I was excited to see that there was a new book out by Tawni O’Dell and was happy to find that it was enjoyable. While this was not quite as hard of a story as Coal Run or Back Roads it still had some of the same bite, dealt with some tough issues, and even took place in the same setting with some of the same people (the great Ivan Z) as her previous books.
This was the story of Shae-Lynn Penrose, a 40 something year old living in Jolly Mount, PA. Her son, Clay, is a police officer in Jolly Mount following after Shae-Lynn’s footsteps as she had been a cop for many years. She is a taxi driver running her own one person company and has a way of helping many people in her community as well as putting pieces of a mystery in her past together.
Shae-Lynn lived in a home with an abusive father and moved out as soon as she could leaving her younger sister, Shannon, behind. She had not seen Shannon again and had some thoughts that her dad may have killed her sister. To her surprise several strangers show up looking for Shannon, and Shannon herself drops back into Shae-Lynn’s life almost as if she had never been gone.
Shae-Lynn pieces together the stories from the people she has met who are looking for Shannon and learns that her sister has been having babies and adopting them out at a high price…a very high price. And as she is looking to get out of the baby business she has promised the baby that she is pregnant with to two different people, trying to draw in enough to “retire.”
This story is filled with the same colorful characters as past books and even with the subject matter I felt it was a little lighter then her previous novels. I only hope that she keeps writing.
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