Award-winning author Ellie Block returns with The Secret of Sunrises, a heartwarming new novel releasing May 26. Set against the vivid backdrop of Key West, this poignant beach read explores the story of estranged siblings, second chances and the surprising ways the past can resurface when least expected.
After fifty-seven-year-old Catherine Moran learns that her long-lost brother has left her a boat, she travels to Key West hoping the inheritance might ease the financial strain of placing their mother in a memory care facility. Instead, she discovers a dilapidated trawler rumored to have belonged to Ernest Hemingway, along with an unexpected complication: a handsome friend of her brother’s is living onboard, and he has no intention of leaving.
Both Catherine and her brother were named after Hemingway characters, and once she arrives on the island, she finds it impossible to escape the famed author’s shadow. As she crisscrosses Key West trying to uncover the truth about the vessel, her brother, and the years that separated them, Catherine realizes that healing rarely follows a straight course, but that family and forgiveness will always go hand in hand.
A tide of secrets awaits.
From an author celebrated for her literary range and emotional insight, The Secret of Sunrises reminds readers that life, like the sea, has tides, and it is never too late to sail toward a new horizon.
Women over 50 typically only see themselves in supporting roles in fiction rather than as the lead, so The Secret of Sunrises delivers a new voice for the "New Prime" — women navigating the complex burdens of coming to grips with the past and caring for aging parents while rediscovering their own dreams and aspirations for their second act.
The Secret of Sunrises releases May 26 and will be available through major booksellers. Readers can pre-order the book through Amazon and Barnes & Noble and it is also available as an audiobook on Audible.
Visit the author’s website, brettellenblock.com, to learn more about her, explore her books, and get in touch for inquiries, interviews, or additional information.
Watch the official book trailer for The Secret of Sunrises and get a first glimpse of Catherine Moran’s sun-splashed journey to Key West, where family secrets, forgiveness, and second chances unfold along the shoreline.
About the Author
This award-winning author’s work spans literary fiction, women’s fiction, and suspense. She received her undergraduate degree in Fine Arts from the University of Michigan, where she was awarded the prestigious Hopwood and Haugh Prizes for Fiction. She later earned graduate degrees from the renowned Iowa Writers’ Workshop as well as the University of East Anglia’s acclaimed Fiction Writing Program in England.
Her debut short story collection, Destination Known, won the Drue Heinz Literary Prize and earned her the Michener-Copernicus Fellowship. The collection was reviewed in The New York Times and The Atlantic Monthly. She is the author of the critically celebrated novel The Grave of God’s Daughter and the Macavity Award-nominated thriller The Lightning Rule. She also released the internationally lauded novels The Language of Sand and The Definition of Wind. Her work has been translated into numerous languages around the world.
In 2024, she won the Launch Pad Prose Competition with the novel originally titled Hemingway Slept Here, which is now being released by Lake Union under the title The Secret of Sunrises.
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City: Holden
State: MA
Country: United States
Website: https://brettellenblock.com/
