The Storm Beyond The Tides

Shadows of Our Time, Book 1

By: Jonathan Cullen

Narrated by: Theresa Bakken

July 1939. War is on the horizon but on Monk Island, Maine life goes on as usual. As the daughter of a lobsterman, Ellie Ames’ future seems limited until a mysterious German couple comes off the ferry with their nineteen-year-old son. From the moment she meets Karl Brink, the two become inseparable and not everyone approves because locals are suspicious of outsiders. Ellie ignores their scorn, however, and the secret she learns about Karl’s family makes her even more determined to be with him. The magical summer ends when the Brinks suddenly have to go home. And although Karl promises to return in the fall, by then Europe is at war. Two years pass and Ellie has all but given up hope when she gets a letter in the mail that will change her life forever.

The Storm Beyond the Tides is the story of the unlikely romance between a small-town girl and a German on the eve of the Second World War and explores a frightening time in America’s past—when U-Boats prowled the East Coast and put small, coastal communities on the frontline of a global conflict.

©2021, 2022 Jonathan Cullen (P)2022 Liquid Mind Publishing

Critic reviews

“…Cullen delivers a novel that's fast-moving, fresh, and imbued with the best of old-fashioned storytelling, too. Let him take you back in time to that moment when the future of the world and every life in it hung in precarious balance.” (William Martin, New York Times bestselling author of Cape Cod and Bound for Gold)

“Well-written and touching saga of life in Maine during WWII.” (Eoin Dempsey, Amazon bestselling author of Finding Rebecca and White Rose Black Forest)

Outstanding traditional storytelling

Cullen knows coastal Maine and he artfully paints the setting for a pre-war love story that provides the reader with an escape into an earlier time. Storm Beyond the Tides provides all the rewards of traditional storytelling. It’s easy to imagine this one being adapted for film.

the story line

it was a well told story by a very good narrator. i'd like much more

The Storm Beyond the Tides

I enjoyed the story. Here again it was another aspect of WWll. The characters came to life which helped carry the story through love, pain, excitement and sorrow.

Good book

If you like World War II fiction you will really like this book. History and romance