by Linda Howard.
After enjoying her first book I decided to find some more, this one is also a southern romance with some mystery mixed in. We follow the characters from youth through adulthood (jumping through years pretty quickly). We get a great understanding about what drives the characters and their relationship to each other.
Roanna and Webb are cousins (second cousins which is okay i guess) and when Roanna loses her parents at age 7, Webb is the one constant in her life when she goes to live with her grandmother (where Webb also lives). Webb is destined to be the heir (it's a very rich and influential family) and destined to marry Roanna's first cousin Jesse who is older than Roanna.
Jump a number of years and Jesse and Webb are married but unhappily so. Jesse tortures Roanna when she can and Roanna is a tortured soul in general at 17. Finally after circumstances leave the family torn apart we jump ahead another 10 years I think.
Now there's some mysteries to solve and a relationship between Webb and Roanna that has deteriorated and needs to be built back up. A very twisty but interesting plot that kept me sucked in. I really enjoyed this one too!
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