title: Savage Tides
author: Holmes, Mary Mayer
description: His passion took her where she had never been...his secrets threatened to destroy them both!
  
  THE POWER OF THE OCEAN HELD THEM IN ITS SWAY.  THE POWER OF THEIR LOVE WOULD FACE THE MOST SAVAGE TEST OF ALL...
  
  At 24, Philadelphia-born Augusta Mayhew was a woman nearing spinsterhood when she defies her family by answering a marriage-by-mail proposal from a Maine lighthouse keeper.  She dreamed of romance and adventure, but what she found on that isolated island was a strong young man named Elijah Payne--as cold and remote as the sea itself.  But who was Elijah Payne?  Why did he refuse to leave the island?  Why would he disappear from her in sudden, brooding silences?  As a storm of pent-up passion caught them both in its throes, Augusta would uncover a bizarre tale of her husband's past--and his secret fear.  Now she must face a truth too strange to accept--one that threatens to smash their fragile love...