The Unknown Daughter : A Little Secret (Superromance)

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Summary: Moving tale of loss...and rediscovery!
Review: Carrinne Wilmington left home seventeen years ago. She left behind her family, the boy she loved. She left with a secret. Now she's back, determined to find an answer to the old question...who was her father? As she searches she discovers more than just that truth...she rediscovers a love that never really died. And is forced to admit some truths of her own.

Anna DeStefano's first book is an amazing story of long buried hurts and of newfound understanding, of forgiveness and second-chances.

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Summary: Flawed but still good
Review: For a first time author-this was admittedly a good book. The writer's writing style is smooth and entertaining. I do recommend this book, however, be prepared for a high unbelivable factor in the story. A Sheriff department who can obtain financial records of everyone close to or associated to the heroine without warrants is laughable, same goes for obtaining cell phone records. He didn't even know her cell number or her provider but presto he has the records faster than any city cop could get them. A small town hospital with surviellance cameras-not likely and I live and know of a lot of small Georgia towns. But when it comes to dealing with emotional angst and emotional tension-yeah the book is dead on. It's just the investigational stuff that kept jarring me out of the story.

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Summary: entertaining contemporary romance
Review: Though her memories are bad, Carrinne Wilmington must return to Oakwood, Georgia to learn the identity of her father because she needs him for the transplant. Her plan is to avoid her grandfather and the man she loves Eric Rivers who both rejected her and drove her from town. Besides not wanting to see the two gentlemen who rebuffed her, she wants to hide her teenage daughter Maggie from the duo especially Sheriff Rivers, the father.

Carrinne's effort to sneak in without detection fails from her first effort to get in and out as she is caught by a silent alarm and Eric. Worse someone wants the secret identity of her father left secret and is willing to kill the nosy Carrinne to accomplish this deed. Carrinne must give up on her quest, take her chance on surviving a killer, or rely on Eric to keep her safe although she does not trust the man she disappointingly still loves.

This entertaining contemporary romance is a five tissue box tale filled with angst and perhaps too much tear jerking yet fans will want even more. The cast keeps the tale from going over the edge into soap opera city as Eric sees a second chance, Carrinne and her grandfather has an opportunity, and then there is magnificent Maggie, perhaps older than her teen years suggest. Readers will appreciate Anna DeStefano's debut except perhaps tree lovers as an awful lot of tissues will be used.

Harriet Klausner