Author: Sara Ackerman

When I’m behind in my Goodreads challenge I can always count on finding something on my Kindle that will catch me up. I’m still behind but this quick read helped.

Violet and her daughter, Ella, are adjusting to life in Hawaii after the disappearance of her husband. It has been a year and no clues have surfaced. The timing of the story is just after the attack on Pearl Harbour when American soldiers have been shipped to Hawaii for training before heading off to fight in the Pacific. When Violet meets a young soldier she is caught in limbo being afraid to let her feelings show and guilt over embracing life not knowing if her husband is dead or alive. From early in the book you know that Ella knows far more than she is letting on; she is a troubled girl but her problems are assumed to be related to her father’s disappearance.

A good story and a quick read.

Goodreads Rating: * * *