When triplets Savannah, Samantha and Sabrina Wilde were 10
years old, their perfectly happy and well-ordered world came
crashing down around them. Their parents died in what was
ruled as a murder/suicide and changed the lives of their
daughters forever. Daniel Wilde, their grandfather,
immediately stepped in to take charge of the girls in spite
of his own grief.
As time went on, the girls grew up into beautiful, young
women. On the night of their senior prom, they all attended
with dates. Savannah became quite bored as she watched her
date getting drunk across the room. Finally, he returned to
their table only to try to force her to drink with him and
make it clear that he expected her to "put out" for him that
night. Enraged, Savannah stalked out of the prom and into
the parking lot where she encountered a very dangerous
situation.
Bad boy Zach Tanner happened to drive by on his way home
from work when he saw a girl in imminent danger. Stopping
his car, he jumped out and rescued her. Thus, began their
very bittersweet love story.
Years later, Savannah is an attorney working for the
District Attorney's office. Her sisters are working in
Florida and Georgia. After a particularly long and intense
trial, Savannah plans to take some time off and head back to
her grandfather's home to put things in order. When she
hits the town of Midnight, Alabama she finds that she has
more to deal with than just putting her grandfather's
affairs in order.
She comes face to face with Zach Tanner who is now police
chief of Midnight and realizes that she never stopped loving
him. Something else that starts to become clear while she's
there is that her parents were actually murdered, but the
responsible party isn't so keen on being discovered. Will
Savannah be able to solve this without being in harm's way
herself?
MIDNIGHT SECRETS is a great book to curl up with on rainy
day. You'll be drawn into the small town of Midnight and
become privy to the citizens there as well as their secrets.
This is a story that I would love to see made into a movie.
The characters of Savannah, Sabrina, and Samantha are very
likeable and their relationship with each other is one
filled with love and care. There wasn't the usual sniping
that you find among siblings. These women genuinely care
about each other and will go to any lengths to make that clear.
Zach Tanner is also a very likeable character. This is seen
as the reasons for decisions he made come out in the story.
I really wanted him to get back together with Savannah.
Writer Ella Grace creates that feeling in her readers. I
really CARED about these characters.
While there was plenty of romance in MIDNIGHT SECRETS, there
was also a very creepy mystery to be solved. This was all
woven together so perfectly that I found myself impatient to
see how it all turned out. I suppose that's why I would
describe this book as a page turner.
Even though MIDNIGHT SECRETS is primarily about Savannah,
this is simply the first in a trilogy of books coming up
with Sabrina and Samantha in the starring roles. I'll be at
the front of the line to get them.
On a hot southern night, with a storm on the horizon, a
family is shattered. Three beautiful daughters—Savannah,
Samantha, and Sabrina Wilde—go on with their lives, each
significantly changed, as they bear the memory of the
murder-suicide that killed their parents. For years, they
have stayed away from Midnight, Alabama. Until Midnight
calls them home.
Savannah is the first one back, when a grueling case in
Nashville leads the young prosecutor to seek shelter in the
quiet of the once grand Wilde mansion. But when she finds
letters casting doubt on her family’s dark, shameful past,
she realizes that peace in Midnight is a shallow façade and
sinister secrets lurk beneath the surface. Zach Tanner,
once the town’s bad boy, is now the new police chief and
still has a wild hold over her. Zach can feel it, too, but
he hurt Savannah once. As teenagers, they broke every rule
together. Now it’s his job to keep her safe, even though he
isn’t sure who her enemies are—or which ones might be his
own.