After days of fog Stanley Heath, a stranger whose power-boatruns aground on the treacherous Cape Cod shoals, stumbles into theHomestead and into the life of Marcia Howe, a young widow with whomhalf the men in the village are already in love. Out of his clothingfalls a leather case crammed with gems and the enigma of this puzzlingpossession provides the pivot around which the story revolves. Marcia'sblind, intuitive belief in the man's innocence brings its own reward.The hamlets of Wilton and Belleport, already so well known to MissBassett's readers, are again the setting of this new novel. A sparklinglove story of Cape Cod.
Shifting Sands
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SHIFTING SANDS
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Shifting Sands
Our lives are like the ever shifting sands
Which ocean currents whirl in the ebb and flow
Of their unresisting tides
Chapter I
The Widder lived on the spit of sand juttingout into Crocker's Cove.
Just why she should have been singled out by thissignificant sobriquet was a subtle psychologicalproblem. There were other women in Belleport andin Wilton, too, who had lost husbands. Maria Eldridgewas a widow and so was Susan Ann Beals. Indeeddeath had claimed the head of many a householdin the community, for to follow the sea was atreacherous business.
Nevertheless, despite the various homes in whichsolitary women reigned, none of their owners wasdesignated by the appellation allotted to MarciaHowe.
Moreover, there seemed in the name the hamlethad elected to bestow upon her a ring of satisfaction,