Side Launch by Laurie Fullerton

Side Launch by Laurie Fullerton
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Paperback
Genre: Romance

SIDE LAUNCH: A NOVEL begins when would-be Maine transplant Susannah stumbles across the forgotten, seen-better-days coastal town of Ossonet. There she meets Owen Dodd, who comes from a long line of wooden shipbuilders and whose family shipyard closed to wooden schooner building over seventy-five years ago. The two begin seeing each other, and within weeks, Susannah is spending most of her time at Owen’s tumbledown shipyard, intrigued by his plan to build a seventy-foot wooden schooner, using age-old shipbuilding techniques and traditions that few remember.

Susannah struggles to make a new life in the world of rural Maine, both at her job as a new newspaper reporter in nearby Clydebank and with Owen. Meanwhile Owen assembles a chaotic group of shipwrights linked to the region's maritime past—from the Caribbean, French Canada and the local MicMac traditions. This manly crew increasingly invites Susannah

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