A Family Affair by: Robyn Carr

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My last book by Robyn Carr was this past holiday season. I enjoyed it so was excited to read another one by her.  I discovered Robyn when I stumbled upon the Netflix series Virgin River from there I became a huge fan. 

Book Description

Life’s biggest dilemmas can provide its sweetest rewards

Anna McNichol knows how to take charge. Raised by a single mother, she’s worked to ensure her three children have every advantage she didn’t. And while her marriage has its problems, she values commitment and believes in “till death do us part.” Now an empty nester, she’s at the peak of her career and ready to seize the opportunity to focus on her future.

But life can change in an instant, and when her husband dies suddenly, Anna’s carefully constructed world falls apart. The mysterious young woman at the memorial service confirms her husband had been keeping secrets, and Anna is determined to get to the truth.

For once, she doesn’t have the answers. Her kids are struggling with their grief, her mother’s health is in decline and Anna needs closure. Faced with one challenge after another, she finds support from an unexpected source. And as she puts her life back together, Anna realizes the McNichols may not be perfect but they’ll always be family, and family is forever.

About Robyn Carr

ROBYN CARR was a young Air Force wife, educated as a nurse when she started writing fiction in the mid-1970s. As she wrote with babies on her lap, little did she know that one day she would become one of the world’s most popular authors of romance and women’s fiction, that 11 of her novels would earn the #1 berth on the New York Times bestselling books list. 

In the eight years since Robyn’s A Virgin River Christmas scored her first New York Times success in 2008, the Las Vegas author’s novels have spent more than 250 weeks on that prestigious list. Her 20-book Virgin River series has netted more than 13 million copies. Over the past 17 years alone, 41 Robyn Carr titles, with collectively 27 million copies in print, have been translated into 19 languages in 30 countries. The Romance Writers of America has announced Robyn as the winner of the 2016 Nora Roberts Lifetime Achievement Award. 

Although Robyn’s earlier novels were historicals, she found the voice that has resonated with readers by writing a blend of contemporary romance and women’s fiction—books with strong heroines that not only entertain but also address sensitive issues, such as domestic violence, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, workplace burnout and miscarriage, anything that can compromise a woman’s happiness because she’s female. There have been standalone novels—and wildly popular series—Grace Valley, Virgin River, Thunder Point, and, launched in 2016 with the MIRA Books hardcover, WHAT WE FIND, Sullivan’s Crossing.

My Thoughts

This story is one of starting over when the life you know is turned upside down.

Anna is a mom of grown kids and a wife. When her husband dies without warning her entire life is turned upside down. She learns her husband had secrets. Anna has to learn to deal with life on her own and weed through her husband's secret.

I was completely captivated by this story. Though it is one we have all read before or seen on TV Robyn has a way of making it seem new.

I was rooting for Anna to find her inner strength and to become the woman I knew she could be. I also could relate to some of her struggles in finding who she was. 

this story is about finding the truth, healing, struggling, and finding your path to your true self.