Once, upon an island - Laury A. Egan

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A sixteen-year-old girl, Olivia, who feels guilty about her younger brother's death.

Her mother, Evelyn, a glamorous artist.

Travis, the charismatic owner of the Pink Fancy Hotel.

A mysteri-ous Czechoslo-vakian widow, Sofiya.

A sojourn on St.

Croix, a tropi-cal island.

Two love affairs.

Secrets.

Nazis.

Ravensbr�ck concentra-tion camp.

Conflict, jealousy, kindness, tenderness.

A res-cue and a resurrec-tion.

All woven together in a haunting work of liter-ary fiction set in 1966.

An engaging and well-written story of a young woman discover-ing the nuances and mysteries of human relationships, love, and adulthood.

Set on a beautiful Caribbean island and peppered with references to charac-ters, places, and events there, I felt like I was a confidant and witness to the emotions and experi-ences of a friend.

Egan found an excellent balance between the voice of her young narrator in the time period and the perspective from years later.

-Lisa Cantrell, administrator, St.

Croix Memories The novel is a heart-wrenching treatise of teen angst and relation-ships damaged by trauma, set in the beautiful Virgin Islands.

It gently portrays how chance-met friends can help us to deal with adversity.

Lordi, writing as Tinker Marne, author of Sunken Treachery A major work.

All of the primary characters deserve their own novels.

Helga Schier, former executive editor, Random House.