The Sound of the Sea
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Set sail to new adventures and escapes with eight best-selling authors in the exciting new Sail Away series!
Single and over sixty...
Those are the only boxes Jennifer Golden needs to check to be eligible for a ticket on the Silver Sails cruise line. She's taken a few solo trips with women her age, and she knows how to pack what she needs for a 2-week vacation in a single carry-on.
She's never done a cruise quite this long or quite this nice, but with her daughter now moved out of the house she's been renting from Jennifer for a decade, a son who's stopped talking to her, and the man she's been dating now out of the picture, Jennifer needs a break from real life.
She flies across the country only to board a ship to sail back toward Five Island Cove. Robin doesn't understand what she's doing, but Jennifer has never gotten along all that well with her daughter. Maybe she was too controlling when Robin was a teenager. Maybe she treated her worse than her other children. She doesn't know, but she knows she needs to find a way to repair the relationship with her only child still in the cove.
She doesn't expect to see Blanche Gibb on the ship, and she's shocked her college roommate and friend is even on a singles cruise. She discovers Blanche is healing after the sudden death of her husband, and she's come on the trip with her brother, Mitchell.
Jennifer has met Mitchell before, but this time, there's sparks flying between the two of them, adding to the magic of the Panama sunshine, lapping waves, and endless drinks above the deck of Sweet Sea Dreams.
She feels like she's fallen into a dream, but she still has familial relationships to repair, a friendship to nurture with Blanche, and a heart to heal before it can learn to love again...all before the ship hits land again.
Join USA Today Bestselling and Top 50 Kindle Unlimited All-Star Author Jessie Newton as she weaves another tale of friendship, romance, sisterhood, and the power of female relationships in all their forms.
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Book 1: Welcome Aboard – prologue book
Book 2: The Sound of the Sea by Jessie Newton
Book 3: Uncharted Waters by Tammy L. Grace
Book 4: A Not So Distant Shore by Ev Bishop
Book 5: Caroline, Adrift by Kay Bratt
Book 6: Moonlight On the Lido Deck by Violet Howe
Book 7: The Winning Tickets by Judith Keim
Book 8: Lost At Sea by Patricia Sands
Book 9: The Last Port of Call by Elizabeth Bromke
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9 primary booksSail Away Series is a 9-book series with 9 primary works first released in 2022 with contributions by Jessie Newton, Tammy L. Grace, and 6 others.
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Old. Not Dead. This is one of those nice women's fiction/ romance blends where instead of one or the other or both friends going on similar journeys, we get one friend going on one journey and the other going on the other - which is a nice divergence from the norm. That Newton manages to pack so much into so few pages is a mark of a strong storyteller, and that she manages to break the norms means she is a storyteller I'll be coming back to - as this was the first book I'd actually read from her (despite owning books under all of her names, in some cases for *years*). On the theming, this is more large luxury yacht maybe a *very* small cruise ship (such as the real-world WindStar cruise line) than a traditional cruise ship, but it works for the tale told here - and gives the author the timing she needed within story, as larger ships/ lines are not often at sea for this length of time (15 days at sea, iirc). The romance works well here, the women's fiction side - dealing with a more recent widow and how she has coped - works so well it almost jumps off the page in its realism. Overall simply a great - and short - tale, one perfect as a quick getaway whether you're at sea yourself or not. Very much recommended.
Originally posted at bookanon.com.