Pictures Of Us (Harlequin Super Romance) [Mass Market Paperback]

Amy Garvey (Author)

Book Description

Series: Harlequin Super Romance | Publication Date: January 13, 2009

The photographs lining the mantel of the Butterfield home tell their story. From shots of Michael and Tess as high school sweethearts to images of their daughter's wedding they look like the perfect family. But behind the pictures is a different tale that doesn't quite fit the love-at-first-sight, happily-ever-after version of Tess and Michael's marriage. And it's a tale that's revealed by a shocking phone call out of the blue.

With that one call the fabric of their life together shifts, and everything they believe is challenged. Are they the perfect family? Or is that a facade as thin as the photos themselves?

--This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Harlequin (January 13, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0373715412
• ISBN-13: 978-0373715411
• Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 4.1 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,576,646 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

I've been writing since I was a kid. What strikes me as amusing now is that a lot of those early stories were de facto romances, which is what I'm writing now. Of course, the books I'm writing now also include a mystery -- what plot isn't embellished by a dead body, right?

Just the facts? Born in Delaware, and currently living in upstate New York (waaaaay upstate -- near Canada, in fact). I've always written, but there were a lot of jobs along the way -- video store clerk, nanny, local newspaper writer, and day camp counselor among them. "Mom" is my other big job -- I have three kids -- and I've got a wonderful husband who doesn't seem to mind that I write about romance, sex, and murder.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderfully written family story, September 12, 2009

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Carol Lind - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Pictures of Us (Harlequin Super Romance) (Kindle Edition)

This story was so believable, and the characters were well developed. The weaving of the past and current time was easily read and not intrusive. I was carried into the book and felt as if I knew the characters, their lives and their struggles. This is a book I would recommend to anyone interested in a well written story and doesn't wander from the initial story line. I would be anxious to see more books from this author soon!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars enjoyable family drama, January 15, 2009

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Harriet Klausner - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Pictures Of Us (Harlequin Large Print Super Romance) (Mass Market Paperback)

Tess and Michael Butterfield have been a happily married couple for eighteen years except for one time before they married they separated and almost broke up. They reconciled and moved pass this bump in their relationship and raised their now fifteen years old daughter Emma together. Thus when the call at night occurs that Michael sired a son with Sophia Keating, both are shocked even if his indiscretion happened during the period when divorce seemed imminent; as even he had no idea that he has another child until now. The call only came because twenty-years old Drew is dying of cancer unless he receives a bone marrow transplant and his maternal side failed to match.

Tess and Michael inform Emma that she has a half brother Drew living in Boston. Michael proves incompatible, but Emma is; she is the only hope to save the life of her sibling, a total stranger.

This is an enjoyable family drama starring fully developed characters dealing with a double shocker as they both struggle to cope with the news of his previously unknown son and with his need for an instant bone marrow transplant. Adding to the dilemma is that their daughter is the only match. Readers will relish this fine tale of a New Jersey suburban family struggling to come to grips with a new reality.

Harriet Klausner

5.0 out of 5 stars True to Life Fiction, November 20, 2009

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Theresa Novak Bond (Central Jersey) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Pictures Of Us (Harlequin Super Romance) (Mass Market Paperback)

I loved this book! I am a voracious reader and only two books have ever made me cry, this being one of them! The characters are so real and the situation so realistic, you get totally wrapped up in their world. This was the first book I have ever read by Amy Garvey and she has such a heartfelt emotional way of writing that I am looking forward to reading more of her books!