Books like Oceans apart by Karen Kingsbury

Airline Captain Connor Evans remembers a stormy weekend in Hawaii eight years ago, when he broke a promise that he can never bring back. With a stable life—wife Michele and two daughters—he keeps the truth to himself. A sudden crash of the plane where a flight attendant works brings her son out of the sea, and she insists his father must be contacted before the child can be placed with the state. The news shocks Evans and gives him an impossible choice: refuse and keep his peace, or take the boy for two weeks and decide whether to step into a role he has shunned for a decade. The decision threatens to unravel his family, test his love for Michele, and force him to face the past that has haunted him. The story follows Evans as he wrestles with his past sins and the possibility that forgiveness—and the healing power it carries—might be within reach.

First publish date: 2004