Wild and Distant SeasEvangeline Hussey has made a home for herself on Nantucket, though she knows she is still an outsider to the island's small, close knit community, one that by 1849 has started to feel the decline of a once thriving whaling industry. Her husband, Hosea, and the life they built together, was once all she needed but now Hosea is gone, lost at sea. Evangeline is only able to hold on to his inn, and her place on the island, by employing a curious gift to