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Silencios y mentiras
Cawdor es una pequeña y apartada comunidad rural, donde no tienen simpatía por los forasteros. Sobre todo si llegan como Jaye, una joven y atractiva publicista de Boston, haciendo preguntas incómodas y removiendo secretos que llevan treinta años dormidos. Historias de adolescentes muertas, de bebés vendidos y comprados como mercancía, de cadáveres incinerados en las profundidades del bosque, de silencios, de mentiras y de miedo. Para descubrir la verdad sobre su familia y para salvar la vida de su hermano enfermo, Jaye está dispuesta a enfrentarse a todos. Para ello cuenta con un inesperado aliado, el abogado Turner Gibson. La atracción entre ellos crece al mismo tiempo que el peligro que les rodea, pero ¿puede Jay fiarse de este hombre en un lugar en el que nadie es lo que parece?
400 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2000
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Bethany Campbell
97 books23 followersSally McCluskey (aka Bethany Campbell) was born and raised in Omaha, Nebraska, as an only child. She attended college beginning as a chemistry major, after quickly switching her major to English. She obtainded a B.A. from Wayne State Teachers College, and an M.A. in English from the University of Arkansas. She met her husband, Dan Borengasser, while both were graduate students at Northern Illinois University, where she obtained a Ph.D. in English.
Sally taught and in her spare time wrote, but after marriage, the couple moved to an area where teaching jobs were scarce, and she turned to writing full time. She wrote poetry, articles, short stories, and contributed to textbooks, but finally decided to try a romance novel at the urging of her mom and aunt, both avid romance fans. To Sally’s amazement, Harlequin bought her story After the Stars Fall and published it in 1985 under the pseudonym Bethany Campbell. She has also written as Lisa Harris. She has won three Romance Writers of America (RWA) RITA Awards, three Romantic Times Reviewer Awards, a Maggie Award, and the Daphne du Maurier Award of Excellence.
She lived with her husband in northwest Arkansas. Her husband, who serves as Vice President of Ozark Film & Video Productions, also writes, and has had several short films and plays produced.
Sally taught and in her spare time wrote, but after marriage, the couple moved to an area where teaching jobs were scarce, and she turned to writing full time. She wrote poetry, articles, short stories, and contributed to textbooks, but finally decided to try a romance novel at the urging of her mom and aunt, both avid romance fans. To Sally’s amazement, Harlequin bought her story After the Stars Fall and published it in 1985 under the pseudonym Bethany Campbell. She has also written as Lisa Harris. She has won three Romance Writers of America (RWA) RITA Awards, three Romantic Times Reviewer Awards, a Maggie Award, and the Daphne du Maurier Award of Excellence.
She lived with her husband in northwest Arkansas. Her husband, who serves as Vice President of Ozark Film & Video Productions, also writes, and has had several short films and plays produced.
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September 6, 2010
This writer belongs on some sort of early warning system for crappy writers who should never be published again. yuk.
April 2, 2021
For the most part, I liked this book. However, our main character, Jaye Garrett, led her life on WAY too much of an emotional, impulsive manner. Jaye receives a phone call that her brother, Patrick, is very sick and in need of a bone marrow transplant in order to survive. Returning to her hometown, Jaye is told she and her brother are not biologically related. In fact, they are both adopted. The facts of her adoption are shocking, and she is now on a mission to find her brother's blood relatives to save her brother's life. Little does she know, adoption secrets there are meant to be kept secret--at deadly costs. Jaye meets a successful lawyer, Turner, who is also looking for a blood relative for his dying client. Jaye's reaction to who Turner really is was too overboard, and her anger leads to even more impulsive and, frankly, childish behavior. No one can be trusted because all are terrified of anyone learning the truths from them. The tension was real though, and I had to know how this all ended.
July 28, 2024
I read this book 10+ years ago and remember liking it, couldn't remember the story. Just finished rereading it and it was meh. SO MANY PLOT HOLES and SO LITTLE SUBSTANCE! I gave it a 3 because I did enjoy long ago but I have definitely changed in tastes since then.
February 18, 2018
I always love a book where it mentions places close to home. Smiled when mentioned XNA
February 6, 2019
I actually enjoyed it. Maybe because the last several I read were so bad. It seemed to take forever to reach the end but then it moved quickly and had a satisfying ending. Maybe more of a 3.7.
April 2, 2021
Boring junk that I read for lack of something else. The story is weak and predictable. Good cover thought.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
April 10, 2022
Very good and loved the twists to this book. Bit of a romance as well.
December 4, 2014
The Bethany Campbell I’ve read were Harlequin Romances set in the early ‘90s and I loved them; lots of good butterflies-tickling-the-tummy love stuff.
Yet, I loved Whose Little Girl Are You too; the undercurrents of Campbell’s romantic roots remain, but play out alongside a much grimmer plot than would ever fall within the parameters of a category romance. Underpinning WLGAY are the consequences wrought by baby brokering, back-door abortions, and botched births—one of which ended in the death and disposal of a teenager’s body back in the day. The current search for truth drives each villain (and WLGAY is top-heavy with villains) into desperation and depravity while our hero and heroine race to match long-ago babies with their once-teenage mothers, hoping to find a marrow donor for an adoptee now dying of cancer. Along the way are some darkly arresting passages like this one, an impression the heroine has as she looks upon the old clinic where all the sinister baby business went down, and imagines the long-ago teenagers there:
“She visualized them as wraiths, still possessing the place, and in their bellies were insubstantial little ghost children.”
Gorgeous prose. Hugely atmospheric.
This novel starkly indicts the oft-idealized late ‘60s /early ‘70s when feminism, for all it was touted, was still a mere illusion. A baby mama, now aged, is located by our hero and heroine, and her reflection on the good ol’ days is both bitter and apt:
“Why is anyone ever nostalgic for those days? It was medieval. Barbaric.”
For women, yes. It most certainly was.
This novel takes a deeper look into its antags and secondaries than other categories of this genre too: LaBonny is more of a grit-lit villain as opposed to a typical romantic suspense antag; a sadistic sociopath whose violent fantasies are graphic and whose bloodlust is matched only by his bed-lust for the beautiful boy-toy of his fantasies, Bobby Midus. LaBonny makes our skin crawl and our guts curdle when he orders a dog’s head to be bashed in by a brick, fantasizes about whipping Bobby’s ass till it bleeds, and slices open a dead woman only to sew her chest cavity back up with rocks—she will sink to the depths of the river much better that way. This guy’s just *full* of party tricks. He’s awful and I was so very sorry (and remain a bit puzzled) as to why he didn’t end up dead.
Dr. Hunsinger, another charmer, wins points for repugnancy too. The good Doc has amassed a fortune off butchering teen girls’ lady-bits and selling their babies—and if that’s not bad enough, he’s a lecherous old pervert too. And his voice, projected through a throat-box in his larynx, is ghastly.
No wonder the old bastard likes LaBonny so much.
This novel will not float the boat of every romantic suspense fan; clearly it’s dated (circa 2000), and beyond that, the violence and crude ‘tudes of the villains won’t set well with anyone who prefers a more distilled version of mayhem and macabre. WLGAY is almost two different genres pieced together like a puzzle; we have the ‘Oh, Turner’ / ‘Oh, Jaye’ fluff bit mashed against brutality that kisses so close to grit-lit it’s unnerving sometimes, for it feels like either Jaye & Turner’s story, or LaBonny’s story don’t belong.
Yet that element was precisely what kept me engrossed; it’s a brave move for an author to take a risk like this in a category book and I was impressed by Campbell’s obvious range. The only place this fell down for me was when I was faced with Jaye’s motivation to kick Turner to the curb because he was a (weak spoiler) mob lawyer. Here’s a woman who willingly navigates peril over and over, has become Teflon due to her own mother’s unceasing criticism and puritanical expectations, she swears like a sailor and screws like a….well, you get the idea—yet it’s a deal-breaker that her bedmate’s a mob lawyer?!
What?
Why?
It disappointed me, this, and seemed like a cheap way to avoid the traditional HEA at the expense of the character. (And by the way, I love me some HEA. Real life *rarely* has HEA so when I read, I want it. Gimme) . So for pulling me out of the story with a contrived break-up, I snitch back a star. Other than that this was top-notch romantic suspense. 4 Pleased Stars.
Yet, I loved Whose Little Girl Are You too; the undercurrents of Campbell’s romantic roots remain, but play out alongside a much grimmer plot than would ever fall within the parameters of a category romance. Underpinning WLGAY are the consequences wrought by baby brokering, back-door abortions, and botched births—one of which ended in the death and disposal of a teenager’s body back in the day. The current search for truth drives each villain (and WLGAY is top-heavy with villains) into desperation and depravity while our hero and heroine race to match long-ago babies with their once-teenage mothers, hoping to find a marrow donor for an adoptee now dying of cancer. Along the way are some darkly arresting passages like this one, an impression the heroine has as she looks upon the old clinic where all the sinister baby business went down, and imagines the long-ago teenagers there:
“She visualized them as wraiths, still possessing the place, and in their bellies were insubstantial little ghost children.”
Gorgeous prose. Hugely atmospheric.
This novel starkly indicts the oft-idealized late ‘60s /early ‘70s when feminism, for all it was touted, was still a mere illusion. A baby mama, now aged, is located by our hero and heroine, and her reflection on the good ol’ days is both bitter and apt:
“Why is anyone ever nostalgic for those days? It was medieval. Barbaric.”
For women, yes. It most certainly was.
This novel takes a deeper look into its antags and secondaries than other categories of this genre too: LaBonny is more of a grit-lit villain as opposed to a typical romantic suspense antag; a sadistic sociopath whose violent fantasies are graphic and whose bloodlust is matched only by his bed-lust for the beautiful boy-toy of his fantasies, Bobby Midus. LaBonny makes our skin crawl and our guts curdle when he orders a dog’s head to be bashed in by a brick, fantasizes about whipping Bobby’s ass till it bleeds, and slices open a dead woman only to sew her chest cavity back up with rocks—she will sink to the depths of the river much better that way. This guy’s just *full* of party tricks. He’s awful and I was so very sorry (and remain a bit puzzled) as to why he didn’t end up dead.
Dr. Hunsinger, another charmer, wins points for repugnancy too. The good Doc has amassed a fortune off butchering teen girls’ lady-bits and selling their babies—and if that’s not bad enough, he’s a lecherous old pervert too. And his voice, projected through a throat-box in his larynx, is ghastly.
No wonder the old bastard likes LaBonny so much.
This novel will not float the boat of every romantic suspense fan; clearly it’s dated (circa 2000), and beyond that, the violence and crude ‘tudes of the villains won’t set well with anyone who prefers a more distilled version of mayhem and macabre. WLGAY is almost two different genres pieced together like a puzzle; we have the ‘Oh, Turner’ / ‘Oh, Jaye’ fluff bit mashed against brutality that kisses so close to grit-lit it’s unnerving sometimes, for it feels like either Jaye & Turner’s story, or LaBonny’s story don’t belong.
Yet that element was precisely what kept me engrossed; it’s a brave move for an author to take a risk like this in a category book and I was impressed by Campbell’s obvious range. The only place this fell down for me was when I was faced with Jaye’s motivation to kick Turner to the curb because he was a (weak spoiler) mob lawyer. Here’s a woman who willingly navigates peril over and over, has become Teflon due to her own mother’s unceasing criticism and puritanical expectations, she swears like a sailor and screws like a….well, you get the idea—yet it’s a deal-breaker that her bedmate’s a mob lawyer?!
What?
Why?
It disappointed me, this, and seemed like a cheap way to avoid the traditional HEA at the expense of the character. (And by the way, I love me some HEA. Real life *rarely* has HEA so when I read, I want it. Gimme) . So for pulling me out of the story with a contrived break-up, I snitch back a star. Other than that this was top-notch romantic suspense. 4 Pleased Stars.
November 11, 2014
10/10 I'm currently on page 150, and still reading!
This book s mainly about a girl named Jaye, and a male lawyer named Turner. Jaye's brother, Patrick, had gotten sick and has Leukemia (a malignant progressive disease in which the bone marrow and other blood-forming organs produce increased numbers of immature or abnormal leukocytes. These suppress the production of normal blood cells, leading to anemia and other symptoms). To make things work, she learns her mother, Nona, isn't her mother. Jaye and Patrick were adopted kids. So she goes from Belgium to Oklahoma just to fnd hs mother. There's a twist, though; It was a private place with no records. Turner and Jaye try to track down her brother's bilogical family. Turner was looking for a son to a man, but decides to help Jaye. Turner clearly has a thing for Jaye, but is trying not to let his feelings take over. Turner is also trying to get rid of Jaye because "she can cause a man trouble," and he thinks she will mess up both of their missions.
10/16 Page 314
Jaye and Turner are growing closer and it's much more clearer that Turner loves Jaye, but now Jaye's feelings for him are a bit clouded. The book is getting into the other side of the story a bit more having to do with a bot named Hollis that has run away. Hollis doesn't have too much convenience to the story yet,
adoptive clinic. They also believe that they may have found Jaye's mother, and are gettng closer to find Patrick's mother.
I continue reading this book due to it's amazing mysteries, and much of the suspense. I will say it does have strong language and is more fitted for older teens and younger adults.
10/24 Page 316 Bit of a setback-Lost page and had to read from page 276
They found a couple more women that might be possible birth mother's of Patrick. Some won't talk and others will. It's getting harder to find women that went to Hunsinger that WILL talk, anymore. They are still trying their hardest to find Patrick's real mother. Jaye's supposed mother doesn't want to talk, and I think that she's just scared of what her daughter would think of her because she basically "sold" her daughter.
This book is getting more interesting by the paragraph! I really just want to walk up to Turner and smack him across the face for getting so caught up in others things, though. He needs to focus on the task at hand!! Other things come later; Patrick comes NOW!
10/31 Page 337
They're still looking for Hollis, and now Jaye's gotten a call from a mystery man wo says he might know where to find Patrick's mother. Upon from meeting the man though, the planes all got grounded, and now they can't go anywhere. Jaye has also gotten a call from her lawyer (About time, too) saying that Turner isn't what they think he is. Turner helped defend a man named Edward DelVechio, aka "Bloody Eddy", a murderer.
-I know... Cliffhanger... But that's as far as I have gotten!!
This book s mainly about a girl named Jaye, and a male lawyer named Turner. Jaye's brother, Patrick, had gotten sick and has Leukemia (a malignant progressive disease in which the bone marrow and other blood-forming organs produce increased numbers of immature or abnormal leukocytes. These suppress the production of normal blood cells, leading to anemia and other symptoms). To make things work, she learns her mother, Nona, isn't her mother. Jaye and Patrick were adopted kids. So she goes from Belgium to Oklahoma just to fnd hs mother. There's a twist, though; It was a private place with no records. Turner and Jaye try to track down her brother's bilogical family. Turner was looking for a son to a man, but decides to help Jaye. Turner clearly has a thing for Jaye, but is trying not to let his feelings take over. Turner is also trying to get rid of Jaye because "she can cause a man trouble," and he thinks she will mess up both of their missions.
10/16 Page 314
Jaye and Turner are growing closer and it's much more clearer that Turner loves Jaye, but now Jaye's feelings for him are a bit clouded. The book is getting into the other side of the story a bit more having to do with a bot named Hollis that has run away. Hollis doesn't have too much convenience to the story yet,
adoptive clinic. They also believe that they may have found Jaye's mother, and are gettng closer to find Patrick's mother.
I continue reading this book due to it's amazing mysteries, and much of the suspense. I will say it does have strong language and is more fitted for older teens and younger adults.
10/24 Page 316 Bit of a setback-Lost page and had to read from page 276
They found a couple more women that might be possible birth mother's of Patrick. Some won't talk and others will. It's getting harder to find women that went to Hunsinger that WILL talk, anymore. They are still trying their hardest to find Patrick's real mother. Jaye's supposed mother doesn't want to talk, and I think that she's just scared of what her daughter would think of her because she basically "sold" her daughter.
This book is getting more interesting by the paragraph! I really just want to walk up to Turner and smack him across the face for getting so caught up in others things, though. He needs to focus on the task at hand!! Other things come later; Patrick comes NOW!
10/31 Page 337
They're still looking for Hollis, and now Jaye's gotten a call from a mystery man wo says he might know where to find Patrick's mother. Upon from meeting the man though, the planes all got grounded, and now they can't go anywhere. Jaye has also gotten a call from her lawyer (About time, too) saying that Turner isn't what they think he is. Turner helped defend a man named Edward DelVechio, aka "Bloody Eddy", a murderer.
-I know... Cliffhanger... But that's as far as I have gotten!!
February 20, 2017
Really good from start to finish, a quick read, and felt that there were no loose ends.
September 27, 2010
With one phone call Jaye Garrett's life is changed forever. Summoned home by her mother, she learns some very disturbing news. Her brother Patrick, who currently lives in Belgium, needs a bone marrow transplant.
Immediately volunteering to be a donor brings the second blow of the day - Jaye learns that not only are she and Patrick not brother and sister, their mother is not biologically related either - she bought both babies on the black market more than 30 years ago.
Now Jaye's job is to work the scheme backwards to find Patrick's biological family in order to save his life.
Immediately volunteering to be a donor brings the second blow of the day - Jaye learns that not only are she and Patrick not brother and sister, their mother is not biologically related either - she bought both babies on the black market more than 30 years ago.
Now Jaye's job is to work the scheme backwards to find Patrick's biological family in order to save his life.
March 18, 2013
I was very pleasantly surprised at how much I enjoyed this book. When I read other reviews, I didn't get any good vibes. Actually, the characters became more warm and three-dimensional as the book progressed. It was interesting to see what has changed technologically in the last 12 years. Cell phones are all digital. You can't easily eavesdrop on cell phone calls now. There are almost no pay phones now. iPhones didn't exist.
I was a little puzzled that the two main characters didn't use the internet more to research, but maybe that wasn't so common yet. I liked the book a lot.
I was a little puzzled that the two main characters didn't use the internet more to research, but maybe that wasn't so common yet. I liked the book a lot.
November 29, 2013
I wanted to like this book. I wanted to like the characters. I just didn't. The plot, which sounds like something out of the headlines, minus the ominous overtones, was interesting and enticing but fell flat. And frankly, so did most if the rest of the book. I think my favorite characters were secondary, the granddaughter of the owner of the B&B Jaye was staying at and her brother, Patrick who we never actually see just experience brief conversations with through Jaye. I can recommend many other mystery authors that write better stories so I can in good conscience recommend this one.
September 27, 2011
The story held my interest, but the heroine Jaye's relationship with her off-stage brother Patrick, which drives the plot, is cloying. The romantic yearnings of the two main characters are too often of the "Oh Turner," "Oh Jaye" variety. And some of the descriptive narrative is just odd: "her eyes wide with startlement"? In short: a decent story, well plotted, that would have benefitted from a more skillful use of language.
March 24, 2012
The cover drew my attention and also the catchphrase that is why I bought the book at the first place.
Believe it or not, I did not expect it's content. I thought it was all violence and stuffs but Bethany Campbell mixed romance and violence real good.
I did not expect Jaye and Turner's relationship to be that tricky.
Believe it or not, I did not expect it's content. I thought it was all violence and stuffs but Bethany Campbell mixed romance and violence real good.
I did not expect Jaye and Turner's relationship to be that tricky.
June 13, 2012
I could not put this down! This was the first book i have read by this author. The subject of black market babies was a refreshing change to me. Everytime I turned the page I was amazed with the new twists and turns that kept me guessing as to how deep and complicated it was going to get before the protagonist, Jaye, would get to the bottom of the mystery.
January 8, 2013
I really liked the story, very straightforward. I wish some producer stumble upon this book and make a film. The story has a bit of everything that you can’t be bored reading it the whole day. I liked the romance build up between Jaye and Turner. This will not be the last time I read a Bethany Campbell novel.
August 29, 2011
really enjoyed reading this book -
couldn't tell you exactly why but di dlike it-
i was expecting the dead gorl to be the heroines mother
it was nice bit of romance which was not over the top and loved the closeness of the siblings
went and ordered another one of her books
couldn't tell you exactly why but di dlike it-
i was expecting the dead gorl to be the heroines mother
it was nice bit of romance which was not over the top and loved the closeness of the siblings
went and ordered another one of her books
March 15, 2014
The topic of illegal adoptions is an interesting one. I liked that the author doesn't tell the reader exactly what happened at the end, it's open to speculation. The characters were somewhat shallow personality wise and as written.
July 14, 2015
This book is fast paced, suspenseful,and keeps you guessing as to what the character Jaye is going to find with each new twist as she hunts for her brothers birth family. Black market babies and a town with secrets they don't want told.
December 21, 2008
I don't remember much from this one, but I seem to recall it was a typical 80s/90s thriller/mystery that affected only those in the family.
September 18, 2009
Mary Goodhand gave it to me
August 16, 2011
Love, love, loved this book!!! It caught my interest on page 1 and kept me interested until the very last sentence!!!
I'm now interested in finding other books by this author
I'm now interested in finding other books by this author
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September 1, 2013
This story was a good lil mystery. Another broken family story. I DID NOT enjoy the violent parts-just plain creepy.
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