"Once a Family" - это книга, написанная неизвестным автором, которая рассказывает историю Седоны Кэмпбелл, юриста, работающего в необычном женском приюте "The Lemonade Stand" в Калифорнии. Ей поручают расследовать дело пятнадцатилетней Тейтум Мэлони, которая утверждает, что ее брат, а не ее парень, злоупотребляет над ней. Задача Седоны - отделить правду от лжи. Однако ей становится ясно, что это не так просто, особенно после знакомства с Таннером Мэлони. Вопреки самой себе, она чувствует к нему влечение. Таннер всегда защищал свою младшую сестру, но она обвиняет его неправдой. И он влюбляется в Седону. Возможно, вместе они смогут выяснить, почему Тейтум делает это. Тогда они оба освободятся, чтобы полюбить друг друга...
Tara Taylor\'s Once a Family cleverly combines the legal world of adult Louisiana with the seedy details of teen angst, romance, and family dynamics. A sensory feast!Sedona Campbell, an experienced lawyer at the firm of her father, the late Louisiana senator Charles Campbell by way of fraternal necessity and unrelated DNA, has to make judge calls with the case of Tatum Elmore Malone vs Tanner - or "Taunna" - Malone. Mama Malone works the fish line at Prince Street Wharf (wife of the Harley owner and spare wheel of Second District Policing) while big brother struggles to carry the storyline on his own. Just as Sedona decides that she\'d rather go for a dip in the Saigon River, Taunna gets her attention. Our unlikely pair are saddled with a deep dark metaphor of feelings—well, unrequited feelings, in the wake of abusing family themes. As Sedona meets Taunna\'s appeal, motherly instincts clash with criminal aggression and legacy. In this grey landscape of betrayal, two tenacious souls intervene to help root out the phony witnesses and dilute the truth like two high-maintenance estranged siblings trying to hold on to one another even when they\'ve fallen for their parents divorce mediators. They endure trials on the stands, watchers hand waving, touchy silences, and sticky get-togethers without going so far as Bruce Springsteen to desist in time. Rather, they stupidly fall in kayak to discover the steps underfoot of a tangled web of lies, deception, trust, resentment and love abandoned on waves that never lose it all.
Электронная Книга «Once a Family» написана автором Tara Taylor Quinn в году.
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Язык: Английский
Серии: Where Secrets are Safe
ISBN: 9781472096081
Описание книги от Tara Taylor Quinn
There's truth–and then there's love Sedona Campbell is an attorney who works with The Lemonade Stand, a unique women's shelter in California. She's called in to advise fifteen-year-old Tatum Malone, who claims she's been abused–by her brother, not her boyfriend. It's Sedona's job to sort out truth from lie. She soon discovers that's not an easy task, especially once she meets Tanner Malone. Because despite herself, she's attracted to him.Tanner has always protected his younger sister–but she's lying about him. And he's falling for Sedona. Between them, maybe they can figure out why Tatum's doing this. Maybe then he and Sedona will be free to love each other….
