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she recovered from the nearfatal accident, the beautiful young woman could remember nothing, It was from her personal effects she learned that her name was Janet, and that she was the widow of the wealthy Larry Kirby.
Her baby was his son, entitled to a vast inheritance,
But the past was not to be unlocked so easily, Larry's brother Bruce was determined to prove Janet a fortunehunting imposter, And the confused young mother, not at all sure she was really Janet Kirby, was powerless to stop him,
No one was prepared for the terrible truth that emerged: an evil hoax that sent the past spinning into the present to cast a sinister shadow on the future.
sitelink uncw. edu/smithms/ace Going down the list of Zoa Sherburne's books, there's GIRL IN THE MIRROR, then there's GIRL IN THE SHADOWS, They weren't necessarily written for the exactsame readership, but they weren't necessarily NOT: the teen girl who read MIRROR inwould be a young woman in, ready to get her gothic on, and she might start with SHADOWS when she recognized the name Sherburne.
SHADOWS' main character the cover girl reminds me of actress Ashley Tisdale after she went blonde is not Ruth Ann from MIRROR.
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. but who is she She wakes up in the hospital all bandaged up and in great physical pain, then in other kinds of pain because she doesn't remember what happened or who she is.
While she was going inandout of consciousness, she thought a man was glaring at her, and when she is conscious and moreandmoreawake, there he is.
Who is he And what's with the 'tude Did he think she wouldn't make it Did he HOPE she wouldn't make it
The nurses and Dr.
Parker call her Mrs. Janet Kirby, then they call the scowly man Mr, Bruce Kirby. When she asks if he's her husband, he says she was married to his brother Larry, WAS married. He died in an accident a few months ago, OK then, does he think it wasn't actually an accident and she had an active role in it Is that what all the scowling's about
But a lot more is going on with thesomething blonde woman in the hospital bed.
A nurse brings in another male visitor for her to meet for the first time, then an older female visitor who seems very fond of himand turns out to be the mother of the scowly man and his late brother.
When she's feeling better and stronger, a nurse delivers her personal things that were found at the and she finds proof that she was married to Lawrence Kirby and then widowed.
There's also a picture of two little girls, one of whom she thinks might be heryoungerself,
But for every few details, there's one that doesn't quite add up, Does she belong with these people or not Is it possible that she ISN'T Janet Kirby And if not, why would she have been calling herself that, and where is the REAL Janet Kirby
Who can she trust to help her find out
GIRL IN THE SHADOWS is an enjoyable read.
Girls who read Sherburne as teens could do worse than SHADOWS for their first gothic novel, such as GIRL IN THE SHADOWS by V, C. Andrews' ghostwriter.
Quotes:
"Is this some kind of joke One breakfast and half a dozen Janet Kirbys"a coffeeshop server.
"One girl was declaring hysterically that if this got into the papers her mother would die, she'd just die, that's all.
A boy was trying to calm her down, He argued and pleaded and finally said, 'Drop dead, Betty, '"
Thanks for reading, Born in Seattle and reared in Washington, Mrs, Sherburne began writing while attending Whittier Elementary School and in earlyhad progressed to the point that the weekly Ballard Tribune newspaper published a column of what she called light verse under the headline The Gremlins Say.
Then Mrs. Sherburne entered a radio programs limerick writing contest and won afirst prize that was invested in a short story writing course.
Over the nextyears she had thanshort stories published in Womens Day, Seventeen, Colliers and other magazines, When television began cutting into the magazines and her agent suggested she start writing books, The first offull length novels followed, She never learned to type, She said she w Born in Seattle and reared in Washington, Mrs, Sherburne began writing while attending Whittier Elementary School and in earlyhad progressed to the point that the weekly Ballard Tribune newspaper published a column of what she called light verse under the headline "The Gremlin's Say.
"Then Mrs. Sherburne entered
a radio program's limerick writing contest and won afirst prize that was invested in a short story writing course.
Over the nextyears she had thanshort stories published in Women's Day, Seventeen, Collier's and other magazines, When television began cutting into the magazines and her agent suggested she start writing books, The first offull length novels followed, She never learned to type, She said she was beyond that and that she composed as she typed, All of Mrs. Sherburne's stories and novels dealt with young girls in some kind of crisis, "some kind of problem, One of them was about a girl whose mother was an alcoholic, " That book, "Jennifer," eventually won an award from the Child Study Association of America, Originally it was turned down by a publisher who said they could not publish anything like that, Two years later they called and asked, Do you still have that book sitting around " Her books were translated intolanguages.
Another, "Stranger In The House," became a made for television movie starring Lindsay Wagner, For many years she was a single parent because her husband ofyears, Herbert, died when the younger children were small.
Mrs. Sherburne did not remarry. sitelink.