"Sometimes the truth is between the lines."

By: Ellen Hopkins

Genres: Thriller Psychological | Thriller

Posted: July 27, 2015

LOVE LIES BENEATH is the first book by Ellen Hopkins that I have read but it will not be the last. This story pulled me in at the very beginning. There is steamy, sexy, dysfunctional families, mysterious threatening notes, and an unbelievable ending that I never saw coming. Very well written.

Tara Cannon is a 40-year-old rich, gorgeous woman who can have whatever she wants. She has been married three times. She married her first husband at age 20 and became a widow at age 23. She married and divorced two husbands later. She is now a very rich woman.

She goes on a ski trip with her sister to Lake Tahoe and has an accident which is where she meets handsome and charming surgeon Dr. Cavin Lattimore. They are immediately attracted to each other.

Family dysfunction is present throughout the story beginning with Tara and her sister Melody with their mother, with Melody and her husband and their three kids, and finally with Cavin and his 17-year-old son. Melody's husband, Graham, is resentful of Tara and her wealth because she gives his family things he can't. Cavin warns Tara about his son Eli, who appears to be manipulative and keeps making innuendos regarding Cavin that makes Tara question her judgement.

This story is so well written that while reading it I was totally focused on trying to decide the motives of certain characters and never saw or expected the revelations at the end. In between chapters, Ellen Hopkins provides poetic prose that are thought provoking. If you are looking to read a book that will keep you entertained until the end -- this is the one! After you finish reading the book you really will get the title and it's meaning -- LOVE LIES BENEATH!

Book Summary

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Collateral comes a gripping novel about a woman caught in a love affair that could be her salvation…or her undoing.

Tara is gorgeous, affluent, and forty. She lives in an impeccably restored Russian Hill mansion in San Francisco. Once a widow, twice divorced, she’s a woman with a past she prefers keeping to herself.

Enter Cavin Lattimore. He’s handsome, kind, charming, and the surgeon assigned to Tara following a ski accident in Lake Tahoe. In the weeks it takes her to recover, Cavin sweeps her off her feet and their relationship blossoms into something Tara had never imagined possible. But then she begins to notice some strange things: a van parked outside her home at odd times, a break-in, threatening text messages and emails. She also starts to notice cracks in Cavin’s seemingly perfect personality, like the suppressed rage his conniving teenage son brings out in him, and the discovery that Cavin hired a detective to investigate her immediately after they met.

Now on crutches and housebound, Tara finds herself dependent on the new man in her life—perhaps too much so. She’s handling rocky relationships with her sister and best friend, who are envious of her glamour and freedom; her prickly brother-in-law, who is intimidated by her wealth and power; and her estranged mother. However perfect Tara’s life appears, things are beginning to get messy.

Writing in beautiful prose, Ellen Hopkins unveils a new style while evoking her signature poetic form that readers fell in love with in Collateral and Triangles.

Love Lies Beneath by Ellen Hopkins

Love Lies Beneath

by: Ellen Hopkins

Atria
August 1, 2015
On Sale: July 21, 2015
Featuring: Cavin Lattimore; Tara
ISBN: 1476743657
EAN: 9781476743653
Kindle: B00P434BN0
Hardcover / e-Book

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