The Road To Hidden Harbor [Large Print] [Hardcover]

Anne Stuart (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 15, 2003

A New York Times Bestselling Author

Twenty years ago, a talented and rising poet disappeared in the Maine woods. Now English professor Molly Ferrell wants to write his story. In order to do that, she has to find out what really happened to Michael O'Flannery.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 115 pages
• Publisher: Thorndike Press; 1 edition (December 15, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0786260882
• ISBN-13: 978-0786260881
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.4 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.1 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,741,018 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

I've been writing since the dawn of time. A child prodigy, I made my first professional sale to Jack and Jill Magazine at the age of 7, for which I received $25 (admittedly my father worked for the publisher). Since then I've written gothics, regencies, romantic suspense, historical romance, series romance -- anything with sex and violence, love and redemption. I misbehave frequently, but somehow have managed to amass lots of glittering prizes, like NYT, PW and USA Today bestseller status, Lifetime Achievement Award from the Romance Writers of America, and a decent smattering of Romantic times and RITA awards.
I live on a lake in Northern Vermont with my incredibly fabulous husband. My two children have flown the coop, but the three cats do their best to keep us from being lonely.
In my spare time I quilt and play around with wearable art, and the rest of the time I write write write. Apparently women of a certain age get a rush of creativity, and I'm currently enjoying it. Too many stories to write, not enough hours in the day.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Anne Stuart is amazing!, June 22, 2004

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This review is from: The Road To Hidden Harbor (Hardcover)

Molly Ferrell comes to the small New England fishing village to end an obsession. Since she was fifteen, she's been possessed by the power of a young writer/poet Michael O'Flannery. His word spoke to her, reached her as no one ever had. Half loving the shadowy man who could create such passion, such beauty, she is embarking on writing a book at O'Flannery, about his life and his death, to find out what happened to the brilliant writer/poet Michael O'Flannery. Mystery surrounds his death. Supposedly, twenty years ago he took a gun into the forest and killed himself, leaving behind a set of near genius works that have obsessed Molly for decades. Only his body was never found. What happened to drive this genius to end his life when he was only twenty? Michael's writings touched Molly, reached her in a way men never did. So she is determined to exorcise the ghost of O'Flannery once and for all by writing this book about him, her final tribute of love.

Visiting his hometown, she is determined find out why a man of such talent would destroy himself - and maybe break her obsession once and fall. There she finds hard resistance in the town folk. An empty grave with a headstone, people that lock their doors or stop talking when she entered a room, and heavy, dogged resistance from Jake Marley, a carpenter, who hints there were other deaths in the town and maybe Michael did not kill himself, but was murdered. Instead of driving Molly away, Jake fascinates her nearly as much as the enigma of Michael. His
chilling warnings only makes Molly more determined to solve the riddles surrounding the writer's death.

Stuart owns the talent of dark, moody alpha/gamma heroes and she is flying high with this tale. She never lets you down.