Latter-Day Sweethearts

Helen Carstairs boards the ocean liner Baltic bound for Europe, fleeing a home made unbearable by her father's new wife and a love affair that collapsed into silence. But the ship holds a cruel surprise: John Glynn, the man she still loves, is aboard, and another woman calls out to him across the crowded deck. As jealousy and old longing fracture Helen's composure, she embarks on a voyage that promises escape but delivers something more complicated: the dizzying possibility of reinvention. She travels with the steady Miss Bleecker but finds herself magnetically drawn to the audacious Miss Posey Winstanley, whose easy confidence is everything Helen's rigid upbringing taught her to suppress. Set aboard an Edwardian ocean liner where the Atlantic stretches like a blank page, Latter-Day Sweethearts captures that liminal thrill of leaving everything behind and wondering if the person you were can survive the journey.