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Publisher Description
In one woman’s search for a place in her daughter’s life, family secrets will be exposed and old alliances shattered. But the truth must not be denied.
Sixteen years ago adolescent Jessie did the best she could for her newborn daughter – her older sister adopted baby Lila. Since then Lila has been told that Jessie is but a distant aunt.
Now Jessie’s back. She’s put her successful career on hold to return home to see the daughter she’s never met. Terrified of opening old wounds, but intent on redeeming her careless past, her arrival is destined to expose truths that could change her family forever…
Reviews
‘A human and multi-layered story exploring duty to both country and family’ – Nora Roberts on The Ocean Between Us
'Susan Wiggs paints the details of human relationships with the finesse of a master' – Jodi Picoult
'Truly uplifting' –Now magazine
'irresistibly good' –Closer
About the author
Susan Wiggs is the author of many beloved bestsellers, including the popular Lakeshore Chronicles series. She has won many awards for her work, including a RITA from Romance Writers of America. Visit her website at www.SusanWiggs.com.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Jessie Ryder, the heroine of this latest novel from romance veteran Wiggs (Halfway to Heaven), returns to her Texas hometown after 16 years to visit Lila, the daughter she gave up for adoption to her older sister, Luz. Her eyesight is deteriorating rapidly from a rare disease, and soon she will no longer be able to continue her successful work as a photojournalist. She now wants to tell Lila the truth about her parentage, but Luz balks at the idea. Luz has chosen a starkly different lifestyle, making a home for her husband Ian, three boys and Lila, who's now a rebellious, out-of-control teenager. Both sisters are envious of the other's choices, and free-spirited Jessie's sudden arrival turns Luz's world not as stable as it seems on the surface upside down. As long-buried family secrets come to the surface, Luz and Ian's marriage threatens to unravel. Meanwhile, Jessie's wanderlust is held in check when she falls in love with Dusty Matlock, a local widowed pilot with a two-year-old. The novel sets up provocative family tensions, but these are resolved too easily. Wiggs's tendency to overwrite ("a wave of devastating love and protectiveness rolled over him with crushing strength") and lackluster humor ("Jeez, you're turning into a drama queen," Lila says to Jessie, who quips, "I've been wanting a change of careers") may further disappoint readers. Some of the scenes are finely drawn, however, especially those set at Beacon for the Blind, a facility for training those without eyesight to live independently. Major ad/promo; author tour.
