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A Song for the Stars

โœ Scribed by Ilima Todd

Publisher
Shadow Mountain Publishing
Year
2019
Tongue
en-US
Weight
448 KB
Series
Proper romance
Category
Fiction
City
Hawaii,Hawaii,,Hawaii.
ISBN
1629737437

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โœฆ Synopsis

Inspired by a true story

Hawaiian Islands, 1779

As the second daughter of a royal chief, Maile will be permitted to marry for love. Her fiance is the best navigator in Hawaiสปi, and he taught her everything he knows--how to feel the ocean, observe the winds, read the stars, and how to love.

But when sailors from a strange place called England arrive on her island, a misunderstanding ends in battle, and Maile is suddenly widowed before she is wed.

Finding herself in the middle of the battle and fearing for her life, Maile takes John Harbottle, the wounded man who killed her fiance, prisoner, and though originally intending to let him die, she reluctantly heals him. And in the process, she discovers the man she thought was her enemy might be her ally instead.

John has been Captain James Cook's translator for three voyages across the Pacific. He is kind and clearly fascinated with her homeland and her people--and Maile herself. But...

โœฆ Subjects

LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General

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