
An Ocean of Stars
Imogen Martin(Author)
Storm Publishing
Published on 24. February 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
360 pages
978-1-83700-000-5 (ISBN)
Description
An unforgettable, sweeping story of a spirited young woman fighting for her future, caught between duty and a love she never expected. Perfect for fans of Olivia Hawker, Amy Harmon and Kristin Hannah.
Boston, 1879. Phoebe Van Bergen has poured everything into the Van Bergen Women's Hospital-her inheritance, her defiance, her desperate need to be more than society's gilded ornament. Within its cramped wards, she matters.
Here, she is not the obedient fiancée of a man whose charm masks something darker. Here, she can breathe.
Then Dr. Douglas McLennan arrives from Scotland-brilliant, abrasive, and haunted by a loss so devastating he's vowed never to love again. He dismisses Phoebe as a privileged do-gooder. She thinks him insufferably arrogant. Neither expects their clashes to become the most honest conversations of their lives.
But Phoebe is keeping secrets that could destroy her. And when Douglas becomes the one person who knows the truth-the shame she carries, the violence she's survived-she knows he's seen her at her most broken, and she might lose him forever.
When Phoebe finally breaks free of her engagement and travels to Scotland for a medical symposium, she never expects Douglas to be on the same journey-or for a catastrophic disaster on the Tay Bridge to strip away everything but what matters most. Faced with death, they must finally confront everything they've been running from.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 133 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
456 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-83700-000-5 (9781837000005)
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Person
Imogen writes sweeping, historical fiction set in the US. As a teenager she took the Greyhound bus from San Francisco to New York. Over those three days of staring out of the window at the majestic mountains and endless flat plains, stories wound themselves into her head: tales of brooding, charismatic men captivated by independent young women. Since then, Imogen has worked in a coffee-shop in Piccadilly, a famous bookshop and a children's home. She has run festivals and turned a derelict housing block on one of the poorest estates in the UK into an award-winning arts centre. During 2020 Imogen was selected by Kate Nash Literary Agency as one of their BookCamp mentees, a new mentorship programme designed to accelerate the careers of promising new writers. Married with two daughters, Imogen divides her time between Wales and Sardinia.