Review: Marrying Daisy Bellamy, Susan Wiggs

Title: Marrying Daisy Bellamy
Author: Susan Wiggs

Series: The Lakeshore Chronicles

Mass Market Paperback: 432 Pages
Publisher: Mira
Release Date: 1/25/2011
ISBN: 978-0778329251

*I received this book through the HQN.*

Description:

There are days on Willow Lake…

Daisy Bellamy has struggled for years to choose between two men—one honorable and steady, one wild and untethered.  And then, one fateful day, the decision is made for her.

When the wind is so still and the water so calm…

Now busy with a thriving business on Willow Lake, Daisy knows she should be happy with the life she's chosen for herself and her son.  But she still aches for the one thing she can't have.

You can almost hear your heart beat…

Until the man once lost to her reappears, resurrected by a promise of love.  And now the choice Daisy thought was behind her is the hardest one she'll ever face….

My Review:

Daisy Bellamy is a single mom of a little boy Charlie.  For a career, Daisy is a photographer. 

Logan O'Donnell who is Charlie’s father..

Julian Gastinueaux, a Lieutenant in the US Air Force who meet Daisy at Camp Kioga.

Together these three lives are tangled together, two men who love Daisy and Daisy who loves one of them.  Lakeshore Christmas left us off with Logan, Julian, and Daisy at the train station when a ring fell to the ground.  The question remained, whose ring was it?

That question was answered in Marrying Daisy Bellamy. 

I have loved both Daisy and Julian when they first appeared in the series and I still love them.  Logan I did not like at first but he did grow on me in Marrying Daisy Bellamy.

For Daisy and Julian life seems to get in their way, each time one of them turn around something comes between them.  Whereas Logan has learned to be a great father, but does not like Julian, he believes that Daisy should be with him because he is there for her and not in the military.

She had made her choice between the two.  When she was planning her wedding disaster struck losing the one she loved.  Eventually as time goes on, she finds herself in the arms of the other.  Living in a marriage that is less than perfect but both her and her husband try their best at their marriage.  One faithful day she learns that the man she loves was not dead but alive and well.  Now she is a dilemma, she could not leave her marriage for the other even if he is the one man she has loved.

Her husband knew for a while that their marriage was not going to work out.  Adding her love of her life back into the mix he knew that it was time to let her go.

Marrying Daisy Bellamy had been on the edge of my seat, screaming no with tears in my eyes.  I grew to love each of them and my sadness went away at the end of the book.  However, I hope that eventually the husband finds pure happiness that he deserves. 

My Rating:

Marrying Daisy Bellamy (The Lakeshore Chronicles)