Life Topsy Turvy
Nora Roberts has combined crime, suspense romance and nostalgia for good ol’ Southern family values in The Liar.
As a teenager Shelby had abandoned her family to run off with a rich, and sophisticated older man. A couple of years after the birth of her daughter Callie, she is left a widow, when her husband Richard is killed in a boating accident.
She finds herself loaded with debt, and as she struggles to piece her life together all by herself, she finds her married life was one big lie. Everything Richard told her was untrue—even the fancy diamond engagement ring was fake.
She sells everything she can and heads home to her family in the picturesque small town of Rendezvous Ridge in Tennessee. She is welcomed back without any rancor and starts working in her grandmother’s beauty salon. She is forgiven by her best friend and she also finds true love in Griff, who is a partner in a local construction company.
As much as she tries to put her past behind her and heal in the midst of her loving family, Richard’s deceit follows her around. It is not difficult to guess who the villain is, and how it will all end, but The Liar is a readable, if only for Roberts’s descriptions of small town life and landscapes and Shelby’s courage in a situation no woman should have to go through. Of course, there is a handsome hero around most willing to help, but she does her own fighting. The one big irritant is precocious Callie, who at three is as flirtatious as a teen--her behavior with Griff borders on disturbing.
The Liar
By Nora Roberts
Publisher: Berkley
Pages: 560
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