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When The Heart Lies (2013)

by Christina North(Favorite Author)
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review 1: I have just finished reading "When the Heart Lies" and I loved it. I cried while reading the final chapter and I have nothing but praise for Christina North. She inspires me to want to write better, and she stirs my heart with a story that has substance and characters that seem so real. There are twists and turns in the story that I found intriguing and I highly recommend this book to anyone that has a romantic bone in their body. I love to be moved by words, and Christina achieved that.. Good luck and I have a feeling you will find many adoring readers.
review 2: WHEN THE HEART LIES by Christina North Released January 15, 2013REVIEW: WHEN THE HEART LIES is not your typical romance novel. If anything, it is a contemporary suspense novel with a little bit of
... moreromance and a little bit of sex and a whole lot of betrayal, revenge and heartbreaking pain.When The Heart Lies is a study in bad family dynamics-the Wentworth family take the title of dysfunctional family to a whole other dimension. Stuck in a loveless marriage to a man who continues to drink and womanize, Kinsley Wentworth searches for a way out-but she soon finds herself a virtual prisoner to an abusive man she met on the internet. And to complicate matters, she has taken her young son with her hoping for a fresh start and a new beginning.As the storyline develops we uncover the many sides of Kinsley Wentworth-a woman who wants desperately to be loved but finds a different kind of love in all of the wrong places. Kinsley is a woman familiar to many people but at the same time, we would probably throw our hands in the air and give up trying to help. Placing herself into a situation that risks both her life and her son’s forces a close family member to hire a private investigator to keep an eye out for her safety. But all too soon, Kinsley will begin to fall in love with the man sent to guard and protect her from her own life choices. And the reality of her situation worsens when she becomes a prisoner in a war of blackmail and revenge.WHEN THE HEART LIES is a well-written, heartbreaking, introspective and suspense filled storyline that will have many readers angry at some of the choices our heroine makes. It was difficult at times to watch as she placed her young son in jeopardy by refusing to get help when every means available to her were at her disposal. She could almost be diagnosed with a borderline personality disorder with her feelings of emptiness, impulsiveness and attempts at self-injury. We watch as Kinsley struggles to accept that her relationship with her husband is not built on love or trust, yet she continues to flail in her current emotionally abusive and highly dangerous situation without so much as attempting to ask for help from the people she meets in the small Florida town. My only complaint-the first half of the story was slow. So slow that at times I considered not finishing the novel. But this is where the build up of Kinsley’s current situation began to take hold. At times I wondered why and how but in the end, everything will be explained and the agonizing revelations and truths –although I guessed earlier on in the story about each and everyone- are surprising and not without some head shaking and heart breaking pain. WHEN THE HEART LIES is an amazing debut novel by Christina North.Copy supplied by the author.see all of my reviews at : thereadingcafe.com less
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Angana
I loved this book. It was wonderfully written and I can't wait to read more from this author.
danisbel6
Kept me in the dark as to how this was going to end. Characters and little to twisted for me.
sameera
free on Amazon 9/30/13
ruby
New cover!
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