Book excerpt: The salt air bristled with lightning as Rachel stepped nervously out onto the precarious widow's walk of the old lighthouse. Suspended between earth and sky, she scanned the angry, wind-whipped sea for any sign of the man whose marriage proposal she'd just refused. Struggling to understand the two men in her life, Rachel battles to make a future for herself and her young daughter out of her family legacy by turning Grand-Papa's old Victorian into a bed and breakfast. Just when she begins to trust, her confidence is shaken by disturbing revelations about the past she believed to be long buried beneath the sand-swept graves of her husband and parents. Now she has desperate choices to make on a shaky widow's walk suspended between earth and sky--her life suspended between hope and despair. Against the backdrop of a vast and eternal sea, shadowed by the worst kind of betrayal, can Rachel triumph over her fear that love breaks all its promises?