Del Norte Public Library

Ellen Trawton is running away from it all. She hates her job, she doesnt love the aristocratic man to whom she is engaged, and her relationship with her controlling mother is becoming increasingly strained. So Ellen cuts all her ties to chic London society, fleeing to the one place she knows her mother wont find her--her aunts charming and secluded cottage on Ireland's wild Connemara coast. Conor Macausland cuts a dark, lonely figure. His wife, Caitlin,...

"Twentysomething Ellie thought she was her father's favorite child; she was sure he would leave her his most prized possession, a baseball with which they played catch, and which sat on his desk, as a kind of inspiration: her poet father's most famous poem was called "The Catch." But when her father's will is read, his children, including from other marriages, each receive a meaningful object, except Ellie, who receives a glow-in-the-dark tie rack...