"A moving tale"
Though her memories are bad, Carrinne Wilmington must
return to Oakwood, Georgia to learn the identity of her
father because she needs him for the transplant. Her plan
is to avoid her grandfather and the man she loves Eric
Rivers who both rejected her and drove her from town.
Besides not wanting to see the two gentlemen who rebuffed
her, she wants to hide her teenage daughter Maggie from
the duo especially Sheriff Rivers, the father. Carrinne's effort to sneak in without detection fails from
her first effort to get in and out as she is caught by a
silent alarm and Eric. Worse someone wants the secret
identity of her father left secret and is willing to kill
the nosy Carrinne to accomplish this deed. Carrinne must
give up on her quest, take her chance on surviving a
killer, or rely on Eric to keep her safe although she does
not trust the man she disappointingly still loves. This entertaining contemporary romance is a five tissue
box tale filled with angst and perhaps too much tear
jerking yet fans will want even more. The cast keeps the
tale from going over the edge into soap opera city as Eric
sees a second chance, Carrinne and her grandfather has an
opportunity, and then there is magnificent Maggie, perhaps
older than her teen years suggest. Readers will
appreciate Anna DeStefano's debut except perhaps tree
lovers as an awful lot of tissues will be used. Harriet Klausner
Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted September 24, 2004
SummaryCarrinne Wilmington vowed she'd never return to the
Georgia hometown she fled as a pregnant teen. But now she
has no choice. Carrinne's life depends on finding her
father, a man she never knew...and the key to the
transplant she needs. So she decides to sneak back into
town and get out with the clue to her father's
identity—with no one the wiser.
Unfortunately, she comes face-to-face with the last person
she wants to see—Sheriff Eric Rivers, the former bad-
boy-gone-respectable and father of their teenage daughter.
When Carrinne's life is threatened by someone determined
to stop her search, Carrinne must learn to trust Eric. Not
so easy when he's already disappointed her once.
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