Tag: trust

Book Review of The Liar by Nora Roberts

  The author!

  I can’t get enough of Nora Roberts books. With a lot of authors you can tell what type of book it will be, but not so with Nora Roberts. Miss Roberts writes a series set in Ireland and then turns around and gives you a series set in a charming Inn on the east coast of the United States. You simply can not put Miss Roberts in a category because she is in a category by herself. Then she completely sweeps you away to another era writing her futuristic series as J.D. Robb. There is no one else like her. 

The Liar - Nora RobertsThe book!

 The Liar is aptly named. Shelby Foxworth lost her husband in a tragic accident. She finds herself left alone with her three year old daughter. The first shock is finding out her wealthy husband is in debt and nothing is as it seems. Shelby is so ashamed to have been deceived, why did she not see what was in front of her eyes? She puts her already mortgaged house on the market and sets about trying to clear some of the debt. The fur coat that he bought her and she has never worn goes back, and all the fancy clothing she acquired to support the lifestyle they led goes to a high end consignment shop. Her diamond wedding rings, which were insured for thousands of dollars, turn out to be worth next to nothing. She sells the furniture, it was ugly anyway, and takes her daughter home to Tennessee, but the shocks keep coming. Her husband wasn’t Richard Foxworth and they weren’t really married. Follow Shelby as she tries to clear a debt she doesn’t actually owe, try to make a life for herself and her little girl and find deep inside herself the strong woman she once was. A truly fascinating book of home, love, family and second chances. 

Happy reading, Linda

Book Review: Thrill Me by Susan Mallery

Love

It is only fitting I should write of love on Valentine’s Day. We dream of love, write songs about love, but how many of us knows what love is? Love stories give us an example of the author’s idea of love. Written on the page and adapted until it is perfect, but love is seldom perfect. So many of us have had our view of love battered and torn until we don’t reconize it when we see it. So what is love?

Thrill Me - Susan MalleryThe Story – Thrill Me

Maya Farlow’s mother married a man she barely knew and they moved to Fool’s Gold, California. Maya inherited two brothers and for a short period she learned what it was like to have a home and people who cared for her. But her mother didn’t know how to be happy and the marriage soon ended. They continued to live in Fool’s Gold and Maya continued to see her two half brothers. It was a little dysfunctional, but it was family. 

In Thrill Me, the author picks up the story line some years later. Maya all those years ago ran from a young man who loved her. She was scared of trusting anyone, much less a man who claimed to love her and wanted to spend the rest of his life taking care of her. Maya and Del are both back in Fool’s Gold and if they are honest, the love has not died, but has grown!

Susan Mallery writes exceptional stories of small town life. She walks you through a town built on friendship, caring and festivals and introduces you to the citizens of Fool’s Gold.  You see two people who cared very deeply for one another as teenagers find a love that is worth fighting for and through it all you get to know the people that care for them. It’s a great story that will keep you entertained.

   If you are a Susan Mallery fan you need to read this one. If you have never read any of Susan’s books then this is a good place to start.

Happy reading, Linda  

 

 

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