Product Description

Rooke Tyler lives a solitary life in a small western Pennsylvania town, making a living by carving intricate headstones in an exclusive cemetery for the county's wealthy families. At night she sculpts stone, pouring her dreams and desires into the figures she chisels. Then two women enter life, one offering her passion, the other fame. Rooke's choice may expose her secrets and change her life...if she follows her heart.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #17880 in Books
• Published on: 2009-07-14
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 265 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9781602820838
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Customer Reviews

Enjoyable but... incomplete?
I loved Rooke and Adrian, although I wasn't really convinced that Adrian had issues strong enough to play hard to get for so long. I also enjoyed the strange and devious Melinda but I feel like I've missed something.
I kept reading waiting for the issue Melinda to finally get resolved, thinking that something paranormal was going on (which would have been totally great). When it got too late in the book for it to be paranormal, I hoped that at least some explanation would come as to who/what Melinda is and what all the dreams and visions from the past and present meant. Nothing came.
I finished the book feeling like I've totally missed something or that the author was going to go paranormal but decided not to.
The book was ok but i find it too bad that Melinda was never explained. She had the potential to be a much more interesting character, especially concerning her relationship with Rooke and Adrian. But it's hard to get into that without giving away too much.

Paranormal - it's a secret
Radclyffe sets up this novel in her usual great style, passionate lonely sculptor Rooke, rejected Adrian who's afraid to love, small upstate New York community and then adds Melinda, who's sexually greedy, an art dealer and possibly more than human?...I'm not sure. Is it a triangle..maybe. Is it paranormal? there are hints. But this arc never develops which is frustrating.

I adore Radclyffe, she writes great books. But "Secrets in the Stone" is a lesser book. There are hints of paranormal, but it never gets fully explored. This in turn takes a lot of time from Radclyffe's usual wonderful character development, so Adrian feels less fully realized than Rooke. As for Melinda, I just didn't like her, at all. I enjoy paranormal and I'm totally open to Radclyffe exploring the genre but "Secrets in the Stone" is still a bit of a mystery to me..

Confused
This one left me confused. Weird for a romance novel, I know, usually they're pretty straight forward. Either you like it or you don't.

This one had two 'rivaling' components that I can't quite get together. On the one hand the two main characters, very strong, independent women. Liked them immediately, and saw the attraction.

The second component is certain paranormal 'activity', that is just there and not further explained and manifests itself in an additional character. Now, I get that you can't necessarily explain paranormal activity, in this case hearing other people's thoughts, I guess you can describe it as. I don't really see how it enhances the story and think the story would have been just as good without it, maybe even better, but that's just cause paranormal apparently is just not my thing. Or if the paranormal part of the book would have been explored more fully. Now it just seems to hang there, open to interpretation. Not that interpretation is a bad thing, but this left the door so wide open that speculation seems kind of useless.

Other than that I like the setting, a small town in New York, and the mood that is set by the storm at the beginning of the book.

I did finish it in the span of 24 hours and really couldn't it put it down towards the end. So that's a good thing, but the ending left me feeling unsatisfied.