Fall From Grace

Jack and Anne Morgan may have divorced two years ago, but their hearts are still struggling to deal with the separation, as is their seven year old daughter, Katie. Anne wanted a husband that was devoted more to her and her family than to his career, and Jack found himself struggling to be that man.

Two years after their divorce, Jack finds himself incapacitated and paralyzed on his right side, and unable to work, or fend for himself. Against her better judgment Anne bring Jack home to help him regain his mobility, and his self esteem. Jack still cares very for much for his wife, and finds himself pushing himself to health to regain more than the life he wasted on his career.

The second novel in the Harlequin Everlasting Love Series, FALL FROM GRACE deserves to be nominated as this reviewer’s favorite book for the year. This novel is packed full of so much emotion that it is hard to imagine that Kristi Gold told her story in just two hundred and ninety-four pages.

Jack is a man on top of the world until he has a sudden stroke and is left wounded and depressed. His come back is remarkable, less than a year later he returns to his position as a heart surgeon, something that while it may seem unlikely, the emotions that drive him to succeed make his story believable and come alive on the pages.

Anne’s feelings of betrayal cause her to ask Jack for a divorce, but the love she has for him does not dim. Her love draws the reader to hope for the couple to reunite, and live happily ever after. This reviewer loved the scenes involving both Jack and Anne along side their daughter Katie.

FALL FROM GRACE focuses around Jack and Anne, but the secondary characters move the story along and keep the reader hopeful until the end. Delia, Anne’s mother is a great mother-in-law who wants not only her daughter and granddaughter’s happiness, but she respects and cares enough about Jack to help her daughter see past his faults, to his good qualities.

This is one of the books that deserve to be read over and over when life gets you down. This series romance is an epic tale of love, betrayal, and forgiveness. This is the ideal novel for romance readers who need realism, as well as readers of woman’s fiction.

January 2007