When their tragic past begins to resurface, can he help her remember the things she can’t?
After her mother’s death twelve years ago, Lynette Carlisle watched her close-knit family unravel. One by one, her four older siblings left their Nantucket home and never returned. All seem to blame their father for their mother’s death, but nobody will talk about that tragic day. And Lynette’s memory only speaks through nightmares.
Then Nicholas Cooper returns to Nantucket, bringing the past with him. Once Lynette’s adolescent crush, Nick knows more about her mother’s death than he lets on. The truth could tear apart his own family—and destroy his fragile friendship with Lynette, the woman he no longer thinks of as a kid sister.
As their father’s failing health and financial concerns bring the Carlisle siblings home, secrets surface that will either restore their shattered relationships or separate the siblings forever. But pulling up anchor on the past propels them into the perfect storm, powerful enough to make them question their faith, their willingness to forgive, and the very truth of all the things they thought they knew.
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Summary
"Somewhere in the recesses of her mind, memories hid. Memories so full with bitter ache that she'd buried them way down deep and out of reach. . . . But like it or not, they'd started to claw their way to the surface. And sooner or later, they would become real."
Lynette Carlisle is hanging on to the barest thread of hope, her father succumbing to the ravages of dementia, her childhood home bordering on the verge of bankruptcy, her siblings living their own lives in denial of hers, her nights filled with fragments of past nightmares; like her unfinished paintings, images are swirling just out of reach. And then there was Nick.
Nicholas Cooper practically grew up in the Carlisle home after his parents separated and his father virtually abandoned his only son in favor of climbing the corporate ladder. Best friends with Lynette's older brother Gray, Nick wound his way into the heart of the younger teen-age sister. Now back in Nantucket after a five year absence, Nick has joined his father's banking enterprises and is quite surprised when Lynette arrives in his office seeking financial advice. Maintaining a soft spot in his heart for the lovely Lynette, Nick gently urges her to consider selling their family's beautiful ocean front property to pay off their debts. Grief-stricken with the thought of losing her deceased mother's heritage, Lynette seeks answers to her present dilemma by trying once again to remember her past. It's a path that will unknowingly bring tremendous heartbreak before God extends His miraculous hand of healing.
Brimming with family drama and tender romance, Catherine West displays her budding talent with an ability to weave multiple story threads into one beautiful novel, and she does it well. "The Things We Knew" is a great book!
It was my pleasure to receive a copy of this book from the author in exchange for my honest opinion.
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