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Author: Elizabeth Elliott King
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As tall, masted whaling ships fill the Nantucket Bay, happy families line the shore waiting for their husbands and fathers and brothers to come from the ships and join them while other families walk slowly away as their men leave for yet another hunt. Rebecca turns from the ever-repeating picture to walk along the water's edge. Everywhere she looks, she sees desolation. Seashells scattered amongst the driftwood like so many broken dreams. there are no clouds in te gray-blue sky to break the monotony of sameness.
A lone seagull flies overhead as if it searches for a companion that it will never find, and her heart aches for the loneliness she knows it must feel. How can anyone or anything endure being alive without someone to love?
Young Rebecca, daughter of Nathaniel and Meghan Lathrope, has left the endless sea and walks toward the cliff upon which her parent's house stands, her home since birth. She stumbles over some driftwood and looking down, see a tiny flower struggling to survive in the sand.
"That's how my life has been," she cried. "But not anymore, no, not anymore. No one can really live on this island and truly be alive.
So begins young Rebecca Kathleen Lathrope's search for an escape from the widow's walk...a desperate story woven against the backdrop of an antiquated society built through hardship, death, intrigue and love for the sea...
