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Book Review Pro | Karen Pool
Book Review Pro | Karen Pool
Author : Laura Dave
Genre : Fiction
Hannah turns wood into high-end, beautiful and unique furniture pieces for a living in Manhattan. Avert Thompson—CEO of a tech firm on the West Coast is a client and brings Owen Michaels with him to check out a piece of furniture he had ordered. Owen begins to date Hannah, they marry, and she moves her business to Sausalito, California, and they discuss how to make the transition as easy as possible for Bailey, his sixteen-year-old daughter.
Then the world turns upside down, Avert Thompson is in custody after the culmination of a fourteen-month investigation by the SEC and FBI into his company. Owen Michaels disappears. Before he does, though, he smuggles a note to his wife of one year: Protect her. Despite her confusion and fear, Hannah Hall knows exactly to whom the note refers—Owen’s sixteen-year-old daughter, Bailey. Bailey, who lost her mother tragically as a child. Bailey, who wants absolutely nothing to do with her new stepmother.
Laura Dave has created a tense, layered back-and-forth-through-time story with an unexpected ending.
“She looks at me with such vulnerability, it’s hard for me to speak. Which is when I understand in a flash what I’ve been doing wrong with her—what I’ve been doing wrong in how I’ve been trying to connect with her. I thought if I were nice enough, sweet enough, she’d understand she could count on me. But that’s not how you learn you can count on someone. You learn it in the moments when everyone’s too tired to be sweet, too tired to try hard. You learn it by what they do for you then. And what I’m going to do for her now is what my grandfather did for me. I’ll do whatever it takes for her to feel that she is safe.”
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