Book Info-
Title- The Waves
Series -The Island # 2
By- Jen Minkman
Publication Date- October 4th, 2013
Blurb-
The first memory I have of my grandfather is of a moment that
we share together.
I’m sitting on his knee looking out over the harbor. Grandpa is
smoking a pipe. He points at the horizon. “Look, Walt. Our ships are out there.
And one day, another even more beautiful ship will appear at the horizon. A
mighty ship to take us all away. And Annabelle will be at the front deck with
open arms, inviting us all to join her on board.”
“Why don’t we sail to her ourselves?” I inquire wide-eyed.
“Because she promised she would come,” granddad replies. “And
in that promise we trust. It’s only the Unbelievers who think they can do
everything themselves. They have no faith in the Goddess.”
Walt lives in Hope Harbor, an island community that has put its
trust in salvation from across the sea. The townspeople wait patiently, build
their ships to sail out and welcome the Goddess, and piously visit the temple
every week. Horror stories to scare their children are told about the
Unbelievers on the other side of Tresco.
But not all is what it seems. Walt has questions that no one
can answer, and when his best friend and cousin Yorrick is killed in an
accident, he digs deeper to find out the truth about the origins of Hope
Harbor’s society… and the secrets of the temple.
Return to the world of The Island and discover what Walt's life
was like before and after he met Leia!
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About the Author-
Jen Minkman (1978) was born in Holland, in the town of Alphen
aan den Rijn. When she was 19, she moved between The Hague, Salzburg (Austria),
Brussels (Belgium) and Cambridge (UK) to complete her studies in intercultural
communication. She is currently a teacher of English, career counsellor and
teenage coach at a secondary school in Voorburg, Holland. She tries to read at
least 100 books a year (and write a few, too!). She is a published author in
her own country, and translates her own books from Dutch into English for
self-publication.
In her spare time, she plays the piano, the guitar and the
violin. For every novel she writes, she creates a soundtrack.
'I have always been drawn to writing. My first book was a
sci-fi novel at the age of eight, which I painstakingly typed out on my dad's
typewriter and illustrated myself. Nowadays, I stick to poetry, paranormal
romance, chick lit and/or fantasy. In my home country, I am the first-ever
published writer of paranormal romance, and I will gradually make my books also
available in English (seeing I have to re-write and translate the books myself,
this will take some time!).
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