- Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages
- Publisher: Mira Books (15 Mar 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1551669080
- ISBN-13: 978-1551669083
- Product Dimensions: 16.8 x 9.9 x 3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 189,934 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Purchasing the Stonegate Farm in Colby, Vermont, Sophie Davis works to fulfill her dream of turning the farmhouse into a country inn. Sophie doesn't mind that the farm was the scene of a triple murder 20 years earlier. When a stranger named John Smith moves in next door, Sophie feels that he's keeping secrets. (August)
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
When one has written such masterpieces as Moonrise (my favourite Stuart) To Love a Dark Lord and Nightfall...it is hard to keep that level of superpower quality book after book. And this one sadly just misses. It seems rather rushed, almost like she did not have time to fully form the lead characters in her mind.
She still delivers a powerful read!! Anne Stuart's 2nd best are still away ahead of the pack!!
When Sophia buys a rundown inn, she moves her overly rebellious 19 year old half-sister and her mother, starting to lose control of her memory, into what she hopes it to be the answer to her problems and an island of peace. But that peaceful dream is shattered by echoes of murders commited 20 years ago. A man has rented the cabin across the lake, John Smith, and from the start, Sophia resents his presence, resents his virile attraction and would like him to leave.
The tension builds as we are told he was convicted of the death of the three girls who were murdered two decades ago, though released from prison after only 5 years. We learn John has few memories of that night and recalls nothing until he awoke covered in blood in the cabin.
John feels it is time to stir the embers of the past, find out who really commited those murders - even if it was himself, and finally put the past to rest once and for all. Stuart never convinces us he could have been guilty, so she throws away that bad to the bone Alpha male she conjures so deftly in Moonrise and others.
Stuart's tension between Sophia and John is excellent, but I don't think she had full grasp of just who John was because there are numerous conflicting errors in descriptions (shame on the editor, too!!) - which leads the reader to not fully know John either. The rebellious teen grated on my nerves - I read to escape the pains-in-the-rumps of the world, so this character really wears thin. But in a way, I guess that helps you empathise with Sophia - through it is with slightly gritted teeth!
I applaud Stuart for giving us a down to earth 'real' woman in Sophia who is more than willing to eat that second or third muffin, to give a sweet, tragic quality in her mother facing growing less and less able to live by herself. However, some readers just might think all of this is a little too real....lol
It is still a fine book, I just wish it could have been tightened up and not have that rush feel about it. There is no one better at giving us the bad-boy we cannot resist. Just think this one would have benefited from finetuning before being sent to the publisher (or an editor that took his job seriously and caught these mistakes before they got into print).
Even with the flaws, I truly enjoyed it and remain a loyal and devoted Stuart fan!!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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this is the second book that i have read by this author and again i havethourally enjoyed it. it only got four stars, because like the otherreview i think it was rushed - it felt like a short story, that's not tosay it wasn't a good story, it was.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
I have just finished this book and wanted to say it was great. I love working out a good secret and this book kept me guessing till very near the end. I am off to buy another of Anne's books in the hope it will be as good.
The story is about 20 year old multiple murder case set in Vermont.
The story is about 20 year old multiple murder case set in Vermont.
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