Interested in a suspenseful thriller that you will not be
able to put down? THE GOOD WIDOW is the one for you.
Elementary teacher, Jacqueline "Jacks" is "kind of" happily
married for eight years to handsome, hunky, Costa Rican,
James Morales. He travels often, this time he is in
Kansas. Laughing and talking on the phone with her sister,
Beth, Jacks is interrupted by two policemen who come to her
front door. They ask her if she is the wife of James
Morales? They inform her that her husband was killed in a
car accident in Maui and his companion was a young,
beautiful blonde, also killed. "No, it's not true. James is
in Kansas." But it is true. Shocked and devastated, Jacks
is filled with questions, what ifs, was this her fault?
Could she have changed the outcome? How?
Their marriage was not perfect, but she trusted James. She
did not believe he had ever lied or cheated on her. True
they quarreled a lot. When they were dating, James was
adamant about having a family, four children was his wish
and Jacks agreed. Now eight years later, trying hard to get
pregnant, they were unsuccessful. Jacks had a secret and
when she finally confessed that she had only 20% chance of
getting pregnant, because of an old illness, James lost it.
He called her a liar and told her he would never have
married her if he knew her truth. Could this be why James
had cheated on her?
Another knock on the door after the memorial for James and
a nice looking young man introduced himself as Nick Ford, a
fireman, and the fiance of Dylan, the gal killed with James.
Nick was grieving, blindsided by the affair. He wants
closure and persuades Jacks into returning to Maui with him
to retrace the lovers last days in Paradise. He, too, needs
answers. Against the wishes of her sister, Beth, Jacks and
Nick return to the same hotel in Maui and begin to find out
what happened. They follow the lovers itinerary
and discover James and Dylan were posing as newlyweds.
Dylan also had a secret she needed to share with James. Was
that what caused the car to go off the dangerous Road to
Hana?
The dynamic duo of Liz Fenton and Lisa Steinke do a sterling
job of telling a story of lies, betrayals, with so many
twists and turns to shock and surprise you. Maui is a
perfect setting for this and the descriptions on the road to
Hana had me on the edge of my seat. A tropical drink with a
pink umbrella would have helped! Jacks grew on me as she
refused to give up and kept digging deeper, trying to find
truth and perhaps forgiveness.
I found Nick too sweet to be true and began to create my own
ending to this truly riveting tale of deceptions. I read
THE GOOD WIDOW swiftly and quickly and look forward to their
next! What a great beginning to a suspense debut. Bravo! I
am a fan.
Bestselling authors Liz Fenton and Lisa Steinke make
their suspense debut in this twisty, emotional thriller.
Elementary school teacher Jacqueline “Jacks” Morales’s
marriage was far from perfect, but even in its ups and downs
it was predictable, familiar. Or at least she thought it
was…until two police officers showed up at her door with
devastating news. Her husband of eight years, the one who
should have been on a business trip to Kansas, had suffered
a fatal car accident in Hawaii. And he wasn’t alone.
For Jacks, laying her husband to rest was hard. But it was
even harder to think that his final moments belonged to
another woman—one who had left behind her own grieving and
bewildered fiancé. Nick, just as blindsided by the affair,
wants answers. So he suggests that he and Jacks search for
the truth together, retracing the doomed lovers’ last days
in paradise.
Now, following the twisting path of that fateful road, Jacks
is learning that nothing is ever as it seems. Not her
marriage. Not her husband. And most certainly not his death…
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