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The Moonlight Path
When Julia Remy arrives at a cottage on Plum Island, Massachusetts, she's excited to begin her summer vacation, but when she almost drowns, her vacation turns into a nightmare. If not for the mysterious man who rescued her, she'd be dead. At the hospital, her father and friends tell her that she actually did drown and was brought back to life. And--they inform her--there was no mysterious man.
Convinced that she hallucinated the rescue, she returns to Plum Island and discovers a new, disturbing reality waiting for her there. She can see the past--the year 1911--taking place simultaneously with the present. Russell McGrath, the man who saved her, is a Surfman, a member of The United States Life-Saving Service. When Julia realizes that she was actually in 1911 the night he rescued her, she becomes caught up in his life. A witness to his happiness and heartbreak, she's no longer satisfied just being able to see him in the past. She wants to be with him again--at any cost.
The U.S. Life-Saving Service was a real organization and became the modern U.S. Coast Guard in 1915. The crewmen were called "surfmen" launching their rescue boats into the open surf, and were responsible for saving thousands of lives along the entire U.S. coast and Great Lakes. Today, they are largely forgotten, but a century ago they were beloved heroes, the subject of poetry and prose, recognized by the press as "Storm Warriors."
Summer Wilson is also the author of The Solstice Night, a five-star rated novel about two men--one a physics teacher in 1944, and the other a newspaper editor in 2019--who trade places in time.
Convinced that she hallucinated the rescue, she returns to Plum Island and discovers a new, disturbing reality waiting for her there. She can see the past--the year 1911--taking place simultaneously with the present. Russell McGrath, the man who saved her, is a Surfman, a member of The United States Life-Saving Service. When Julia realizes that she was actually in 1911 the night he rescued her, she becomes caught up in his life. A witness to his happiness and heartbreak, she's no longer satisfied just being able to see him in the past. She wants to be with him again--at any cost.
The U.S. Life-Saving Service was a real organization and became the modern U.S. Coast Guard in 1915. The crewmen were called "surfmen" launching their rescue boats into the open surf, and were responsible for saving thousands of lives along the entire U.S. coast and Great Lakes. Today, they are largely forgotten, but a century ago they were beloved heroes, the subject of poetry and prose, recognized by the press as "Storm Warriors."
Summer Wilson is also the author of The Solstice Night, a five-star rated novel about two men--one a physics teacher in 1944, and the other a newspaper editor in 2019--who trade places in time.
392 pages, Paperback
Published June 13, 2024
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