Everything We Keep : A Novel
By
Kerry Lonsdale
A luminous debut with unexpected twists, Everything We Keep explores the devastation of loss, the euphoria of finding love again, and the pulse-racing repercussions of discovering the truth about the ones we hold dear and the lengths they will go to protect us.
Sous chef Aimee Tierney has the perfect recipe for the perfect life:
marry her childhood sweetheart, raise a family, and buy out her parents’
restaurant. But when her fiancé, James Donato, vanishes in a boating accident,
her well-baked future is swept out to sea. Instead of walking down the aisle on
their wedding day, Aimee is at James’s funeral—a funeral that leaves her more
unsettled than at peace.
As Aimee struggles to reconstruct her life, she delves deeper into
James’s disappearance. What she uncovers is an ocean of secrets that make her
question everything about the life they built together. And just below the
surface is a truth that may set Aimee free…or shatter her forever.
What did I
think of the Book?
Love after death...?
It was
supposed to be the best day of Aimee Tierney life, for she was marrying her childhood
sweetheart, James Donato. But instead of a wedding, she is standing in the
aisle and watching as James' coffin is carried to the front of the church. The life she and James had planned to have together, is now nothing but a distant memory. Aimee
now must find the strength to come to terms with his death. Yet, however hard Aimee
tries to get on with her life, there is that nagging doubt that maybe it wasn't
James in the coffin.
Everything
We Keep: A Novel, captivated me from the very first page and held my attention until the last. I was
drawn into the heart-wrenching story of Aimee as she battled to come to terms
with the loss of the man she loved.
Kerry
Lonsdale has created an incredible cast of characters that drove this story
forward. I though her portrayal of Aimee was very real in the telling. Aimee's emotional turmoil at the loss of the man she
loved, the guilt that comes later when she feels herself falling for another
man, and the utter despair she feels when she discovers a terrible truth, gave Aimee's character incredibly depth.
I adored the backstory to this novel, it made Aimee and James' relationship all the more believable and really brought home to me just how much Aimee had lost with James' death.
The plot itself is very fast and there are a few curve balls that take the plot into different directions, which kept me turning those pages. Kudos Ms Lonsdale.
Everything
We Keep is beautiful story with a compelling plot that I simply could not put
down. This is the kind of book that deserves to be read.
I Highly
Recommend
*I
received a copy of this book from the Publishers, via NetGalley, for review
consideration.*
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About the author
Kerry
Lonsdale is the Wall Street Journal and #1 Amazon Kindle bestselling author of
three novels, including EVERYTHING WE KEEP. She holds a Bachelor of Science
degree from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo and is a
founder of the Women’s Fiction Writers Association. She resides in Northern
California with her husband and two children.
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