Dying Light

by Dianne Price

An orphan, raised in an Episcopalian convent, impetuous, outspoken, Jenna Rowan has always had two to have a family, and to live by the sea. Merrick Hope, an old friend of the Mother Superior, offers Jenna a single solution to both dreams. “Marry my son, Brennan, who is the keeper of the Cape Hope lighthouse.”Jenna is enthralled by the lighthouse and its breathtaking vistas of the pounding, surging, sea, but the sensory pleasure is dashed by her introduction to the haughty, enigmatic, hot-tempered Brennan Hope. Married life is not at all what she imagined. No husband in her bed, lonely breakfasts and suppers eaten in solitary silence, only the ringing sound of Brennan’s footsteps climbing the spiral staircase to the dome—to the light which must be kept burning—regardless of someone’s sabotage intended to make it fail.Savage storms, accidents, half-truths, an aura of evil, loneliness, all take a toll on Jenna’s determination to hang onto her dreams. Somehow, she must win Brennan’s love and help him keep the light burning. But at what cost?

248 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 20, 2013

About the author

Dianne Price fell in love with writing at the age of five. Her father was a barnstorming pilot with a bi-plane and she was bitten early by the dreaded “flying bug.” She attended the University of California, Santa Barbara and met and married the man God had prepared for her—an aeronautical engineer. After their five children were in school, she burned the midnight oil and wrote three novels, all published by Zebra Press. When her husband died only three years after he retired, she visited the Outer Hebrides Isles of Scotland, where her husband’s clan (MacDonalds) and her own clan (Galbraiths) originated. Many yearly trips, gallons of tea, too little sleep, and a burst of insight birthed her Thistle Series.

PUBLISHER’S NOTE: Dianne, born in August 1933, lived joyfully despite dealing with terminal cancer and died in August 2013, a mere week before the release date for the first book of this series, Broken Wings. Everyone involved with the production of this book and the next five has been blessed beyond measure to have known Dianne and be a part of giving readers a chance to meet Rob and Maggie and visit the beautiful, fictional isle of Innisbraw.