It’s the height of the Gilded Age, but Elena Bissette’s family has lost most of its fortune. The Bissettes still own a home on fashionable Mackinac Island, and they spend summers there in hopes of introducing Elena to a wealthy suitor. Quickly tiring of the extravagant balls at the Grand Hotel, she spends her days walking along the island’s rugged coastline. There she meets Chase, a young fisherman who invites her to watch the ships from an abandoned lighthouse. The two begin to meet there in secret, hoping to solve a decades-old mystery. Meanwhile, Elena’s mother contrives introductions between Elena and the island’s most eligible bachelor, an elusive millionaire named Chester Darrington. When Elena’s two worlds unexpectedly collide, she will be in for the surprise of her life.
Melanie Dobson is the award-winning author of eleven historical romance, suspense, and contemporary novels including Where the Trail Ends, Love Finds You in Mackinac Island, Michigan, and The Silent Order. Two of her novels won Carol Awards in 2011, and Love Finds You in Liberty, Indiana won Best Novel of Indiana in 2010.
Melanie has been writing fiction since her first attempt to write a mystery when she was in middle school. Her first novel (Together for Good) was published in 2006-a story inspired by the adoption of her oldest daughter.
"My desire," she says, "is that the stories God has etched in my heart will give readers a glimpse of His love and grace even when they don't understand His plan."
Melanie and her husband, Jon, have two daughters. After moving numerous times, the Dobson family has finally settled near Portland, Oregon, and they love to travel and hike in both the mountains and the cliffs above the Pacific. When Melanie isn't writing, she enjoys exploring ghost towns and dusty back roads, line dancing, and reading stories with her kids.
More information about Melanie and her books is available at:
www.melaniedobson.com
