Caroline Dawson survived the town gossips who whispered behind her back. She survived the slow death of her husband, Roscoe Lancaster, the richest man in the county and her senior by three decades. But she feared she might not survive Rink Lancaster, her husband's son. Years before she married, when she and Rink were teens, he had introduced Caroline to her first tremulous taste of love - and then broke her heart. Now Rink is back. He says he wants to settle his father's estate. But driven by a storm of emotions as undeniable as before and more dangerous than ever, what he really wants is to settle the score with Caroline.
Virile son and his young stepmother struggle with a blazing mutual passion under the nose of the disagreeable old father/husband. This plot line has long inspired great writers, including Racine and O'Neill. It now forms the plot line of BITTERSWEET RAIN, a melodramatic romance novel by a leading practitioner of the genre. The author pushes all the usual buttons despite her numerous intelligent solecisms. Joyce Bean narrates in kind. She has the perfect blend of personality and style for this material--safely middle class, adult but not overripe, with just enough intelligence and technique, and no depth whatsoever. Y.R. (c) AudioFile 2005, Portland, Maine
About the Author
Sandra Brown is the author of numerous New York Times bestsellers - including most recently The Crush, Envy, and The Switch - many of which reached #1. There are sixty million copies of her books in print, and her work has been translated into thirty languages. She and her husband live in Fort Worth, Texas.
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