Dana Underhill's artistic gift has led her all over the world in search of new oceanscapes. Her breathtaking underwater canvases evoke all the beauty and romance of the seas she and her beloved sister, Lily, have sailed since childhood. But when a shattering event takes Lily from her forever, Dana must leave her nomadic artist's life for the salt marshes and tidal creeks of their childhood home at Hubbard's Point, Connecticut, to become a mother to Lily's two young daughters, Quinn and Allie.

Twelve-year-old Quinn may be Dana's toughest challenge because she clings fiercely to private mementos of her parents. Already an expert sailor, Quinn is convinced their deaths at sea were no accident. Dana is also troubled by the puzzleof what could have gone so terribly wrong on that clear, moonlit night.

Support comes to Dana with the unexpected reappearance of an old friend, marine biologist Sam Trevor who has been in love with Dana for years. Dana cannot contemplate opening her heart again, but she and Sam discover that Hubbard's Point is the center of endless mysteries, and that many of the answers lie in the blue-purple depths that surge through Dana's paintings.

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When I first picked up this book a while ago, I liked it, but one day put it down and didn't pick it back up until yesterday. All I can is that I must not have been in the mood for a Luanne Rice book at the time, which is understandable since her work is deep and somewhat slow. I really enjoyed this book and loved the settings, characters, description, etc. Everyone is sympathetic and interesting in his or her own way. I especially loved the burgeoning relationship between Dana and Sam. I really don't know what else to say about it. Luanne Rice just has a way of lulling you into the lives of the people she writes about, including the ocean. Definitely a lovely book.

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