Two If by Sea

By: Jacquelyn Mitchard

Narrated by: George Newbern

From Jacquelyn Mitchard, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Deep End of the Ocean, the “suspenseful, otherwordly, and nearly impossible to put down” (People) story about an unlikely hero whose life is transformed when he rescues a boy with an extraordinary gift.

Just hours after his wife and her entire family perish in the Christmas Eve tsunami, former police officer Frank Mercy pulls a little boy from a submerged car. Not quite knowing why, Frank doesn’t turn Ian over to the Red Cross. Instead he makes up a story about where the boy came from and takes him home, where Frank realizes that Ian has an otherworldly gift—an extraordinary ability to transform lives beyond anything he’d ever imagined. Awed and confused, Frank confesses Ian’s secret to Claudia, a beautiful champion rider who is training for the Olympics. They join together to fight the sinister forces gathering to take Ian back. In a final confrontation, Frank and Claudia will risk everything—their love, their family, their very lives—to save this boy they now love as their own son.

Morosely fantasy

Master of similes and metaphors to color the prose. The story held me and drew me in but was too fantastic to be real. There was just too many things that happened that were glazed over as acceptable. Odd book but interesting.

Couldn't stop listening

Mitchard's writing is so entrancing that I was reluctant to stop listening to eat supper. A slightly implausible story involving two children with some kind of ESP skills, but who knows... The story is helped along with the protagonist's possession of large reservoirs of money. But, I love Mitchard's writing and after all, it's fiction.

Love prevails

The author describes devastation to fear to a better life in a bizarrely normal life.

Cindy

Wow! An amazing story, interesting characters, beautiful places, love and loss, tenderness and terror, heaven and earth. A must read. (But put cotton in your ears for the occasional f-word or diety-abuse. In fact, even the language is artfully explained away to my satisfaction.)

Excellent!

I was hooked! Thoroughly gripping. Oh no moments that made me bite my nails. Enjoy.