Shocking secrets, unexpected love, a cold-case mystery—and a nosy beagle!
At the age of 50, nurse Anni discovers she has two half sisters, both of whom were hurt by a con man who has disappeared. Determined to bring her new family together and unravel the past, she hires a handsome P.I., and gets more than she bargained for. That includes his newly adopted dog, who isn’t shy about fostering a romance or digging up evidence.
Former police detective Jon, now in business for himself, is frustrated by the one who got away, a swindler who tricked folks including Jon’s own mother out of their savings. His new neighbor, appealingly warm-spirited Anni, is more than the perfect client. She’s also a woman who sends the barriers around his heart crashing to the ground.
About the author
USA Today bestselling author Jacqueline Diamond writes romantic comedies, medical romances, Regency romances and mysteries—more than 100 titles!
A former Associated Press reporter and TV columnist, Jackie is known for her Safe Harbor Medical romance and mystery series, her Downhome Doctors series, and her Regency romances. Jackie earned a Romantic Times Career Achievement Award.
Her newest exciting venture is the Forgotten Village Magical Mystery series, beginning with A Cat's Garden of Secrets. Other recent works include the Sisters, Lovers & Second Chances series, featuring couples over age 50.
Jackie has been married for more than 40 years and lives in Southern California.
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Jackie appreciates her readers and hopes you enjoy her books!
Review
The Secrets She Learns is book 4 in Jacqueline Diamond’s romantic series, A Better Late Romance (Sisters, Lovers, and Second Chances). In the previous three books we meet Gavin Everly, a narcissistic misogynist who vanishes from Rancho Allegro without a trace. For four year the police, headed by Jonathan Trimbel, searches for the man for cheating his elderly victims of their life savings. The man has no conscience. He impregnates Anni Leffler’s friend Sara and refuses to admit paternity. On top of that, on his wedding day to her friend Kiri, he seduces the maid of honor, Eden. They get caught, so he marries Eden instead, and the poor woman struggles for years in an abusive marriage.
Anni wants more than anything else for Gavin Everly to be brought to justice. When she realizes her new neighbor is Jon Trimbel, she hires the retired detective turned private eye, to uncover Everly’s whereabouts. She wants to help free her Southern California community of the pain Everly has caused so many people she loves.
Content Rating
Drug use: There are a few references to characters (off-stage) who used drugs or might be vulnerable to drug use.
Violence: discussions of past violence including a murder.
Moral: exposing sins of the past can be painful, but ultimately lead to healing.
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