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Is it true that old love never dies, that hearts can mend, that a secret revealed can change everything?
New York Times bestselling author Luanne Rice spins a mesmerizing tale readers will long remember–the powerful story of a close-knit community grappling with a dark mystery, and of a woman reclaiming a love she believed lost a lifetime ago.
For nearly a year after the tragedy that claimed her teenage son, Charlie, Sheridan Rosslare has lived a quiet life on Hubbard’s Point, tucked away in the beach house where they spent their happiest days. But Charlie’s girlfriend, Nell Kilvert, is determined to find out what really happened on the night none of them will ever forget. She summons the one man she believes can uncover the truth–Gavin Dawson, who long ago thought he would always be at Sheridan’s side. Now his boat sits anchored within sight of the window of the woman he once loved–and still loves. Both of them had believed in the power of love and forgiveness, connection and reconnection, to work magic. They thought they’d lost that faith forever. Can they find it one last time?
New York Times bestselling author Luanne Rice spins a mesmerizing tale readers will long remember–the powerful story of a close-knit community grappling with a dark mystery, and of a woman reclaiming a love she believed lost a lifetime ago.
For nearly a year after the tragedy that claimed her teenage son, Charlie, Sheridan Rosslare has lived a quiet life on Hubbard’s Point, tucked away in the beach house where they spent their happiest days. But Charlie’s girlfriend, Nell Kilvert, is determined to find out what really happened on the night none of them will ever forget. She summons the one man she believes can uncover the truth–Gavin Dawson, who long ago thought he would always be at Sheridan’s side. Now his boat sits anchored within sight of the window of the woman he once loved–and still loves. Both of them had believed in the power of love and forgiveness, connection and reconnection, to work magic. They thought they’d lost that faith forever. Can they find it one last time?
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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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A story of tragic, too soon loss, and of old love refound.
This book features three of the main characters from Beach Girls - Stevie, Jack and Nell and is set at Hubbard's Point.
Nell is now 17 and still mourning the tragic loss of her boyfriend, Charlie, a year ago. Charlie and Nell had known each other since childhood and were very much in love. Although lots of other boys at Hubbard's Point would like to take Nell out, she can't forget the loss of Charlie. Her father, Jack, who knows loss from the death of his wife when Nell was a child, and Stevie have tried to help Nell through the loss. However, Jack has saddness of his own, as a now pregnant Stevie refuses to marry him, remembering her previous three disasterous marriages. She wants them to stay as they are, partners. Jack howerver, needs the permanence of marriage.
Local singer songwriter Sheridan Rosslare is devestated by the loss of her wonderful, bright son and can no longer write the ballads that she is famous for. She has sunk into depression and increased drinking. Sheridan comes from a family who believe in love magic and her grandmother was an Irish witch. Sheridan's sisters Agatha and Bunny, are increasingly worried about her.
Charlie, who was just turning 18 a year ago, was due to enrol at University in New York and had gone to NY a few weeks early in order to settle in before term started. The first week he was there he supposedly took a midnight walk by the river and was mugged and killed.
Nell cannot understand this and blames herself for turning down his invitation for her to go to NY that weekend. She thinks that if she had been with him it wouldn't have happened. She needs closure, needs to know why he was by the river and what happened. The police have just accepted it as a mugging, assaliant unkown. So Nell contacts Gavin Dawson, a PI who was once the long-term boyfriend of Sheridan.
Gavin is still in love with Sheridan, although they parted over 18 years ago when Sheridan became pregnant with Charlie and married his no-good father Randy, from whom she is divorced. Randy was always an absent figure in his son's life.
As Gavin begins to dig into the case, he finds out information that the police overlooked. He also tries to help Sheridan, who initally rejects him.
Both Sheridan and Nell are haunted by Charlie, not literally, but by his loss. Nell perhaps has a 17 year old's intensity and drama that she will never love again. Then Nell sees Charlie again. Is he really dead?
A somewhat sad, but lovely book with happy endings for two couples.
This book features three of the main characters from Beach Girls - Stevie, Jack and Nell and is set at Hubbard's Point.
Nell is now 17 and still mourning the tragic loss of her boyfriend, Charlie, a year ago. Charlie and Nell had known each other since childhood and were very much in love. Although lots of other boys at Hubbard's Point would like to take Nell out, she can't forget the loss of Charlie. Her father, Jack, who knows loss from the death of his wife when Nell was a child, and Stevie have tried to help Nell through the loss. However, Jack has saddness of his own, as a now pregnant Stevie refuses to marry him, remembering her previous three disasterous marriages. She wants them to stay as they are, partners. Jack howerver, needs the permanence of marriage.
Local singer songwriter Sheridan Rosslare is devestated by the loss of her wonderful, bright son and can no longer write the ballads that she is famous for. She has sunk into depression and increased drinking. Sheridan comes from a family who believe in love magic and her grandmother was an Irish witch. Sheridan's sisters Agatha and Bunny, are increasingly worried about her.
Charlie, who was just turning 18 a year ago, was due to enrol at University in New York and had gone to NY a few weeks early in order to settle in before term started. The first week he was there he supposedly took a midnight walk by the river and was mugged and killed.
Nell cannot understand this and blames herself for turning down his invitation for her to go to NY that weekend. She thinks that if she had been with him it wouldn't have happened. She needs closure, needs to know why he was by the river and what happened. The police have just accepted it as a mugging, assaliant unkown. So Nell contacts Gavin Dawson, a PI who was once the long-term boyfriend of Sheridan.
Gavin is still in love with Sheridan, although they parted over 18 years ago when Sheridan became pregnant with Charlie and married his no-good father Randy, from whom she is divorced. Randy was always an absent figure in his son's life.
As Gavin begins to dig into the case, he finds out information that the police overlooked. He also tries to help Sheridan, who initally rejects him.
Both Sheridan and Nell are haunted by Charlie, not literally, but by his loss. Nell perhaps has a 17 year old's intensity and drama that she will never love again. Then Nell sees Charlie again. Is he really dead?
A somewhat sad, but lovely book with happy endings for two couples.
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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful
exciting investigative romance
2 Aug 2008
Format:Hardcover
One year may have past since Charlie died in what the New York police determined was a random act; however, his mother singer/songwriter Sheridan still grieves her loss, numbing her pain with Wild Turkey. Joining her in mourning is Charlie's girlfriend Nell who has worn a ragged anklet cloth he gave her 350 plus days ago just prior to the lethal mugging. Both women who adored Charlie visit his gravesite in Hubbard's Point, Connecticut regularly.
Nell has doubts about the NYPD rush to judgment that her beloved was in the wrong place at the wrong time due to a bad luck occurrence. She needs to prove the cops wrong, but understands this is real life not fiction so an amateur is not successfully sleuthing. Instead she hires private investigator former Hubbard's Point native son Gavin Dawson to uncover the truth of what happened to Charlie. Gavin has an extra incentive as his beloved Sheridan tossed him to the curb for his youthful out of control lifestyle; he prays maturity and solving the case will give him a second chance with Sheridan.
The return to Hubbard's Point (see THE PERFECT SUMMER, SUMMER'S CHILD and SUMMER OF ROSES) is an exciting investigative romance with a touch of the paranormal and a feel of homecoming (appearances by former stars) although mourning is everywhere. The inquiry raises some intriguing questions related to Charlie's death, but though driven by a personal cause Gavin struggles to affirm premeditated. However, the key to the tale is Sheridan whose grief is so strong that her melancholy seems to be overwhelming Gavin's attempts for a second chance at love. LAST KISS is a deep character driven thriller.
Harriet Klausner
Nell has doubts about the NYPD rush to judgment that her beloved was in the wrong place at the wrong time due to a bad luck occurrence. She needs to prove the cops wrong, but understands this is real life not fiction so an amateur is not successfully sleuthing. Instead she hires private investigator former Hubbard's Point native son Gavin Dawson to uncover the truth of what happened to Charlie. Gavin has an extra incentive as his beloved Sheridan tossed him to the curb for his youthful out of control lifestyle; he prays maturity and solving the case will give him a second chance with Sheridan.
The return to Hubbard's Point (see THE PERFECT SUMMER, SUMMER'S CHILD and SUMMER OF ROSES) is an exciting investigative romance with a touch of the paranormal and a feel of homecoming (appearances by former stars) although mourning is everywhere. The inquiry raises some intriguing questions related to Charlie's death, but though driven by a personal cause Gavin struggles to affirm premeditated. However, the key to the tale is Sheridan whose grief is so strong that her melancholy seems to be overwhelming Gavin's attempts for a second chance at love. LAST KISS is a deep character driven thriller.
Harriet Klausner
11 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Actually Four and a half...
21 July 2008
Format:Hardcover
This was such a wonderful book with so many beautiful characters, I was sad to come to the last page.
Sheriden lost her son almost a year ago. She quit writing the beautiful music that was such a large part of her life, and now spends her time drinking away the memories of her beautiful boy who had just left for college. She had a bad and quick marriage to Charlie's father, who she does not speak to. The one true love of her life Gavin, comes back to try to solve the mystery behind Charlie's death.
Nell had saved her money and hired the best Private Eye she could, that being Gavin. Nell lost the love of her life too when Charlie was murdered, "a mugging gone bad" in NYC where she had planned to join him after her senior year of high school. She is not going to NYU anymore, and with college looming, she just needs answers to what and who has taken her Charlie away.
Jack is Nell's dad and he has an unlikely love in Stevie (the recluse author from Beach Girls), who is now pregnant with Jacks baby, Nell's future brother or sister. Jack is a traditionalist, an architect. He is miffed that Stevie will not accept his marriage proposal to make them all a real family. After being down the aisle 3 times prior and having them all fail, she just cannot do it again...and if they love each other, why do they have to be married any way?
Agatha and Bunny are around as well. Sheriden's sisters who are sure they can work their magic to get Sheriden to give into her feelings for the only man she has ever loved. Gavin is promising her answers to Charlie's death, but Charlie is gone and answers will not change that.
All of the character's are so well developed, this is a wonderful read. I could not give it five stars due to some redundancy in the story telling that I feel an editor should have caught, but I did really love this book.
Sheriden lost her son almost a year ago. She quit writing the beautiful music that was such a large part of her life, and now spends her time drinking away the memories of her beautiful boy who had just left for college. She had a bad and quick marriage to Charlie's father, who she does not speak to. The one true love of her life Gavin, comes back to try to solve the mystery behind Charlie's death.
Nell had saved her money and hired the best Private Eye she could, that being Gavin. Nell lost the love of her life too when Charlie was murdered, "a mugging gone bad" in NYC where she had planned to join him after her senior year of high school. She is not going to NYU anymore, and with college looming, she just needs answers to what and who has taken her Charlie away.
Jack is Nell's dad and he has an unlikely love in Stevie (the recluse author from Beach Girls), who is now pregnant with Jacks baby, Nell's future brother or sister. Jack is a traditionalist, an architect. He is miffed that Stevie will not accept his marriage proposal to make them all a real family. After being down the aisle 3 times prior and having them all fail, she just cannot do it again...and if they love each other, why do they have to be married any way?
Agatha and Bunny are around as well. Sheriden's sisters who are sure they can work their magic to get Sheriden to give into her feelings for the only man she has ever loved. Gavin is promising her answers to Charlie's death, but Charlie is gone and answers will not change that.
All of the character's are so well developed, this is a wonderful read. I could not give it five stars due to some redundancy in the story telling that I feel an editor should have caught, but I did really love this book.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Grief, Love and Faith
15 Mar 2009
Format:Hardcover
Losing a child has got to be one of the most difficult experiences in life for a mother to go through. In Last Kiss, when a young man dies way too early in his life the women in his life are extremely deeply affected. How each copes with the loss is its own story. Rice does a solid job of telling their stories, both individually and interconnecting them. Love emerges in spite of the grief, which helps everyone move forward. What is refreshing is that this book is not a love story in a typical romantic novel way. Instead, it really focuses on women's strength and the faith they have in themselves and those who love them.
Though a stand alone, it does help if the reader has read other Rice books that take place in Hubbard's Point.
Though a stand alone, it does help if the reader has read other Rice books that take place in Hubbard's Point.
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