The Swallows Know

By Rayford E Hammond

Nothing is as it appears. Do not assume that anything you hear about me is how I am. Everything is illusion, explains the beautiful and mysterious Sylvia Reynolds to her new friend, Earl Harris, during their first clandestine rendezvous at the quaint Capistrano Inn near Mission San Juan Capistrano.As soon as Lieutenant Commander Earl Harris meets the stunning wife of one of the junior officers assigned to his new ship, he knows that he should walk away. But just as the swallows are drawn back to Capistrano, Earl finds himself inexorably drawn to this extraordinary woman, who seems desperately to seek his friendship-or perhaps something more.Earl's superior officers caution him to be wary of Sylvia Reynolds, but by then it is too late, as he finds it impossible to stop this passionate, yet potentially cataclysmic liaison. As paradoxical clues soon begin to surface, leading him to wonder about the relationship between Sylvia and her popular husband, Earl must keep reminding himself that nothing is as it appears, while trying to figure out what secrets control this strange union.By the time he begins to discover the true nature of the relationship, Earl has become caught up in a complex web from which he can see no way out. Trapped in an entanglement involving adultery, homosexuality, incest and violence, he struggles to find a way to extricate himself without jeopardizing careers and possibly lives.This warm, touching love story portrays exacting character tests of some of the officers, and the women who support them, whose lives intertwine while attached to a Navy cruiser in San Diego, California.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1461143462
• ISBN13: 9781461143468
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.6" x 5.5"