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Her mother would be appalled—not only did Ren have the audacity to make a spectacle of herself by fainting from stress in public, but she had the bad taste to do it in a Wal-Mart. But what could she say? It had just been too much. The anniversary of her divorce, the official halt of the adoption process for sweet little Casey, and to top it off, she couldn’t even find him a tee-shirt in the right size! Come on, did she really have a choice but to keel over? But when she blinked awake again, it was to look into the face of the most gorgeous man she’d ever seen. Labor and delivery nurse Truman Sayers rode to her rescue like a knight in shining denim, and when he gave her his card with that perfect smile and told her to call him, did she have any choice but to run and hide like a coward? Her best friend Kara might be encouraging, but Ren just isn’t so sure that her heart’s ready for another risk. Ren’s mother, Clarissa, socialite and professional control-freak, is bent on finding her a new husband—preferably one old enough to be her father and rich enough to make up for Ren’s decision to leave her own lucrative job a few years back and teach primary school. No one ever really understood how her priorities shifted when she accepted Christ, but even though that’s what made her husband leave her, she’s not about to compromise on it. Clarissa’s just going to have to back off. If she would. Please? But Ren’s no better at laying down boundaries with her mother than she is at mustering the courage to call Tru, who she’s run into by chance a few more times. Eventually she does, and things seem to be going well. But she’s still got issues. And he’s got issues. And together, their issues just might lead to another passing-out-in-the-middle-of-Wal-Mart scene. Is she really ready for the stress of giving her heart again? Trish Perry has done it again in Too Good to be True. With wit that had me chuckling through the pages and depth that had my heart twisting up, she tells a tale of learning to trust that grabbed me from the get-go. From divorce and adultery to infertility and adoption, Perry deals with the hard issues—and she deals with them cleverly. I could at once feel Ren’s pain and laugh at how she chose to deal with it, a feat which takes talent. Which meant that I was once again playing the game of, “One more page. I mean, section. I mean, chapter. Oh, well, might as well finish it at this point, right? The dishes will be there when I’m done!” In Too Good to be True, the same band of cohorts I fell in love with in The Guy I’m Not Dating are here again to liven things up and create a full and delightfully diverse cast of characters. From the charming British Jeremy to the selfish and flirtatious Tiffany, this group keeps things hopping. The book’s a great follow-up to Trish’s first novel, but it stands on its own two feet without a wobble. No complaints—okay, one complaint: now I have to play the waiting game again until the next Trish Perry book can make its appearance. She hooked me with her first novel, and the second’s just made the addiction worse. Too Good to be True is truly too good to put down. Publisher: Harvest House
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