Overview
Kristine Kelly married her high school sweetheart, followed him around the globe for the twenty years of his military career, then preceded him back home to start life anew on their farm in Virginia. But her husband never came home. And her bank accounts were suddenly empty. Kristine was alone, with three children to raise and only a memory of a lifetime of love.
From the bottom up, Kristine rebuilds her life, her career, her family, even finding a new love . . . Until the day her husband suddenly reappears and casts her life into chaos once more.
Rich with the excitement, humor, and poignancy that readers expect and cherish from Fern Michaels, Celebration is, indeed, a celebration of courage, of triumph, of survival, of love.
Synopsis
Fern Michaels's Finder's Keepers was last year's surprise romantic thriller of the year. Now, in Celebration, Michaels returns with a wonderful page-turner that will be remembered long after you've finished it. In Celebration, a woman faces a devastating betrayal but finds love even while she learns the truth about the man she thought she knew by heart.
Library Journal
Abandoned by her husband of 20 years and alienated from her children, Kristine struggles to survive, regain her family, and find her own identity. She succeeds, even finding a new love, but almost loses all when her first husband suddenly reappears. Unfortunately, it is difficult to have much sympathy for her, since she is immediately willing to trust her business and money to the man who had already lied to her and stolen millions of dollars. A prolific author of romance and family sagas, Michaels (Vegas Heat, LJ 3/15/97) fails to develop her characters or give them plausible motivations for many of their actions. Her trite plotting attempts too many story lines at once, relying on often unbelievable coincidences to tie things together. Devoted fans can wait for the paperback edition.--Barbara E. Kemp, SUNY at Albany Libs.