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After seven years of marriage, Keith Nielson feels he has everything as he has a fine job at the Montford University Television Station and still loves his wife and child. However, Keith worries about his spouse Bonnie who seems to have lost her spark. He asks her what is disturbing her, but she insists nothing. Even when her brother the Shelter Valley sheriff tells her that an arsonist burned down a closet at her beloved day care center she barely raised an eyebrow. Seeing how discontented she seems, Keith fears that his beloved no longer loves him.

Bonnie loves her husband and their three-year-old daughter. She wants to do something different, but does not know how to inform her cherished Keith, who will be badly hurt. However, she knows if she fails to act now, even if the risk is her life with Keith, she will regret this forever.

The latest Shelter Valley tale focuses on two obviously loving people heading down opposite roads because one of them has changed and seeks a new and different kind of fulfillment. The clever story line enables the audience to feel Keith's concern that he is losing her and Bonnie's conscience that reminds her how much she will hurt her beloved. Though resolution seems too easy after all the angst, anxiety, and fears, fans will appreciate Tara Taylor Quinn's deep look at a relationship in which one partner desires a U-turn.

Harriet Klausner

Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted June 8, 2003

Summary

What's wrong with this picture?
Bonnie Nielson's life looks perfect. She has everything she's always wanted—a husband and child she adores, a successful business, close family and friends, a town she loves. And yet she's not happy.

For some unaccountable reason, Bonnie is no longer satisfied with the life she and Keith have created in Shelter Valley.

She has to figure out why. And—more important—she has to fix the problem, whatever it is. Whatever it takes. Before she loses everyone and everything she loves.