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The Secret Sister

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Did she once have a sister? Has her mother lied all these years? Why?

After a painful divorce, Maisey Lazarow returns to Fairham, the small island off the South Carolina coast where she grew up. She goes there to heal--and to help her brother, Keith, a deeply troubled man who's asked her to come home. But she refuses to stay in the family house. The last person she wants to see is the wealthy, controlling mother she escaped years ago.

Instead, she finds herself living next door to someone else she'd prefer to avoid--Rafe Romero, the wild, reckless boy to whom she lost her virginity at sixteen. He's back on the island, and to her surprise, he's raising a young daughter alone. Maisey's still attracted to him, but her heart's too broken to risk...

Then something even more disturbing happens. She discovers a box of photographs that evoke distant memories of a little girl, a child Keith remembers, too. Maisey believes the girl must've been their sister, but their mother claims there was no sister.

Maisey's convinced that child existed. So where is she now?

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    • Library Journal

      August 1, 2015

      Still reeling from the death of her infant daughter and a recent, difficult divorce, children's book author Maisey Lazarow returns to the South Carolina island where she was raised in order to put her life back together. Maisey wants peace and has absolutely no intention of staying with her icy, estranged mother in the family mansion, so she moves instead into one of her beloved seaside vacation cottages. Her neighbor turns out to be Rafe Romero, a successful contractor and single dad who was a brief part of a rebellious teenage past that Maisey would just as soon forget. A secret cache of family pictures found in the walls sends Maisey on a search for the truth about a sister she never knew she had, and her life becomes anything but peaceful. VERDICT Skillful plotting, well-developed characters (a blind little girl is adorable), a delightful romance, toxic family dynamics, and a puzzling mystery make this story a rewarding read that will appeal to both romance and women's fiction fans. Novak (This Heart of Mine) lives in the Sacramento, CA, area.

      Copyright 2015 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

    • Booklist

      August 1, 2015
      Maisey Lazarow swore she would never set foot on Fairham Island again. However, after her marriage implodes and her brother Keith attempts suicide, she realizes the place she needs to be is home. Since staying with her controlling, always critical mother is out of the question, Maisey decides to live in one of the old bungalows owned by her deceased father, only to discover a new neighbor, Rafe Romero, the contractor hired by Maisey's mother to fix up the place. Given their past romantic history, Maisey is determined to keep her distance from Rafe, but that promise becomes increasingly difficult to keep when he uncovers a cache of old family photographs. In her latest, Novak (This Heart of Mine, 2015) neatly entwines contemporary romance and women's fiction by delivering the emotionally compelling romance readers expect while at the same time thoughtfully exploring the other relationships every woman has in her life. Add a gothic-tinged plot, and you have a book with wide reader appeal.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2015, American Library Association.)

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