Owl Island — Randy Sue Coburn

Among the aromatic cedars and lush firs of Owl Island, Phoebe Allen has lived quietly for twenty years, raising her daughter and running a small fishing-net business. But the past suddenly washes up on local shores when Phoebe's former lover Whit Traynor, now a celebrated film director, buys a house nearby--plunging Phoebe's careful, ordered life into tumult, jeopardizing her intimacy with neighbor Ivan, a sensitive artist, and exposing secrets long kept hidden from Phoebe's daughter, Laurienne. As the past rushes toward the present like an inevitable tide, Phoebe must revisit her relationship with Whit--from its passionate beginnings to its intense end--and learn anew the liberating lessons of love.