Forever Again
Shannon StaceyContemporary romance
Available from Samhain Publishing
ISBN: 1-59998-001-0
January 2006
| Gena Taylor and her teenage daughter live a nice life in the town in which she grew up. She runs a successful bed and breakfast, which looks to be even more successful when a local T.V. personality picks her inn to be the location of her wedding and honeymoon. Gena's hopes for her inn's future fame plummet when she meets Kristen's fiancé. Gena and Travis were married for thirteen days at the end of high school. Gena found herself pregnant after an encounter with Travis on a rainy night. He found blood-spattered underwear in the laundry, jumped to the wrong conclusion, and out of her life. She wants her daughter Mia to know her father, but how can she explain how wrong he was all those years ago, even though it might have been for the best for all of them. Travis has to break it to his fiancée that not only was he married before, but the circumstances, and to whom!
I really enjoyed this novel. Gena and Mia are really likeable characters, and though Travis was really unpleasant throughout most of the first half of the book, by the end I really liked him also. Gena is mostly a sweet and caring mother. She seems to have taken a really bad situation in her marriage and turned it around, raising her child, finishing college, and starting a business, all on her own. Travis comes off as a spoiled brat, who thinks of himself first and foremost, and finds someone else to blame for his problems, Gena. Thankfully, he manages to grow up during the course of the novel. The supporting characters are very real. Jill is a supportive and lively friend to Gena, and Kristen is a self-absorbed, but in the end likeable person. The plot made the book very hard to put down. Mia's machinations to get her parents together were very entertaining.
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Reviewer: Maura Frankman |
