Review: Another Page-Burner from a Master Crafter
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 22, 2014
I usually get to bed around two a.m., which is bad enough when I have to be at the veteran’s hospital in the morning for some sort of appointment or volunteer work.  It kills me when I fall asleep around four or five a.m. and I have to get up at seven or eight for an appointment—which has happened more than once with this author.  Thanks, Ms. Roughton.  I keep telling myself I needed to put the book down and go to sleep, but I just can’t!  And I usually figure out who did it at least half-way through.  Not this time.  I didn’t figure out all the twists and turns until the very end.  Ms. Roughton actually surprised me.Billy Brayton’s home and he’s no longer the bad boy.  In fact, he’s a lieutenant in the Sheriff’s Department with an impressive resumé as an MP in the Army, which includes K-9 duty and medals for bravery on the front lines in the Middle East.  He could probably have written his own ticket with any law enforcement agency in the country, but he chose to return to Turkey Creek.  That resumé never included a wife.  He never got over the girl whose wedding announcement he received four weeks into basic training.Maggie Kinkaid has never married.  She adopted her college roommate’s son after his parents were killed in a car crash and has raised him regaling him with stories of the man who would have been his adopted father, had he lived.  So while Jake is just as shocked as anyone when Billy comes home, he has no problem accepting the man as the father he never had—which is a good thing, since Maggie marries Billy the day after his return.Turkey Creek appears to be a normal, quiet Southern town.  You know, the kind of place where you sneeze at one end of town and someone at the other end yells, “Bless you.”  Meanwhile, everyone in between debates whether you have a cold or if it’s just your allergies acting up again.  But there’s more to it than meets the eye.  It has a haunted cemetery that has more than just ghosts going bump in the night.  Billy Brayton isn’t just home to get revenge on Maggie’s father for splitting the two of them up all those years ago, he plans to find out what's going on in that cemetery.  Turkey Creek will not be the same when Billy gets through with it.I highly recommend this book.  Just don’t read it at bedtime if you have to be anywhere in the morning.  I read two of Ms. Roughton's books in one week, and I need a nap!