2016 Christian Book Award finalist (Fiction category)
England, 1940. Clare Childs knew life would change when she unexpectedly inherited the Maggie Bright—a noble fifty-two-foot yacht. In fact, she’s counting on it. But the boat harbors secrets. When a stranger arrives, searching for documents hidden onboard, Clare is pulled into a Scotland Yard investigation that could shed light on Hitler’s darkest schemes and prompt America to action.
Across the Channel, Hitler’s Blitzkrieg has the entire British army in retreat with little hope for rescue at the shallow beaches of Dunkirk. With time running out, Churchill recruits civilian watercraft to help. Hitler is attacking from land, air, and sea, and any boat that goes might not return. Yet Clare knows Maggie Bright must answer the call—piloted by an American who has refused to join the war effort until now and a detective with a very personal motive for exposing the truth.
The fate of the war hinges on this rescue. While two men join the desperate fight, a nation prays for a miracle.
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Summary
From: Rebecca Maney
Book Title: The Maggie Bright
Book Author: Tracy Groot
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"What in me is dark, illumine! What is low, raise and support!" - John Milton
Clare Childs was bequeathed a beautiful yacht from a friend of her father, whom she never met. The "Maggie Bright" has filled her dreams with aspirations of sailing the English Channel, never thinking for one minute that the boat held the kind of secrets that would propel her into a fight for her very life and jeopardize the lives of two men, who once introduced, become quite important to her. Armed with her quick wit and stubborn disposition, she courageously joins the battle to conquer evil in the only way that she can, she learns to pray.
Private Jamie Elliott has been issued an order; "Get him to Dunkirk. He's done something heroic." As Jamie and his comrades press forward to Dunkirk, the captain that he has been assigned to accompany is a candidate for the Victoria Cross, he is also seriously wounded and spouts line after line of John Milton's epic poem, "Paradise Lost". While Jamie and the captain trudge towards the hope of rescue, brave men and women from the shores of England prepare to shuttle them across the English Channel, in history's most miraculous evacuation ever recorded, utilizing every kind of floating vessel known to man.
Take a trip back in time when "God towards thee hath done his part - do thine." Beautifully and remarkably written!
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