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Home To Eden

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After burying his wife and newborn child, Nick Blackthorne flees his hometown of Eden, California in a futile effort to escape his ghosts. He travels cross country and settles in new York City as a stock broker. Five years later, an old friend calls Nick, asking him to return home to help sell his house. Reluctantly, Nick knows that it is time to truly bury the past and return to his home town.

Kate Moran believes that she has finally attained everything she wants out of life. She runs a local nursery and is engaged to marry Nick's dependable brother Gareth. Gareth is the ideal person as far as Kate is concerned because, unlike her wandering dad, he wants to stay in one place and raise a family. Everything seems perfect until Nick arrives. Neither want to hurt Gareth, but both are strongly attracted to each other. No matter the outcome, someone will be hurt though no one truly deserves the pain.

Through several intriguing sub-plots, Dallas Schulze pumps oxygen into what could have been a trite story line, falling in love with your fiancee's sibling. The characters making up the triangle are all believable and nice, causing some difficulty for readers because it is easier to hate the guy who loses the girl. With no villains to deserve what they get, the story itself seems truer to life and a bit different than readers normally find with this plot device. Reminiscent of the Doris Day-Rock Hudson-Tony Randall triangles of the fifties, HOME TO EDEN is a well written contemporary romance that should thrill fans of Ms. Schulze.

Harriet Klausner

I think that there were too many plot lines going through this book to make it a really great one: a one-night stand, the attraction to her fiance's brother, the supernatural plot line, the tension with her father & the reason behind it, her friend/boss's hidden attraction to one of the main characters, the reason behind the hero's reluctance to return home & the reason there's tension between him and his family. The author attempted to wrap up the loose edges of all the plot lines with her epilogue but I felt like a lot of it fell through the cracks. There was no mention to her fiance about the one night stand with his brother 5 years ago, the attraction of her friend/boss would have made a greater secondary story, and I feel that the main character didn't resolve anything with her father. Overall, worth reading once but not one for the keeper shelf.

This was a pretty good book from Dallas Schulze. I enjoyed it, although it was fairly predictable, and some characters were introduced who didn't really seem to serve a purpose. Nick and Kate were both very appealing characters, which made you more forgiving of the pain they caused another person.

I have previously read books by Dallas Schulze and have enjoyed them immensely. However, this book about a man who is trashy enough to have sex with his brother's fiance and a woman who is trashy enough to have sex with her fiance's brother, is NOT a book I could enjoy. The unbelievable excuse for their willingness to cheat was the "unforgettable" one night stand they had five years ago, when neither bothered to even get the other's name. I will not be reading any more books by Ms. Schulze.