Review: Can True Love Survive The Test Of Time
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 09 13, 2012
Do you believe love, true love, deserves a 2nd chance? Does happily ever after really exist outside of fairy tales? For Michael and Roxann the answers could very well be a resounding yes.Michael Taylor, co-owner of a highly successful security firm, has made some tough choices in life and has had to overcome some of life's `knock downs' to get to where he is today but the biggest mistake he's ever made was walking away from Roxann, the love of his life, without putting up a fight. Then to compound that mistake he married the wrong woman. Michael left the military with a bad case of PTSD. He was working in a dead end job and felt Roxann was too good for him and deserved better. When her dad questions him on his intentions he also lets him run him off with threat of disclosing his past to Roxann.  In the course of running away from the love of his life and himself, he starts a security firm with his friends, becomes a success, then marries the wrong woman...a woman who becomes extremely unfaithful as a way of punishing him because he just couldn't love her like he did Roxann. This punishment ends up getting her killed and Mike becomes the one and only suspect. He turns to Roxann for help and maybe, just maybe the 2nd chance he longs for.Roxann Thorgesson is now the owner of the newspaper her father built up into the second best in town after he dies of a sudden heart attack a few weeks prior to Michael walking back into her life asking for her help in clearing his name. She is still heartbroken from his betrayal 12 years previously. She has learned to live a solitary life, never letting another man get too close to her for fear of a repeat performance. When Michael walks back into her life, it's a vulnerable time for her. She is still grieving the sudden loss of her father, trying to keep a multi-million dollar newspaper running, all the employees employed, and the last thing her emotional state needs is the one man that hurt her beyond words coming back into her life and asking her to do him a favor. Yet because of her fragile state she decides to do just that for several reasons...one: it would be a boon for her newspaper to have the inside track, two: prove to herself that she can run the business and three: maybe she can finally understand what happened 12 years ago that had him running away from her instead of running towards the future she dreamed they would have.Roxann knows Michael is no murderer, at least she is sure that he couldn't murder the woman who he replaced her with, and she'll prove just that, but can her heart endure being broken a second time? Can she survive the true murderer? Will her newspaper outlast the sabotage when she gets too close to finding the real killer? Finally, can love really get a 2nd chance to bloom and is happily ever after more than just something that happens in fairy tales? Take this emotional roller coaster ride with Roxann and Michael to find out if this time around all their dreams come true or turn into nightmares. Adrienne Giordano has created very real, very human characters that everyone can relate to. The situations they find themselves are very plausible and that's what makes this a great series. Romance, mystery, action, hot men...sigh, double sigh, it doesn't get much better than this. 5 star stories written by a 10 star author.Anita (The Kindle Book Review)