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Helen Danner never wanted to return to the empty seaside cottage. Yet six harrowing months after tragedy struck her family, she gets news. Operation Pied Piper, England’s attempt to save the children of the war, is sending young refugees to Wales. So she packs her bags and finds herself at the last place in the world she hoped to be. There, facing the ocean, she asks it to send her just one child. Someone to again love.
And then a strange little girl shows up in her life. Lyric, as Helen calls her, can swim beyond any adult’s ability, doesn’t feel cold, and foreign seashells often seem to be waiting for her. And why won’t she speak? Where is her luggage? There are no records of Lyric or a mother and father. With the belief that they are dead or undeserving, Helen begins to love the girl as her own. But as Helen unravels the truth about a world that wants her girl back, she must face a question she doesn’t know if she is still strong enough to answer.
Do you choose to love, even if you have to let go?
In the remains of a place that once was California lies an Academy—a facility that dominates time travel to collect those from history who held magic. Supposedly The Academy is for research, but one young man, Ramose, discovers the truth. Centuries ago, a silent war was waged between science and magic. And magic is sorely losing.
Back in 14th century Italy, Joanna never could have known when she refused her dearest friend what would unfold. Leo wanted her to teach him how to fly, but why couldn’t he grasp that it would be suicide? It isn’t until she is captured and awakes at the lovely Academy—where nothing is as it seems—that she must face what she has done.
Yes. Magic is real. Magic has always been real. But, because of her, it is nearly extinct.
Marian lives in a world of her making, protected by her own cleverness and the characters of her mother's books. Drawing from their strength, she forges her escape from a brutal childhood and takes to the wild. There she finds hope in a rare position for women, tucked into the Appalachians, working as a packhorse librarian.
Though it requires her to venture along cliff edges and through iced-over creeks, she knows what magic she carries in her pack to those isolated mountain families. It's in a small cabin that she begins teaching a handsome widower's two children how to read and discovers new kinds of love, different from any she has known.
Yet as danger closes in, Marian must decide between all she has ever wanted—to be as free as the birds—and a dream she has only just begun to believe in.
Raw and lyrical, Where Green Meets Blue is a mesmerizing novel of love, resilience, and the belief that a story, like a pressed flower in a book, can help us hold onto all that is beautiful.