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description: The Bayman's Daughter is a time-slip novel that takes place in the quaint seaside hamlet of Sayville Long Island. Once the playground of families like the Roosevelts and Vanderbilts Sayville was also the home of the famous Blue Point Oyster. Although the main characters Hannah Trumball and Philip Ferrara are fictional they interact with people who lived and worked in the Sayville area. The Bayman's Daughter is a story that intertwines the history of Long Island with a love story that crosses time itself.Hannah Trumball is the daughter of an English bayman and an Irish lady's maid. Her mother is a maid to Nannie Vance Roosevelt at Meadow Croft the summer estate of John Ellis Roosevelt first cousin to Teddy Roosevelt. Hannah is taken under the wing of the Roosevelt daughters Gladys and Jean. But being exposed to such wealth from a young age and yet not coming from a family of means has Hannah torn between two worlds.Philip Ferrara also lives in Sayville but one hundred years later. One day he meets an old man named Louis at Foster Avenue Park. What the old man tells him leads Philip to Meadow Croft on the night of Super Storm Sandy and this results in Philip being transported back in time to the year 1912. When Hannah and Philip meet their story really begins and Hannah and Philip discover that their meeting was always meant to be. After all it's history.
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title: The Bayman's Daughter
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