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The Lighthouse Keeper

de Cynthia Ellingsen

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An Amazon Charts bestseller.Dawn Conners's parents are famous for finding historic treasures, but she has a knack for losing things--her job, her boyfriend, and now, her reputation. Thanks to a mud-slinging expose, Dawn's late great-grandfather is assumed guilty of stealing silver from a century-old shipwreck. Hoping to clear his name, Dawn returns to Starlight Cove, her idyllic hometown on Lake Michigan, where the doomed vessel sleeps beneath the beam of a ramshackle lighthouse.Her plan: remodel and sell the lighthouse while untangling the perplexing family mystery. Neither task is easy, especially once her well-meaning parents and the quirky locals--including nautical researcher and Starlight Cove's most eligible bachelor, Kip Whittaker--get involved. Despite their attraction, Dawn is reluctant to trust Kip, or any of the close-knit townsfolk. But as she pieces together the truth, Dawn's once-shuttered heart opens up. And if she's willing, the lighthouse might guide her to a place she never expected to find, where the past entwines with a bright new beginning.… (mais)
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A race to save a lighthouse by finding an answer to a long old mystery. ( )
  whybehave2002 | Oct 23, 2021 |
Okay, so in the beginning, I have to confess, this book was just okay for me. And, I only read it for Scavenger Hunt items. But, in the end, I got so caught up in the mystery and the hunt for the treasure that by the end I was hooked and stayed up late just to finish that last bit. It’s a good read that makes you do that. The romance was sweet. But, in the end, it was secondary to the STORY.

I still wonder what Dawn is meant to do for a living in that itty bitty town, but whatever... ( )
  Amelia1989 | Jun 10, 2019 |
Dawn is from a family of treasure hunters. She resented her abnormal, unsettled childhood, but she was always loved.
She also grew up enamored by her great-grandparents' love story. The letters her great-grandfather Fitzie wrote while at sea inspired Dawn to believe in true love.

But mystery and controversy have always surrounded Fitzie. He disappeared after his last treasure hunt at sea and some people thought he stole the money.
When the whole story is brought into the limelight yet again, Dawn's parents will lose their home if they can't prove that Fitzie didn't steal the money.

As Dawn's life borders on falling apart, she impulsively buys a dilapidated lighthouse and heads home to help her parents uncover the truth about Fitzie. Quickly learning that her patents are no help, she connects with Kip who offers to help.

Original storyline, great characters, exciting mystery, loved the lighthouse setting, and enjoyed the characters too.
What a great, fun read. ( )
  Mishale1 | Dec 29, 2018 |
Dawn Connors is the daughter of treasure hunters, and didn't find growing up on ships in, from a child's perspective, random places all over the world, fun or happy or secure. Now as an adult, she's living in Boston, working in the financial industry, and in a relationship she hopes will lead to marriage. It's secure, and stable, and she's determined to hold on to this.

Then what's expected to be a light, entertaining show about the history of Starlight Cove, Michigan, where her parents now live, turns out to be a vicious exposé on a famous shipwreck that Dawn's great-grandfather, Captain Fitzy Connors, commanded. There have long been stories that he survived the wreck and stole the silver coins being transported. The tv show pushed the idea that the current Connors wealth comes not from a wreck her father found, but from the vanished silver coins. In short order, she's lost her job and her boyfriend, and heads home with a plan of investigating the Wanderer wreck and proving Captain Fitzy's, and her father's, innocence.

It's the first time in years that Dawn has been back to Starlight Cove, on Lake Michigan, but it's the only place she ever thought of as home as a child. Yet the tv scandal show has stirred up trouble even here, and even as she buys and rehabs a lighthouse to cover the real reason she's here, she encounters friends, enemies, and people whom she can't figure out which category they belong in.

It's mystery and romance in a small town, and I enjoyed it quite a bit. I do have a really tiny, insignificant complaint, which will matter, most likely, to exactly no one.

At one point, getting around Starlight Cove on a bike, Dawn thinks about the fact that in Boston, people would routinely take a cab to go just five blocks.

In Boston? Seriously? Yes, we have cabs in Boston. Yes, they have customers. But in Boston, allowing for the fact that "five blocks" is in Boston a remarkably squishy, useless term, nobody takes cabs for short distances, in ordinary circumstances. In Boston, it's easier to walk, or take the T. Because Boston is a lousy city to drive in, not worth doing if you don't need to have your own car with you. Although even then, parking is expensive and hard to find, too.

No, someone who, like Dawn, had lived ten years in Boston, would regard the T as a normal way of getting around, and a cab as a relatively expensive option for special cases. This would be especially true in the compact, crowded financial district, where Dawn presumably works.

But that's a personal pet peeve, and nearly everyone has them when someone writes about their hometown who doesn't really know it. Heck, my subconscious kept trying to transplant Starlight Cove to the New England coast, and I kept having to slap it down!

Dawn, her parents, Kip Whittaker, the Henderson brothers, and others in Starlight Cove were interesting and likable characters, and there's an interesting mystery at the heart of the story.

Recommended.

I bought this audiobook. ( )
  LisCarey | Sep 19, 2018 |
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An Amazon Charts bestseller.Dawn Conners's parents are famous for finding historic treasures, but she has a knack for losing things--her job, her boyfriend, and now, her reputation. Thanks to a mud-slinging expose, Dawn's late great-grandfather is assumed guilty of stealing silver from a century-old shipwreck. Hoping to clear his name, Dawn returns to Starlight Cove, her idyllic hometown on Lake Michigan, where the doomed vessel sleeps beneath the beam of a ramshackle lighthouse.Her plan: remodel and sell the lighthouse while untangling the perplexing family mystery. Neither task is easy, especially once her well-meaning parents and the quirky locals--including nautical researcher and Starlight Cove's most eligible bachelor, Kip Whittaker--get involved. Despite their attraction, Dawn is reluctant to trust Kip, or any of the close-knit townsfolk. But as she pieces together the truth, Dawn's once-shuttered heart opens up. And if she's willing, the lighthouse might guide her to a place she never expected to find, where the past entwines with a bright new beginning.

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