false 205628 5 A powerful story of love and redemption, and what one woman will do to overcome the buried secrets of her past. <P> Alice Kessler spent nine years in prison for the attempted murder of the drunk driver who killed her son. Now she's returned home to Gray's Island to reconnect with the son she left behind. Her boy, Jeremy, now a sullen teenager, is wrongly accused of rape, and mother and son are thrown together in a desperate attempt to prove his innocence. She's aided by Colin McGinty, a recovering alcoholic and 9/11 widower, also recently returned to the island in the aftermath of his grandfather's death. Colin's grandfather, a famous artist, is best known for his haunting portrait, "Woman in Red," which happens to be of Alice's grandmother. <P> In a tale that weaves the past with the present, we come to know the story behind the portrait, of the forbidden wartime romance between William McGinty and Eleanor Styles, and the deadly secret that bound them more tightly than even their love for each other. A secret that, more than half a century later, is about to be unburied, as Alice and Colin are drawn into a fragile romance of their own and the ghost of an enemy from long ago surfaces in the form of his grandson, the very man responsible for sending Alice to prison. 1424472 2007 Woman in Red total:278|5:53|4:94|3:112|2:18|1:1| 278 1014 475 88 5 0 false false Mon Mar 02 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Mar 02 20:06:05 -0800 2009 Mon Mar 02 20:06:44 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 1 false false Thu Feb 28 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Feb 29 04:35:34 -0800 2008 Fri Feb 29 04:35:34 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Sep 20 20:22:31 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 20 20:22:57 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 1 false false Wed Jun 04 20:01:07 -0700 2008 Wed Jun 04 21:49:42 -0700 2008 3 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Mon Jun 01 06:40:13 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 01 06:41:06 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Mon May 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue May 12 08:47:50 -0700 2009 Tue May 19 10:23:45 -0700 2009 The island setting is integral to understanding the motivations of the characters: They seem to be trapped in space. The time, however, shifts around in t...more...]]> 4 1 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Oct 25 06:53:14 -0700 2007 Thu Oct 25 06:54:10 -0700 2007 3 0 false false Tue Jun 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 30 07:50:59 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 30 08:02:18 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Oct 13 11:43:14 -0700 2008 Sat Oct 18 20:31:04 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Sep 28 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Aug 01 17:13:08 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 01 17:19:10 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Mar 30 10:56:25 -0700 2008 Wed Mar 26 07:31:45 -0700 2008 Sun Mar 30 10:55:43 -0700 2008
Alice Kessler is your average m...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Jun 23 13:39:30 -0700 2007 Sun Aug 05 00:12:22 -0700 2007 I gave this book a B, a 1/2 point off because of the sloppy research about the cardinal being in the San Juans (mentioned more than once) but 1/2 point added due to the setting (a fictionalized Orcas Island, called Gray's Island in the book). Basically it's about Alice Kessler who has just ret...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Mar 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 29 16:18:09 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 29 16:21:58 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 29 07:08:19 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 29 07:10:59 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Jan 29 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 20 14:32:29 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 29 17:02:49 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed May 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu May 07 11:24:20 -0700 2009 Wed May 13 13:40:20 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Thu Apr 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 23 19:06:12 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 02 06:37:51 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 01 16:05:21 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 01 16:09:13 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sat Feb 07 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 25 14:49:00 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 25 14:50:13 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Sun Jun 21 08:50:16 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 21 08:58:40 -0700 2009