Review: Good women's fiction
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 03 2, 2014
I liked the book, although I didn't like Frannie very much.  Frannie comes into town several years after losing her sister to the witness protection program for some crime that occured in this town.  When she gets to a meeting with the town mayor, he's the man she kissed several hears ago when she was dealing with losing her sister, and later found out that he was married. She has a new venture for the town that involves training people for new jobs and renovating some buildings in the town center. She needs the mayor's assistance but feels repugnance for his actions. On the other hand, he's now widowed and wants to pursue a relation with her. There were many secrets all around, he was keeping things from her, she was keeping things from him, it was a mess. I don't loke books where the plot depends on so many secrets. Further into the books you learn some of the secrets and you cheer for them and a crisis ensues.The best part of the book was about a town getting together and supporting their neighbours. And friends caring and helping each other. All the other characters were great, especially Patrick and Dixie, who were the ones best developed. There were other stories involved, but not having read the previous books, I didn't get a great sense of their histories. I did like most of the older ladies of the town, except for the evil Mrs. McKay. The book ends without a cliffhanger, thank you, but was not very satisfactory for this reader.