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Holding the Dream (Dream Trilogy, 2) (Bookcassette(r) Edition)
written by Nora Roberts
Studio : Bookcassette
by Bookcassette
Release Date : 1997-01-01
Publisher : Bookcassette
Released : 1997-01-01
Availability : This Item is currently Not Available
EAN : 9781561007394
Avg. Customer Rating: (based on 29 reviews)
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Product Description |
Margo, Kate, and Laura were brought up like sisters amidst the peerless grandeur of Templeton House. Kate's dreams were fueled by a horrible secret . . .
Her childhood had been a lie. Her father had been a thief. Her mind struggled to absorb these facts, to analyze, to accept. Kate Powell had been orphaned at an early age, when she had, essentially, watched her parents die. Her family had been taken away, but she had been given another. The distant kinship didn't matter to Thomas and Susan Templeton. They had taken her in, raised her as their own, given her a home and love. And now, twenty years later, she has learned the truth from a colleague of her father. A man who did not realize that the Templetons had gone to great lengths to protect the child from knowledge that would hurt and shame her. |
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This book is the second in a trilogy. Raised together, Kate, Margo, and Laura are as close as real sisters, and when in need they return to Templeton House, their home and sanctuary. Kate finds herself running there when she is accused of embezzlement. That is not the only trial Kate faces; she suffers silently with a family secret she recently discovered. Practical to a fault, she intends to handle things her own way and in her own time, even if her stubbornness makes her ill. Byron De Witt, however, has other ideas. Nora Roberts is truly a gifted storyteller, and none of her books will disappoint. If you missed the first book in the trilogy Daring to Dream, hurry and get it. You don't want to miss Margo's story. Laura's story, Finding the Dream will be released in August 1997. |
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Holding the Dream |
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As usual, Nora Roberts at her best. Great book. I didnt realize that it took place just miles up the road from where I live. Made it even more intersting. |
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Holding the Dream |
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Her best as usual, Nora knows how to draw you in & keep you satisfied in her world...I loved it! |
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book luver |
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Along with the other two books in this trilogy, this is an excellent Nora Roberts novel/romance- Highly reccomended book! |
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Wonderful! |
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This book what shipped in a timely manner. Also, the trilogy was a couldn't put down type of series. I thoroughly enjoyed it! |
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Just as good as the first book! |
This book, the second in the Dream series, is about Kate Powell, a distant relative of the Templeton's that comes to live with them after her parents are killed in a car accident when Kate is 8.
Kate is not beautiful like Margo or sophisticated like Laura. She is an over achiever. She feels that the only way to pay the Templeton's back for everything they've done for her is to be the best at what she does. She's a whiz with numbers, so she becomes an accountant at a well-respected firm, with the hopes of soon becoming a partner. She obsesses over everything, never feeling like she's good enough.
One day at work, she discovers that her father was accused of embezzling money and was faced with going to jail when he died. She also learns the Templeton's replaced the money he took, but never said anything to her. Shortly after learning that, she is accused by the partners in her firm of embezzling from their clients and is asked to take a leave of absence until it can be resolved. Destroyed and humiliated, she puts up a wall rather than fight the charges because she doesn't want her father's past revealed.
Enter Byron DeWitt, the new head of the Templeton hotel in Monterey. Kate and Byron start out detesting each other, but learn to tolerate each other and eventually become friends. The attraction between them develops over time. Kate suffers severe stomach pains in his company twice, the second time landing her in the hospital against her wishes. Kate finds out she has an ulcer and is near exhaustion. She is taken back to Templeton House to recover. Byron helps her begin an excerise and weight lifting program and that's when the attraction between them takes off.
With her career in shambles, Kate becomes a more active partner in Pretenses. She has never been a people person, preferring to be alone with her calculator and spread sheets, but to her surprise, she enjoys her work there. Of course, she is cleared of the embezzlement charges and is offered a partnership at her old firm, but she turns it down finally realizing that it wasn't as important as she thought it was. She also realizes how important Byron is to her.
This was a wonderful story. Nora Roberts knows how to develop her characters. She is at her best when she writes her trilogies. I highly recommend this series, but you should read them in order to follow the story from the beginning. |
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