Truth Be Told: The House on Poppin Hill (Harlequin Superromance No. 1353) [Mass Market Paperback]

Barbara McMahon (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 13, 2006

Looking for forgiveness...When Jo Hunter was sixteen, she told a lie that changed the course of her life and the lives of her two foster sisters. Now she's home to make things right. She needs to make peace with Maddie Oglethorpe, the only mother she's ever known.Jo is used to people not believing in her, but when Sheriff Sam Witt doubts her story, for some reason she's determined to prove the truth, and in the process build bridges and heal old wounds.

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: Harlequin (June 13, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0373713533
• ISBN-13: 978-0373713530
• Product Dimensions: 6.5 x 3.9 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #390,477 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Bestselling, award winning author Barbara McMahon has written more than 80 novels which have sold more than 16 million copies world wide in more than fifty countries in twenty-eight languages.

Known for her heartwarming, emotional stories, she excels in capturing those feelings when first falling in love. She has won or been nominated for every major award in the romance genre from a double nomination in the RITA to winning the Bookseller's Best, National Readers Choice Award and the prestigious HOLT Medallion, among others.

Barbara lives in a rural county in California's gold rush country. She loves the history of the place and is involved in the county's genealogy group and historic cemetery preservation in addition to volunteering one day a week at the local Animal Shelter.

For a complete list of books or to contact Barbara, visit her website: www.barbaramcmahon.com

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4.0 out of 5 stars The last book in the Poppin Hill trilogy, June 16, 2006

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This review is from: Truth Be Told: The House on Poppin Hill (Harlequin Superromance No. 1353) (Mass Market Paperback)

TRUTH BE TOLD by Barbara McMahon
June 16, 2006

Rating **** (4 stars)

TRUTH BE TOLD is the third in a series of books focusing on three women who grew up together as foster sisters, but were suddenly separated and put into different homes when one of the three, Jo Hunter, accused their foster mother of beating her. Maddie Oglethorpe was their foster mother, a woman who truly loved the three girls and did what she could to give them a happy home. No one believed that Maddie would do such a thing, but after the accusation, the girls were sent away to separate homes and Maddie lost her license to keep foster children.

The three are now in their twenties, and Jo is a cop living in Los Angeles. She has just learned that Maddie had suffered a massive stroke. She returns home, after having vowed never to return, and finds that her other two "sisters" Eliza and April have already returned, the two acting as if they had never been parted. Jo feels like the odd one out, especially because it was her lie that tore them apart in the first place. However, Eliza and April welcome Jo back with open arms, and persuade her to visit Maddie in the hospital to resolve anything that had come between them. No one really knows exactly what had occurred all those years ago except for Jo and the man that had raped and beat her.

TRUTH BE TOLD is a good conclusion to this trilogy of stories about three foster girls who were split up as teenagers, but are reunited as adults. They say blood is thicker than water, but in this case, their ties are strong even without blood ties. Despite Jo's lies all those years ago, the three sisters continue to have a bond of true friendship and family. This is Jo's story and how she finds her way back to the only family that cared about her. It is also the story of how she finally finds love in the most unlikely man, a sheriff that is dealing with his own pain, the loss of his young wife. While this reader didn't like Jo as much as Eliza and April, Jo's story read true, as did her character. Jo was a very tough and aggressive woman who had been hurt badly as a child, who grew up lashing out at the world because that was the only way she knew how to deal with things. TRUTH BE TOLD, as well as the other two books in the series are stand alones, but the reader will want to read all three to learn how the sisters dealt with their separation as teenagers and how they were finally reunited as a family. This reviewer highly recommends this entire series to any readers of contemporary romance. Read them one after another for a truly pleasurable weekend retreat. -- Courtesy of Love Romances