Resonant and beautifully written, this novel offers a lyrical meditation on healing, a setting as soft and colorful as beach glass and a story that's both suspenseful and tender.Rice excels at weaving the familiar staples of popular fiction into storytelling gold; her talent for portraying both children at risk and good men scarred by circumstance also dazzles. Above all, this book--one of Rice's best in recent years--depicts the magical endurance of love with the sensitivity and realism for which she's known.

Luanne Rice is that rarest of all novelists who indelibly captures the defining moments of our lives. Now, in her acclaimed New York Times bestseller, she takes readers on an unforgettable exploration of the most elusive miracle of all: how a broken family might be made whole again.

Painter Honor Sullivan had the perfect love, the perfect fife,with her husband, a renowned photographer and sculptor-until the day John's passions led him to disaster, shattering their family and her heart. Since then, Honor has struggled to make a safe haven for herself and their three daughters at Star of the Sea Academy on the magical Connecticut shore.Now, years later, a mysterious letter in a familiar hand hints at John's return to the family he's always loved more than anything on earth. It will take nothing short of a miracle to heal the rift between father and daughters, husband and wife,the past and the present--but a miracle is exactly what is in the making at Star of the Sea Academy. The only guestion is:Do you believe ?