Granite Island — Nina M. Osier

Cecily Stinnett dreams bigger dreams, and different ones, than most young girls in 1940s Maine. Her love for her cousin, James Court, nearly destroys those dreams; yet life with a man who can help her fulfill them quickly turns bitter. Is there any way she can have it all? Or does being born bright, ambitious, and female mean that her choices will always be not just difficult but downright impossible?