Cloud Nine

Rice, Luanne

ISBN 10: 1441840478 ISBN 13: 9781441840479

Publisher: Brilliance Audio, 2010

Synopsis

Sarah Talbot never thought she'd live to see another birthday. But through indomitable will and expert medical care, she has beaten the cancer and reopened her bedding boutique, Cloud Nine. In celebration, Sarah's friends give her a special present: a ride over her upstate New York town in a chartered plane. It is on this flight that Sarah meets Will Burke, a former Navy pilot, whose outward confidence hides the wounds he has yet to heal.

A bond is forged between them. Now Sarah, determined to complete her recovery, decides to visit the isolated Maine island where she grew up—and where the two most important people in her life, her father and her son, are waiting. Will joins her quest. But the journey will be a heart-wrenching test of her courage, and becoming whole will require the one thing Sarah can least afford: time.

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Review:

Thirty-seven-year-old Sarah Talbot's lengthy battle with cancer forced her to put life on hold. But a clean bill of health has given her a second chance and she's not about to take anything for granted. Intent on living life to the fullest, Sarah reopens her bedding shop, aptly named Cloud 9, and plans a trip to Elk Island, a tiny island off the coast of Maine, where her unfeeling father and runaway son wait. Family reconciliation has long been her heart's desire, and Sarah knows that now is the time to mend familial fences. On the short plane ride to the island, she finds an unexpected confidant in pilot Will Burke, whose own personal demons make him the perfect conversation partner--and so much more. As Sarah struggles to communicate with the father she left behind and a son troubled by his own father's death--and his mother's illness--she takes refuge in the arms of Will and discovers a love she never thought possible, a love that will sustain the two in this life and beyond. Both beautifully written and well plotted, Cloud Nine is a moving testament to the eternal power of love.

From the Inside Flap:

n a while a novelist comes along who can illuminate the most secret places of our hearts--who can put into words the feelings we cannot...and sometimes dare not...express.  Luanne Rice is one such novelist and Cloud Nine is her most evocative, emotionally powerful, and compelling work yet.  It is a novel brimming with the beauty and fragility of life whose powerful message will resonate in your own life long after the final page is turned.

Sarah Talbot surely thought she'd never live to see another birthday.  But against all odds, she beat the disease that threatened to take her life and she reopened her bedding shop, Cloud Nine.  It is a new beginning for Sarah--a fresh start at life that few are given.  It is a time to take roads she always passed by, to experience a world she'd all too often watched from the sidelines.  And Sarah is determined to take every advantage of her newfound opportunity.

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About this edition

• Publisher: Brilliance Audio
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1441840478
• ISBN 13: 9781441840479
• Binding: Audio CD