The Boundless Deep - Softcover

Brallier, Kate

3.8

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ISBN 10: 0765358093 ISBN 13: 9780765358097

Publisher: Tor Books, 2008

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Grad student Liza has long been plagued by vivid dreams of whaling despite never having seen the sea. Offered the opportunity to spend a summer on Nantucket, the one-time heart of New England’s whaling trade, Liza accepts, eager to see how well her dreams mesh with historical reality.

The answer is: all too well. Liza’s dreams become highly sexual; her visions of ship’s captain Obadiah Young grow increasingly intense. At times the past and present mix before her eyes.

Whaling museum curator Adam is skeptical about Liza’s claims of a past life—but drawn to her passionate desire to know the truth about herself and about Obadiah, who was accused of murdering his beautiful, younger wife. Liza’s attraction to Adam is intense—but so is her reaction to Lucian, whose cool silver eyes seem to glow with heat whenever they rest on Liza . . . .

In a single summer, Liza must unravel the riddle of her dreams, reunite lovers separated by death, solve a hundred-year-old murder . . . and figure out her heart’s desire.

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About the Author:

Kate Brallier is a fiction editor in New York City. She has spent most of her life summering on a Maine island which bears suspicious resemblance to her fictional creation. Seal Island is her first novel.

From Publishers Weekly:

Reincarnation and past-life recall figure in the efforts of Liza Donovan, a young grad student, to solve a 163-year-old murder via her dreams in Brallier's intensely romantic second paranormal puzzler (after Seal Island). Liza and her best friend, Jane Bryant, head for Nantucket for summer break to learn more about the long-dead people Liza has been dreaming about, in particular Obadiah Young, a 19th-century whaler. In a wild coincidence, Jane's Aunt Kitty owns Obadiah's old estate, where the ghost of his wife, Lucy, haunts the stairs she died on. On the resort island, the erotic heat rises in Liza's dreams and in reality as she starts to date Adam Gallagher, a hunky museum associate curator who helps her with her research. Jane's childhood friend and Kitty's godson, Lucian Theriault, offers additional romantic distraction as Liza tries to unlock powerful clues from her dreaming mind about what really happened on those stairs. Mystery buffs may find the action too ethereal, but romance fans should be satisfied. (Mar.)
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