Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #811541 in Books
• Published on: 2007-04-02
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 320 pages

Synopsis
Behind the seemingly perfect fa ade of the Cavanaughs of West Palm Beach lie explosive secrets that threaten to tear them all apart as businesswoman Leslie hides a painful secret, her daughter Kathryn risks everything in a quest for love and attention in the wrong places, and Luke, an award-winning architect, embarks on an affair. By the author of

Customer Reviews

A Great Read
I really enjoyed this book but didn't think it was quite as good as her first - The Great Pretender. It started so well with excellent description for both lead ladies which gave the reader a sympathetic warmth for each of them and a feeling of "they'll be all right now" once they'd met each other. The book always held interest but the obsession of secrecy of having lost your husband with both lead characters seemed a bit unreal - surely two women in very similar situations would talk openly with each other. As I've previously said, there was always interest to keep you reading and WOW - the betrayal was the worst sort of betrayal but would that really happen ? I'd guessed who and what the betrayal was way before halfway through the book but dismissed it because it was so unbelievable.

All in all this was a great read and I think if I hadn't been waiting with such anticipation since reading her first book I would have said this one was brilliant. Having said that, I am eagerly awaiting her third. Expect too much and you ask for a little disappointment !

Synopsis
Book Description
By all appearances, the Cavanaughs of West Palm have an ideal marriage and family life-the perfect home with few complications. Leslie, the beautiful mother, shines brightly in corporate America. Her adoring husband, Luke, is movie-star handsome and an award-winning architect. Their privileged daughter, Kathryn, enjoys the best that life has to offer.

But castles built on sand are eventually washed away by the sea.

Leslie Cavanaugh is not who she claims to be-she's a woman with a painful secret that's about to shake the entire family to its core. And she's not the only one playing a game of deception. Her daughter is risking more than the family's good name with her search for love and attention in all the wrong places, and Leslie finds the unmistakable clues that her husband is having an affair. As she struggles to hold her family together, nothing can prepare her for the most intimate betrayal of all.

Not for me ...
Not as good as The Great Pretender, pleased i read that first or it would have put me off Millenia Black ,..