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Overview
For years, Leonie Corinth lived the best of all possible lives in New York City, married to a successful investment banker and running her own Soho antique shop. Now Leonie's happiness is gone and, as she faces the aftershocks of a bitter divorce, she realizes she must leave Manhattan. She intends to build a new life for herself, and to never again depend on a man. Moving to the beautiful countryside of upstate New York, Leonie buys an old, rundown Octagon-style house that she can restore while restoring her own battered soul. On the way to a meeting with her architect, Leonie accidentally hits another car. The accident is minor and easily forgotten, except for the alluring blue-green eyes of the other driver. In an inescapable twist of fate, the driver, Sam Nicholson, is the architect. Trapped in a loveless marriage, his creativity stifled by his wife's demands, and wishing for another life, Sam finds in Leonie a talented collaborator and an understanding listener. As they work closely together to make Leonie's dream house a reality, they realize they have fallen in love. Their love has emerged against all odds, but can it last till the end of time?Editorials
Publishers Weekly -
The heroine of Gould's (Second Love) bittersweet ninth novel flees Manhattan's ex-wives' clubs to lick the wounds of divorce in pastoral simplicity. For Leonie Corinth, a brassy, independent type who "attracts attention whether she asks for it or not," the peace and quiet of the Hudson River Valley seems ideal. Her man-bashing interior monologue stops on a dime, however, when she meets Sam Nicholson, the architect she's hired to help redesign her house. The obstacle to their love--that Peter's married to a wheelchair-bound heiress whose accident he helped to cause--leaves an unexpected Sam wracked with guilt. He is nonetheless unable to resist Leonie. But will the wife's slow revenge make life intolerable for the lovers? The virtues of this novel--at heart a formulaic romance--are its lively pace, its nimble plot turns and its ability to tug, oh, so gently, at the heartstrings. (Dec.)Library Journal
Recovering from an ugly divorce, New Yorker Leonie Corinth moves upstate--right into the arms of the architect who's helping restore her new home.Book Details
Published
March 1, 1999
Publisher
Wheeler Pub Inc
Pages
375
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9781568956442