Review: A warm and wonderful read
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 8, 2012
Judith Arnold novels are must-buy in my book, and Safe Harbor is more proof of why. Kip and Shelley met as kids in cottage country over a dead snake. (Guess who shows it to whom'.)They trust each other so implicitly that, as they mature to the age of experimentation, they dare to practice kissing on each other. Who else could you trust with that excruciating experience besides your best friend?But traumatic events pull them apart. When they meet again years later, Kip is a devastated widower stumbling through life as a shadow and Shelley is a bitter woman who knows better than to trust any man in a love relationship.Here are two fine, kind people who struggle to find their path back to together, but now as life mates as well as soul mates. This is a romance, so I'm not telling tales out of school when I say they succeed, but you will be surprised at and immensely satisfied with just how magic the moments are when they do.Few can match Arnold when it comes to touching your heart, warming the cockles of your soul and making you say to yourself, "Yes, that's exactly what that funny/painful/oh-so-serious life experience is like."