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Kylie Rollins has always been a good girl. She never got into trouble growing up in her rural Wisconsin town, and was prepared to grow old in that same area. After all, everything was progressing according to plan. She’s engaged to gorgeous dairy farmer, Matt Alexander, and has a wonderful job as the town librarian.
Unbelievably, her word starts crumbling the day an envelope arrives in the mail addressed to her mother. Since her mother recently died from a fall, Kylie opens the envelope, and discovers a faded photograph of four people she doesn’t know. One of them is identified with her mother’s name. Kylie is shocked. The woman in the photograph couldn’t be her mother. She seems to be the opposite of everything her conservative mother ever did or said.
Desperate to understand, Kylie tries to discuss this with her fiancé and his mother, who was her mother’s best friend. When they don’t understand her need to find the truth, she calls the person who sent the picture to her mother, hoping for answers. What she doesn’t expect is that she’s about to be tossed into the most confusing and stress-filled time of her life. Will she discover who she is? And how does Matt fit into her life now?
HIDDEN THINGS is book two in Andrea Boeshaar’s Faded Photographs Series. While it easily stands alone, readers will want to read book one Broken Things to fill in some missing pieces. I easily fell in love with Kylie and sympathized with her on her quest for answers.
The only thing I really didn’t like about HIDDEN THINGS is that it ended
without resolution. Readers will want to pick up the third book in the
series to find out what happens. The main players have been identified
in HIDDEN THINGS and I am anxious to discover what will happen in their
lives next. That said, HIDDEN THINGS is easily the best book I’ve read
this year. It’s a book for the keeper shelf.
Reviewed by Laura Hilton for The Road to Romance
February 9, 2004
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