The Secret of Sunrises: A Novel by Ellie Block

The Secret of Sunrises: A Novel  
By Ellie Block

Publication Date: 26th May 2026
Publisher: Lake Union Publishing
Print Length: 236 Pages
Genre:  Contemporary Fiction

From award-winning author Ellie Block comes a heartwarming novel to remind us that forgiveness, like the sea, has tides—and it’s never too late to sail toward the sunset.

When Catherine Moran’s long-lost brother bequeaths her a boat in Key West, she’s not sure what hurts more: his death or the decades they’ve been estranged.

The fifty-seven-year-old thinks this could be the answer to her financial strain since putting their mother in a memory care facility, but when she arrives on the island, her bonanza is a bust. The boat is a dilapidated trawler supposedly once owned by Ernest Hemingway, and a handsome buddy of her brother is living onboard but refuses to jump ship.

Because both Catherine and her brother were named after Hemingway characters, she can’t shake the author’s shadow. Instead of unwinding, Catherine ends up crisscrossing the island trying to drum up interest in the barely operable vessel. Key West is south of her normal. However, if she wants to unravel the mystery of the boat and her brother, that’s exactly the direction Catherine needs to go.

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Ellie Block

Despite childhood learning disabilities that made it difficult to read and write, this award-winning author's books have been translated into several languages around the globe. She attended the University of Michigan, the Iowa Writers' Workshop and the University of East Anglia's Writing Program in England then published novels with HarperCollins and Random House. Named after a Hemingway Heroine, she discovered that triumphing over challenges is where the best stories start.

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