The Invention of Sarah Cummings
September 17th, 2013. Filed under: Tuesday's Tempting Reads.The Invention of Sarah Cummings
By Olivia Newport
In a world where everyone is putting on a show, there is a love that is genuine.
Sarah Cummings has one goal in life–to break into Chicago’s high society. Desperate to stop serving dinner to members of the wealthy Banning family and to start eating at society tables, Sarah spends her meager free time altering cast-off gowns to create the perfect wardrobe for her future life.
When opportunity knocks at a chance meeting, she presents herself as Serena Cuthbert, weaving a fictitious past to go with her fictitious name. But as she gets closer to her goal–and closer to Simon Tewell, director of St. Andrew’s Orphanage–Sarah finds that she must choose between the life she has and the life she dreams of.
Can she piece together the perfect life from scraps? Or will it all come unraveled in the face of true love?
ISLAND BREEZES
Oh, boy! Is she ever tempting fate? “Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive.” I don’t know who first said that, but a school teacher used to tell her class that all the time. Someone should have been telling that to Sarah Cummings.
This book keeps your nerves on edge wondering who and when someone would figure out the truth about Serena’s s-called-life. Sarah certainly has a good imagination.
It’s been good to get back to the Banning household. I certainly hope Ms Newport plans more for the Avenue of Dreams series. I can see at least one more book there.
***A special thank you to Lanette Haskins for providing a review copy.***
Olivia Newport is the author of The Pursuit of Lucy Banning and The Dilemma of Charlotte Farrow. Her husband and two twentysomething children provide welcome distraction from the people stomping through her head on their way into her books. She chases joy in stunning Colorado at the foot of the Rockies, where daylilies grow as tall as she is. Find out more at www.OliviaNewport.com.
Available August 2013 at your favorite bookseller from Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group.