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Author:
Fern Michaels
By Kensington
Average Customer Rating:   
List Price: $19.95
Our Price: $0.01
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Product Description
For generations, the Windsor's have lived on the family's grand estate in Crestwood, South Carolina, as intertwined with local life as sweet tea and pecan pie. Now, on the anniversary of her daughter Emily's death, Sarabess Windsor believes she may be the last to carry the family name - unless she can find her second daughter, Trinity, who disappeared fifteen years ago. Trinity grew up as Trinity Henderson, adopted by the Windsor foreman and his wife. Trinity was conceived not out of love, but out of Sarabess' desperate attempt to prolong Emily's life by providing a bone marrow donor. On her fifteenth birthday, Trinity ran away and hasn't been seen in Crestwood since. But the town has never forgotten her...especially not handsome lawyer Jake Forrest. And although Jake has no desire to help selfish Sarabess Windsor, the thought of seeing his childhood friend again fills a void in his heart that Jake didn't even know existed. Trinity swore never to return to Crestwood. Not for the mother who callously abandoned her, not for the late father she hardly knew, not for the huge family trust she stands to inherit. But some ties - to a place, to a past, to the people we once were and dreams we once had - can never be fully broken. And as family secrets are revealed, and desires old and new come to light, Trinity may discover the one thing she never expected to find.
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Mediocre Reading, 2008-09-27
Similar to previous reviewers, I have to agree that Fern Michael's writing is very bland. It was hard to get too involved with the emotions of the characters, especially Jake and Trinity who were supposed to be the primary romantic interests in the story. The dialogue and movement of the story is dull and the outcome is unexcitedly predictable. Trinity Henderson, born out of necessity for her bone marrow to save her ill sister, Emily, a good start to a solid story, turns sour as we meet her selfish, cunning mother, Sarabess Windsor and milk toast of a father, Harold. The reader never quite feels the fitting sympathy the character deserves, given the mere fact that Ms. Michaels' writing lacks emotion. After the child is "used" for her bone marrow, she is given away to the hired help. Subsequent to running away from home and being taken in by a family only to be used as "child labor," Trinity returns to her home of Crestwood, SC to confront all those she left behind, including her long, lost teenage crush, Jacob Forrest. Jacob's aunt, Mitzi Granger, added an amusing touch to the story, a sort of throwback from our beloved Dolly Levi, Hello Dolly-type character. The author's initial premise for a story was a good one and could have been made a winner had she brought more life to the characters. This is my first experience with a work by Fern Michaels and I have to say it hasn't been a memorable one.
Wasted Effort, 2008-04-10
The book started out okay and I thought we have a real plot here. There was some humor and I thought Jake might make a likeable hero. By the time Trinity enters the story it goes downhill from there. She is a childish annoying character and Jake becomes a wimp. Trinity is 30 and Jake in his 30's and they act like 10 year old children. When I got to the part Trinity accosts Jake in his home and knees him in the groin and hits him in the face, I decided I had enough.(A woman should not hit a man any more than a man should hit a woman-that was just stupid) Adults in their 30's resort to that kind of behavior? Jake is over 6 foot and works out and she can beat him up? Get real! From there on I didn't care about any of the characters. The story goes on and on and is so boring I finally skim to the last couple chapters to see how Ms Michaels ends the disaster. None of the characters have any depth to them and I'm annoyed with myself for wasting even a few hours on it. I'm usually not too critical of a fiction romance with light mystery because they are what they are and I don't usually expect the novel of the century but this one is so bad. I simply can not get past 2 adult people calling each other names and carrying one like 2 spoiled children. There is no real romance here nor much of a story. It's all quite unbelievable. Thankfully I picked this up at the library so didn't invest $$ in it.
Terrible!, 2007-12-26
This is one of the worst books I've ever read. The previous review was right. The dialogue was childish and the plot was ridiculous. Fortunately, I borrowed this book instead of buying.
A great read--a terrific book that is appealing to all ages , 2007-12-18
Fern Michaels is a captivating author--her expertise in keeping the reader interested certainly is multi-faceted!! I love all her books I have read thus far and will keep buying, reading and recommending her books to friends and family.
Should have been titled Up Close and Incomprehensible, 2007-10-30
This book was full of juvenile behavior and plot contrivances - the story focused initially on a woman who tries to save her only child who is dying of leukemia so she has another child only to abandon her at birth, supposedly because somehow doctors have been able to use the bone marrow from a baby less than a week old to replace the little girl's. Okay if you buy that miracle of modern medicine you'll be able get past some of the other implausible behavior of the other characters. The plot jumps all over the place, for example we're supposed to believe that the romantic lead in the story (a lawyer) is able to track down the missing daughter(his childhood best friend) in just days after learning she mailed a letter from Pennsylvania 15 years earlier. How,you might ask? Well by stopping at the local library and just asking the librarian is the answer. She immediately recalls all the people who moved into the area around the time of the missing daughter girl? The elderly couple who took in the missing girl initially seem to be nothing more than good Samaritans but later we learn that they were using the girl as their own pesonal slave so she again runs away in what turns out to be another poorly contrived plot element. I could have cared less about any of the characters and was disappointed because I'd heard that Fern Michaels was pretty good. This is one of the most awful books I've read in quite a long time.
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780758212719
ISBN: 0758212712
Label: Kensington
Manufacturer: Kensington
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 336
Publication Date: 2007-08-01
Publisher: Kensington
Studio: Kensington |
