The Reasons To Stay
Laura Drake
Harlequin SuperRomance, Aug
5 2014, $6.75
ISBN: 9780373608638
Priscilla Hart leaves Pueblo to drive to the funeral of her mom in
Widow’s Grove, California. She feels no
regret about not seeing her mother for over a decade before she died because they
were estranged ever since she left behind her unhappy childhood. At the grave site, only Priss, a child and a
woman attend. Priss realizes the boy is
her half-brother Ignacio whom she never met and the adult she recognizes from
her own experiences as a social worker.
Though feeling no remorse re her mom, Priss feels guilt when she
considers abandoning Nacho to the system.
Instead of returning to Colorado, she rents an apartment in Widow’s
Grove to raise Nacho while he finishes the school term and then decide what
next. However as Priss struggles with
her brooding, grieving gangster in training sibling, she also is attracted to her
landlord pharmacist Adam Preston.
This wonderful Widow’s Grove (see Her Road Home) family drama works
because of Priss, whose life goal is not to be her dysfunctional mom. As Priss drowns trying to take care of Nacho;
to her vexation her time with her brother turns her into her worst nightmare:
her dysfunctional mom. The engaging
opposites-attract romance is well written, but takes a back seat to the
heroine’s motherhood revelations as raising (or not) Nacho enables Priss to
better understand her late mom even while she considers fleeing before her
brain turns to cheese.
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