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Forced by circumstance to accept a teaching position in an isolated community on North Carolina's Outer Banks, a young woman meets a handsome lighthouse keeper with whom she weathers the storms of Cape Hatteras. Original.
384 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published August 1, 1997
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About the author
Bronwyn Williams
33 books16 followersDixie Burrus was born on September 09, 1930 in North Carolina's Outer Banks, U.S.A, where her family had lived for generations, to sea captain Dozier Burrus and Achsah Williams. Her father was the professional baseball player Maurice Lennon "Dick" Burrus, she has two sisters, Mary and Sarah Burrus.
Dixie is an artist and romance writer. She began writting contemporany romance novels as Zoe Dozier, now she writes her contemporary romances with her married name, Dixie Browning, and historical romances with her sister, Mary Burrus Williams as Brownwyn Williams, one combination of their married names. She has been awarded a Romance Writers of America RITA Award, and been a five-time RITA finalist. She has also won three Maggies, and numerous awards from the National Federation of Press Women and the NC Press Club.
Dixie is an artist and romance writer. She began writting contemporany romance novels as Zoe Dozier, now she writes her contemporary romances with her married name, Dixie Browning, and historical romances with her sister, Mary Burrus Williams as Brownwyn Williams, one combination of their married names. She has been awarded a Romance Writers of America RITA Award, and been a five-time RITA finalist. She has also won three Maggies, and numerous awards from the National Federation of Press Women and the NC Press Club.
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Displaying 1 - 9 of 9 reviews
October 28, 2024
Being a visitor to the Outer Banks and intrigued by lighthouses, I enjoy the Cape Hatteras Chronicles. These fictional books are written by local sister authors I do believe. I enjoy reading about what life in Hatteras was like in the 1800's. They are typical romance stories with historic descriptions of the ways of life back then. I found the Chronicles at gift shops over the years while visiting the area.
January 26, 2019
Heroine is Mariah. Hero is Waite. Setting is Buxton, North Carolina in 1886.
November 5, 2018
My copy has a picture of the Hatteras lighthouse on the front or Id have never picked it up. I didn't care for this work of Bronwyn Williams as much as I liked the Warfield Bride. Some character development and some decent subplots but over all it felt frustrating to read a book by the same author at the same lighthouse as the Warfield Bride taking place at the same time; unrealistic as there only be one family keeping that lighthouse. Secondly the interaction between Waite & Mariah was frustrating. It seemed like the author just wanted to write about sexual encounters vs a true love story on the island, and the ending was poorly tied up in a rush. I was disappointed.
September 22, 2017
What a great story!
Hardened people on a hard island in hard conditions.
A woman with an unwanted past trying to build a new life
A man with a history and a son.
They feel drawn to one another but he is reluctant, to say the least.
She is unexperienced on many levels.
Off course there is a happy ever after but the route to it is well worth the read.
Hardened people on a hard island in hard conditions.
A woman with an unwanted past trying to build a new life
A man with a history and a son.
They feel drawn to one another but he is reluctant, to say the least.
She is unexperienced on many levels.
Off course there is a happy ever after but the route to it is well worth the read.
August 14, 2020
This won’t become a classic in the sense of great literature but it was a wonderful summer romance read with interesting and well developed characters. Great descriptions of the outer banks as well.
August 28, 2021
Better than I thought it would be and less predictable.
June 15, 2019
On the death of Mariah Deekins’ wealthy parents in a double drowning, she has become penniless and shunned by her community. Eventually, she finds a job as a schoolteacher in an isolated area near Cape Hatteras. Ashamed of her situation, Mariah uses her mother’s maiden name and says she is a widow.
The author did a marvelous job describing the odious Maxwell Newbolt; a person who proves the ‘Peter Principle (“The Peter Principle is based on the notion that employees will get promoted as long as they are competent, but at some point will fail to get promoted beyond a certain job because it has become too challenging for them. Employees rise to their level of incompetence and stay there.” – Investopedia) Newbolt is a pompous little tyrant who is ‘magistrate’ of the community and the person who hires Mariah.
The Lightkeeper, Waite McKenna, is horrified that another woman has been hired (each woman teacher has been married within weeks of arriving) and predicts Mariah won’t last 3 weeks. For someone who is angry with a woman teacher, Waite spends way too much time with her. This book is just too predictable.
The author did a marvelous job describing the odious Maxwell Newbolt; a person who proves the ‘Peter Principle (“The Peter Principle is based on the notion that employees will get promoted as long as they are competent, but at some point will fail to get promoted beyond a certain job because it has become too challenging for them. Employees rise to their level of incompetence and stay there.” – Investopedia) Newbolt is a pompous little tyrant who is ‘magistrate’ of the community and the person who hires Mariah.
The Lightkeeper, Waite McKenna, is horrified that another woman has been hired (each woman teacher has been married within weeks of arriving) and predicts Mariah won’t last 3 weeks. For someone who is angry with a woman teacher, Waite spends way too much time with her. This book is just too predictable.
May 13, 2010
Strange, I thought I'd already started a review on this one... anyway, the beginning reminded me a great deal of The Warfield Bride, with the gruff, asocial and basically misogynist hero and the heroine who is fleeing some sort of scandal from back home... but then the two tales gradually veer off in (sort of) different directions. As with the other novel I've read by these authors, the setting is unusual and wonderful. Very enjoyable read.
July 6, 2017
Enjoyable summer beach read that takes place in turn of the century Cape Hatteras.
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