Kennalyn and David met in school, and Kennalyn couldn’t have been happier with anyone else. When David takes her home to meet his parents, and they announce their plans to wed, David’s mother takes an immediate dislike to her and tries to send her away -- in David’s best interests, of course. Instead of giving Kennalyn up to please his mother, David defies her and weds Kennalyn in secret.

David and Kennalyn are happily married and have welcomed a daughter, Brittany, into their happy family, when things go wrong. David leaves on a fishing trip with a close friend, and Kennalyn and their daughter stay behind. There is an accident with the boat, and Kennalyn struggles to watch as her husband fights for his life. She is extremely distraught when he is pronounced dead. More distraught, because she never got to tell him the news of their impending second child.

Kennalyn takes Brittany to the small town, Misty Cove, that she was raised in and looks to her father for help. She doesn’t inform David’s family of her pregnancy and struggles to come up with a way to take care of her family on her own. She opens her own law office and runs into an old college friend, and starts a relationship with him. Kennalyn is not sure she is ready to be married again, and just when she’s about to give in, she sees David. In Misty Cove. Alive.

Stormy View is an unusual tale of romance and lies. Kennalyn is a strong woman, and she worked very hard to make a new life for her children and herself without David. To find out that it wasn’t truly necessary was very heart wrenching for her, and for myself as a reader. There were several twists and plot turns that had me reeling, I never knew what to expect next. Kennalyn and David’s relationship was very intriguing from the beginning and following up when he found her again. When the truth unfolded about David’s disappearance, I was very angry with the perpetrators and felt so bad for both of them. As the saying goes, absence does make the heart fonder, and David and Kennalyn could never forget what they had meant to each other, even though things were different this time. In the end, I was glad that things worked out the way they did. The one thing I didn’t care for was the fast jump in time in the first few chapters, but in the end, it didn’t affect my final feelings about the book.


Reviewed by: Kristen