The Fisherman's Lady — George MacDonald

The woman's body lay in an upper room of an old house overlooking the sea. Her life had been shrouded in mystery as surely as her body was now wrapped in the pale linen of death…

So begins the stunning narrative of Malcolm, the Scottish fisherman, and the willful, adventurous girl whom he dared not love. Laced with intrigue, punctuated by danger, lightened with love, and haunted by dark pasts and deep secrets, it is, best of all, a story shadowed by the presence of God.

Gradually, as the story unfolds, shafts of illumination begin to break through the dark walls of Malcolm's small world, and he discovers who he really is. More startling still, he discovers who she really is…and life will never be the same.