Tony and Susan valentine shepherd

Tony and Susan valentine shepherdFifteen years ago, Susan Morrow left her first husband, Edward Sheffield, an unpublished writer. Now, she's enduring middle class suburbia as a doctor's wife, when out of the blue she receives a package containing the manuscript of her ex husband's first novel. He writes asking her to read the book; she was always his best critic, he says. As Susan reads, she is drawn into the fictional life of Tony Hastings, a math professor driving his family to

their children are facing adult problems

and Stewart Herman

Everything clicks in this novel…it sure is entertainment

12-year-old Ella spends her days fishing and running around with her best friend Henry and cousin Myrna

being made into a movie

Are you confused

and they've brought a lot of sharpened metal with them

Along the way

now avenger -- has found shelter

but what pulled us together

But as the vast machinery of the wedding gathers momentum

and ultimately a battle over presidential power