Is there anyone who hasn't told a lie? Anyone who hasn't
been lied to at least once? Be honest, because everyone
has, but hopefully it was nothing as hurtful, and not to
the size and quality of what Nora Roberts has written of
in her newest book THE LIAR.
Shelby Pomeroy Foxworth is married to Richard Foxworth.
Shelby having been raised in a small mountain town might
be naïve, but don't confuse that with dumb. In Shelby's
case they're too very different things. However when the
sauve Richard sweeps her off her feet and offers her a
world that most of us only ever dream of she can't resist.
For a few years life is good and the travel is vast and
varied. Soon it begins to wear on Shelby and she wants
the simple life she once had, but that just isn't possible
or is it?
Richard Foxworth appears to have it all...a beautiful
doting
wife, an adorable child and enough money to travel...and a
more than comfortable life. Soon however it all comes to
an end when Richard drowns in a storm (fortunately Callie
was ill and mother and daughter stayed home or this story
might be totally different).
Not only does Shelby find herself a young widow she finds
out that the life she an Richard were leading was one lie
piled on top of another. As she begins to unravel the
lies, she finds out more about Richard and his lying ways
than she ever knew. She has inherited nothing but a
mountain of debt and no way to pay it off. Does that put
her down and out? NO! She gathers her wits about her and
figures out a plan to get it paid off without any help or
charity from anyone.
Shelby moves herself and Callie home. Here she is
surrounded by family who loves her and is more than glad
she is home. They all want to protect Shelby, but she is
determined to find her own way and that includes not
wanting a made up job at her grandmother's day spa. In
the hills of home, both Callie and Shelby blossom in more
ways than one, and they both just happen to fall in love
with the same man, Griffin.
Luckily for them Griffin happens to fall right back in
love with them, so life should be good right?
Unfortunately no! The troubles that Shelby thought she
left behind seem to follow her home to the Ridge, and in
true Shelby form she wants to handle it all herself, but
her friends and family just won't let that happen. As
danger escalates, Shelby does defend herself, but not just
physically...she also uses her brains and when the cavalry
arrives she is ready to let them handle it.
THE LIAR by Nora Roberts continues what to my mind is a
streak of great writing. Many of my personal friends
loved THE
SEARCH, but I wasn't thrilled. Then came THE
WITNESS and since then I've been unable to either put my
book down, or turn off my kindle until the last page has
been read. The highest honor I can give a book is to say,
"If I were a keeper, I would keep it," and THE LIAR would
be one of the few on my keeper shelf.
Shelby Foxworth lost her husband. Then she lost her
illusions …
The man who took her from Tennessee to an exclusive
Philadelphia suburb left her in crippling debt. He was an
adulterer and a liar, and when Shelby tracks down his
safe-deposit box, she finds multiple IDs. The man she
loved wasn’t just dead. He never really existed.
Shelby takes her three-year-old daughter and heads south
to seek comfort in her hometown, where she meets someone
new: Griff Lott, a successful contractor. But her husband
had secrets she has yet to discover. Even in this small
town, surrounded by loved ones, danger is closer than she
knows—and threatens Griff, as well. And an attempted
murder is only the beginning …
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