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TROUBLE DOWN THE ROAD - Bettye Griffin Kensington Dafina/Fiction May 2010 |
SYNOPSIS: In this sexy page-turner, the author of THE PEOPLE NEXT DOOR goes behind the curtains of one very complicated Florida cul-de-sac, where the neighbors are a little too close for comfort.
MAINSTREAM FICTION |4+| Patricia Sykes-Brown
REVIEW:
Successful, upper middle class
couples Brad and Suzanne Betancourt, Micheline and Errol Trent, and Norell and
Vic Bellamy appear to have it all—wealth, prestige, and loving relationships.
Long unresolved family issues, anger, jealously, and secrets threaten to destroy
the love, peace, and happiness of the Betancourts. Micheline and Vic’s hidden
truths are exposed as friends and lovers collide.
Beautiful, sexy, married for 16 years with two teenage children and a
college-aged stepdaughter, Suzanne Betancourt is targeted by the community vamp
and gold digger. No matter how wealthy, educated, or in love with his wife, a
man weakens under seduction by a young, sexy, anything goes woman. Trouble
visits the couples in this exclusive Jacksonville, Florida neighborhood in the
form of ruthless Micheline Trent.
Bettye Griffin brilliantly refines these characters and weaves realistic
scenarios into a poignant artistic guide to marital survival. The sage
problem-solving skills exhibited by the characters are delightfully surprising.
Emotions run high as the multidimensional characters weigh the costs of
marriage--advantages and disadvantages—and realize that divorce is not always a
wise choice.
TROUBLE DOWN THE ROAD is a captivating melodramatic read with all the
ingredients for a blockbuster movie—sexy characters with wealth, illicit
affairs, deceit, lies, prestige, status, and dysfunctional extended family
members. I highly recommend reading TROUBLE DOWN THE ROAD, as well as the
previous books that introduced the characters.
reviewer@romanceincolor.com | 1st June 2010