Genre: Women’s
Fiction
Description:
“Twenty years after tragedy tore them apart, four sorority sisters
still can’t say no to sweet Mary Blake Bulloch. Reeling from a public divorce,
Mary Blake rallies the group to complete a long-ago road trip cut short by
scandal, betrayal, and the death of a Texas oilman’s son.
Time hasn’t healed all wounds. Helen's hiding a crumbling marriage.
Charlie's haunted by a deathbed promise. Annesley's harboring life-changing
news. And Lisa knows her decades-long silence about what really happened that
fateful night could cost her everything—and everyone.
As the women pick up where they left off, old alliances shift and
long-buried memories surface. What started as a reunion becomes a reckoning,
forcing each woman to decide what matters more: the comfort of silence or the
brutal cost of truth.”
Author:
“Jennifer Klepper is the USA Today bestselling author of The Last
Road Trip and Unbroken Threads. Born and raised in Iowa and
Nebraska, she attended college in Dallas, law school in Charlottesville, and
worked in Texas and Massachusetts before settling for good in Maryland. She's
worked for Big Law, small law, start-ups, and Google, most recently co-founding
tech start-up Early Works. She lives in a forest by a river near Annapolis,
Maryland.”
Appraisal:
This story has multiple aspects, any one of which could make for an
engaging story I wouldn’t want to put down. When you weave them all together it
results in a fantastic story. The first aspect is a road trip, something that
will pull this travel aficionado in all by itself. Wait. Make that two road
trips. The story keeps flashing back to the original aborted road trip that
inspired the current one, so we get to experience both of them. Then we’ve got
the give and take as these old friends try to capture or restore the
relationship they had back in college, but we’ve also got an undercurrent of
mystery and intrigue as it is obvious there are some things that happened on
the original trip that we, and possibly the some of the ladies on the trip
don’t all know either. It all makes for a great, intriguing, and intense read
that draws the reader in and then won’t let them go.
Buy now
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FYI:
Some adult language.
Format/Typo
Issues:
Review is based on an advance reviewer copy, so I can’t gauge the
final product in this area.
Rating: *****
Five Stars
Reviewed
by: BigAl
Approximate word count: 95-100,000 words
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