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The Silvery Moon (Onyx)

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Hannah had theater in her blood, as the daughter of the most beloved matinee idol, but fear and shyness kept Hannah from the stage. Gray Dylan met Hannah while she was touring with a theather company doing back stage production. He fell in love and followed her through the remaining tour stops. Hannah has a terrible secret that she is possitive makes her unloveable, so she fights both her new feelings for Gray and Gray's feeling for her. This story is wonderful. I bought this book on a whim, and fell in love with Edith Layton's writing. This book is the sequel to The Gilded Cage; which tells the story of Gray's older brother Josh.

The main story is fairly simple so I will keep this short and sweet. This is the story of Gray Dylan (his older brother Josh's story was told in The Gilded Cage) and Hannah Darling. Hannah is a less than successful drama coach (her father is a famous actor) and when down on her luck accepts an offer to work with a theatre group heading to work the circuit in Colorado. She meets Gray, who is smitten with Hannah but she has some *feminine issues* that arose in her first marriage and she fears she's not able to be a proper wife (no spoilers, this is revealed early on). The rest of the book is filled with the ups and downs of Hannah's life in the theatre along with her desperate search for a doctor who can give her the answers she craves so she can be a wife in every sense to Gray. Or will a successful part on stage fire her blood and she'll choose the stage instead?

*Yawn*

Sorry, this one just didn't work well for me, and I found myself skimming quite a bit. I didn't care for Gray much at first (all he did was pick up actresses, buy them dinner and have sex), although his character did improve in the latter half after he lost his womanizing tendencies. I liked Hannah, even though she was a bit dull and I give kudos to Layton for touching on a sensitive feminine issue at a time when women didn't really couldn't speak so frankly with a doctor. And I did enjoy seeing Gray's older Brother Josh and his wife Lucy from the first book having their own little HEA.

Certainly not the worst book ever, but not great either. Fans of all things theatre might enjoy this better than I did.

The book was well packaged and as described. Not one of my favorite Edith Layton,s books but still glad I bought it. Jan