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Awakening after his near-death experience, Brad has a new mission. He buys a lighthouse on the Hudson River, planning to turn it into a B&B. Grateful to have Brad alive, Bailey tries to make his dream her own. The lighthouse is beautiful, but the challenges—renovating, bringing in supplies by boat, navigating the locals and guests—are enormous. And then Bailey discovers a secret in Brad's past that compels her to question her husband, her marriage, and how far she'll go to keep them both. . .
Thoughtful and moving, The Things I Do for You exhibits a rare understanding of the joys, compromises, and small rebellions that lie at the heart of every marriage, and of the resilience and surprising power of love.
Praise for Mary Carter's My Sister's Voice
"At once a story about love and loss, family and friends, the world of the hearing and that of the deaf, My Sister's Voice satisfies on many levels." —Holly Chamberlin, author of Summer Friends
"Gripping, entertaining and honest. This is a unique, sincere story about the invisible, unbreakable bonds of sisterhood that sustain us no matter how far they're buried." —Cathy Lamb, author of A Different Kind of Normal
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- ISBN: 9780758279842
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- ISBN: 9780758279842
- File size: 630 KB
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- English
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Publisher's Weekly
December 10, 2012
In Carter's contrived but touching novel, New York City realtor Bailey Jordan faces a hitch in her plans to raise a family after a car accident and near-death experience leaves her husband, Brad, a changed man. Rather than children, he's determined to start a bed and breakfast, buying a possibly-haunted Hudson River lighthouse with money he's inherited. Furious when Brad does this without asking her, Jordan tries to tolerate his erratic behavior, which only becomes harder after he invites members of his online near-death experience group to stay with them. The couple gradually realizes that for their marriage to survive, they must delve into both their own deepest secrets and those of the lighthouse. Despite an interesting set-up, the story tries to cover too much ground and doesn't satisfactorily resolve its mysteries. Carter, however, realistically depicts her protagonists' marriage, showing how compromise can provide either a relationship's foundation or its stumbling block.
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