1/10/2024 0 Comments True colors book![]() ![]() ![]() With frank language and patient plotting, this gangly teen crush grows into a confident adult love affair. Since Macy is still living with her fiance while grappling with her feelings for Elliot, the flashbacks offer steamy moments, tender revelations, and sweetly awkward confessions while Macy makes peace with her past and decides her future. She throws herself into her work and rarely comes up for air, not even to plan her upcoming wedding. In the present day, Macy’s father is dead as well. After losing her mother at a young age, Macy is navigating her teenage years without a female role model, relying on the time-stamped notes her mother left in her father’s care for guidance. And as a teen, Macy has more to worry about than which girl Elliot is taking to the prom. But a chance encounter forces her to confront the truth: what happened to make Macy stop speaking to Elliot? Ultimately, they’re separated not by time or physical remoteness but by emotional distance-Elliot and Macy always kept their relationship casual because they went to different schools. In the second, Macy is working as a doctor and engaged to a single father, and she hasn’t spoken to Elliot since their breakup. In the first, Macy Sorensen meets and falls in love with the boy next door, Elliot Petropoulos, in the closet of her dad’s vacation home, where they hide out to discuss their favorite books. Toggling between past and present, two love stories unfold simultaneously. But he doesn’t know why she never forgave him. Could modern DNA testing methods exonerate Dallas? Will Aunt Winona redeem herself by reopening the case? The outcome, while predictable, is achieved with more suspense and less sentimental histrionics than usual for Hannah.Ībove-average formula fiction, making full display of the author’s strong suits: sense of place, compassion for characters and understanding of family dynamics.Įleven years ago, he broke her heart. Noah learns about the Seattle Innocence Project. Noah is a sullen teen, Aurora a brittle but resigned divorcée. A decade later, Winona has reached an uneasy truce with Vivi, who’s still pining for Dallas. After a guilty verdict, he’s sentenced to life without parole. Winona refuses to represent him, consigning him to the inept services of a public defender. An eyewitness and forensic evidence incriminate Dallas. One Christmas Eve, the town floozy is raped and murdered. The love-match triumphs, and Dallas, though scarred by child abuse, is an exemplary father to son Noah. ![]() Vivi marries Dallas over Henry’s objections. Yearning for Dallas, Vivi stands up Luke to fall into bed with the enigmatic, tattooed cowboy. Despite Aurora’s urging (her principal role is as sisterly referee), Winona won’t tell Vivi she loves Luke. Indeed, Winona’s childhood crush Luke recently proposed to Vivi. Winona, overweight since adolescence, envies Vivi, whose looks get her everything she wants, especially men. Middle sister Aurora, stay-at-home mother of twins, languishes in a dull marriage. Eldest sister Winona, a respected lawyer in the nearby village of Oyster Shores, hires taciturn ranch hand Dallas Raintree, a half-Native American. Female rivalry is again the main preoccupation of Hannah’s latest Pacific Northwest sob saga ( Firefly Lane, 2008, etc.).Īt Water’s Edge, the family seat overlooking Hood Canal, Vivi Ann, youngest and prettiest of the Grey sisters and a champion horsewoman, has persuaded embittered patriarch Henry to turn the tumbledown ranch into a Western-style equestrian arena. ![]()
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