The Gazebo
A PAST FULL OF SECRETS
When former wild child Deirdre McDaniel clears out her childhood home, she comes face-to-face with a lifetime of memories and failures. Once she’d dreamed of making it big, but her high school pregnancy had changed all that. Now co-owner of a B&B, Deirdre struggles to make up for lost time with her daughter, to overcome the demons of her past and to open her guarded heart to Jake—the new man in her life.
But when long-buried secrets return to haunt her, will Jake accept the truth behind the woman he’s come to care about more than he’d thought possible…or will he let old wounds destroy the fragile new love they share?
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An Entertaining Family Saga Ms. Cates follow on to “Picket Fences” was a nice pleasant read that continued to investigate the relationships between Deirdre McDaniel and her family as well as re-introduce rugged Jake Stone.Deirdre has to come to grips with the death of her mother, and the legacy she left behind in her hope chest. Deirdre has no idea when she opens the lid of the trunk that she has in essence opened the lid on a “Pandora’s Box” that is her life. There has been a secret that was kept by her…
There are gaping historical holes in this story! I’m not all that picky as a reader when it comes to “lite” reading. I love my lite reading, it is like candy or junk food; it’s just right sometimes.However, when a story asks you to bend time, or accept completely wrong and distracting historical facts, I have to speak out. What editor did not catch the absolutely glaring error in the age and military service of the Captain?A man who is 75 years old in 2006 (when the book was copyrighted) COULD NOT HAVE SERVED IN THE…
absorbing family drama Deirdre McDaniel detests the chore of going through her childhood home in Whitewater, Illinois but knows she must see what she wants to keep since her mom Emmalie died. Her brother Cade offers to help, but she insists on looking at her hope chest by herself although she allows her teenage daughter Emma to help her. Deirdre finds a shocking letter in which she learns that her father the Captain did not sire her. She confronts the Captain, who lives with Cade and his wife, but he is shocked…