Driftwood Tides #bookreview #CFBA

Gina Holmes is the founder of Novel Rocket, regularly named as one of Writers Digest’s best websites for writers. Her debut, Crossing Oceans, was a Christy and Gold Medallion finalist and winner of the Carol Award, INSPY, and RWA’s Inspirational Reader’s Choice, as well as being a CBA, ECPA, Amazon and PW bestseller. Her sophomore novel, Dry as Rain was a Christy Award finalist. Her latest novel, Wings of Glass has been named as one of the best books of the year by Library Journal and was a SIBA Okra pick and a finalist for Romantic Times’ Reviewers Choice Award. She holds degrees in science and nursing and currently resides with her family in southern Virginia. She works too hard, laughs too loud, and longs to see others heal from their past and discover their God-given purpose.

ABOUT THE BOOK

He made himself an island until something unexpected washed ashore.
When Holton lost his wife, Adele, in a freak accident, he shut himself off from the world, living a life of seclusion, making drifwood sculptures and drowning his pain in gin. Until twenty-three-year-old Libby knocks on his door, asking for a job and claiming to be a friend of his late wife. When he discovers Libby is actually his late wife’s illegitimate daughter, given up for adoption without his knowledge, his life is turned upside down as he struggles to accept that the wife he’d given saint status to was not the woman he thought he knew.

Together Holton and Libby form an unlikely bond as the two struggle to learn the identity of Libby’s father and the truth about Adele, themselves, and each other.

If you would like to read the first chapter of Driftwood Tides, go HERE.

My thoughts:  Talk about a twisty turny book!  Hi I’m here to meet you I’m a friend of your dead wife’s, no wait I was her daughter that was given up for adoption.  Sorry you never knew about me.  Wow!  What normally happens when a spouse passes away?  You remember all the good and tend to forget the bad because it really doesn’t matter anymore anyway.  Well, in this case Holton has forgotten and made his dear dead wife a saint, secluded himself and become an alcoholic.  That is until Libby arrives.  As she brings him out of his spiral they form a friendship as they search for answers.  Great read that is compelling and gripping.  You won’t want to stop reading this one until you know all the answers.