Lynn Mcdowell

This book is written with the depth and detail of a Nicholas Sparks book. Denise Hunter did a masterful job bringing you into the lives, personalities and feelings of those characters. The interaction and dialog between the main characters causes you to 'be right there'. There was drama. There was mystery and there was raw emotions. One of my favorite of her books! SO Hallmark took her novel and made it into a movie. They changed the whole feel of the story. They made it into a light and airy story. The same old Hallmark movie personalities that only display the minimal surface of someone's emotions. If you have seen the movie and haven't read this book...you MUST read her novel. I suppose that as an author, Denise Hunter was thrilled for Hallmark to make a movie from her novel, but I would have been disappointed at the changes in feeling and other things in my novel.