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UNBREAK MY HEART
Teresa Hill
Onyx, Feb 2001, $6.99, 368 pp.
ISBN: 0451409310
In Dublin, Kentucky, nine years old Allie Bennett is stunned and
frightened when her mother Janet wakes her up to make her leave with her
in the middle of the night. Janet is leaving her husband, who pleads
with her to stay. He especially don't want his wife to take his only
living child away from him. Six months ago, the Bennetts older daughter
Megan ran away and died in a Georgia car accident. Allie never saw her
father again.
Fifteen years later, Janet recently died. Allie is going through her
mother's papers when she learns her dad died two years ago and the
letters she sent him were never mailed. Knowing her mother lied to her
over the years and her father never came to see her although he had her
address leaves Allie desperate for closure by learning what destroyed
their happy home. Allie returns to Dublin where she meets her next door
neighbor Stephen Whittaker who offers to help her learn the truth. As
Allie begins to fall in love with Stephen, she wonders if he and his
family were part of the problem that ripped her parents apart.
UNBREAK MY HEART is a poignant family drama that works on several
levels. Allie is the key to the plot with her deep need for
understanding if she is to go on with her life. The "mystery" has
several twists and adds to the growing tension. Teresa Hill ties
everything together in a gut-wrenching drama that will provide the
best-selling author a new spot on the lists.
Harriet Klausner
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