Sara's Son

Twenty-one years ago Sara Calhoun gave up a perfect baby boy for adoption. In a fit of rebellion the sixteen year old went to a party to show her parents she was growing up. When her father, the local sheriff found her the next morning, she had been raped brutally, by three local college men. The men were prosecuted, sent to prison for five years and Sara and her family went on with life. Sara has never forgotten the son she gave up, or that she may have been responsible for her own rape.

Mark Dalton one of the men accused and proven to be a rapist has never quite been able to live with himself and the guilt he has. The three men, Sara, and other party goers cannot remember the events that night; they just know it changed them forever. When Ryan, SARA’S SON comes to her and Mark wanting to know answers about what happened that night, they open a can of worms that changes their lives.

Tara Taylor Quinn is an award winning author who always gives reader’s the happily ever after tale they seek, but this novel gives more than a warm fuzzy feeling. SARA’S SON is filled with enough emotion to bring tears to this reader’s eyes as Sara fights the past to become a stronger woman. She is a strong heroine who has been coddled and kept quiet about her past, until the day she meets the son she has always missed in her life. Ryan may have come bring bad news, but she welcomed him into her life without question. Sara Calhoun is the woman we all strive to be. While most of us will never face her situation, we can all sympathize and hope to have the strength she possessed to deal head on with the past.

This novel is more than just a romance, it is a tear filled book that will leave reader’s rejoicing at the end, and wishing someone had been able to foresee the truth years ago. Mark has suffered for more than twenty years for something that was beyond his control, he cannot imagine hurting a woman in any way, yet his past proved he did, until one young man cannot let the past be forgotten.

This reviewer highly recommends this novel to readers of woman’s fiction and romance. The only downside to this novel was the ending. This reader felt left out, Sara and her Dad may find their peace together about the past, but this reader felt that it should have went on, letting reader’s know the legal ramifications for the true person responsible, as well as how Mark and Sara fared after they found true love. All good books must come to an end, and with that, this reader will be hoping for more from Tara Taylor Quinn – maybe a romance for Ryan that will link this novel to a future Super Romance?

July 2007