Song from the Sea

by Katherine Kingsley

Book Overview

In a spellbinding tale that sweeps from a rugged Greek island to the scandal and intrigue of Regency England, bestselling author Katherine Kingsley gives us a man haunted by the past, a woman without... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0440237440
• ISBN13: 9780440237440
• Release Date: April 2003
• Publisher: Dell Publishing Company
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 4.2" x 6.9"

Customer Reviews

Excellent Read

Song from the Sea was a great book. I had trouble putting it down. This book should be made into a movie.

Spiritual, sensual, and light!

Adam Carlyle rows out to sea to end his life. It's the perfect end to end his grief and despair and at the same time not allow the next in line, Harold Carlyle, to claim his vast fortune. Adam comes upon a large ship moving at a quick pace. He hears a beautiful song and his attention turns to the ship's stern. There he watches in horror as Callie Melbourne jumps into the water. Realizing his suicide plans have been thwarted for the moment, he sets out to rescue her. When he rows her back to his home, he discovers she has lost her memory. He gives her refuge in his home and quickly becomes intent on helping Callie with her problems. Adam's close friend soon finds out she was sent to England from America to marry Harold Carlyle, a fat and despicable young man who is none other than Adam's cousin. Adam is fighting demons from his past. He tragically lost his wife and child to a hunting accident and blames himself for not being there to protect them. Callie brings him back to the living, and gives him purpose. This uplifting story is spiritual, sensual, and light. This is a beautiful and captivating story.

invigorating historical romantic suspense

In 1818 Lord Adam Carlyle rows his boat in the Channel planning to die as far from England as possible. The distraught aristocrat's only pleasure is to thwart his odious cousin by delaying the declaration of inheriting Stanton Abbey. However, his rowboat fails to sink even in a nasty storm and though tired he sees a siren sent overboard from a nearby ship. The siren is knocked unconscious but Adam rescues her.Her father sent Callie Melbourne back to England to meet her fiancé Harold Carlyle selected for her by her dad. Now she awakens in a stranger's home suffering from amnesia. While Adam helps Callie physically heal, she aids him with his mental healing. As they fall in love, his odious cousin Harold recognizes Callie as his fiancé. Adam, who vowed never to love again, risks his soul because his beloved Callie must never be under the thumb of Harold.SONG FROM THE SEA is an exciting Regency romance though readers will not accept the hero's attempt to commit suicide (sort of like Lethal Weapon I). Adam is too courageous and too contemptible of his cousin to kill himself even though he felt he had nothing to live for when two cherished people recently died. Callie is a delight from the moment Adam sees her as a sea siren while Harold is too nasty to accept as a rival. Still sub-genre fans will appreciate Kaherine Kingsley's invigorating historical romantic suspense.Harriet Klausner

Better and Better

This is another fabulous book from Katherine Kingsley. After losing his wife and son in a tragic accident,Adam, Marquess of Vale has decided to kill himself and is very upset that he has to delay his suicide to save Calista Melbourne from drowning after she fall off a ship in the middle of the ocean. After taking her back to his estate, Adam gets involved in taking care of Calista and forgets about his plans to do away with himself and starts living again. Calista doesn't remember her past life but she soon finds herself loving the one Adam creates for her. When the fortune hunting fiance she doesn't remember finds her, Adam offers to marry her to protect her from Harold the horrible, who happens to be Adam's despised cousin. Ms. Kingsley so beautifully combines rich characters, interesting story line and heart lifting spirtuality into fabulous stories. She is such a joy to read.

Very well done.

Callista Melbourne was raised far from her homeland of England on the exotic Greek isle, Corfu. Her father's dying wishes are that she return home and marry a man he has arranged a match for her with. Callista is willing to the first part, but the second is repugnant to her. She is determined to escape it, somehow, never dreaming that Mother Nature will intervene and she will be swept from her ship in the midst of a storm. Callie is rescued by a young man who had been out to sea seeking his own death. Instead, he winds up a savior. Adam Carlyle had relished the thought of his death at sea; his life had been empty since his wife and child died, and dying but with his body lost would complicate his detested cousin's life. Callie, now an amnesiac, complicates his instead. He wants to help her, to find out who she is, but in the process falls in love. Adam never imagines that the woman he now loves and who has restored his will to live was on her way to marry the cousin he so despises. The truth coming out will bring them to some hard choices. Once again, Adam may be Callie's only salvation.***** With freshness and joy, Ms. Kingsley does not disappoint her fans. Callie is a heroine with a fresh outlook on life, and Adam broods just enough to appeal to those who love a hero with a tinge of being gothic. As always, the back cast in one of her books is well defined and crucial to the story, not merely background. Though a bit too spicy to qualify as a Christian novel, there are spiritual truths that will also open your heart and mind.