Wednesday, January 08, 2014

Lying With Strangers by Jonnie Jacobs

Chloe Henderson is looking forward to a happily ever after life with her boyfriend, Trace, and their unborn child when Trace attempts to rob a convenience store.  Three people are shot in the robbery.  

Chloe believes that she has found the love she had been denied by both her dysfunctional mother and the foster homes that she grew up in.  While she tries to nurse Trace's wound, she discovers that Trace has more difficulties than the robbery attempt.  Is she now an unwitting accomplice? What will happen to her unborn child? 

One of the other people shot is Roy Walker, a district attorney and the husband of Dianna Walker.  While Dianna tries to protect her children and find out why Roy was shot, she discovers that he has been lying to her.  Why was Roy in that part of town on the fateful day?  The more Dianna discovers about her husband, the more difficult it becomes to continue to believe in his integrity as a husband, father, and district attorney. 

Joel Richards, a frustrated small town journalist, sees his break when the bones of a young woman missing for twenty-five years are uncovered.  The story takes him to San Francisco and into the lives of Chloe and Dianna.  

As Chloe's and Dianna's lives become intertwined, they must come to grips with what their lives had been and what they each need them to become. 

The story gets your attention from the first page.  The characters unfold smoothly within the story.  

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