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Did she once have a sister? Has her mother lied all these
years? Why?

After a painful divorce, Maisey Lazarow returns to
Fairham, the small island off the North Carolina coast where she grew up. She
goes there to heal—and to help her brother, Keith, a deeply troubled man who’s
asked her to come home. But she refuses to stay in the family house. The last
person she wants to see is the wealthy, controlling mother she escaped years
ago.

Instead, she finds herself living next door to someone
else she’d prefer to avoid—Rafe Romero, the wild, reckless boy to whom she lost
her virginity at sixteen. He’s back on the island, and to her surprise, he’s
raising a young daughter alone. Maisey’s still attracted to him, but her
heart’s too broken to risk…

Then something even more disturbing happens. She
discovers a box of photographs that evoke distant memories of a little girl, a
child Keith remembers, too. Maisey believes the girl must’ve been their sister,
but their mother claims there was no sister.

Maisey’s convinced that child existed. So where is she
now?

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A view weeks ago I read ‘This Heart Of Mine’ by Brenda
Novak. I loved that book, so when I saw the sign up for the Blog Tour of ‘The
Secret Sister’ by Brenda Novak, I sign up as fast as I could. I was super
excited when I received the email that I would be a part of the tour, and I couldn’t
wait to start reading.

In ‘The Secret Sister’ we meet Maisey Lazarow, a
woman in her thirties who moves back to the town she grew up in to help out her
brother, and to start over after her divorce. But moving back doesn’t only mean
she can start over, it also means she is forced to have contact with her very
controlling and harsh mother. When Maisey moves in next to an old ‘friend’ Rafe,
who is very handsome and also single, she isn’t so sure about this move
anymore. All Maisey wants to do is get back on her feet without any
distractions and all she seems to have are distractions.

One day, Rafe finds old childhood pictures of Maisey in a
home he is working on. But strangely the little girl in the pictures isn’t Maisey
at all.

‘The Secret Sister’ is a book you immediately get pulled
into. It starts with Maisey arriving in her old home town and from the very
first page I started to care about this character. Maisey is easy to love, she
comes to her old home town to heal and help her brother. But the main part why
I liked Maisey so much was the way she stood up to her mother. Her mother is
just awful. She is controlling, unkind and doesn’t seem to care about anything
but herself and her ‘good’ name. Maisey always stood up for herself and lives
her life the way she wants to. Maisey doesn’t care about money and appearances,
al she wants is to be happy.

Rafe is also a character I loved right away. He was a
wild one when he was younge, but now he is a single father and very
responsible. The way Rafe was with his little girl was just so sweet. I just
loved his character. Everyone should have a dad like Rafe.

This book is not only a romance story, but is also filled
with mystery and it really keeps you on the edge of your seat. I just love how
Brenda Novak is able to make you completely forget about the world around you.
The romance is so very sweet, and it was just so beautiful. But what I loved
most about this book was that it was so much more than only a romance. The
mystery in this book was very intense and I didn’t see a lot of the things
coming.

I can’t wait to read more books by Brenda Novak. I would
really recommend this one to all romance and mystery lovers out there. 

New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author Brenda
Novak has penned over 45 novels. A two-time Rita nominee, she’s won The
National Reader’s Choice, The Bookseller’s Best, www.brendanovak.com.
To date, she’s raised over $2 million. Brenda considers herself lucky
to be a mother of five and married to the love of her life.

For more information about Brenda Novak and her books
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