Cam McTavish has spent 10 years living as far away from North Carolina as he could get. He and his wife Jules, the beauty he met in a California bar, moved to Colorado to begin their new lives. They live in a small rental house, drive an old car, and are very happy...but Jules has found an email from one of Cam's cousins trying to get Cam back to the Ashby House, the place from which he had escaped. All that Jules wanted was to see where he grew up, and where he renounced a considerable fortune.
We find out that Cam was the adopted son of Ruby, the first-born and four times married heiress to the vast McTavish fortune. Even though she has passed, she tells her truthful tale in letters, kept in her desk drawer. The remaining residents of Ashby House all had a grudge against her which is passed on to Cam, who may or may not be the rightful heir. Everyone in the novel is hiding something and some of the players are not as clever as they think they are-sort of an All in the Family with a huge fortune on the line and no guarantees of a winner. What could possibly go wrong?
This book really kept me guessing-when I finally figured something out, I would turn the page and find out that I fell hard for the red herring. Hawkins took me on a great ride!
Reviewed by Donna Ballard
Publication date - January 9, 2024
No comments:
Post a Comment