One summer on a beautiful island could change everything…
Valentina Taylor's life has been upended. With her marriage over, and unsure of what her future holds, she heads to the Isle of Skye for the summer with her young son, Barnaby.
But the journey there sets her on a new path, when she meets Xander Courage on the train – a charming American, running from problems of his own. After sparks fly, they go their separate ways. But on this small island, they’re never far from one another…
Skye offers Valentina the refuge she needs as she whiles away the long summer days at her beachside cottage, enjoying visits from her sisters, Thea and Ezzie. But when bad news from home throws her Scottish idyll into turmoil, Valentina finds herself pulled away from the place – and people – that she loves.
Valentina knows she must confront her heart’s desires – but can she let go of the past and embrace the future she deserves?
Review: This is the third book in a trilogy featuring three sisters with different birth mothers adopted as babies or infants by the same couple. All the books are set primarily on Skye, an island off the west coast of Scotland. Each story has centred on a different sister, this one concerning the oldest of the three, Valentina. Although this book can be read as a standalone, I can highly recommend reading all three books in order since details in the later stories may act as spoilers for the earlier ones.
In this story, recently separated from her cheating husband, and having left her job as a corporate lawyer, Valentina has decided to spend the summer at her Skye holiday cottage with her seven-year-old son, Barnaby. On the journey from their home just outside Inverness to Skye, Valentina and Barnaby meet Xander and his teenage nephew Macdonald, Americans also intending spending the summer on the island. Valentina and Xander don’t see eye to eye initially, but as they keep crossing paths on the small island a friendship soon develops. The peaceful summer Valentina was envisaging, catching up with her sisters, Thea and Ezzie, and playing on the beach with her son, is interrupted by distressing news that has her hurrying back to Inverness. Suddenly, Valentina finds her future uncertain as she faces problems at home and at the same time a heart telling her that she has a chance to love again if she can overcome the obstacles in the way.
What an eventful and gripping story this was. Like Valentina, I was quite wrong in expecting to read about a peaceful family holiday in this beautiful setting so wonderfully described by the author. This book had so much going on from start to finish. I finished it really quickly because I didn’t want to put it down; I was never sure what would happen next. As well as the drama that had Valentina driving back and forth over the Skye bridge, there was an emerging romance, the warm friendship among the three sisters plus the bonus of Valentina’s chance to discover details about her origins. All of this with a cast of numerous interesting and thoroughly likeable (with a few exceptions) characters. I think others will agree with me that this is one of Sue Moorcroft’s best books so far, and definitely a recommended summer read.
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