Pages: 192 pages
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An emotional roller coaster of a read about a young mother who must decide whether to save her child by any means necessary— even if it means allowing her stepdaughter to die.
Nina Arceneaux, a struggling single mother, has a choice to make— she’s been proposed to by a millionaire, a man she doesn’t love. Larry Denison offers to take her, and her eight-year-old daughter, Precious, out of their one-bedroom apartment and move them into a mansion in Monterey, California. But, there’s a catch. Larry has an autistic eight-year-old daughter named Christine, and Nina isn’t sure she can handle the prospect of being a stepmother to a child with special needs. But, she marries Larry anyway and quickly embraces her new lifestyle.
One day, while Larry is away on a business trip, Nina takes both girls on a ride in her new SUV. The vehicle skids off of the road and into a lake. As the car is sinking in the murky water, Nina has to make the toughest decision of her life—does she save Christine or Precious? When Larry returns from his trip, Nina tells Larry what happened but fails to tell him she could have saved Christine. She’s going to take her lie to her grave, but she has one major problem…someone saw the entire thing and is threatening to tell.
“Three may keep a secret if two of them are dead.” – Benjamin Franklin
After her fiance is murdered Nina starts stripping for a living to make ends meet for she and her daughter, Precious. Larry loses his wife to cancer and is forced to be a single parent to his daughter, Chrissy. Larry starts frequenting the strip joint and finds himself mesmerized by Nina. Determined to show her a better life, Larry asks Nina to marry him, and that’s where the fun begins.
Nina is involved in a car accident and is forced to choose between saving her daughter or saving her stepdaughter Chrissy and this one incident sets off events of lies, deceit, and blackmail.
About Brian W. Smith
Brian W. Smith is the bestselling author of sixteen novels to include: If These Trees Could Talk, Quagmire, and the Sleepy Carter Mystery Series. His novels have appeared on several bestsellers list to include: Dallas Morning News, Amazon, Black Expressions, and others. Brian has owned a publishing company and is currently signed to an imprint of Simon and Schuster.
Brian holds multiple college degrees to include an MBA. When he is not writing novels and touring he serves as an Adjunct Professor of Creative Writing at Collin College and Dallas Community College, both schools are in the Dallas, TX, area. Brian is a native of New Orleans, La., and currently lives in McKinney, TX.
This sounds like a real good read. Adding it to my list now.