Book Review: Shadows on the Sand, A Seaside Mystery by Gayle Roper
"I received this book for free from WaterBrook Multnomah Publishing Group for this review”.
Book Review:
She serves him breakfast at her cafe' every morning...but he never seems to notice her.
Carrie Carter's small cafe' in Seaside, New Jersey, is populated with a motley crew of locals...although Carrie only has eyes for Greg Barnes. He's recovering from a vicious crime that three years ago took the lives of his wife and children--and fromt he year he tried to drink his reality away. While her heart does a happy Snoopy dance at the sight of him, he never seems to notice her.
When Carrie's dishwasher is killed and her young waitress disappears, Greg find himself drawn into helping Carrie solve the mysteries...and into her life. But when Carrie's own painful past becomes all too present, her carefully constructed world begins to sink.
Will the fragile relationship she's building with Greg implode fromt he weight of the baggage they both carry?
My Review:
This book came with a beautiful cover of the boardwalk which immediately draws you to want to read it. Carrie, the owner of a cafe in Seaside, New Jersey lives an ordinary life. Living upstairs from the cafe along with her younger sister Lindsay, she has the life she has always wanted. But, she and her sister have a secret about their former life and where they came from. Carrie has eyes for Greg, a regular in the cafe, and former cop. Greg lost his family to a tragic accident years earlier which have left him depressed in his own mind and withdrawn from others. When workers come up missing from the cafe', Greg's cop instincts take on while also finding a way to get to know Carrie. As their search (and becoming closer) progress, Greg starts to worry about whether he wants to give someone else his heart. Once he gets the ok from his "wife" or the Holy Spirit, he proceeds, but almost loses her in a freak accident along the beach. Can his heart take much more?
