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"Strong romantic suspense"
Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted March 25, 2003
In Houston, Jesse and her mother Gina D'Angelo live with
Newberry Award winner Elizabeth Walker. Though opposites,
Gina and Elizabeth have been friends since they met as
foster children two decades ago. The D'Angelos moved in
with Elizabeth following the kid's father Austin Leggett
throwing both of them Read more...
"An intriguing contemporary fiction novel."
Reviewed by Kathy Boswell
Posted April 24, 2003
Elizabeth Walker has been in and out of foster homes since
she was five years old when her father died in a house
fire. Her two younger sisters were adopted right away and
Elizabeth has always felt that she was the forgotten
sibling. She made friends with Gina Read more...
SummaryA STORY OF SISTERS, SECRETS AND...PRIVATE LIVES
Elizabeth Walker has spent most of the past three decades
trying to forget the loss of her mother and father, a
lonely childhood spent in a series of foster homes and the
two baby sisters she hasn't seen in twenty-five years. She
values her privacy above everything, and has built a wall
around herself that few people have ever climbed.
But when it appears that her best friend, Gina, may lose
her young daughter to an impersonal court system—the
same system that failed Elizabeth many years ago—she
vows to fight back. But Elizabeth needs help. She needs
the kind of help that a family can give, and she needs
Ryan Paxton, the brilliant attorney whose tragic family
history is intertwined with her own.
As the custody battle turns to something more
dangerous—and more deadly—Elizabeth comes face
to face with a past she has tried to forget and a future
she wants to embrace.
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