The big question in LAKESIDE COTTAGE is -- is celebrity all
that it's cracked up to be. I guess it depends on the
celebrity. Sergeant JD Harris doesn't enjoy celebrity, in
fact he despises it and with good reason. It has robbed him
of a personal life. Seems like a pretty high price to pay
for someone who was doing what they were trained to do and
acting pretty much on instinct. Just how much of his
personal life is the public entitled to once his picture is
front page news. So in an effort to disappear from the
public eye he winds up at a remote lake renovating a
friend's boat and enjoying some solitude while deciding what
he will do next with his life.
Kate Livingston's career just took an abrupt nosedive. So
her choices are to feel sorry for herself or regroup. Her
life has been a series of regroups so she can handle one
more. Even though the rest of her rather large family can't
make it to the family lakeside cottage this season, she is
going with her son so they can both get away from the
remnants of a rather discouraging year and hopefully return
reinvigorated.
Being at the lake is catharsis for many of the characters of
LAKESIDE COTTAGE. While many of the characters chose this
site to spend their summer in an attempt to find solitude
what they found was just the opposite. Now the problem is
whether or not to accept the changes that would have to be
made in their lives in order to further these new
relationships.
LAKESIDE COTTAGE by Susan Wiggs is true to her style of
developing multi-dimensional characters. In this book she
incorporates some very current national security dilemmas
that still make most of us rather nervous. The idea of
suicide or homicide bombs whether used by a world terrorist
or by a disgruntled worker is a very sensitive subject and
yet Wiggs decided to involve her characters in what we could
call a byproduct of one of these events. The characters had
great inner strength, even though they initially think
otherwise. We are brought along for the ride as they
discover their strengths and find the light at the end of
the tunnel.
If you trust your heart, you'll always know who you
are...
Each summer, Kate Livingston returns to her family's
lakeside cottage, a place of simple living and happy times -
a place where she now hopes her shy little boy can blossom.
But her quiet life gets a bit more interesting with the
arrival of an intriguing new neighbor, JD Harris. Although
she is a confirmed single mother and knows little of JD's
past, Kate is soon drawn into the sweetness of a summer
romance and discoveres the passion of a lifetime.
JD has good reason for being secretive. In a moment of
sheer bravery the Washington, D.C., paramedic prevented a
terrible tragedy. Overnight the intensely private man
became a national hero. He's hardly able to remember who he
was before the media frenzy... until he escapes to this
lovely, remove part of the Northwest. Now Kate Livingston
and her son have rekindled the joy of small pleasures and
peace, something he thought he'd never have again. But how
long will his blissful anonymity last before reality comes
banging at his door?
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