Swan Point
Sherryl Woods
Mira,
Jul 29 2014, $14.99 (trade); $24.99 (hardcover)
ISBN: 9780778316428
Adelia Hernandez accepts the inevitability that her cheating
husband Ernesto will always have mistresses as he does not care about her. However, Ernesto’s reckless neglect of their
four children, especially showing off to their thirteen year old oldest his
mistresses and setting a bad example for their eight year old youngest, persuades
Adelia to divorce him and start over elsewhere. Swearing off men in order to focus on raising
her three daughters (Serena, Natalia and Juanita) and son (Tomas), with support
from her mother and her brother (see Midnight Promises) she moves with her
children to the Swan Point neighborhood in Serenity, South Carolina.
At Rosalina, Adelia and Gabe Franklin see each other for the first
time and the attraction is stratospheric.
She obtains her first job since having kids while he temporarily works
for his cousin. However, Gabe plans to
stay for a short time to rectify mistakes he made growing up in this town where
his mom was the town’s target of nasty gossip due to the parade of men entering
and leaving her life. As he and the
mother of four fall in love and he adores her kids; Ernesto plans to destroy
their relationship by using the children especially vulnerable Tomas as his
pawn.
The eleventh Sweet Magnolia contemporary (see Catching Fireflies
and Where
Azaleas Bloom) is a wonderful second chance family drama in spite
of macho Ernesto’s unnecessary nastiness and the repeat philandering theme (see
Home In Carolina, Stealing Home and A
Slice Of Heaven). Readers will root for with
Gabe, Adelia and her kids to find happiness together.
Harriet Klausner
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