It is 1755, and the threat of war with France looms over colonial York, Virginia. Chocolatier Esmée Shaw is fighting her own battle of the heart. Having reached her twenty-eighth birthday, she is reconciled to life alone after a decade-old failed love affair from, which she's never quite recovered. But, she longs to find something, worthwhile to do with her life. Captain Henri Lennox has returned to port after a lengthy absence, intent on completing the lighthouse in the dangerous Chesapeake Bay, a dream he once shared with Esmée. But when, the colonial government asks him to lead a secret naval expedition against the French, his future is plunged into uncertainty. Will a war and a cache of regrets, keep them apart, or can their shared vision and dedication to the colonial, cause heal the wounds of the past? Bestselling and award-winning author Laura Frantz whisks you away to a time fraught with peril, on the sea and in the heart, in this redemptive, romantic story

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