A Castaway in Cornwall

Pages: 400
Published: 2020
Language: English

Laura Callaway, orphaned and living as an unwelcome dependent of her uncle and his disapproving wife on Cornwall's smuggler-haunted coast, spends her days writing to the families of men lost to shipwrecks and returning their keepsakes to rightful owners. When a fresh wreck washes a wounded stranger ashore, she shields him from a local smuggler bent on silencing him — only to notice his cultured English hides an odd accent and an evasive manner. As Laura nurses him back to health and grows drawn to him, the truth about the man she comes to know as Alexander Carnell may be her only path to the answers about her own parents' fate. Set in 1813 North Cornwall, this Regency-era romantic suspense from Julie Klassen blends mystery and slow-burn romance along a wild and dangerous coastline.

Historical Fiction Historical Romance Mystery Regency Romance

Julie KlassenRegency · Historical Romance

Julie Klassen is an American author of Regency-era Christian historical romance novels, primarily set in Jane Austen-period England. A graduate of the University of Illinois, she worked for sixteen years in Christian publishing — including as an editor at Bethany House Publishers — before becoming a full-time novelist. She is a three-time winner of the Christy Award for Historical Romance and has also received the Minnesota Book Award and the Midwest Book Award. She lives near St. Paul, Minnesota, with her husband and two sons.

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Laura CallawayProtagonist

An orphaned young woman living as a dependent of her disapproving aunt and uncle on the Cornwall coast; she writes to the families of shipwreck victims and returns their keepsakes.

Alexander CarnellSupporting

A wounded stranger washed ashore after a shipwreck, whose cultured English and odd accent hint that he is not who he first appears to be.

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