Rosemary Cottage

By: Colleen Coble

Narrated by: Devon O'Day

Amy came to Rosemary Cottage to grieve, to heal, maybe even find love. But there’s a deadly undertow of secrets around Hope Island.... The charming Rosemary Cottage on the beach offers Amy Lange respite she needs to mourn her brother, Ben. She’s even thinking of moving her midwife practice to the Outer Banks community. It’s always been a refuge for her and her family. She also wants to investigate Ben’s disappearance at sea. Everyone blames a surfing accident, but Amy has reason to wonder.

Coast Guard officer Curtis Ireland has lost a sibling, too. His sister, Gina, was run down by a boat, leaving him to raise her infant daughter. If anyone knew who little Raine’s father was, Curtis could lose his beloved niece. Yet he can’t help being drawn to Hope Beach’s new midwife, Amy. He even agrees to help her investigate what happened to both Ben and Gina. Can two grieving people with secrets find healing on beautiful Hope Island? Or will their quest for truth set them at odds with each other...and with those who will go to any length to keep hidden things hidden?

©2013 Thomas Nelson (P)2013 Thomas Nelson

Another great Colleen Coble

Another great book in Colleen's long standing line! Really enjoyed the story and looking forward to her next one!

Easy listening

Great listen while getting some computer work done. Light suspense and no over the top ridiculousness. Clean storyline but with some realistic characters that may not have such a clean background.

Fantastic Book

Excellent read! Suspenseful with beautiful character dimensions. You felt apart of the story! Hated for it to end!

Fantastic captivating clean suspense

Another GREAT story by Colleen Coble. It is a mix of mystery, suspense and clean romance with a tangled plot that keeps you reading. It is captivating from the first page until the last with twists that keep you guessing until the end. I loved it!

Another Beach 🏖 Page-Turner by Colleen Coble!

Another Hope Island Beach Page-Turner by Novelist Colleen Coble! And her Hope Island stories keep getting better and better.

Amy comes home to Rosemary Cottage to grieve the loss of her brother Nick, who was lost in a surfing accident. His body was never recovered. So she can’t accept he’s dead and begins her own investigation.

In her quest to find the truth she meets Charlie, Coast Guard member and single father of six-month-old baby Raine. Raine’s mother, and Charlie’s sister, was killed in a boating accident shortly before. But who was Raine’s father? And, did these two accidents off Hope Island have anything to do with each other?

The characters are so vivid in this book, I wanted to jump into their conversations. In some conversations, I wanted to shake someone. In some I wanted to show a guest (?) the door! And when the action got going, I could feel the sea spray on my face and, at times found myself thinking, “Charlie, look out!” I was right there inside the story! Oh! And the ante really goes up when baby Raine is kidnapped with no ransom demand!

And, in true Coble style, the mystery isn’t solved until the very last twist and turn.

I won’t spoil it for you. But, I will promise you.... This book is worth a second read...and I’ll love it and the great narration by Devon O’Day all over again!

I highly recommend you read Rosemary Cottage!!!
*****

Good clean mystery! Well read!

What other book might you compare Rosemary Cottage to and why?

What does Devon O'Day bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

Well read, good portrayal of individual characters.

Any additional comments?

This is the 2nd book in the Hope Beach "series" and brings in Libby from the first book. This one is as good a mystery as the first one!

Terrible narrator for this book

Good and entertaining story. Many nice twists and turns. I did not want to stop listening.

love this author.

wonderful Christian author that knows how to write a clean romance novel with a good mystery to it. also love the narrator.

loved this story

loved this book and was pulled here and there with a surprise at the end.

Good Beach Story

Good story, made me want to know more about how the characters lives turned out. I wasn't so crazy about the performance. That is probably just me though. I have listened to several books narrated by Devon O'Day and not really cared for them. For some reason I don't care for the way she reads them. That being said give the book a listen because the story is good.
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