Audrey Kingston has the perfect life she always wanted. An adoring husband, a beautiful house, book club nights with friends. It was idyllic. It was serene. Until Paxton Tanner, candidate for state senator, moved in next door. Seduced by his undeniable charm, Audrey’s life becomes unrecognizable as she gives in to her impulses. The affair becomes deadly, and she gets tossed into a political scandal that leads all the way to the governor’s office. When love becomes lethal, there’s only one way out.
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What I thought about The Magnolia Affair
This is one of the hardest reviews to write, mostly because
I don’t want to spoil all of the delicious suspense and tension that T.A.Foster
builds in this novel. I’ve been reading and reviewing Ms. Foster’s work for
some time, and I’ve liked the sweet romances she crafts. When I read the
synopsis for The Magnolia Affair, I wondered how she was going to pull it off
since adultery is not often well received in a story, and it’s a clear
departure from her previous work.
From the minute I started reading The Magnolia Affair, I was
pulled into a world that was intriguing and suspenseful. I really couldn’t put
this down until I got to the end. Audrey
is a teacher, married to a lawyer, living the dream in a beautiful house in the
perfect neighborhood. She worries she
hasn’t welcomed her new neighbor properly, but as soon as she meets him, there’s
a connection with Paxton Tanner that eventually undoes her perfect life and
replaces it with another. The story here isn’t so much about infidelity – it’s
more about what lengths people will go to get what they want.
The suspense of the plot is artfully done. It carries through the entire book and just when
I thought I had it all figured out, something would happen to change my mind.
The reader gets to experience everything from Audrey’s point of view and while
there is a bit of telling rather than showing, I didn’t mind because it
made the story move along quickly and helped to ratchet up the suspense and
tension as the story progresses.
The ending left me with some closure and some questions too.
I’m hoping (fingers crossed) that T.A. will give us more, maybe even Paxton’s
point of view. Is he the person he seems
to be? Or is he a victim too? I’d love to know. Great job keeping me
guessing, T.A. Foster!
If you like suspense with your romance, I recommend The
Magnolia Affair. If you’ve read T.A.
Foster before, this is not like her previous books but it’s every bit as
good. She nails it!
ARC provided for review.
About the Author
T.A. Foster Bio:
T.A.
Foster grew up catching rays and waves along the North Carolina Outer
Banks and now resides in the state with her husband, three children and
canine kiddo.
She has an undergraduate degree in Journalism and Mass Communication
from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a graduate
degree in Educational Psychology from Texas A&M University. When
she’s not chasing her two-legged and four-legged children or trying to
escape for date night, you can find her reading, writing, or planning
her next beach trip.
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