A BEND OF LIGHT by Joy Jordan-Lake - Spotlight & Giveaway

 


Secrets of the past and present collide in Joy Jordan-Lake's new novel, A BEND OF LIGHT (LakeUnionPress).

 

A photographic interpreter in World War 2, Amie Stillwell never meant to return to the coastal Maine village where she fled at eighteen and where her best friend, Jake, disappeared years ago. But now, the war over, Amie's position has been replaced by a returning GI. With no job, a dwindling bank account, and essentially no family, she drives north in a driving snowstorm with all her belongings crammed into her battered roadster, its canvas roof leaking ice.  

​

     Armed only with her old Deardorff camera, an artistic eye and stubbornness, she begins setting up a gallery for her own photographs and for a Jamaican friend’s sculptures, even as she settles into the village with all its quirks and charms. Pelican Cove just might be a good place to start fresh. 

​

     But for all its beauty, the village is no center of calm. An abandoned child, a Boston socialite found dead in the barn of an interesting young veterinarian, and the reappearance of a villager presumed killed in the war all might somehow be connected.

​

     When a close friend is pushed from the fourth floor of the local inn, Amie must redouble her efforts to uncover the truth, even as she faces her own painful past.



Joy Jordan-Lake's varied--and admittedly odd--professional experience has included working as a college professor, author, journalist, waitress, director of a program for homeless families, university chaplain, horseback riding instructor, free lance photographer, and --the job title that remains her personal favorite--head sailing instructor.

Born in Washington, D.C., Joy Jordan-Lake's first vivid childhood memory was watching her mother weep in front of the television, where newscasters were just reporting the shooting of Martin Luther King, Jr. Later moving south with her family, she grew up on Signal Mountain, Tennessee, just outside Chattanooga, where she learned to observe the ways in which communities respond with courage to bigotry and violence--or fail to do so.

Thanks to Lake Union Press we have one copy to giveaway. Tell us the latest WWII novel you've read and what made it unique. We'll announce a winner soon. Good luck.

GIVEAWAY: USA only please

Comments

  1. travelerSeptember 9, 2022 at 8:29 AM

    Daughters of the Occupation by Shelly Sanders was captivating and memorable since it is fiction but true.saubleb(at)gmail(dot)com

    ReplyDelete
  2. JaneSeptember 9, 2022 at 9:44 AM

    Eternal by Lisa Scottoline because it was her first historical novel.

    ReplyDelete
  3. Donna ShawSeptember 9, 2022 at 9:44 AM

    The Last Checkmate by Gabriella Saab. I was astonished with this story of a 14 year old girl who lost her entire family and managed to survive Auschwitz through playing chess with a German officer. A terrific novel.

    ReplyDelete
  4. bn100September 9, 2022 at 5:30 PM

    n/a
    bn100candg at hotmail dot com

    ReplyDelete
  5. PhyllisSeptember 9, 2022 at 5:32 PM

    Most recent WWII historical fiction I read was a favorite - The Wedding Dress Sewing Circle

    ReplyDelete
  6. Carla S.September 10, 2022 at 5:36 AM

    I just finished CRADLES OF THE REICH by Jennifer Coburn. It tells a little-known story of Himmler's Lebensborn program to increase the number of racially-pure German children.

    ReplyDelete
  7. Nancy PSeptember 11, 2022 at 11:12 AM

    Audrey - Based on Audrey Hepburn's early life of poverty during the war.

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

HOW I'LL KILL YOU by Ren DeStefano - Spotlight

Image
  Make him want you. Make him love you. Make him dead. In Ren DeStafano's novel, HOW I'LL KILL YOU (Berkley), i dentical triplets have a nasty habit of killing their boyfriends, and see what happens when the youngest commits their worst crime yet: falling in love with her mark. Sissy has an...interesting family. Always the careful one, always the cautious one, she has handled the cleanup while her serial killer sisters have carved a path of carnage across the U.S. Now, as they arrive in the Arizona heat, Sissy must step up and embrace the family pastime of making a man fall in love and then murdering him. Her first target? A young widower named Edison—and their mutual attraction is instant.  Then something happens that Sissy never anticipated: She begins to feel protective of Edison, and before she can help it, she’s fallen in love. But the clock is ticking, and her sisters are growing restless. It becomes clear that the gravesite she chooses will hide a body no matter what ha...
Read more

INSTAMOM by Chanel Guertin - Review & Giveaway

Image
It's the influencer's golden rule: know your niche. In INSTAMOM (KensingtonBooks) by Chantel Guertin, Kit Kidding knows her audience. Kit promotes living and enjoying a childfree life in her instagram account hashtag #childfree. Kit believes women who choose not to become mothers and not to have children should not be judged or feel guilty.  But things change when Kit meets a smart and sexy dad with a daughter. She's smitten by Will MacGregor and his whip-smart darling eight year-old daughter, Maddie. Kit's picture perfect childfree life faces being turned completely upside down. You know where this is heading so I won't tell you anymore. Except to say, that INSTAMOM is about love and making life choices. It's about being true to yourself and being able to change, even though it may modify everything you once thought was true. It's a fun romcom you'll want to put in your summer bag and take to the pool or beach. Remember to always wear sunscreen. Chantel...
Read more

THE SECRET STEALERS by Jane Healy - Review & Giveaway

Image
  It's WWII when twenty-five year old, Anna Cavanaugh finds out her husband has been killed in freak accident in Hawaii. She is intelligent, professional, teaches in DC and speaks fluent French and German. Her parents want her to spend the summer resting at the family cottage on Cape Cod. She can't imagine anything worse. In Jane Healey's, historical novel, THE SECRET STEALERS (LakeUnionPublishing) a friend of her father's, Major General William Donovan, a WWI hero approaches her at her husband's funeral about a job in DC. He asks her to come down from Boston if she's interested and when she's ready. She is. Anna is recruited into the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) a highly secretive communications center which oversees propaganda, resistance groups and gave her a front row seat to the history and tragedy of the war. She becomes Donovan's assistant but soon she's moving up, transferred to England and working in intelligence. But Anna wants to bec...
Read more