Where Secrets Lie ~ Reader Friday

Where Secrets Lie by Colleen Coble and Rick Acker is this week’s Reader Friday. Here’s the first line: Jessica Legare kept an escape bag in the lower left drawer of the desk in her home office.

But first the photo and verse. When I went out in the field behind the house yesterday, a bank of clouds filled the sky, and in the middle was a hole. Immediately I thought about a portal to heaven. And of several verses that talk about the heavens opening, I chose this one. God’s beautiful creation is so amazing!

**Now for Where Secrets Lie by Colleen Coble and Rick Acker. Here’s the cover and back copy:**

A web of deceit. A conspiracy of revenge. And family secrets around every turn.

Savannah Webster’s life finally seems to be going right. She’s happily planning her second wedding to attorney and ex-husband Hez and dreaming of their future at TGU, the university founded by her family. But a string of earthshaking blows threatens to destroy it all. Savannah is passed over for a tenure position but is then offered the role of university president. But saving her beloved university will put her at odds with her father–and there haven’t been many times in her life that she’s been able to stand up to him. And even though Hez claims to be sober, there’s an empty wine bottle in his trash. How can she continue to trust him?

Hez’s Justice Chamber has continued to pursue the artifacts that are being smuggled through TGU as well as the fraud and corruption that put the university’s survival at risk. When the Justice Chamber members are attacked and Hez lands in the hospital with a head injury, it’s clear that the danger has not passed. Someone is out for revenge. And sometimes the secrets lie a little too close to home.

The twists continue until the final pages as a complex world of smuggling and financial instability collides with the complex dynamics of family in this not-to-be-missed second book of the Tupelo Grove series.

My take:

I listened to this second book in the Tupelo Grove series and could not turn it off. I never want to clean house, but I did this week. This was an amazing book. If I’d been reading the book, the twists and turns would’ve kept me flipping pages to get to the end. As it was, my house has never been cleaner!

Both Savannah and Hex are powerful characters, and I rooted for them to overcome the many problems they faced to keep TGU from closing and to make it back to the altar. However, this book set up a problem that I’m sure will surface in the third book! I can usually figure out the mystery, but this one has a few surprises. And Savannah’s nephew, Miles, is a sweetheart. I can’t wait for the third book to release!

You can find out more about Where Secrets Lie here.