Sunday's
Child
The
Pea Island Gold Trilogy
Tom
Lewis
VP
Publishing (Trade Paperback)
ISBN-10: 0-9705793-1-4 (0970579314)
ISBN-13: 978-0-9705793-1-7 (9780970579317)
Publication Date: April 2006
List Price: $14.95
Synopsis (from
the publisher): Sunday Everette has a childhood unlike any other in the
“Jim Crow” era of the South, growing up at the Pea
Island Life-Saving Station among the barren dunes of North
Carolina’s stormy Outer Banks. In sheltered isolation, guided
solely by the influence of the Station’s heroic all-black
crewmen, she blossoms into a strong and beautiful young woman with a
spirit to match.
But Sunday’s secluded paradise cannot last. Her calm, simple
days by the sea must inevitably give way to the fast-approaching storms
of life. Unexpectedly, those darkening skies bring with them an
unlikely mix of forbidden love, murder, and revenge—along
with a Nazi submarine carrying millions of dollars in gold stolen from
Hitler’s Third Reich.
Review:
The first book in the Pea Island Gold Trilogy by Tom Lewis, Sunday's Child,
tells the story of a young girl's life on an island off the coast of
North Carolina during which she finds love, disappointment, hatred, and
even murder.
Sunday Everette, the child of a white prostitute and black drifter, was
born in 1918. Living with her father and his co-workers at the Pea
Island Life Saving Station, she is taught to swim almost as soon as she
could walk. Her "fathers" taught her to fish, to handle a boat, and
other tasks required of those living near the sea. But most important,
they taught her their values. But as a young woman, her world would
soon become bleak. Adolph Hitler, of Germany’s Third Reich,
was threatening to take over the world. He had traitors in his own army
that stole gold from the German banks and brought it by submarine to
Pea Island where they buried it. When they came to get it, there were
killings both at sea and on the island. After Sunday's father is killed
by the Germans, she needs all her strength, talents and abilities to
stop the mayhem there.
Sunday's
Child is a riveting and
frequently thought-provoking novel of a young woman's courage in the
face of a world-wide adversity that has tragic local consequences and
dramatically impacts her life. The book is deftly written,
incorporating historical events into a story that races to an exciting
and somewhat unexpected conclusion. As a stand-alone novel, it's
wonderful. As the first of a trilogy, it's intriguing to speculate what
may follow.
Special thanks to guest reviewer Betty of The Betz Review for contributing her review of Sunday's Child and to Maryglenn McCombs Book Publicity for providing a copy of the book for this review.
Review Copyright © 2006 — Hidden Staircase Mystery Books — All Rights Reserved
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Mysteries in this series …
Sunday's Child
VP Publishing (Trade Paperback), April 2006
ISBN-10: 0-9705793-1-4 (0970579314)
ISBN-13: 978-0-9705793-1-7 (9780970579317)
Hitler's Judas
VP Publishing (Trade Paperback), September 2007
ISBN-10: 0-9705793-6-5 (0970579365)
ISBN-13: 978-0-9705793-6-2 (9780970579362)
Sons
of their Fathers
Tease Publishing (Trade Paperback), October 2008
ISBN-10: 1-60767001-1 (160767-0011)
ISBN-13: 978-1-60767001-8 (978160767-0018)
Omnimystery
keywords for Sunday's Child
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Location(s) referenced: North
Carolina.
