by Delores Lowe Friedman
Tangled Dreams is a seductive tale of family secrets, forbidden love, and mystical revelations–a work of literarym/commercial and historical fiction with a love story at its heart.
“When I said marriage is not for you, I had my reasons.”
Dr. Jocelyn Kendall awakens in her Boston hotel room to the sound of her dead mother’s voice. Disappointed in romance and overlooked for a well-deserved promotion as a professor of cultural anthropology, Jocelyn is scheduled to meet with Dr. Gerald Hunter, Director of the Boston Whaling Museum, before her research trip to the Caribbean Island of Bequia. The haunting message her mother leaves, reminds Jocelyn of the family secrets her mother took to her grave—including the mystery surrounding Jocelyn’s grandmother’s death.
With a talisman placed around her neck by her great aunt as her only protection, the support of her best friend, and her own instinctive hope, Jocelyn soon succumbs to the magical elixir that is Bequia. She “dreams” of, and then seems to be inhabiting, the life of Mariel, her great-great-grandmother, wife of a whaler sea captain, whose frequent absences leave her lonely and vulnerable to the visits of an irresistible intruder. Mariel’s marriage and her virtue are at stake, and this tainted love triangle is unfolding again in Jocelyn’s current time and place, unless she can discover the path to love that has always eluded her.
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