Pearly Ripples

Pearly Ripples, is dedicated to all the writers, poets and dreamers whose unwavering courage and creative expressions illuminate the world. Their presence makes the world a better place and fills me with hope and happiness! This anthology is my humble tribute to their remarkable contributions. I hope it echoes their spirit of hope!

Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.

When one door closes, another opens… David McKay had put Broken Yoke behind him ten years ago when he'd left to pursue his career—but that changed when he promised to help his frail grandmother fulfill her husband's wish to have his ashes scattered over a mountaintop. He'd expected the two-week pilgrimage to be tough, but it got even tougher when the trail guide turned out to be Adriana D'Angelo, the high school sweetheart he'd sacrificed to his ambition and still couldn't forget. Of course, neither he nor Addy ever dreamed that two people who were no longer in love would enjoy the strange twist of "fate" that brought them together again….

This magnificent novel transports readers to the world of a prominent Boston family summering on the New Hampshire coast, and to the social orbit of a spirited young woman who falls into a passionate, illicit affair with an older man, with cataclysmic results. The Fortune Rock's Quartet collects four of Anita Shreve's most beloved novels-Fortune's Rocks, The Pilot's Wife, Sea Glass, and Body Surfing-for the first time. The novels highlight Shreve's ability to illuminate women's lives across different eras and share a delightful detail: they are all set in the same coastal New England home, one that has inspired Shreve for over a decade. Any house with age to it can tell a million stories about the families who have lived there, and Shreve has been quoted as saying, ''You could base an entire life's work on the people who come in and out of a house.'' Fortune's Rocks depicts a spirited young woman at the turn of the 20th century who falls into a passionate, illicit affair with an older man. In Sea Glass, a young couple's new marriage is rocked to the core by the 1929 stock market crash. The Pilot's Wife brings us to the present day, where Kathryn is unprepared her for the late-night knock that lets her know her husband has been killed in a plane crash. Sydney, the heroine of Body Surfing has already been once divorced and once widowed by the age of 29, and finds the fragile existence she has rebuilt for herself threatened when two brothers vie for her affections. "There's something addictive about Shreve's tales," according to USA Today, and this quality is on full display in the critically acclaimed novels of The Fortune Rock's Quartet. No one writes more compellingly than Anita Shreve about marriage, family, the depths of our strength and resolve, and the supreme courage that it takes to love.