Review: Moving story.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 08 5, 2012
This moving story begins in the Vietnam era when Lillian "Lily" Reed meets Alex "Ace" Cabot, the love of her life. Like so many couples, circumstances of war tore them apart. Alex became MIA, a prisoner of war for six hellish years. Thinking him dead, Lily, a young and naive preacher's daughter, begins her path of deception with a lie, perpetrated with good intentions--or at least a choice between the lesser of two evils. The deception grows into a tangled web that holds her captive and frightened many years later when Alex, as if by fate, reappears in Lillian Reed Johnson's life just as her beloved daughter is about to be married.From the moment that Lily and Alex's paths cross again, it's obvious that the fierce spark is still there, but now Lily is the prisoner of her deception and the convoluted web of lies she has spun to protect herself and her family. Is there any way out? Alex pushes hard to win her again. Can she rekindle the star-crossed relationship with Alex? How many lives will be torn apart if she tries?The Pendant's Promise is a complex and emotional tale, woven slowly and exquisitely, through the connections of an extended cast of well-drawn characters you will come to know as you struggle with Lily and her conscience and the far-reaching consequences of a life built on a lie. You'll need a hanky for this one. Good job, Judythe!