Tomorrow's Promise: Can the Heart Let Go of Yesterday?

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Summary: A Definite Keeper
Review: Although I myself would not put my life on hold for 12 years, I could sympathize with Keely. Dax is a dream and the plot is well written. There were real obstacles for these two characters to face. What a refreshing idea! :) But SB does this best.

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Summary: Heartwarming
Review: Great Book. My heart goes out to Keely. She lost her husband 12 years ago, MIA, and remained dedicated to him all that time. She put her heart and soul into helping other survivors with loved ones missing in action. Keely is so inspiring. When she meets Dax, what can I say, true love. This was a wonderul story about a young bride mourning the loss of her husband or wondering will she ever see him again, meets a wonderful man, who also helps her in her search, proves his true love to her and enormous support wihout stepping over the line. Keely finds out what she need to know for 12 years and can finally move on with her life. This story was written so well, that you felt like the characters were somone you know personally. Great job Sandra! This is a must read book, don't pass this one up.

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Summary: Heart Warming Story
Review: I am an avid reader of Sandra Brown's books and found she is a prolific writer with many different styles of writing, whether drama, suspense, humour or romance. Many of her main characters in her writings reflect these differences, and each hold unique characteristics which is aplaudable considering the many books she has written. The book was a teary, emotional, romance with star-crossed lovers that yearned and deeply loved each other, but unable to fulfill their love due to their positions. Her having a MIA husband and him being a "Senator in running" constantly in the public spotlight. I couldn't put the book down and appreciated the history of MIA's and the plight of their families that Ms. Brown brought into light. I thought the ending resolved quickly and maybe abruptly, but all in all a good read, that I enjoyed as much as "Mirror Image".

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Summary: Sandra Brown knows how to make your heart melt
Review: I read this book several years ago and had forgotten. While I was reading, I felt like I was revisiting some old friends. The wife (Keely) of a MIA who after only weeks of marriage loses her husband for 12 years. For 12 years, she is loyal to her husband but discovers she's a woman with woman needs to be loved and cherished. No longer a child bride. She meets Dax, a congressman on the way up the political ladder. They fall in love and try to fight their attraction. In the end there is always a happy ending for Ms. Howard. I fell in love with Keely's best friend Nicole what a character. Once you finish reading this book you'll wish you had a good friend like Nicole.

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Summary: luvin it!
Review: i realy loved this book..it was the first romance book i've read and the best so far(it hasn't been long since i started, hehe). i seriously wasn't able to put it down! after starting to read it at 10pm and all through the night untill the school started and then some more at school untill i was done...thats how great it was. lol...its one of the disadvantages of reading books i have..not being able to go to sleep sence i'd be reading it all night and the next day. hehe. it realy is a good book...nicoles character was funny and it was amazing how a guy could adore a girl THAT much. :-) it makes u set ur expectations WAY high on ur ideal husband. well...i guess all romance books do. *jelena*

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Summary: Spend 12 years of youth waiting for a dead husband.
Review: Love brings you happinese or grief? Tomorrow's Promise by Sandra Brown is one of the good books I've ever read. I like it because it keeps me to read on to find out what happen to Keely at the last. Keely has waited for her husband to come back for 12 years without knowing whether she's a widow or still married. After 12 years of waiting, she meets another man she loves. She doesn't know what to do. What would happen if she goes together with the man she loves now and her husband if her husband comes back in one day. This keeps bothering Keely of what she do is right for her. It's also why I want to read on to find out the answers to Keely's questions. It's an interesting book to read.

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Summary: Sandra Brown has done it again!!
Review: Once again, S. Brown has turned out another outstanding read! Keely Preston has held tight to the thought, and the hope, that her husband will return to her after being list Missing in Action in Vietnam. Dax Deveraux is a U.S. Congressman assigned to the congressional hearing reguarding groups of MIA's. When the two meet onboard an airline in route to Washington D.C, something happens that Keely isn't able to understand. Attraction to another man while still in such hopes that her husband remains alive and is returning home is confusing to her. Can Keely overcome these feelings? This book is a favorite of mine; one that I have read several times. Ms. Brown acheives grabbing your attention from the first page to the very last. A true Romance!

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Summary: Sandra Brown has done it again!!
Review: Once again, S. Brown has turned out another outstanding read! Keely Preston has held tight to the thought, and the hope, that her husband will return to her after being list Missing in Action in Vietnam. Dax Deveraux is a U.S. Congressman assigned to the congressional hearing reguarding groups of MIA's. When the two meet onboard an airline in route to Washington D.C, something happens that Keely isn't able to understand. Attraction to another man while still in such hopes that her husband remains alive and is returning home is confusing to her. Can Keely overcome these feelings? This book is a favorite of mine; one that I have read several times. Ms. Brown acheives grabbing your attention from the first page to the very last. A true Romance!

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Summary: Not the right story for a category romance...
Review: This book annoyed me on so many levels. Beginning with the more frivolous, the way clothing and food descriptions fluffed out the pages as filler was annoying. From research I've done on the genre, this is certainly typical of the original publishing date, but more than twenty years later the genre has come a long way and that's not what I read these books for. The subliminal messages in this book about the appropriate behavior for women in courting rituals was antiquated and had my feminist bone acting up. The sex scenes were for all practical purposes nonexistent. All of which I could forgive it if Ms. Brown had managed to choreograph a compelling story of torn loyalties and perhaps represent the heart-wrenching choices that the spouses of MIA soldiers eventually have to face. Alas, she did not.

Having read little else by her, I will give Ms. Brown the benefit of the doubt and suggest that perhaps the problem was that forum she chose to tell this story. The constrictions of the category romances are just too inhibiting to properly examine the complexities of MIA widows. If she wanted to bring attention to the POW-MIA issue, perhaps she should have told a story about a POW-MIA soldier who returned from Vietnam. The message of this book seemed to be that it's time their memories were laid to rest. Perhaps that's an appropriate message in 2004, but not in 1983 when this book was originally published.

*Spoilers ahead!*


The plot is too predictable when you know that category romances require a happy ending and neither hero nor heroine can be involved with someone else. This comes from the publishers and is not just a trend that the authors tend to conform to. I knew all along that Keely's husband could only be a plot device to keep them apart and that he'd never actually be an obstacle because those are the requirements of the genre. Sandra Brown can not fairly address the issues of MIA soldiers' marriages and the consequnces it may have for the loved ones left behind as long as she is writing for the category romances.

I think a more interesting book could have been built around the character of Gene Cox, who comes home more than a decade later to find his wife has been married to another man for three years. That seems to me a far more emotionally charged plot, and far truer to life, than the simplistic, saccharine love story of a woman who wants to be faithful to an idea of her husband long after she has ceased to be in love with the man.

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Summary: Look no further...
Review: This book is absolutely wonderful. I'd reccomend it to anyone who loves great romance. I've read alot of Sandra Brown but this is by far the best ever. All of her books are wonderful, she is a genius of romance. She writes it so that you can actually feel like you are in the novel. If I had to live in a romance novel then I would take Keely's place in a heartbeat. I couldn't put it down! GET THIS BOOK!!!