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Bellekeep Books

Pub date March 12, 2013

ISBN ‎ 978-1936878239

Price $17.06 (USD) Paperback, $9.99 Kindle edition

Amazon bestseller and award-winning Purl’s stunning third installment in the Milford-Haven series, which walks the line between mystery and women’s fiction, is a fine amalgam of romance, suspense, and small-town intrigue. Miranda Jones is content living in Milford-Haven. While getting ready for her first major art show in the new town is keeping her busy, there’s something about Zack Calvin that keeps weighing on her mind. And then there is the enigmatic Cornelius, toward whom she feels a strange pull. Meanwhile, Senior Deputy Delmar Johnson is still looking into broadcast journalist Christine Christian’s disappearance. The desire to love, be loved, and make a family is at the heart of the story, as is self-examination and finding self. Purl builds and maintains suspense on multiple levels. Her prose is lyrical (“As the first hint of light touched the sky, the reticence that had silenced her voice began to ebb away as gently as the shadows that were giving way to the coming dawn.”), and her affecting tone brings her characters to life, all the while rendering their inner turmoil and desire for finding their place in the world. Throughout, the book explores dreams, hope, bitter disappointments, regret, redemption, and what it means to be part of families and communities. This one immediately takes hold and won’t let go until the reader finishes the last page. A stunner.

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