Review ‘Lies That Bind’ by Shirley Wine

The
biggest challenge of his life, and only she can help…

Luke Calloway has spent his entire life steering clear of emotional
entanglements, but when his sister and her husband are killed and he becomes
sole guardian to his niece and nephew, he can no longer remain aloof.

Out of his depth, Luke turns to Brooke Galbraith to assist the badly injured
and traumatized adolescents with their physical therapy. With the children’s
grandparents contesting custody, Luke persuades Brooke to move into his house
on Whitby Downs to provide stability and support.

Brooke is fighting her own demons, scandals from her past that she can’t leave
behind. She needs the money, but she can’t grow attached. Not to the children,
and definitely not to their enigmatic uncle..

When I saw
this book on the list of Escape Publishing’s new April books, I found myself interested
in this read. I love romance novels, apparently especially since I’m pregnant,
but I also love romance novels to have a little suspense. And this book sounded
like it had plenty of both. So obviously I had to read this one. 

Brooke
Galbraith is a physiotherapist who came back to the small town she ran away
from years ago, to take care of her father. Being back in her old home town is
hard for her. And when the handsome but rude Luke Calloway offers her a job she
can’t refuse Brooke is determined to keep things strictly business. 

Luke has had
a view hard months. His beloved sister and her husband died in a car accident
and left him as sole guardian to his young niece and nephew. The last thing he
wants is to ask help from the gorgeous Brooke.

To be honest,
it took me a little while to really get into this story. When I read the first
view pages I felt like I was missing stuff. Like I missed a previous book.
Thankfully, things got easier to follow the further I read. But the two main
characters Luke Calloway and Brooke Galbraith weren’t as easy for me to connect
too. I just didn’t really like them at the beginning.

Thankfully
I slowly began to enjoy this story a little more. I was glad to find there was
definitely some suspense in this book. And I loved the way Luke was with his
young niece and nephew. But the romance between Luke and Brooke wasn’t really
what I hoped it would be. I just couldn’t really feel the chemistry there. 

The
writing in ‘Lies That Bind’ was very descriptive, which made it easy to follow.
Although I liked the ending of the book, I still feel like there are some loose
ends I would have liked to be more tied up at the end. But overall it was a
nice read.

After a
lifetime of living in rural New Zealand this has provided a rich base for my
stories.

I have always written and for many years freelanced for metropolitan and
regional newspapers.

I write romance because I love delving into human relationships. It is these
relationships in all their diversity that make the human race so fascinating.

I’ve been asked why Romance and my answer is always: I write romance because to
me first and last, family matters. 

For more
information about Shirley please visit her website. Or visit her on Facebook and Twitter.

I received this book from Escape Publishing in exchange for my honest review.