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Romance at the Cape May Light
by Carolyn Davenport
Paperback ISBN #1-4134-4869-0Hardback ISBN #1-4134-4870-4
Pages: 325
The Cape May Lighthouse has inexplicably captivated Nicole Henderson since she first laid eyes on it five years ago when she moved to this picturesque seaside town in New Jersey as a young bride. She has lived an idyllic life here, married to a handsome and adventurous sea captain who adores her completely.
But tragedy strikes, leaving her alone, lost and without a purpose to go on. Then, through a curious twist of fate, her life takes another turn when her beloved lighthouse is put up for sale.
Can Nicole recover from her shattered dreams and find a new road to happiness? Will she ever love again?
With richly detailed seaboard settings and endearing characters, Carolyn Davenport will break your heart and make your spirits soar with her romantic tales of love found, love lost, and love captured once again.
Carolyn Davenport is a student of maritime history and was a member of the 1996 Expedition to the wreck site of the RMS Titanic. She has held memberships in the National Maritime Historical Society, the Titanic International Society and the Titanic Historical Society. The Lighthouse is her debut novel, and she is in the process of completing other works that take the reader for romantic adventures aboard contemporary cruise ships as well as classic ocean liners of the past.
Order The Lighthouse, Romance at the Cape May Light
directly from the publisher at
https://www2.xlibris.com/bookstore/bookdisplay.asp?bookid=23205, or from your local bookstore.
Read an Excerpt of The Lighthouse Below
CHAPTER ONE
A humid breeze whispered across the dunes from the Atlantic Ocean this early morning hour while the world slept. Waves rolled over in gentle curls and collapsed in poetic rhythm, lapping, foaming, bubbling playfully at the shoreline. The infinite silence that veiled the seascape was invaded only by the perpetual rush of water and rustling grasses on the beach.
The sun had barely peeked its head above the horizon, brushing the sky in swaths of saffron and peach that cast a soft glow across the shore. This was Nicole Henderson’s favorite time to go for a walk. The day was young, the air pristine, and she was alone in her vista’s sweeping expanse to share in the secrets those surroundings guarded.
Her spirits were high as she meandered through the grass, luxuriating in the well-worn path from the cottage down to her favorite place, the lighthouse. Nicole had been drawn to the magical castle by the sea since the first time she’d laid eyes on it five years ago. It beckoned to her with an unseen force that was nothing short of a mystical power. She couldn’t explain it, the hold that this inanimate object had on her, like an emotional chemistry between two people. Logically inexplicable, but definitely present.
As always, she stopped and craned her neck back to see the bright red top of its almost one hundred sixty foot height. The beige masonry of the old tower was solid giving one the sense of permanence, of an everlasting existence. It was both reassuring and comforting to Nicole to be near something that had stood bravely against the fierce wrath of Mother Nature for over one hundred forty years. Curiously though, on this particular morning with the summer clouds dawdling above, it looked almost whimsical, as if it were a cardboard cone under a fluff of cotton candy. Maybe it was her state-of-mind that made it so.
A smile blossomed across her face, and she turned and wove through the tall grass, out onto the open sand. She sat down on a gnarled chunk of decaying driftwood that had washed up decades before and made itself at home burying into the dune.
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