"Love Cures All"

Brady Logan's wife and daughter were killed by a drunk driver and he is heart sick and inconsolable. He has been a workaholic and now sees his job as being unimportant in the scheme of his life and regrets that he didn't spend more time with his family. He leaves his partner and the company in California that they had founded and roams across the states trying to find some peace in his soul. He spends a few nights at a bed and breakfast in Arkansas and before he continues his hopeless journey, reads what was written in the diary in his room. Reading what a woman named Nell has written six years previously caught his imagination as she wrote about her sadness, loss and determination to go on. He sees that she lives a short distance away in Fayetteville and decides to find her.

Nell works in the library in Fayetteville and has a teenage daughter. She has been divorced six years and has worked hard to make a good life for her and Abby. She meets a man at the library who asks her out to lunch and they find that they like each other very much. Liking soon turns into something much more but Nell has not told Brady her secret and when he finds out what she has been holding back, will he be as ready to love her?

Brady and Nell are two wounded people that must come to terms with their pasts before they can forgive and forget. Laura Abbot writes about their dilemma in a very sensitive manner making their story come alive. Once into the story, MY NAME IS NELL is a difficult book to put down as you root for the couple to work out their problems so they can come together with love. Nell's ex-husband is a real jerk and her mother and sister are way too protective of her but only because they love her and want the best for her. Laura Abbot has written an excellent book in MY NAME IS NELL.

Reviewed by Marilyn Heyman
Posted October 3, 2003

Summary

Brady Logan never expected to find Nell Porter when he left California. He didn't even know he was looking for her.

After the death of his wife and child, Brady Logan barely felt like living, never mind loving again. Meeting Nell has somehow made him want to do both. She's nothing like the people he knew in the past, but he's ready to leave all that behind anyway.

How could he know that Nell harbors a secret that makes it impossible for them to ever be together?