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The House at Mermaid's Cove

By: Lindsay Jayne Ashford
Narrated by: Alana Kerr Collins
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As World War II rages, love, mystery, and secrets collide on the English coast in a riveting novel by the bestselling author of The Snow Gypsy.

In April 1943 a young woman washes ashore on a deserted beach in Cornwall, England. With shorn hair and a number stitched on her tattered chemise, Alice is the survivor of a ship torpedoed by a German U-boat. She's found by the mysterious Viscount Jack Trewella, who suspects that she's a prisoner of war or a spy. But the secret Alice asks Jack to keep is one he could never have guessed, and it creates an intimate bond he never expected.

With her true identity hidden beneath the waves, Alice grasps the chance to reinvent herself. But as she begins to fall for Jack, she discovers he has secrets too - ones echoing the legend of a mermaid said to lure men into the dark depths of the sea.

For two strangers in the shadow of war, lost love, and haunting memories, is it time to let go of the past? Or to finally face it - whatever the risks?

©2020 Lindsay Jayne Ashford (P)2020 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved. 20th Century Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Historical Fiction Romance Sea Adventures Women's Fiction Adventure
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Like the many characters
Good story and nice touch of adventure good info about war time in Cornwall
Good ending

Good story very romantic and touch of adventure

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Great story to think most of them scenarios happened,
It was well written, couldn't put it down

Mermaids cove

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From the description, I was expecting more of a mystery, and what I got was really a slightly by-the-numbers romance. I was waiting for more of a twist at the end, with maybe a traitor revealed, but rather it was simple HEA ending. But it was well read and passed some hours easily enough. The Catholic angst was well done.
If you have stayed at the Budock Vean Hotel, walked to Durgan, or visited the gardens running down to the Helford, this is a good holiday read.

Mystery or romance?

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Loved it all. narrator brilliant. great characters in the story, plenty of guessing what might happen next and some perils.

great story

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Do like a good war story but this was tedious. Weak story line, weak characters… just didn’t think the plot was very good.

Boring

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