Between the Sky and the Sea

<p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>One glance. A shipwreck. Can a love affair forged in peril sustain two independent spirits?</em></strong></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Lavinia Onslow who delights in the freedom of managing her father's millinery shop in the heart of Savannah Georgia has decided she may defy convention and not marry after all. Yet in the summer of 1838 on board the elegant steamship </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Pulaski</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> bound from Savannah to Baltimore she exchanges glances with an intriguing young man. What can ensue from a mere glance? Quite a lot as legend has it. That very night the boiler of the </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Pulaski</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> explodes and the ship sinks drowning most of its wealthy passengers. As Lavinia struggles in the water in her heavy dress calling out for her father and thinking she will surely perish someone dives in to rescue her pulling her up next to him on a makeshift raft made of two deck settees. When she composes herself she recognizes the intriguing man. There they float alone but together surrounded by ocean thirty miles off the coast of North Carolina desperate for a life-saving miracle.</span></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>Is the bond she feels for this stranger more than an instinct for survival?</em></strong></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Inspired by a legend --that may or not be true-- and set in the rich historic milieus of Savannah New Orleans and the coast of North Carolina </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Between the Sky and the Sea</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> explores how Lavinia Onslow's desire to live as an independent woman transforms after surviving the wreck of the </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Pulaski</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>.</span></p><p><br></p>