The Watershed

by Frances Cowie

Genres: Contemporary Romance; Small-town Romance

Synopsis

On a dry summer’s day in 1977 Rose Churchill, full of shyness and romantic dreams, waits under Rata River Bridge for a young man whose life will be forever altered.

Jessa Reynolds is bound by a cosmic thread to a man she has never met, and drawn to the life of the aunt her family has kept from her. The aunt they never speak of. When the paths of William Cook and Jessa finally cross, he is a well-respected architect in his thirties, she a student of seventeen about to embark on her university studies. His familiarity is beyond her understanding and his conservative and unyielding persona frightens her.

Jessa’s haunting angelic beauty fascinates William. He knows he should stay away, but he can’t resist tiptoeing into her world. It takes Jessa five years before she fully understands the mysteries of the past surrounding William and her aunt Rose—mysteries that may tear her family apart. Will William step over the line drawn for him by Jessa’s grandfather the year she turned eighteen?

Set in New Zealand and spanning four decades and three generations of women, The Watershed is a tale of love lost and forever searched for. If you like your romance served with a touch of family saga, a hint of the paranormal, a dash of sensuality and an moody male thrown in for good measure, The Watershed won’t disappoint. But first, ask yourself one question: Do you believe love can span more than one lifetime?

Release date: June 7, 2017

Publisher: Blue Butterfly Press

Print pages: 400

Content advisory: Contains sexual refferences.

Sample

Louisa Churchill was barely fourteen years old when she experienced two of life’s most inevitable moments at the hands of Roger Walker.

The first, a moment of loving passion. 

The second, a moment of sorrowful loss.

Both over in an instant, both life-changing all the same.