America has barely recovered from The Great Depression. Catherine McFarley, a Cape Cod preacher's wife, receives a letter from her long-ago lover--the elusive, adventurous Jack Wakefield, who writes he is sailing from Alaska to Massachusetts to meet the son he fathered with Catherine but has never seen. Jonah McFarley is a troubled youth, slated to follow in the clerical footsteps of the only father he has ever known. When Jonah learns the hidden truth about his conception, his loyalties suddenly divide as he crosses over the threshold of manhood in pursuit of his own destiny. Catherine s dearest friend and confidante, Frances Gellermont, a wealthy widow, harbors a dark secret of her own and unintentionally becomes an influential player in young Jonah s future. All the while, the Great Hurricane of '38 is brewing off the African coastline, growing in strength and magnitude and coming to seal their fates.
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