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Oasis of My Heart
Tara Nichols
Contemporary romance
Available from Cobblestone Press
May 2007

Sadie Davies left home at the age of 15—11 years ago; she had a rough time in Hollywood and ended up in Toronto, where, after a career damaging time as a porn star, she was rescued by a tyrant named Horace, who took her under his wing (dominated her) and created her stardom as Miranda Vicars on the daytime soap Love of Our Lives for seven years. Horace became obsessive and then became abusive. He told her if she ever left him, he would kill her.

After careful planning, Sadie rode a bus for days and returned to her hometown, Sundre, to try to find her parents whom she had not seen nor talked to in 11 years. She had purchased a run-down farm which she had never seen. She immediately was introduced to Dustin who was her next-door neighbor. Dustin had sworn off women; his wife, Debbie, soon to be his ex-wife, was determined to get him back. It didn’t seem wrong to her that she had slept with men beginning early in their marriage. Now Dustin lived with his sister and her boys while he awaited his divorce. Neither Dustin nor Sadie was interested in each other, initially, because they were scared of starting another relationship.

Ms. Tara Nichols has done a really good job of writing this book; her characters are strong, extremely well-developed, and quite believable. The small town atmosphere, where everyone knows what everyone else is doing, played an important part in this story. Debbie’s vindictiveness proves major trouble for Sadie and Dustin. The plot is unique and there are serious situations which she handled expertly. How Horace is finally able to locate Sadie (and we always knew he would) gripped the reader and proved an incredible circumstance; on top of all this, Sadie searched for her family and, when would she ever discover that the woman Dustin lived with, Josie, was his sister, not his wife!

I highly recommend this story as a great escape into the tension-filled love story of Sadie and Dustin. Ms. Nichols is to be commended.

Overall rating:
Sensuality rating: Explicit

Reviewer: Brenda Talley
August 16, 2007...