This is a stand alone novel with a HEA. It is not really a romance but it is a story about love. It is hard to write this review because there is just so much to this novel but to write it all would spoil the story. So, that being said, the story is set in a small town but the heroine lives with her grandmother is a very small backwoods cabin in a remote country area. The grandmother is very old and sick and the young heroine is a teen in high school. They very much keep to themselves and have very little of material wealth but they are very close and devoted to one another.
The young girl gets invited to a cook-out with a very popular boy. Of course she is excited that he has shown her attention and she has no experience with young boys or their intentions and immature thoughts and ways. He encourages her to drink and she does and she soon discovers she is pregnant. Her grandmother looks on the child as a gift from God but feels she should tell the young boy. She tries but his family wants nothing to do with "her" problem and he leaves town for college.
They live in a remote area with the only visitors being a visiting nurse and the young man that delivers their groceries. She manages to have the child with no one really knowing. The visiting nurse records the birth with the mother listed and the father unknown. She refuses to name the father. The story gets very interesting from this point. As I said, there is too much to write without spoiling the story. Your heart goes out to this 18 year old mother, no experience with life, etc. except what her grandparents taught her. They do not go into town and do not mix socially, so it is just the three of them until the grandfather dies and then the grandmother's health starts to decline. I kept thinking of the story NELL while reading this one. The young girl did go to high school and she is not literate by any means but there is no TV, cell phones, etc. in their life. They live a very simple lifestyle so she is shielded from most modern things and thinking.
This is a story that holds you spellbound. it is hard to put the book down. Secrets are slowly revealed and you can see life repeating itself through the generations. The heroine is the main character and she tells her story. Life, death, sadness, joy, it is all here. It is a very good story and I definitely recommend it. It is appropriate for any age. On the sexy scale it is a zero. There are no sexy scenes, it is referred to, etc. but you get no details. It is a good lesson in what happens when What a web of lies we weave when first we practice to deceive!!! Good read.
SPOILER--I really liked the heroine and felt empathy for her until she seemed to have no remorse about robbing a young man of his daughter. In the end it tried to show it was for her best interest but I'm sorry. She loved the child beyond reason and yet she didn't think he would have felt the same? She had no compassion for him. Her "I'm sorry" didn't cut it for me. Her reasons for keeping quiet were selfish and self-serving. I felt bad for Ellen, her mother wanted her to go out and live her life - as long as she lived it the way she wanted her to - she was definitely a "smother-mother". That got a little annoying!!
I was not paid for this review. I am not an author nor do I know one. I am not kin to this writer. I am a reader and this is my opinion, nothing more, nothing less. 9/6/17
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