The Heart That Knows

The Heart That Knows is a touching story of passion and loss set against the stunning landscape of New Brunswick's Tantramar Marshes.
On her wedding day Luella Warden is suddenly abandoned without a word of explanation from her sailor fiance. The years pass, and she's left to the life of an outcast, scorned by her community for being a mother but not a wife. Her son grows up without a father, coming of age with a burning need to to seek vengeance on the man who treated his mother so cruelly.

Excerpt from The Heart That Knows

For nearly two hours the girl had waited on the wind-swept dyke, watching the ship. She had been expecting to see a boat put Off from the ship's Side, and head for the mouth Of the creek. The tide had crept in yellow over the red ats, till it brimmed the creek mouth with its broken, white-topped waves and washed foaming along the bases Of the dyke below her feet. After half an hour she won dered and grew impatient. Then, at slack Of tide, She began to grow angry, -for Jim had asked her to meet him out here on the dyke at high tide that they might talk over certain matters Of intimate concern at safe distance from eye and ear Of the village gossips. That night, in Westcock church, a great event was to take place, before the sailing Of the Ship on the morrow's ebb; and Luella felt that on such a day, when she had SO much to do, it ill became her lover to be late.