The Lightkeeper's Daughters A Novel

Jean E. Pendziwol

eBook - 2017

In an "intricately satisfying story about love and deception," an old woman shares her childhood with a troubled teen and uncovers a decades-old mystery (Kirkus Reviews).Though her mind is still sharp, Elizabeth's eyes have failed. No longer able to linger over her beloved books or gaze at the paintings that move her spirit, she fills the void with music and memories of her family, especially her beloved twin sister, Emily. When her late father's journals are discovered after an accident, the past suddenly becomes all too present.With the help of Morgan, a delinquent teenager performing community service at her senior home, Elizabeth goes through the diaries, a journey through time that brings the two women closer togeth...er. Entry by entry, these unlikely friends are drawn deep into a world far removed from their own, to Porphyry Island on Lake Superior, where Elizabeth's father manned the lighthouse and raised his young family seventy years before.As... more