25 Sept 2011

Garden of Secrets (Angel's Bay Novel)/Book Review

Barbara Freethy
Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages
Publisher: Pocket Star (September 20, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1451636512
ISBN-13: 978-1451636512
Genre: Romance

Description
Dr. Charlotte Adams is torn between two men.  Rev. Andrew Schilling is her past, a high-school romance that went drastically wrong.  But he's back in town now and part of her present -- along with newly-divorced Police Chief Joe Silviera, whom she's been powerfully attracted to for months.  The question is, which man is her future -- and Charlotte has to face and accept her past before she can build a life with Joe.
About the Author
A native California, Barbara has lived at both ends of the state. While she misses the hot summer nights of Southern California, she enjoys the beautiful bays and hillsides of Northern California, as well as the exciting and intriguing city of San Francisco.
REVIEW
Five times a charm for Barbara Freethy in Angel Bay
By Kim Adams (Honolulu, Hawaii)
GARDEN of SECRETS is the fifth book in the Angel's Bay series. Yet it can be read as a standalone story. I was intrigued by the characters that Freethy offered in this "small town" romance - Charlotte is a minister's daughter who became an OB/GYN doctor. She returns home after her father's death. Andrew is her high school boyfriend with whom she had a painful breakup. He is now the minister at her father's church. Joe is the recently divorced Police Chief. As Charlotte considers her attraction to both, she finds she has competition from her high school nemesis, Pamela. Then Charlotte accidently becomes the leading suspect in the attack on Pamela's sister and the mayor's wife. Looking at what I just wrote, it seems to lean toward soap operadom. Yet Freethy delivers a charming story with the independent heroine's yearning for love, flawed heroes seeking to fulfill that role, and some community angst to stir things up in Angel's Bay.

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