The Girl in Her: In the soul of a woman is a little girl.

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Her mother’s death and her father’s indifference led Olivia Carr to shelter herself behind walls of isolation.

When the school term ends, she resigns herself to weeks of lonely boredom, until her estranged father asks her to spend the summer on his estate near Boston. Her hope that their relationship could be healed is soon crushed, and Olivia flees her father’s house and reluctantly joins fellow teachers on a maritime Canada cruise.

The voyage stirs up latent memories. What mystery draws her to the lighthouse at Pawleys Cove, Nova Scotia?

Fellow teacher Clark Rafferty—because of his Christian faith—struggles against his attraction to Olivia. When she unexpectedly joins the cruise and becomes involved in a shipboard romance with a man Clark doesn’t trust, his resolve to avoid her must yield to his need to protect her.

Meanwhile, in the shadow of the Pawleys Cove lighthouse, an old man, still haunted by tragedy, prays for the little girl he remembers.