Rising Tides - Chesapeake Bay Saga

Zusatztext “America’s favorite writer.”— The New Yorker “A warm! satisfying romance with a dash of mystery that will keep readers engrossed.”— Library Journal Informationen zum Autor Nora Roberts Klappentext The second novel in #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts' stunning Chesapeake Bay Saga, where the Quinn brothers must return to their family home on the Maryland shore, to honor their father's last request...Ethan Quinn is a waterman. He wasn't born to the tradition but has embraced it. He's a quiet man whose heart runs as deep as the waters he loves. And now, with his father gone, Ethan is determined to make the family boatbuilding business a success. But amidst his achievements lie the most important challenges of his life… There's a young boy who needs him, and a woman and child he loves but never believed he could have. To shape his life around them, Ethan must face his own dark past-and accept not only who he is but what he hopes to become. Don't miss the other books in the Chesapeake Bay SagaSea SweptInner HarborChesapeake Blue CHAPTER ONE      "GOT US SOME NICE peelers here, cap'n." Jim Bodine culled crabs from the pot, tossing the marketable catch in the tank. He didn't mind the snapping claws--and had the scars on his thick hands to prove it. He wore the traditional gloves of his profession, but as any waterman could tell you, they wore out quick. And if there was a hole in them, by God, a crab would find it.     He worked steadily, his legs braced wide for balance on the rocking boat, his dark eyes squinting in a face weathered with age and sun and living. He might have been taken for fifty or eighty, and Jim didn't much care which end you stuck him in.     He always called Ethan 'Cap'n', and rarely said more than one declarative sentence at a time.     Ethan altered course toward the next pot, his right hand nudging the steering stick that most waterman used rather than a wheel. At the same time, he operated the throttle and gear levels with his left. There were constant small adjustments to be made with every foot of progress up the line of traps.     The Chesapeake Bay could be generous when she chose, but she liked to be tricky and make you work for her bounty.     Ethan knew the Bay as well as he knew himself. Often he thought he knew it better--the fickle moods and movements of the continent's largest estuary. For two hundred miles it flowed from north to south, yet it measured only four miles across where it brushed by Annapolis and thirty at the mouth of the Potomac River. St. Christopher's sat snug on Maryland's southern Eastern Shore, depending on its generosity, cursing it for its caprices.     Ethan's waters, his home waters, were edged with marshland, strung with flatland rivers with sharp shoulders that shimmered through thickets of gum and oak.     It was a world of tidal creeks and sudden shallows, where wild celery and widgeongrass rooted.     It had become his world, with its changing seasons, sudden storms, and always, always, the sounds and scents of the water.     Timing it, he grabbed his gaffing pole and in a practiced motion as smooth as a dance hooked the pot line and drew it into the pot puller.     In seconds, the pot rose out of the water, streaming with weed and pieces of old bait and crowded with crabs.     He saw the bright-red pincers of the full-grown females, or sooks, and the scowling eyes of the jimmies.     "Right smart of crabs," was all Jim had to say as he went to work, heaving the pot aboard as if it weighed ounces rather than pounds.     The water was rough today, and Ethan could smell a storm coming in. He worked the controls with his knees when he needed his hands for other tasks. And eyed the clouds beginning to boil together in the far western sky.     Time enough, he judged, to move do...

Product details

• Authors: Nora Roberts
• Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.06.2013
• EAN: 9780425262764
• ISBN: 978-0-425-26276-4
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 144 mm x 210 mm x 24 mm
• Series: Chesapeake Bay Saga; Chesapeake Bay Saga
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature