Dabney's sweet husband, Box, seems to like him, but Box, a famous economist, is generally oblivious.

Now the mother to a grown woman named Agnes, Dabney can see that her daughter's fianc%C3%A9, C.J., despite being generous and charming, is also a controlling and ill-tempered poisonous match. When Clen shows up in Nantucket, Dabney is plagued by ominous spells of pain and weakness that she attributes to being lovesick. Pregnant with his child but terrified of leaving the island after a childhood trauma involving her resentful mother, Dabney tells a reluctant Clen that she needs a clean break. Sadly, ambitious Clen was also destined to have a case of wanderlust that would lead him to a reporter job on the other side of the world. Born with the ability to discern whether a couple is a perfect match or doomed to fail, Nantucket girl Dabney Kimball Beech knew from the moment she met high-school sweetheart Clendenin Hughes that they were meant for each other. Determined to make use of her gift before it's too late, she sets out to find perfect matches for those she loves most.Hilderbrand's (Barefoot) charming, poignant 13th novel chronicles what happens after a woman's true love returns to her 27 years after they've agreed to no longer be in touch. Now, after spending twenty-seven years on the other side of the world, Clen is back on Nantucket, and Dabney has never felt so confused, or so alive.īut when tragedy threatens her own second chance, Dabney must face the choices she's made and share painful secrets with her family. Never, that is, except in the case of herself and Clendenin Hughes, the green-eyed boy who took her heart with him long ago when he left the island to pursue his dream of becoming a journalist. But there's no arguing with her results: With 42 happy couples to her credit and all of them still together, Dabney has never been wrong about romance. Some call her ability mystical, while others, her husband, celebrated economist John Boxmiller Beech, and her daughter, Agnes, who is clearly engaged to the wrong man, call it meddlesome. In this moving story about losing and finding love again, a woman sets out to find the perfect matches for those closest to her.įorty-eight-year-old Nantucketer Dabney Kimball Beech has always had a gift for matchmaking.

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