Three sisters.
Inspired by actual events during the Great Lakes Storm of 1913, Sisters of the Sweetwater Fury is a meticulously researched and grippingly told debut novel..
Amidst the chaos, the women are offered a glimpse of the clarity they seek, if only they dare to perceive it.
On November 8, 1913, a deadly storm descends on the Great Lakes, bringing hurricane-force winds, whiteout blizzard conditions, and mountainous thirty-five-foot waves that last for days.
Finding herself alone and restless in her new town, she joins him on the season\'s last trip up the lakes.
Two hundred miles away in Cleveland, the youngest sister, Cordelia Blythe, has pinned her hopes for adventure on her marriage to a lake freighter captain.
Burdened with regret and longing for more than her job at the dry goods store, she looks for comfort in a secret infatuation.
Life-Saving Serviceman who died in an accident she believes she could have prevented.
In Sunny\'s Lake Huron hometown, her sister, Agnes Inby, mourns her husband, a U.
S.
She also has a dream-to open a restaurant back home-but knows she\'d never convince her husband, the steward, to leave the seafaring life heloves.
It\'s 1913 and Great Lakes galley cook Sunny Colvin has her hands full feeding a freighter crew seven days a week, nine months a year.
One furious storm.
Two Great Lakes.
Three sisters
