong characters and their emotions make this a powerful read, and I was sucked into this very atmospheric book. Mary was a spirited Irish lass, and Jesse was a tortured soul who still blamed himself for his wife's death. At times, though, I felt I was reading a contemporary story more than a historical one. as a lot of the written speech was very modern.