Join fellow Natchitoches readers excited about our evening book club, Literary Lagniappe. October’s book is WILD DARK SHORE by Charlotte McConaghy https://open.substack.com/pub/readerbythewater/p/wild-dark-shore-lagniappe?r=3u9n0&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true with discussion guided by Marné Deranger. A lifelong reader, Marné works with authors and publishers, reviewing new releases and helping her followers find ideal books and audiobooks. She called this book a “thrilling and emotional fast-moving story full of family, danger and deception. I was willing to clean to keep listening to the audiobook!” Follow her as ReaderByTheWater on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/readerbythewater/ and Facebook https://www.facebook.com/readerbythewater/.
LET US KNOW YOU’LL BE THERE BY CLICKING HERE TODAY — includes complimentary water, tea, and wine, plus 20% off in store shopping on the day of our book club meeting. Signing up also makes you eligible for a themed door prize!
INCLUDES THEMED DINNER
Your Price: $24.95 (just bring your book and your thoughts; we’ll provide everything else).*
Book Info:
A family on a remote island. A mysterious woman washed ashore. A rising storm on the horizon.
Dominic Salt and his three children are caretakers of Shearwater, a tiny island not far from Antarctica. Home to the world’s largest seed bank, Shearwater was once full of researchers, but with sea levels rising, the Salts are now its final inhabitants. Until, during the worst storm the island has ever seen, a woman mysteriously washes ashore.
Isolation has taken its toll on the Salts, but as they nurse the woman, Rowan, back to strength, it begins to feel like she might just be what they need. Rowan, long accustomed to protecting herself, starts imagining a future where she could belong to someone again.
But Rowan isn’t telling the whole truth about why she set out for Shearwater. And when she discovers sabotaged radios and a freshly dug grave, she realizes Dominic is keeping his own secrets. As the storms on Shearwater gather force, they all must decide if they can trust each other enough to protect the precious seeds in their care before it’s too late—and if they can finally put the tragedies of the past behind them to create something new, together.
A novel of breathtaking twists, dizzying beauty, and ferocious love, Wild Dark Shore is about the impossible choices we make to protect the people we love, even as the world around us disappears.
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