An absolutely incredible novel. Moving and heart shattering, two stories play against each other, each filled with personal agony. The story of Lady X is of three friends in New York at times of sexual harassment running rampart. The other story is one of the friend’s daughters, who was struck by the shocking behavior of her actor husband. The women of both stories bravely rebelled against the behavior of the men.
I loved this story. The characters were full of life and Southern flavor. The story ties people together by birth, friendship, and distance in time. It has so many moving and intersecting parts that work so very well together.
A story of two people learning to restructure their lives from stressful work and finding an unexpected love. I honestly did not connect very well with the story and felt it dragged somewhat.
A very engaging story of a singer forced into doing country music by winning a contest is thrown into an old West tourist town to learn how to be a cowboy. He is placed in the town doctor’s home for lodging and finds he is attracted to her and she to him. She is stuck in the town for five years because they paid her college loans. Things get interesting when she learns information about her lineage and when they are tasked to play parts in a scenario for the visiting (and paying bucks) for a sheik.
It took me a while to get immersed in this book and it was worth the wait. The story of Seb and Clara was engaging and peppered with outsiders’ takes on them, viewing them with an inquisitive, if not nosy, eye. The relationship is defined by what others see and analyze with all their assumptions. Interesting in a weird way.
A winning story of a woman’s daring move way out of her comfort zone. It becomes an exploration of who she is at the core of her being as she begins a hardy group led trek through the rugged Sierra Nevadas. All she feels she needs for life is challenged as the trek continues. Along the way, she finds herself more than interested in one of the guides and he with her.
