I enjoy reading a variety of genres. Even when reading romance, I like to have different types of stories: contemporary, historical, paranormal, comedy. . . Leanne Davis has done something that not many romance writers do. She writes a sub-genre that is realistic romance. SECLUSION is not escapismβthese are flawed people that you could meet anywhere who are trying to work through the problems of life. They are not millionaires nor are they unbelievably gorgeous. But their story is worth telling and gives hope to those in similar situations.
The result of this type of writing is an emotionally engaging story full of heartbreak. I get so frustrated with Angie Peters who keeps trying to run away from her problems by leaving her hometown. She had a teen pregnancy and she just can't seem to forgive herself for giving the baby up for adoption. No matter how much she accomplishes, she believes what her mother tells her--that she is nothing special. She is actually trying to run away from who she is instead of facing her problems head-on. She seems doomed to repeat the cycle of self-loathing that she has inherited from her mother. And her counterpart, the handsome but seemingly heartless Sean Langston has issues of his own. He plays the playboy when the woman he really wants he can never have. Every time Angie and Sean are around each other, there are fireworks. Sometimes the good, sexy kind and sometimes the hurtful kind.
This is Leanne Davis' fourth book about the seaside town of Seaclusion, Washington. The details of this lovely setting are unobtrusive, yet engaging. Sean loves the sea because it is constant and beautiful. Angie hates it because it is unrelenting and brutal. This difference of opinion shows the difference in their outlooks and needs. But are they really as different as they think?
Ms. Davis has written a stand-alone book that just happens to be part of a series. The characters of the previous books do not steal the spotlight from Angie and Seanβthey nod politely in passing and put in a word or two. But Seclusion is solely their story.
Angie Peters has come home to Seaclusion, Washington, the
town she fled six years ago after giving her daughter up
for
adoption. She once again has a secret she will tell no
one,
especially not Sean Langston, the boy she had a child with
so many years before.
Sean Langston has a reputation he can't shake as a result
of
what happened with Angie. For reasons he refuses to
reveal,
he is trying to restore a historical house he plans to
make
into a bed and breakfast named Seclusion. The old,
decrepit
house has come to represent what Sean wants to be, and not
who he has been.
With Angie back, suddenly, everything between them is
different. Sean has never stopped loving Angie, and
together, after all these years, they start the
relationship
they were incapable of having as teenagers. Until Sean
learns the secret that brought Angie home, and will once
again rip their lives apart...
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