By: Sandra Brown Publisher: Mira Average Rating: Binding: Hardcover Label: Mira Number of Items: 1 Number of Pages: 288 Publication Date: October 14, 2008
Product Description: It happened the way attraction happens best: suddenly, passionately, uncontrollably and unforgettably.
Thousands of feet above the ground on a crowded flight to Washington, D.C., radio personality Keely Williams felt the irresistible pull of handsome congressman Dax Devereaux. They were speaking at the same congressional hearing about Vietnam soldiers listed as MIA. Tragically, Keely’s husband was among the missing soldiers. He had been her childhood sweetheart, her future, her love—:and then the unanswered question Keely dedicated her life to solving.
Until there was Dax. And the possibility of a new future. But could Keely allow herself to love again, and still honor the man of her past?
Time does not change a excellant story All writers change with time. As do readers. This book has stood the test of time. Excellant story concept and writing style it needs no update. Issues are still the same today as when book was written. I have read this book many times and it has a place on my keeper bookcase.
Passionate, bittersweet melodrama Keeley was married just three weeks before her husband Mark's helicopter was shot down in Vietnam and he was classified as an MIA 12 years earlier. She has remained faithful over the years. As she prepares to meet with Congress to fight for the right to maintain his MIA status to continue receiving his military salary which pays for the care of his elderly parents, she meets and falls for a sexy congressman. As she struggles with the guilt to love on without Mark and forge a new relationship with Dax, she finds herself in a catch 22 when there is a possibility that Mark is among the group of POW's that have emerged out of the jungle.
Because it was written early in Brown's career, character development takes a backseat to the romance itself. But this, emotional drama plays out like a well-scripted movie of the week, and has readers wondering who they will root for.
Read It Only When There Is Nothing Else To Do It wasn't the worst that I've read, but it was also far from the best.
In this lame attempt to play off the tales of MIA/POWs, readers are introduced to Keeley Preston whose husband, Mark, has been missing for many years. Keeley has remained faithful for all those years in hopes that Mark is still alive and to fight to maintain his military pay that, in turn, pays for his elderly parents medical costs. She is the leader of a small but determined group of women who are scheduled to argue against declaring their husbands dead by the government in front of a special committee.
And it is in flight to this committee meeting that Keeley meets a handsome stranger and falls in love. Yet she is torn between her hopes and intense guilt and the strong feelings she has for this man who just "happened" into her life. Just when she is at the apex of her emotional struggle, she gets "the" call...a group of soldiers have wondered out of the jungle. Is Mark among them?
If you read romance frequently, you can probably guess the end. If you can't, then pick it up and read it; but do so when there isn't much else to do or anything else to read.
Hot and Steamy I loved it and was totally engrossed from the start. I love Sandra Brown books!!
More Like a Rough Draft! Sandra Brown attempts to tap the MIA / POW debate that has been continuing for years. TOMORROW'S PROMISE is a story of a woman whose husband has been missing in action for years and just when she starts coping with the fact that he's not coming back, fate plays a nasty trick. The government announces that 26 men have been found, alive. She's torn between hope that her husband is one of those men, and longing for a new love that she's just found.
This is a pleasant enough way to spend some free time in which you don't want to think and "veg out". There's nothing in TOMORROW'S PROMISE that will get your mind moving, or your blood pressure up for that matter. This is an ok story line, but it leaves you feeling like it's Brown's rough draft and not the final book. There's room for many subplots, stronger character definition, etc., but she falls short of this being a spectacular book. Because of the cookie-cutter plot line, the story is very predictable, and leaves little to the imagination. TOMORROW'S PROMISE is another one you don't want to buy new, just borrow someone else's copy!
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