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The Shadow of Your Smile by Susan May Warren

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Sometimes love requires a little forgetting … Come back to Deep Haven and find out what’s been happening in your favorite quaint hamlet. If you’re new to the Deep Haven series – this is the perfect book to start with – each book in the series is a stand alone story.

Susan is celebrating the release of The Shadow of Your Smile by giving away a prize pack worth over $200 from 1/9-1/28.

One grand prize winner will receive:

  • A $200 Visa Gift Card (Use that to rekindle a little romance, treat yourself to a spa day, snap up those shoes you’ve been eyeing, or purchase a few great books!)
  • The entire set of Deep Haven Books

The winner will be announced on 1/30/12 on Susan’s blog, Scribbles! Just click one of the icons below to enter and tell your friends about Susan’s giveaway on FACEBOOK or TWITTER and increase your chances of winning.

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About the book: The Shadow of Your Smile

A beautiful blanket of snow may cover the quaint town of Deep Haven each winter, but it can’t quite hide the wreckage of Noelle and Eli Hueston’s marriage.

After twenty-five years, they’re contemplating divorce . . . just as soon as their youngest son graduates from high school. But then an accident erases part of Noelle’s memory. Though her other injuries are minor, she doesn’t remember Eli, their children, or the tragedy that has ripped their family apart. What’s more, Noelle is shocked that her life has turned out nothing like she dreamed it would. As she tries to regain her memory and slowly steps into her role as a wife and mother, Eli helps her readjust to daily life with sometimes-hilarious, sometimes-heartwarming results. But can she fall in love again with a man she can’t remember?
Will their secrets destroy them . . . or has erasing the past given them a chance for a future? Read the story behind the story.

 

About Susan: Susan May Warren is an award-winning, best-selling author of over twenty-five novels, many of which have won the Inspirational Readers Choice Award, the ACFW Book of the Year award, the Rita Award, and have been Christy finalists. After serving as a missionary for eight years in Russia, Susan returned home to a small town on Minnesota’s beautiful Lake Superior shore where she, her four children, and her husband are active in their local church.
Susan’s larger than life characters and layered plots have won her acclaim with readers and reviewers alike. A seasoned women’s events and retreats speaker, she’s a popular writing teacher at conferences around the nation and the author of the beginning writer’s workbook: From the Inside-Out: discover, create and publish the novel in you!. She is also the founder of www.MyBookTherapy.com, a story-crafting service that helps authors discover their voice.
Susan makes her home in northern Minnesota, where she is busy cheering on her two sons in football, and her daughter in local theater productions (and desperately missing her college-age son!)
A full listing of her titles, reviews and awards can be found at:www.susanmaywarren.com. The Shadow of Your Smile is available online. (Not my affiliate link)

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MY REVIEW:

The Shadow of Your Smile is the 6th book in the Deep Haven Series. If your like me, and haven’t read any of the Deep Haven Series, that ok. It’s not necessary to read the first books to enjoy The Shadow of Your Smile. Of course, now I want to read them!

In The Shadow of Your Smile, Noelle and her husband of 25 years, Eli, are close to divorce. They have been through so much together, including the death of their daughter. As the result of a fall, Noelle loses her memory. She remembers some of college, but nothing of her marriage, her sons or her daughter who died.

It is hard to imagine what it would be like to just all of a sudden remember nothing of your husband, children, and your lives together. Even living in the same house as before, you remember nothing. Even when viewing pictures of your family, you remember nothing.

It is hard to imagine the pain a family goes through when a loved one doesn’t remember them. How would you feel if your spouse couldn’t remember anything about you? What if your mother couldn’t remember anything about you?

You will see, and feel, all the depths of these emotions in The Shadow of Your Smile.

 

 

*Disclosure of Material Connection: I received temporary access to an ereader version of this book in the hope that I would mention it on my blog. Regardless, Ionly recommend products or services I use personally and believe will be good for my readers. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission’s 16 CFR, Part 255: “Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising.”

Comments

  1. Thank you for your excellent review. I can relate, with my mother dying when I was five. Looking at photos I had no memory. What I did have was memorized nursery rhymes and stories from the retelling so many times I am sure, songs that I remember the words to from before my era (my father played the piano). Trauma. My granddaughter just turned six. Would she forget? I cherish the times I have with her.
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