- Mass Market Paperback: 368 pages
- Publisher: Pocket (Jan 1 2000)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0671032623
- ISBN-13: 978-0671032623
- Product Dimensions: 17 x 10.7 x 2.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 159 g
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Product Description
From Publishers Weekly
This sequel to Jarrett's Moonlight is a tale of romance in spartan 18th-century Nantucket, Mass. Daniel Fairbourne is a blacksmith whose estranged wife died in a shipwreck five years before. Haunted by grief and guilt, he atones by walking Nantucket's beaches to rescue any survivors cast ashore. When he discovers bedraggled Juliette LaCroix one September evening, his capacity to love is reborn. The trauma of shipwreck has afflicted Juliette with amnesia, which disappears only gradually as Daniel nurses her back to health in his isolated cottage. The emerging details of her past seem to spell doom for the couple's budding passion; feisty Juliette is a stylish Boston shop owner, while gruff Daniel has forsworn the wealthy life his family enjoyed for the island's honest, undeveloped simplicity. The romance lacks both the tension of any true conflict and the liveliness of strong secondary characters or subplots, leaving the story somewhat flat. Still, Jarrett evokes the era with accuracy and draws her protagonists vividly and with charm. (Jan.)
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Book Description
"One of romantic fiction's finest gems" (The Literary Times), Miranda Jarrett has enthralled readers with her marvelous novels of the seafaring Fairbournes. Now, in this heart-stirring sequel to Moonlight, Boston seamstress Juliette Lacroix is swept away to a tiny New England island...where her heart falls to a Fairbourne who has turned his back on his own loving family.
Washed ashore on a deserted beach by a storm at sea, the lovely woman has no idea of who she is or where she came from; she knows only that her name is Juliette. Though one thing is as clear as the morning sky: the handsome stranger who rescued her arouses in her a passion that she has never before experienced.
For five years, in the wake of his young wife's death, the embittered Daniel Fairbourne has lived alone on Nantucket Island. But when he finds Juliette unconscious on the sand and tends her back to health, his sleeping heart reawakens. Sheltered in Daniel's tiny cottage, they discover a rare and wondrous love. But as Juliette's memory returns, Daniel knows that she will one day go back to the world outside his cottage walls -- a world that Daniel has little desire to rejoin.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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Beautiful and touching, Jun 10 2000
By Bonnie Gilbert - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Sunrise (Mass Market Paperback)
My favorite book of the Fairborne series, SUNRISE is about brother Daniel. After the death of his wife he retreats to lonely Nantucket Island to live. Giving up on being a Captain and becomes a smith, he lives his days lonely with only his dog for company. That is until a shipwreck washes ashore a beautiful young woman. Juliette Lacroix has no memory of her life, except for her name. Determined to help the young, beautiful woman Daniel keeps her at his cabin to recooperate, but the two fall hopelessly in love. Can their love survive after Juliette's memory returns?
Miranda Jarrett has written a tender, touching love story the will bring a smile to the reader's face. Daniel is a wonderful, caring man. Juliette is beautiful. Highly recommended.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
An all-nighter, Jan 10 2000
By Orysia Earhart - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Sunrise (Mass Market Paperback)
Sunrise by Miranda Jarrett is a beautiful, stay-up-all-night- magic historical which set on Nantucket in the early 18th century. The love between the heroine, Juliette, who was washed up on the beach and rescued by the hero, Daniel Fairbourne, is exquisitely tender and beautiful. Their lives and growing passion are complicated by rumors of French smuggling, Juliette, unaware of who she is and where she came from, and suspicious townspeople who are ready to judge and condemn. Though Juliette and Daniel struggle to learn about who they are, in the process, they also learn about who and why they love. This book is simply wonderful. Orysia Earhart, President, Valley Forge Romance Writers.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
An enjoyable novel that captures old-time Nantucket, Jan 5 2000
By FolgerFam - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Sunrise (Mass Market Paperback)
Because I keep a summer place on Nantucket Island, a friend of mine recently gave me two new novels set there. One was AHAB'S WIFE, a big, expensive, pretentious hardback and the other was this little softcover book SUNRISE, and guess which one I like the better? This book captured old-time Nantucket for me, all sandy and windy, with a dandy love story and a shipwreck to boot. Even mentions the Indians that used to run the island before the tourists took over! If you're looking for an enjoyable novel that will keep you turning pages, then forget Ahab, buy SUNRISE, and save yourself money in the deal.
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