The Cabin [Mass Market Paperback]

Carla Neggers (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 2002

Susanna Galway purchased her isolated cabin in the Adirondacks to get away to clear her head. With her marriage to Texas Ranger Jack Galway on the rocks, it seemed an idyllic place to hide. But Susanna is unaware that she and her daughters are in danger or that they are being followed--by her husband and a murderer whose vengeful intent is to destroy the Ranger's life.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Although Texas real estate developer Beau McGarrity is suspected of shooting his wife, he isn't charged because policewoman Alice Parker has compromised the investigation by tampering with the evidence. Nevertheless, he stalks and threatens financial planner Susanna Galway, wife of the Texas Ranger who turned Alice in. Stuck in a marital stalemate, Susanna doesn't tell her headstrong husband, Jack, that Beau has visited her. She also neglects to mention that she has recently made a fortune in the stock market. Instead, she flees north to her feisty grandmother's, then heads with her grandmother and twin daughters for a secluded Adirondack cabin. When both Beau and Alice pursue her there, the women are pulled even deeper into a web of violence and intrigue. Inevitably, Jack and a fellow Ranger arrive on the scene to save the day. The plot is confusing at times, and Susanna's financial secrecy will make it difficult for readers to sympathize with her. Indeed, what kind of middle-class woman could make $10 million in this market, much less fail to mention it to hubby? Still, Neggers's (The Carriage House) characteristically brisk pacing and colorful characterizations sweep the reader toward a dramatic and ultimately satisfying denouement.

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Review

THE CABIN is [a] thrilling romance with plenty of action, mystery and suspense that keep the reader fascinated... -- The Romance Readers Connection

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Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages
• Publisher: Mira (January 1, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1551668459
• ISBN-13: 978-1551668451
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.3 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,260,776 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Carla Neggers is the New York Times bestselling author of more than 60 novels, including SAINT'S GATE, the first in her new Sharpe & Donovan series, and SECRETS OF THE LOST SUMMER. Her work has been translated into two dozen languages. Carla is a founding member of the New England Chapter of Romance Writers of America and has served as president of Novelists, Inc. and vice president of International Thriller Writers.

Born and raised in western Massachusetts, Carla started writing at age eleven, when she'd climb a tree with pad and pen and perch on her favorite branch to spin stores. When she isn't writing, she enjoys kayaking, hiking, cross-country skiing and traveling. Carla and her husband, Joe Jewell, live on a hilltop in Vermont, not far from picturesque Quechee Gorge.

For more information and to contact Carla, visit her Web site: www.CarlaNeggers.com. You can also find her on Facebook at www.facebook.com/carlaneggers or on Twitter at www.twitter.com/carlaneggers.

Photo credit: Julie Ireland

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A RIVETING, SEXY, WONDERFUL STORY, December 31, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: The Cabin (Mass Market Paperback)

RIVETING, SPELLBINDING STORY
Ms. Neggers has done it again. She has written a suspenseful, romantic story, with wonderful characters you can't help but like. Susanna and Jack are strong, independent and loving. Jack is a Texas Ranger and Susanna a brilliant financial planner. They are deeply in love, but are having marital problems. Susanna is living in Boston with her daughters and grandmother, while Jack remains in Texas. When Alice Parker, a woman Jack helped put in jail is released, his gut instinct tells him she will try and get revenge through his family. Jack goes to Boston to work things out with Susanna and protect his family. Susanna has purchased a cabin in the Adirondacks. She, the girls and her grandmother are going there to get away for a few days unaware that they are being followed and in danger. Jack follows them knowing they are in dire straits. Once you start reading The Cabin, you won't be able to put it down. The suspense is riveting, the romance superb and the humor exceptional. You'll have a hard time picking out your favorite character. They're all delicious. If you want to do something nice for yourself read The Cabin. Its the perfect way to start the New Year.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Susanna is an idiot, June 15, 2006

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Mary Ann Anderson (Nashville, TN USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Cabin (Mass Market Paperback)

From time to time I read a book and dislike the heroine so much that I don't even care what happens to her. In this book, I didn't particularly dislike Susanna but I just flat didn't "get" her. A man is stalking her so instead of telling Jack, her husband who just happens to be a Texas Ranger, she packs up and moves from Texas to Boston. Then, even though she proclaims her deep love for her husband she just can't bring herself to return home to him and instead puts down strong roots in Boston at her grandmother's house and even purchases an isolated cabin several hours north of Boston.

Her husband learns of the danger she is in and goes to Boston to be with her and once again she sneaks off from him...this time running to the cabin. THEN, the woods around the cabin are crawling with bad guys, one of whom is a murderer and is also after her so instead of staying in the cabin where another Texas Ranger is there to keep her safe she decides to go cross-country skiing and surprise, surprise runs into the bad guy who, duh, tries to kill her. Now there's a surprise!

Okay, call me stupid, but if my husband were a CPA and I had an accounting problem, I probably would ask for his help. If my husband were a doctor and I had some sort of mystery ailment, I think I would ask for his opinion. And if my husband were a cop and I had some really bad guys after me, I believe I would see if my husband could help keep me safe!

Like I said, I just didn't GET Susanna. I think Ms. Neggers intended to portray Susanna as being so strong that she didn't need her husband. Unfortunately, she doesn't seem to understand that being strong sometimes means realizing when you need to turn to someone else for help. If Jack had been a brain surgeon and Susanna had learned she had a brain tumor, I wonder if she would have insisted on showing how strong she was by operating on herself.

Guess this is a book I won't be keeping.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars ouch, August 6, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: The Cabin (Mass Market Paperback)

By the end of Chapter Five, the author had flogged me with the phrase 'Texas Ranger' more than thirty times, with far too many of them attached to the heroine's husband's full name, i.e.'Jack Galway, TEXAS RANGER.' (my caps.) The cast, who supposedly already knew the heroine, spoke in awkward, expositional sentences like, "Hello, Susanna Dunning Galway, stubborn, willful, separated wife of Jack Galway, TEXAS RANGER. How is that ten million dollars you have that you haven't told your Texas Ranger husband about yet and oh, have you told him about Beau Garrity, your secret stalker of one year ago who might have murdered his wife and the reason you separated from your husband Jack Galway, Texas Ranger?" The villains are limp spaghetti and their motivations ridiculous. Iris Dunning, the supposed grand dame is no more memorable than the Galway daughters. I kept hoping for an avalanche but I couldn't read past page 200 because I simply didn't care if they all lived or died.