The prose can be described in one word: lovely. Plot, thankfully, does not take a backseat to character development and vice versa. The story moves through time, but the themes are timeless -- love, passion, family, heartbreak, secrecy, pain, redemption. Somehow, the author finds a way to make each character as relatable, and as guilty, as the next. This is a story sure to jerk the tears and make you wish there were more books like it.
Now, if only Lifetime would stop buying the rights to the good books and destroying them with Saturday night TV movies . . . .
