The Hawkes of Smugglers Cove: An Alaskan RomanceTrafford Publishing, 2007 - 283 pages The principle characters in The Hawkes of Smugglers Cove are Adam Hawke, a handsome Alaskan and Ann Hollister, a beautiful and talented nurse from San Diego. Adam had been severely wounded by a German shell burst while fighting with the Allies in Belgium. He was not expected to live and was placed in an Allied field hospital tent at Dover. Adam explained to Ann that he couldn't die, because he owned 80 acres of wilderness land at, Smugglers Cove, one of the most beautiful places in southeast Alaska, and he had to build a log home there. Ann thought this was only the desperate dream of a dying soldier. Despite their different in cultural backgrounds, the spark of love was ignited. Much later Ann admitted that's when she fell in love with Adam. After an on again, off again courtship, separated by 3000 miles, they finally married and did build their dream home in Alaska. But it wasn't without sacrifice. Ann was an accomplished pianist and Christian. There was no church, they didn't own a boat and Adam's war wounds flared up again and he began bleeding in the lungs. Other books by Francis E. Caldwell: "Two survivors of the horrors of World War I and the Great Flu Epidemic of 1918 search for peace, and find inspiration and hope for the world in Alaska's rugged wilderness. They struggle with doubt and faith to build their dream log home in the land of Alaska's big bears." "Readers of The Hawkes of Smugglers Cove are fortunate to learn about life in early-day Alaska from an author who lived there, hunted, fished and explored Alaska for half a century. This is a story for people who yearned to become Alaskans when the 'Last Frontier' was a Mecca for the adventurous, but, for various reasons, didn't." |
