Promises: A Novel of Love, Betrayal & Revenge
By EG Lewis
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Reviewers say: “Just keeps getting better and better”...’A very satisfying read, indeed.”...”I highly recommend it”...”A great love story”...”A novel with a strong sense of place with action in multiple locales...Kentucky, New York, London, Paris, the Caribbean, Monte Carlo and St. Petersburg, Russia.”
A Recipe for Trouble:
Take one jilted Supermodel on the rebound.
Add an unscrupulous businessman who'll do anything to save his floundering business
Agitate until both are steaming, then keep at a low simmer.
When looking for love sometimes you find it...and sometimes you don't!
Smooth as a sip of Kentucky Bourbon, Promises eases you into Kentucky's Appalachian hill country. That wonderfully wild place of mountains and hollows, creeks and rivers, with its hardscrabble life and whiteboard churches where roots go deep, family matters, and Granny Wright's never wrong. A place where King Coal still rules, and beneath its veneer of respectability hides a hidden web of treachery.
Mary Jane Combs may have gotten her Momma's good looks, but her strong-willed determination came straight from Daddy. Growing up in Kentucky she dreamed of a simple life with a loving husband, a home of her own, and healthy kids.
Instead she's become an international Supermodel, swapping the Appalachian coal country for New York City's Upper West Side and traveling the world in her private jet. But she'll need all the determination she can muster when her ex-husband sets out to destroy everything she's accomplished.
Can she do what needs to be done and still remain true to the promises she made at her mother's deathbed? And when the dust settles, will she at last find the loving relationship she always dreamed of as a girl?
EG Lewis
E. G. Lewis lived, worked, and traveled the back roads of Kentucky's Appalachian hill country for many years. Memories of this wonderfully wild place of mountains and hollows, creeks and rivers, with its hardscrabble life and whitboard churches became the inspiration for his novel Promises.A former newspaper editor and publisher, his articles have appeared in many national and regional magazines. He is the author of five novels and lives with his wife, also a writer, on the Southern Oregon Coast.
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- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5I didn't enjoy this book. I read the whole thing, and I TRIED to like it. Maybe an experienced editor could help?
The impediments that arise to thwart our young couple are easily avoided. The author explains away at the end that the characters were so devastated that they just didn't think about it... but I don't buy it.
Maybe the influx of self-published books has made me a little harsher in my standards? - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5PROMISES by E.G. Lewis was certainly not what I was expecting, and in this case that is a good thing! Rather than a fluffy romance, I got a well written novel with substance. Sure, there was romance, but this book is so much more than that. It is the epic journey of a woman who rises above the trials of life to become the person she was meant to be all along. It starts when Mary Jane is just 15, on the eve of her mother’s funeral. From there it takes us through her struggles at home and at college, first love, more tragedy, success, fame, fortune, betrayal, revenge … pretty much the whole gamut of human emotion! At first glance, this list almost sounds trite, but Lewis’s writing is so provocative, so descriptive, so in tune with the human psyche, that this book is anything but cliché. He draws us into MJ’s world with such craft and precision that before you know it you just have to keep reading. PROMISES turned out to be a very satisfying read, indeed. I highly recommend it.