ISBN: 0778323102
Publisher: MIRA Books
Release Date: June 2006
List Price: $6.99

Reviewed by Terri Richison

B

ELLE POINT is a warm and tender love story woven into a suspense drama. It starts with the emotional rollercoaster of a miscarriage and will keep you turning the page until the very last word. Ann and Buck have been married for years, but are now on the brink of divorce. To reach ‘happily ever after’ they must dig deeper than passion to discover if their marriage can be salvaged.

The wife of a popular sports star, Ann Stewart has become disenchanted with their superficial lifestyle and fishbowl existence. She knows her husband isn’t ready to start a family, but longs for a baby and gets pregnant without telling him. His reaction to the news leaves Ann questioning the very foundation of their relationship.

Hours later, Buck’s reckless driving causes a car wreck, landing them both in the hospital. Ann loses the baby, and Buck’s injuries put his career in jeopardy.

Grieving for her lost child, Ann seeks refuge with her father and stepmother in the small Mississippi town of Tallulah. Buck follows her to Mississippi and declares his intention of winning her back, but Ann worries that it is too late to rekindle their love. Can she forgive him for causing the death of their child?

Hoping for a distraction while she wrestles with decisions about their future, Ann accepts a job as a newspaper reporter, resuming a career she abandoned after her marriage. Fascinated by Belle Point, the plantation owned by Buck’s family, Ann starts poking around in the newspaper archives, researching the history of both Belle Point and the people who lived there. She hopes to learn more about her husband, and the dark secrets that plague him.

But someone doesn’t want her uncovering history, and will stop at nothing to prevent her continued research. An arsonist visits the newspaper and Ann almost dies in the fire.

Will she discover the secret that motivates a killer before someone dies?

Can she forgive Buck or is a divorce looming in her future?

I highly recommend BELLE POINTE! It’s Karen’s best yet!

Terri Richison writes women's fiction and is pursing a goal of publication with Silhouette Intimate Moments. Telling stories is a life long passion that started when she was a little girl. Terri works part-time for a small law firm and is a full time slave to her one-hundred pound Lab and two fourteen-year-old Shelties. She has been happily married for over thirty years to her real-life hero, a man who shows her every day that romance is alive and well.