Afloat
June 1st, 2013. Filed under: This & That.Afloat
By Erin Healy
Who will you trust when dark waters rise?
Eagle’s Talon is an architectural marvel-shining residential units afloat in a protected cove of the gorgeous Rondeau River. The project is nearly complete, partially occupied, and ready to make investors rich when a sinkhole gives way. Then torrential rains and a flood leave a ragged collection of builders, investors, and residents stranded in one floating building, cut off from the rest of the world.
They’re bitterly divided over what to do next.
Architect Vance Nolan insists they should sit tight and wait for rescue. Developer Tony Dean wants to strike out into the darkness. And single mom Danielle Clement, desperate to protect her young son, Simeon, struggles to hold their motley band together.
Power failure, a pall of unnatural daytime darkness, explosions in the distance, then a murder ratchet tensions to a boiling point. But Danielle’s young son, Simeon, has spotted something strange underwater-beautiful, shifting lights in the dark water below.
In this watery world where everyone’s secrets will eventually come to light, salvation may mean more than just getting out alive.
Another stunning exploration of the human spirit and supernatural possibilities from best-selling author Erin Healy.
ISLAND BREEZES
I used to work on ships and lived afloat for ten years. When the rains came and the waters rose, it was nothing at all like the experience of these people at Eagle’s Talon.
It’s at a time of crisis that an unusual group of people, all with different strengths, needed to band together in order to survive. That’s difficult to do when you have a control freak in your midst.
Frightening times bring out the best and the worst in people. Some lives are touched as the secrets start to come out. Other lives are snuffed out in the attempt to keep secrets hidden.
I didn’t want to stop reading this book. Forget eating. Forget sleeping. Nothing was as important as finishing this book.
I’m eagerly awaiting Ms Healy’s next book.
***A special thank you to litfuse for providing a review copy.***
Erin Healy is the best-selling co-author of “Burn” and “Kiss” (with Ted Dekker) and an award-winning editor for numerous best-selling authors. She has received wide acclaim for her novels “Never Let You Go”, “The Baker’s Wife”, “House of Mercy”, and “Afloat”. She and her family live in Colorado. Erin can be contacted through her website ErinHealy.com or through Facebook at erinhealybooks.