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Author: Janice Thompson
Publisher: Summerside Press
ISBN: 978-1-60936-686-5
Author: Janice Thompson
Publisher: Summerside Press
ISBN: 978-1-60936-686-5
In the Bible, Psalms 103:12 it states “As far as the east if from the west, so far that He removed our transgressions from us.” In award-winning author Janice Thompson’s novel, the American Tapestries series Queen of the Waves, the writer shows how God is forgiving, loving and always directing our paths, even if on board a famous, doomed ship.
This three hundred and thirty-three page paperback novel depicts a young lady dressed in the early nineteen hundreds high society apparel, standing on a ship deck looking at the ocean. After the story, there is a short author biography along with four books by other authors in the series. With no profanity or explicit sex scenes, the book can be read by young adult and older and is obviously targeted toward females.
This Christian historical romance starts in England, when the Titanic makes its maiden voyage across the ocean to America. Only child Jacqueline Abingdon is from a wealthy family whose father has arranged for her to be married to a handsome but rather boring older man who plans on merging their businesses. But Jacquie is in love with Peter, the manor’s groundskeeper and will do anything in her power to be with him. Since Jacquie’s mother does not want her daughter involved with either suitor, behind her husband’s back she sneakily arranges boarding passes for Jacquie and her maid Iris to sail on the Titanic to avoid both relationships. With Peter’s sister, Tessa, subserviently at home with a drunken task-master father who forces her to brutal “prayer” confessions for supposedly being lazy at keeping up their minimal farm, Jacquie and Peter come up with an even more deceitful plan to make all three of them supposedly happy.
The unrefined, unsophisticated Tessa switches places with Jacquie and boards the Titanic without any problem but has issues with Iris, who resents her deception and lowly status as she pretends to be aristocratic and rich. Tessa, uncomfortable in her new role of expensive clothing, quarters and society, notices Nathan, who is traveling with his mother and a family friend, as he finds her just as intriguing. Back in England, Jacquie must deal with Peter’s true feelings toward her and how he purposed to save his sister Tessa from their abusive father.
When the Titanic starts its deathly voyage, all is opulent, cultured and almost superficial at the top deck of the ship. While Tessa is trying to tell Nathan the truth about her ruse and he learns about his father, the magnificent ship strikes the ice berg. Thomson writes compassionately how one learns that God loves and forgives each and every one of us unfathomably, in spite of our deceit, lies and sins.
This is a fresh angle about one of the deadliest peacetime maritime disasters with over fifteen hundred deaths and a little more than seven hundred survivors. Without giving away the ending, every one of the main characters have hope and endurance facing their own destinies.
