"Strong writing from Mills once again"

Several clichés come to mind when I read this book "Oh, what a tangled web we weave...." and "the Sins of the Father..." though there is nothing clichéd about the storyline or writing. However, in this case it's the sins of the mother that has been visited upon the daughter with devastating results. Bethany watched her mother run through a half a dozen marriages and countless affairs, the shallow, desperate woman seeing passion as love. Bethany saw the devastation in the wake, when passion burns out and passing love dies. As a child, it left Bethany deeply scared. While her mother, a frustrated actress, jumps at sham love to fill the emptiness in herself, her daughter learned to believe passion only caused pain. It never lasted.

Dylan St. Croix, the black sheep of the powerful St. Croix family, gave her passion, and a child that died. Through that pain, Bethany never saw she loved Dylan, only he gave her that same fiery passion that she so mistrusted. Bethany has spent her whole life wanting to be "June Cleaver", just wanting peace and security, believing that is the road to happiness. Dylan did not offer her peace and security, but blazing passion, so she turned away from him and married his very proper cousin, Lance. But something went very wrong.

Now, Lance is dead and Bethany accused of killing him. She is found dazed, with Lance's blood on her hands, and her very proper, contained world she fought to build is no more. Dylan stands by Bethany, the woman he has always loved, even though he feels her capable of killing Lance. Dylan knows he will be fighting to save Bethany, but most of all he will be fighting Bethany herself to teach her to trust, that there can be passion with love and it can be lasting.

Jenna Mills' name on the cover guarantees a genuine super read, with intensely power emotions, vivid characters that make you care, and she proves this time and again.

Reviewed by DeborahAnne MacGillivray
Posted September 29, 2004

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Summary

Accused of a murder she didn't commit, rocked by a shocking revelation, Bethany St. Croix must join forces with the last man she should allow herself to trust—her ex-husband's cousin, Dylan St. Croix. His renegade approach to life threatens everything she holds dear, but the life of her unborn child supercedes all else. They must discover who framed Bethany for her ex- husband's murder before a chilling crime of passion steals their last chance for happiness.