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Moon in the Water

by Elizabeth Grayson

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ISBN10: 0553584243
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Ann Rossiter is no man’s idea of the perfect wife, yet she has a chance—a single chance—to insure her future. To protect her unborn child, Ann agrees to marry a common riverboat pilot. In exchange, he’ll gain command of her stepfather’s magnificent new steamer—the Andromeda. But as they ply the western rivers together, Ann is drawn to her new husband, to his quiet strength and smoldering magnetism. Still, she dares not yield her heart for fear he will discover her most terrifying secret.

As the Andromeda steams toward the wilds of the Montana Territory, Chase Hardesty finds himself falling in love with his new bride. But when Ann’s past comes back with a vengeance, will their marriage of convenience end in tragedy—or in love forever?

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"Compelling ... offers a charismatic hero who will easily beguile readers.... Grayson's details about river running would make Mark Twain proud."

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Against the beauty, danger, and romance of the wild Missouri River country, two souls seek to make their marriage of convenience into something more in this compelling historical romance. Original.
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About the Author

Elizabeth was published for the first time when she was in the fourth grade, and finished an historical novel at fifteen. After a successful career teaching art in elementary schools and at the St. Louis Art Museum, she began to dabble in writing again. In 1986 she published her first historical romance.

Elizabeth still enjoys teaching and is a frequent speaker at community gatherings and writers' conferences around the country. She collects miniature English cottages, enjoys needlework, and has a weakness for antique jewelry. Moon in the Water is her 11th published book.?

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riehlife, September 20, 2007 (view all comments by riehlife)
Disclaimer: I’m not a Romance genre fan, and so I enter this review through the side door. As I read this novel I felt I could identify the conventions of the genre, but that the author Elizabeth Grayson goes beyond formula to turn in fine characterizations that grow over the course of the novel. “Moon in the Water” offers descriptions of bluffs and water, insight into life in the city as well as on the frontier, adventure, flashes of humor, a plot filled with little mysterious turnings, humor, and a continuous thread on the importance of family solidarity and loyalty.

This was just the right book for me to read at this time, filled with many links to my life. “Moon in the Water,” begins in 1867 about five years after my great grandfather quit his work on riverboats that ran along the Mississippi and founded a horticultural estate on the bluffs above that great water. The action starts in St. Louis and continually folds back to St. Louis, where I now live, so I was fascinated to find place names and learn tidbits about places known about in passing. The point Grayson describes at Hardesty’s Landing could well have been my own stone ledge I went to in girlhood when I needed to sort out my thoughts.

But Grayson’s descriptions are so good I think any reader could enter the world she creates and happily stay there a long time throughout its 468 pages. Here’s a passage I particularly liked as Chase gazes upon his wife and new baby:

“Every man stores up memories, flickers of time that crystallize in the chambers of the mind, instants of beauty and simple truth that warm him when the world goes cold. Images that resonate as long as he draws breath. (p. 337).

The core story of “Moon in the Water” is about honor and loyalty and that’s a story that will remain contemporary as long as we care about our humanity.

--Janet Grace Riehl, author "Sightlines: A Poet's Diary"

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ISBN:
9780553584240
Author:
Grayson, Elizabeth
Publisher:
Bantam
Location:
New York
Subject:
Romance - Historical
Series Volume:
142
Publication Date:
March 2004
Binding:
Mass Market Paperbound
Language:
English
Pages:
480
Dimensions:
6.88x4.24x1.07 in. .53 lbs.
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