She makes friends with some of the locals and finds her heart in helping the Crispin siblings. She, as is the rest of the town, is captivated by Cab's loving restoration of the carousel, the once proud symbol of Stargazey Point's boardwalk. Abbie starts to care deeply for the children at the rundown community center and takes on the project of making a documentary of the town and the history of the carousel with the endearing crew of kids. And he's not going to let a bunch of developers scam the people of his new town so he is very leery of Abbie's arrival and her connection to Crispin House, which sits on prime land on the coast and whose inhabitants are clearly in dire financial straits.Īs Abbie comes alive to the people in the community, she and Cab start to acknowledge their attraction to each other and their shared goal for the small town. He remembers the carousel in its prime from his own childhood and he is determined to bring it back to life and to bring Stargazey Point back with it. Tired of the soullessness of the things he's asked to design, Cab is searching for a future in tune with his heart.

She can't see a way forward and she can't see how this small town not far from Myrtle Beach will do anything to mitigate her regret and guilt but, being who she is, she cannot help but get involved in the lives of the people she meets as she spends time in the town.Ĭabot Reynolds is a former architect who moved to Stargazey Point after he inherited an old, hurricane battered carousel from his uncle. Abbie arrives wanting nothing more than solitude and time to brood over the horrors of her past.

She arranges for Abbie to stay with her elderly relatives, Marnie, Millie, and Beau Crispin in the once impressive but now distinctively down on its heels, shabby genteel Crispin House. Her friend Celeste suggests that she take a break in Stargazey Point, a past its prime coastal resort town in South Carolina, devastated in the last hurricane, but a place that Celeste thinks will help heal Abbie. What happens when your life takes such a turn that you are completely at sea and have no idea what to do next? When you are so devastated by the immense tragedy you've survived that you need to go some place different and quiet and healing? How do you go about living again when you are revising the very pieces of you, your good heart and your soul? How do you find purpose again? In Shelley Noble's new novel, Stargazey Point, Abbie Sinclair is facing these very questions and holding herself aloof from everyone she meets until she finds that life does have a way of giving you the answers when and how you least expect it.Ībbie worked on documentaries but after her last project ended in terrible tragedy, she's barely holding it together.

Stargazey point by shelley noble