"After four harrowing years on the Western Front, Tom Sherbourne returns to Australia and takes a job as lighthouse keeper on Janus Rock. To this isolated island, Tom brings a young, bold, and loving wife, Isabel. Years later, after two miscarriages and one stillbirth, the grieving Isabel hears a baby's cries on the wind. A boat has washed up carrying a dead man and a living baby. In M. L. Stedman's mesmerizing novel, we are seduced into accommodating Isabel's decision to keep this 'gift from God,' and we are swept into their story." -- p. [4] of cover.