BEYOND THE MOONLIT SEA by Julianne MacLean

 

MY THOUGHTS

Julianne MacLean does not disappoint with this story. It's a love story, a mystery, a sad and very happy story. It has a bit of everything. I enjoyed it from start to finish. Well worth reading. 

What would you do if the love of your life just disappeared? If one day he's there and that night he's just vanished into thin air? Would you believe he was taken by aliens maybe? Maybe some magnetic force? The Bermuda Triangle? Or did he somehow manage to get lost without any trace? This is what happened to Olivia when her husband Dean goes to work one night. He's a pilot and has to take a big star somewhere even though he's suppose to spend the evening with her. They are trying to make a baby and he's called away. Then she gets that horrible phone call saying that he just disappeared. Just vanished without a trace. 

Now we go back a few years and meet Melanie Brown. She's a young woman going to college. She's working on her final paper and it's about the Bermuda Triangle. Her professor sends her for some therapy after she loses her mother and loses interest in her dissertation. She starts falling for her therapist which can't be a good thing. Right? After several months they start seeing each other but he of course tells her she has to keep it quiet or he can lose his license and be jailed. It's against the law. 

These two women's lives are both turned upside down by men. How will their lives intersect? Who do they have in common? So many secrets will be revealed and hearts broken. Lives will be changed forever. Some for the better in many ways and some not so good. This is a love story that has a bit of heartache. A big mystery. A lost love and a found love. It's truly a pager turner. One you will not want to put down.

Told by three main characters. Olivia, Melanie, and Dean. Each has a story. Each has their own problems. Each has some secrets. Some good, some not so good. What will become of these three people? How will they end?

All of my questions were answered and even though I figured out what happened, it was a little surprising. Just a little. I honestly did not like Dean. He seemed way to childish to me. He could have done better even though he had so much to overcome. I felt bad for him for his childhood but that is all. He had so many things to be thankful for. Melanie I didn't really like but I did feel for her also. She was just a very troubled young woman who depended on men too much. Olivia was a rich young lady but she was not petty or selfish in any way. She was very giving actually. I liked her. I loved Gabriel.. You have to read this to find out who he is. I really loved him.

Thank you #NetGalley, #JulianneMacLean, #LakeUnionPublishing for this ARC. This is my own true thoughts about this book.

5/5 stars and a very high recommendation. Read this one.  

SYNOPSIS

From the bestselling author of These Tangled Vines comes a gripping novel about one woman’s search for answers when her husband vanishes in the night.

Olivia Hamilton is married to the love of her life, Dean, a charismatic pilot who flies private jets for the rich and famous. But when he vanishes over the Bermuda Triangle, Olivia’s idyllic existence unravels. After years of waiting, Olivia must eventually let go of the fragile hope that her beloved husband might still be alive.

Melanie Brown is a particle physicist who spends late nights studying the Bermuda Triangle. But her research interests falter when her mother dies in a tragic accident. Struggling to reboot her life and career, Melanie begins a forbidden love affair with her therapist.

When a shocking discovery shows Olivia’s and Melanie’s paths are intertwined, it casts Dean’s disappearance in a new light. The two women’s strange connection threatens to unlock secrets that will change everything Olivia thought she knew about her marriage, her husband, and most importantly, herself.

Full of spellbinding twists and turns, Beyond the Moonlit Sea is a vivid, emotional novel about the stirring power of love lost and found—and the incredible strength of one woman who fights for happiness in the wake of tragedy.