Sunday, April 20, 2008

Tina Wainscott - What Lies in Shadow

A secret identity...
Jonna Karakosta's blog is one of the hottest on the Web, a place where she can be herself and talk anonymously about her most private needs and desires. Not even her wealthy, new husband knows about her online persona.
And when Jonna learns that he may be cheating on her, she needs her online community more than ever....

A tempting Liaison...

Enter "Dominic", a frequent guest on Jonna's blog who seems to understand her like no one else. She finally agrees to meet him face to face, and he turns out to be better, and more attractive, than she could have imagined.
But when Jonna has a change of heart and decides to fight to save her marriage, Dominic refuses to take "no" for an answer.

A dangerous obsession...
Now Dominic will do anything not to lose Jonna, even if it means bringing her deepest, darkest fears to light and taking her world apart piece by piece.

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Jonna, aka "Montene" plays a dangerous game:
Convinced her husband of eight months is cheating on her, she cries her pain out into the internet. Her blog is her way to cry out all her suspicions, fears and private dreams.
Once again convinced Rush, her husband, is cheating her with his former flame she decides to meet Dominic. He online kind and understanding friend.
Self-doubting her decision she meets him, a man looking like just cut out of a catalogue.

Unfortunately he's emerging as not so pleasant as time goes by. Invading her privacy, spying on her she tells him to leave her alone but "Dominic", so his online name, doesn't take "no" for an answer. So Jonna lives in fear all the while comforted by her best friend Beth, who still thinks what Dominic's doing is so romantic.

A death later it comes to a point where Jonna thinks Rush is planning to kill her, Rush thinks Jonna is planning to kill him, Dominic wants Jonna one way or the other all the while someone else is having a huge plan with all of them.

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Out of the romantic suspense genre, full of twist and turns this book kept me reading. It wasn't so much fr the suspense which kept me intrigued but for Jonna's sweet character. Only 26 she's full of self-doubt if the man who married her really loves her or if the decision to become husband and wife was rushed. They both, each of them for their own reasons, haven't really opened up and connected to each other like husband and wife are supposed to.

The book has a warning for all those people trying to find love over the machine. It tells a story about how easy it is to meet the wrong person that just might be a nightmare hardly to wake up from.

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Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages
Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks,(February 5, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0312941641
ISBN-13: 978-0312941642

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