Caden Wallis has suffered several devastating blows that have left him reeling. He’s lost friends and now his girlfriend to the ravages of war. He arrives on the Outer Banks for one final mission–to thank the woman who sent him a quilt while he was recuperating from his wounds at Walter Reed Army Hospital.
McKenna Dockery knows all about loss. She lost her mother at a young age, and her father has never been the same since he came home from his own war. She juggles the family business, her ailing father, and an aging grandmother. Much to Caden’s surprise, she–not some elderly lady–is the quilter. The quilt was something she’d begun for her future husband but shipped to the military hospital after the tragic death of her fianc .
When a man is found snared in a net and murdered on McKenna’s property, she and Caden must work together to bring the killer to justice. Each must learn to trust the other, or no one will be safe in the tangled web of conspiracy, greed, and deceit lurking in the tidal marshlands of the Outer Banks. A nor’easter, a sea turtle named Cecil, and a surf-crazy hound named Ginger conspire to bring these two searching hearts together through the vast and gracious tide of God’s love.
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Summary
From: Rebecca Maney
Book Title: A Vast and Gracious Tide
Book Author: Lisa Carter
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3.5 stars
". . despite the ocean breezes, white sand, and gorgeous sunsets, death had come ashore."
McKenna Dockery looked death in the face twice in just one day; once as she gazed upon the countenance of a life-weary soldier and then again as she stumbled upon a water-bloated corpse bobbing along the shoreline of Hatteras Island. Neither were pretty, but at least one of them had a future, if he would just choose to take it.
Caden Willis arrives on Hatteras Island with just one goal; deliver the blanket to M. Dockery and then walk off the end of the pier; literally and figuratively. He could never have imagined how one chance encounter with a lovely seaside dancer would change his course of navigation. She just wouldn't let him go. As Caden cautiously approaches life as an islander, he is accused of being involved in a dangerous string of crimes, which many believe to be the handiwork of a international drug cartel. He certainly can't leave McKenna now, can he?
There were so many parts of this story that were easy to love, and then there were places where the reader, characters, and story line subtly diverged . . . . .. but it by no means ruined anything for, "Here is love, vast as the ocean, Lovingkindness as the flood, When the Prince of Life our Ransom, Shed for us His precious blood."
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