The Lightkeeper's Woman [Mass Market Paperback]

Mary Burton (Author)

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: Harlequin (February 1, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0373292937
• ISBN-13: 978-0373292936
• Product Dimensions: 6.5 x 4.1 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,314,080 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

A Central Virginia native whose family's Richmond roots run as deep as the nation's, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Mary Burton graduated from Virginia's Hollins University and began a career in marketing. After a decade she left her job and began writing. Her first novel, a romance, was published in 2000.

Following that book, Burton wrote sixteen novels and novellas for Harlequin and Silhouette before entering the dark world of multiple murderers and their motives with Senseless, Merciless, Dying Scream, Dead Ringer and I'm Watching You, as well as her novella Christmas Past, which appears in the 2008 New York Times bestselling holiday anthology Silver Bells.

Her commitment to realism has led to eye-opening interviews with law enforcement, to forensic seminars and to the firing range. She is a graduate of the Henrico County Citizens Police Academy and the Richmond FBI Citizen's Academy, and has participated in Sisters in Crime's Forensic University program. Recently, she attended the Writers Police Academy in Jamestown, North Carolina. There she attended seminars on autopsies, undercover work and the motives behind murder.

Mary Burton is an avid baker and an accomplished cook. When not writing, researching or baking, Mary practices yoga, enjoys her miniature dachshunds Buddy and Bella, volunteers at the University of Richmond's Culinary Arts Program, attends professional conferences, and visits with readers and booksellers.

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars exciting second chance at love historical romance, January 31, 2004

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Harriet Klausner - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Lightkeeper's Woman (Mass Market Paperback)

In 1884 in his will her father asked Alanna Patterson to deliver a box to Caleb Pitt in Easton, North Carolina. She would prefer to forget Caleb, the man she always loved, but who rejected her offer of empathy and left her behind as he wallows in guilt. Still, Alanna honors her dad's request.

Former sea Captain Caleb Pitt lives in disgrace accompanied only by his feelings of guilt. His nightmares run rampant as he was the only survivor of the Intrepid, a ship he captained that sank. Filled with remorse and pain, Caleb hides on an isolated barrier reef off the North Carolina coast as a lightkeeper. A hermit saving lives from a distance is the life he believes he deserves. However, Alanna has arrived on his Outer Banks remote rock. She wants to hold him until he heals and even after that, but will he let her though he still loves her like she does him.

THE LIGHTKEEPER'S WOMAN is an exciting second chance at love historical romance that hooks the viewers by letting them feeling the anguish of Caleb and empathizing with the inability of Alanna to reach him. The story line enables the audience to feel the isolation of residing on an isolated reef so much so that readers will feel they are there. Fans of deep tales with strong protagonists will take immense delight with the terrific tormented tale of Alanna and Caleb, two souls searching for solace that can only be found with one another.

Harriet Klausner

0 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Electrifying!, February 6, 2005

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Nancy Compton (Boise, Idaho) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Lightkeeper's Woman (Mass Market Paperback)

Mary Burton does it again! This emotionally electrifying story will keep you engrossed from start to finish! Don't pass up this one!