Review: Her second book, from her backlist-but some changes
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 10, 2013
This one is a "keeper" and was the first of Cheryl's books I ever read.  It is the prequel to "Rain Shadow" and I was moved by the emotion of the characters and how engaged I was by the writing.Was hoping her backlist would be released.  I lost my original copy of this one when a babysitter "borrowed" it from my keeper shelf about 15 years ago and am so glad to get it back with my Kindle.  Cheryl's books don't often come up at used book stores because they are worth the shelf space at home.I read hundreds of books each year and can still recall the plot and characters from this one, which says a lot about the quality of the writing.  Highly recommended.UPDATE--Finally read my Kindle copy, and the villaness of the piece has been re-written so now instead of a violent sociopath she is an insecure and possibly bi-polar young woman.  This reduced the tension in the story. To compensate, her character could have manifested just a bit more small scale destructive behavior, in my opinion.  If I hadn't read the original, I would not have noticed the lack because there was stil plenty of emotion and romance and action in the book, but I was a bit disoriented when I was expecting the evil sister-in-law to attempt murder (twice) but in this story she doesn't.