OUTSTANDING Nora Roberts at her best. A mystery, family ,romance and the evil some do.......loved this book
Another good book by Nora Roberts!
Kelsey Byden always believed that her mother was dead, But now, after all this time she has discovered the truth; Naomi Chadwick is still alive - after spending years in prison for the murder of her lover.
Not a bad story of a young woman who learns her mother did not die 20 years ago but had been sent to prison for murder. Set against a well-rendered background of Thoroughbred horse racing, the romance is flawed by a really contrived ending.
great story of the life of horses and love
Kelsey Byden is finally divorced from her husband after a two-year separation when she discovers that her mother, Naomi Chadwick, is alive and living on a horse farm in Virginia. As a child, she had been told by her father that her mother had died and she grew up living with her father, Philip, an English professor at Georgetown.
But the fact is that her mother did not die, but was convicted of murdering her lover and sentenced to over ten years in jail. Her mother contended it was self-defense, but could not get her conviction overturned. She did not want Kelsey to visit her in jail, so she agreed to allow her father to tell her that her mother was dead.
Kelsey decides to accept her mother's invitation to come live with her and for them to get to know each other. Her father and step-mother, who her father married when Kelsey was 18, are not exactly happy and her grandmother, Milicent, is furious. So furious that she tries to cut Kelsey out of the trust that her grandfather had set up for her. Milicent is extremely concerned with appearances and does everything she can to try to control Kelsey's behavior.
Kelsey discovers that she loves life on the horse farm and she is starting to develop a relationship with the owner of a neighboring farm. Then things start to go wrong at some races and Kelsey decides to determine if her mother's crime was murder, or manslaughter.
Once again, I enjoyed this book by Nora Roberts. There was one part that kind of had me wondering though. Kelsey knows how much her grandmother despises her mother and of her opposition to their marriage, I had a hard time believing she didn't figure out much sooner that it was her mother who pushed the investigation in a way that would find her mother guilty and not her father.
Couldn't even get thru the first tape. :-( The reader Rose Anne Shansky was putting me to sleep.
Unabridged 10 cassettes approx 15 hrs.
