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 | The Governor's Wife by Kate Rizor | Reviewed by Midge Baker | |
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| Publisher: Stargazer Press
http://www.stargazerpress.com/ ISBN: 0973494085 Genre: Fiction Subgenre: Comtemporary Romance Release date: October 2007 Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 191 Price: $15.00 | |||
| Andie Petersen's life began with the car accident. Stricken with amnesia, she barely remembered the man who said he was her husband, Brian. And he seemed more interested in getting her out of the hospital than in getting her well. When they got home, his sexual depravity and physical abuse drove her to flee.
She ended up in Detroit, spending the next ten years homeless, living in shelters and struggling to survive. She has spent those years in fear that Brian would find her again. Along the way, she has numerous run-ins with the police. The occasional shoplifting charges are true. And she did pull a knife on that guy who tried to rape her. The charges of prostitution are pure harassment, made up by indifferent police who believe in the stereotypic notion that all homeless people are drunks, druggies, or harlots. It's nearly Christmas, and she's just been thrown out of her most recent shelter on suspicion of drug possession. The drugs weren't hers - they were placed among her things by another shelter inhabitant during a surprise inspection. Because the charges were false, she hadn't bothered to go to court. Now Officer Tyler Mason, the only one who has ever tried to help her, has picked her up and is taking her in on a bench warrant. While filling out his paperwork, he spots a headline in the newspaper on the desk. The New York governor's wife is still missing after ten years... As he finishes his paperwork, Mason begins to read, then notices the picture of the governor's wife. She looks familiar, too familiar. He checks the name, Andra Thornburg. Andra. Andie? His suspicions are suddenly aroused... Tanner Thornburg, New York's governor, has spent the last decade wracked with guilt and unanswered questions. He'd been running for mayor then and thinking about ending his unhappy marriage. His wife, Andra, was shrewish and coldly calculating, the spoiled socialite daughter of the senator who'd supported his campaign. He was certain Andra cared more for his potential political power than she did for him. Finally, he couldn't stand it anymore. On that fateful, haunting last day, he'd asked for a divorce. Andra had cried, but he'd thought it an act. She was good at that. But then she and her driver, Brian Phelps, had disappeared. No trace of either had ever been found. Until today. Andra had been found in Detroit, identified by her fingerprints. Anxious for answers and closure, he'd rushed off to identify the body. At first relieved and then incensed, he found she was alive. She claimed to have been kidnapped and suffering amnesia these last ten years. What a crock. This was just the sort of stunt she'd pull and with an election year coming up, too. Well, he'd deal with her when he got her home. When Andie was told her husband had come for her, she panicked and tried to resist - they couldn't force her to go back to Brian, they just couldn't! When she was thrust into a room with Tanner, she was confused. She remembered nothing of Tanner or the life—and unhappy marriage—they once shared. But seeing this as her ticket to get off the streets, she agrees to return to New York with Tanner. Once there, she finds herself thrust into a world of politics and fortune. Once her bread and meat, that world is now foreign to her. When Tanner refuses to publically explain where she's been, she becomes the target of every news reporter in the the city. Though almost overwhelmingly attracted to each other, Tanner doesn't trust her and she resists him out of fear. Though tempers and personalities clash, Tanner becomes determined to protect her privacy from the hounding reporters, as Andie learns that her past threatens his future. Can these two strangers who are husband and wife learn to love and trust again? Can they right the wrongs of the past and travel to a future together? As a reader, I love a good romance and found this story delightful. But as a human being, I am even more impressed with the way Ms. Rizor uses Andie's fight against prejudice and stereotyping to illuminate the plight of the homeless. | |||
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