The Sea Keeper's Daughters

Name: The Sea Keeper's Daughters
Rating: 4.5217390060424805 (23 reviews)

Lisa Wingate

Sep 2015 · Tyndale Fiction

23 reviews

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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Before We Were Yours , this sweeping family drama moves from modern-day Roanoke Island to North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains in the 1930s, as stories recorded by Roosevelt's WPA folklore writers intertwine with the present to create an unexpected destiny.

Whitney Monroe is fighting to save the restaurant she built from a hostile takeover when an unlikely inheritance from her mother—a decaying Gilded Age hotel on the Outer Banks—changes everything. The Excelsior may be her best, and perhaps only, chance to raise the money she needs. But the aging hotel holds more complications than Whitney ever imagined.

Her estranged stepfather has claimed the third floor as his refuge, while a determined group of tenants refuses to let the historic building fall into the hands of developers. As Whitney sorts through decades of forgotten family belongings in search of something valuable enough to save her business, she uncovers an old necklace and the traces of a Great Depression–era love story. Her search for a way forward soon becomes a journey into the past, where the stories of the women who came before her may hold the key to understanding her own family—and discovering what is truly worth saving.

Beautiful and heartfelt with themes of family, forgiveness, and hope
Southern women's fiction that features clean, sweet romance
Includes discussion questions for book clubs

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Before We Were Yours , this sweeping family drama moves from modern-day Roanoke Island to North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains in the 1930s, as stories recorded by Roosevelt's WPA folklore writers intertwine with the present to create an unexpecte...

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23 reviews

Nancy F Taylor

July 10, 2026

WHEN I BEGIN READING A BOOK BY THIS AUTHOR I AM DRAWN TO IT LIKE A MOTH TO LIGHT, SHE IS SO GIFTED AND SO BLESSED SHE BRINGS YOU INTO THE STORY, IT IS A GIFT TO THE READER. THIS STORY IS SO WODERFULLY COMPLEX. OUR NATION HOLDS MANY LOST HOSTORIES DUE TO POLITICS, BIGOTRY AND IGNORANCE AND I THANK MS. WINGATE FOR SHARING HER RESEARCH AND BRING IT TO ME.

A Google user

November 1, 2015

This is a beautiful story! I highly recommend it. I love how it weaves the past and present through the lives of women. It is primarily set in present day Outer Banks. Whitney is called home because her step-father is in ill health. As she goes through her grandmother's home (former hotel and residence with shops on the ground floor) and late mother's belongings, she discovers letters with secrets to her past and that of her family. There are historical artifacts in the home, and she must to decide what to do with the building itself as she also has a life in another state. She's also in desperate need of money. Everyone has an opinion, but only she can decide what is the right thing to do with the information hidden in the letters, her family history, the home, how to make money, and even her step-father. How everything is tied up in the end is a pleasant gift to read. There are references to earlier books by the author, but it's not necessary to have read them to understand this book. (I had read those books.)

9 people found this review helpful

Robin Hurtado

March 10, 2016

Wonderful story, history unfolds with family secrets.

4 people found this review helpful

About the author

Lisa Wingate is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Before We Were Yours, which remained on the NYT list for more than two years and has sold over three million copies. She has written more than 30 novels and co-authored the nonfiction Before and After with journalist Judy Christie. Her books have been translated into over forty languages and have appeared on bestseller lists worldwide.

Lisa is a Goodreads Choice Award winner, an Oklahoma Book Award finalist, and a Southern Book Prize winner. Americans for More Civility, a kindness watchdog organization, selected Lisa as a recipient of the National Civics Award, which celebrates public figures who work to promote greater kindness and civility in American life. Booklist summed up her work by saying, "Lisa Wingate is, quite simply, a master storyteller."

Lisa was inspired to become a writer by a first-grade teacher who said she expected to see Lisa's name in a magazine one day. She also entertained childhood dreams of being an Olympic gymnast and winning the National Finals Rodeo but was stalled by a mental block against backflips on the balance beam and by parents who stubbornly refused to finance a rodeo career. She was lucky enough to come from a clan filled with tall tale enthusiasts who never let the truth get in the way of a good story. Lisa lives in Texas with her family and her cuddly teddy bear of a dog, Huckleberry.

One of her favorite things about being a writer is connecting with people, both real and imaginary. Find out more at lisawingate.com. Or follow her on Facebook at LisaWingateAuthorPage, or on Instagram @author_lisa_wingate.

Lisa Wingate is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Before We Were Yours, which remained on the NYT list for more than two years and has sold over three million copies. She has written more than 30 novels and co-authored the nonfiction Before and After with journalist Judy Christie. Her b...

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