The Road Home
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3.0 • 1 Rating
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Publisher Description
Mystery and romance collide at a glittering soirée when a Sydney businessman meets a stunning beauty who resembles a missing woman.
Bruno McKendrick knows that he can win the attention of any woman he pleases. The well-to-do son of a Scottish-born father and Italian mother, Bruno is one of the most eligible bachelors in Australian high-society. But on this night at a party off the coast of Sydney Harbour, finding love is the last thing on his mind as he makes his way through the usual crowd of movers, shakers, and hob-nobbers. Then he lays eyes on an incomparable beauty whose face Bruno is sure he’s seen before.
Her name is Isabelle Martin—and she says she’s not who Bruno thinks she is. Still, he’s determined to prove that Isabelle is the living image of someone his late private-investigator father spent his life trying to find. Solving this twenty-year-old mystery is one challenge; the burning attraction between Bruno and Isabelle is another. As he closes in on the case and discovers a dark truth from Isabelle’s past, Bruno risks tearing her whole world apart . . . unless she will allow him to help pick up the pieces . . .
“In this enjoyable contemporary, Way . . . combines romance with a decades-old mystery and the dazzling beauty of the Australian outback. . . . The mystery . . . propels the novel forward at a swift pace as romantic tension heats up between Bruno and Isabelle, and readers will eagerly follow them to the satisfying ending.” —Publishers Weekly
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In this enjoyable contemporary, Way (Her Australian Cattle Baron) combines romance with a decades-old mystery and the dazzling beauty of the Australian outback. Bruno McKendrick is a successful businessman who attends a party near Sydney Harbor and sees an extremely beautiful cellist, Isabelle Martin. She looks exactly like Helena Hartmann, a missing woman whom Bruno's father Ross, a private investigator, was searching for years ago. When Bruno approaches the ethereal Isabelle, he is disappointed to learn that she is not related to the wealthy Hartmann family. After Bruno shows Isabelle pictures of Helena, she is startled by the incredible likeness and starts asking her parents about her birth. Her mother's defensiveness and shockingly evil response are almost too sinister to be believable. The secrets behind Helena's disappearance are slowly revealed as Bruno and Isabelle travel to the Hartmanns' remote homestead seeking answers about her parentage. Somewhat predictably, Hartmann family members believe that Isabelle is pretending to be Helena in order to gain part of their wealth. The mystery behind Helena's disappearance propels the novel forward at a swift pace as romantic tension heats up between Bruno and Isabelle, and readers will eagerly follow them to the satisfying ending.
