Kirjahaku

Is there ever a good enough reason to let your children think you're dead? Fourth in the USA-Today bestselling Pacific Horizons series, in which characters facing tragedy, heartbreak, and painful family secrets are drawn to the wild beauty of the natural world. Breaching whales and howling wolves refresh their spirits, but only human love can heal their souls...Since leaving her home in Maine two years ago, geriatric nurse Mei Lin has done nothing but make mistakes. For penance, she took a private-duty nursing job no one else wanted - caring for a dying woman in a remote Alaskan town in the dead of winter. But affable optimist Mei Lin couldn't even get self-punishment right. She's been hopelessly happy in the welcoming little community of Gustavus, and now, as the summer sun lingers and the wildflowers bloom, she realizes that her real penance will be having to leave.Meeting British Columbian wildlife specialist Thane Buchanan seems like one more happy perk she doesn't deserve, but when she stumbles into a backcountry cabin and finds an elderly man unconscious on the floor, Mei Lin's streak of good fortune begins to turn. There is a link between the man she's falling in love with and the charismatic hermit who is determined to die on her - a link she can't ignore. The thought of deceiving the honest and straightforward Thane is unbearable. But what right does she have to untangle twenty years' worth of another family's lies? Plagued by unresolved demons of self-doubt, Mei Lin faces a critical, impossible decision... with potentially fatal consequences.

When she was a toddler, a tornado blew her world apart. Now it's happening all over again. Fifth in the USA-Today bestselling Pacific Horizons series, in which characters facing tragedy, heartbreak, and painful family secrets are drawn to the wild beauty of the natural world. Breaching whales and howling wolves refresh their spirits, but only human love can heal their souls... The newspapers called her "The Miracle Baby." The tornado that ripped through her southeast Missouri hometown killed four other people, but after being lifted up inside the funnel cloud and carried nearly a mile, 20-month-old Laney walked away. Twenty-five years later, meteorologist Laney Miller has made another bizarre journey. She's driven 2500 miles in the dead of winter to reach Vancouver Island in Canada. But when she wakes up in a Tofino hospital, she hasn't the faintest idea why she made the trip. Jason Buchanan has his own reasons for wondering why the clueless American made a week's reservation at his surfing hostel, given that within a few minutes of her arrival, she nearly drowns herself climbing on the rocks. The successful, socially in-demand sportsman likes his life just the way it is, but there's something about this woman that intrigues him, and it's a fascination he can't let go. He only wishes that Laney would trust him, because ridding her clear blue eyes of the fear that haunts them may require a whole other miracle.