Synopses & Reviews
After every storm there is a place to return to—
if you have the courage to follow your heart…New York Times bestselling author Luanne Rice has touched the hearts and lives of readers everywhere with powerful tales of love and loss...and love regained. In an unforgettable novel set on her beloved Connecticut seaside, she weaves a timeless story…
Artist Dana Underhill has always been a free spirit, traveling the world, filling her canvases with the mysterious colors of the seas she and her sister have sailed since childhood. Then on a calm, moonlit night an inexplicable “accident” occurs and Dana is called home to Hubbards Point to become a mother to her two young nieces, a challenge unlike any shes ever known.
As Dana and the girls struggle to begin a new life—and to find the truth about what happened to Danas sister and brother-in-law—help comes in the person of an old childhood friend. Sam Trevor is now a tall, striking marine biologist, and hes been in love with Dana for years. Although she cant begin to contemplate opening her heart again, together Dana and Sam will discover that Hubbards Point is the center of endless mysteries—and endless possibilities. And as Dana rediscovers her passion as an artist and a woman, she will find more than a lifetimes share of answers, magic, and love in the only safe harbor there is.
About the Author
Luanne Rice is the author of True Blue, Summer Light, Firefly Beach, Dream Country, Follow the Stars Home -- a recent Hallmark Hall of Fame feature -- Cloud Nine, Secrets of Paris, Stone Heart, Angels All Over Town, Home Fires, Crazy in Love, which has been made into a TNT Network feature movie, and Blue Moon, which has been made into a CBS television movie. She lives in New York City and Old Lyme, Connecticut.
Author Q&A
Q: What does the phrase “Safe Harbor” mean to you? How did it become the title of this novel?A: Safe Harbor is a state of mind…it’s the place—in reality or metaphor—to which one goes in times of trouble or worry. It can be a friendship, marriage, church, garden, beach, poem, prayer, or song. For Dana, like me, it’s her childhood home—a salty old house on a granite hill overlooking the sea. No matter what happens, no matter how dangerous the currents or how high the winds, I know that this is my protected anchorage. The truth is, it’s a very ruby-slippers kind of place. Click your heels three times… Even when I’m far away, all I have to do is close my eyes and go within myself to find the peace of a Safe Harbor. It’s in all of us, all the time.
Q: Readers meet Quinn first in this book. You bring her back in True Blue. What is it about this young person that compelled you to continue her story?
A: Quinn is wild, tender, tough, and vulnerable. She is my inner beach girl. I needed to bring her back in True Blue because I missed her so much.