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Ellie Hathaway and Diane Henderson are best friends that share a love for charity work. The Hope Foundation run by Gaberiel Cole seems like a perfect for Ellie after mother's passing. John was in a fatal hit and run accident where there are no leads on who did it. Devastated by both her mother and John's passing, Ellie needs to do something and Gaberiel Cole has just the thing a teaching position in Dunca, Africa. Ellie is excited about her teaching post that will last a year. Meanwhile in the L
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This is a wonderful book. Ellie, the main character, seems at first to be a bit of a pushover, but like many unassuming women, she has great inner strength that her friends and family rely upon. Finding herself alone after a terrible tragedy, she decides to teach in Africa for a year, and finds that there is much more going on than she originally believed. Ellie's wonderful character is challenged in every way possible. A beautiful story. Why no voting buttons? We don't let customers vote on the
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Beautifully writting more in the LitFic style than contemporary, this book examines the motivations and actions of the characters but, more than that, it is a tense, dramatic story of love, betrayal and danger.
Original and interesting, with a wonderful immediacy in the African sections of the story, this one kept me reading into the night. It's a story of loss, temptation, deception and redemption and I loved the ending.
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Original and interesting, with a wonderful immediacy in the African sections of the story, this one kept me reading into the night. It's a story of loss, temptation, deception and redemption and I loved the ending.
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I loved this book. It is well written I usually don't like to switch viewpoints of characters while reading, but Wendy Unsworth made it flow seamlessly. The story was amazing, the emotions flying I was on the edge of my seat waiting to find out what happened next. I have recommended this book to all of my friends I believe any book reader no matter their preferred genre would love this book.
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So glad I picked up the book, other than the setting of this book I'm not sure the cover and title quite do this book justice. This is one of those intrigue and suspense novels that makes it tough to put down, even when you have too. I loved the sense of realism to this book.
Unfortunately I've had the misfortune of knowing someone very similar to the bad guy of this book which served to show this as being even more realistic.
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Unfortunately I've had the misfortune of knowing someone very similar to the bad guy of this book which served to show this as being even more realistic.
I loved the ending too! ...more
Apr 30, 2012
Huma
marked it as to-read
May 06, 2012
Johannes Gouws
is currently reading it
