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Caitlyn Sullivan had come from a long line of Hollywood royalty, stretching back to her Irish immigrant great-grandfather. At nine, she was already a star—yet still an innocent child who loved to play hide and seek with her cousins at the family home in Big Sur. It was during one of those games that she disappeared.
Some may have considered her a pampered princess, but Cate was in fact a smart, scrappy fighter, and she managed to escape her abductors. Dillon Cooper was shocked to find the bloodied, exhausted girl huddled in his house—but when the teenager and his family heard her story they provided refuge, reuniting her with her loved ones.
Cate's ordeal, though, was far from over. First came the discovery of a shocking betrayal that would send someone she'd trusted to prison. Then there were years spent away in western Ireland, peaceful and protected but with restlessness growing in her soul.
Finally, she would return to Los Angeles, gathering the courage to act again and get past the trauma that had derailed her life. What she didn't yet know was that two seeds had been planted that long-ago night—one of a great love, and one of a terrible vengeance...
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Very much more family drama with some intrigue and romance thrown in there. Not my favorite from Queen Nora but she is still in a league of her own.
Not the usual Nora Roberts “beach read” I was expecting, but instead a very compelling suspense novel
Meh. Kind of boring, and I skimmed large parts of it. The heroine and her family were sickeningly perfect, the hero was flawless, and the villains were eeeeevil. There could have been more done with the fact that the heroine's perfect father married a woman who turned out to be a cold-hearted bitch, but he disappeared for long portions of the story and never got a chance to deal with his guilt and loss on page. There was one secondary character with some nuance and depth but he was only a small part of the story. I did enjoy the glimpses into the heroine's eventual career path, and the trauma that sets off the novel is appropriately terrifying. Nora is a good storyteller as always, but this one won't stick with me for long.