Whose Waves These Are

Winner of the 2020 Christy Award Book of the Year. In the wake of WWII a grieving fisherman submits a poem to a local newspaper: a rallying cry for hope purpose . . . and rocks. Send me a rock for the person you lost and I will build something life-giving. When the poem spreads farther than he ever intended Robert Blisss humble words change the tide of a nation. Boxes of rocks inundate the tiny coastal Maine town and he sets his calloused hands to work but the building halts when tragedy strikes.. Decades later Annie Bliss is summoned back to Ansel-by-the-Sea when she learns her Great-Uncle Robert the man who became her refuge during the hardest summer of her youth is now the one in need of help. What she didnt anticipate was finding a wall of heavy boxes hiding in his home. Long-ago memories of stone ruins on a nearby island trigger her curiosity igniting a fire in her anthropologist soul to uncover answers.. She joins forces with the handsome and mysterious harbor postman and all her hopes of mending the decades-old chasm in her family seem to point back to the ruins. But with Robert failing fast her search for answers battles against time a foe as relentless as the ever-crashing waves upon the sea.