Convincing Jamey

Southern Knights #4

by Marilyn Pappano

Convincing Jamey by Marilyn Pappano released on Aug 25, 1997 is available now for purchase.

Genres: Romance

248 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published September 1, 1997

About the author

Award-winning and bestselling author, international traveler, feted at a Hollywood premiere . . .

All true . . . but my regular life is a whole lot more routine. Deal with the five big puppers who share our house, babysit our grandson, battle the jungle that is our yard, pray for summer in winter and dream of winter in summer, and hunker down at the computer -- that's my real life.

I grew up in Oklahoma and had the fun of living in Georgia, Alabama, California and the Carolinas, thanks to my husband's Navy career. When he retired, we came home to Oklahoma and have lived in the same house for seventeen years. That's a real "Wow!" for someone used to the nomadic military life.

Writing was the perfect career for all that moving. Have computer, will travel. I've set books, or part of them, in every state we've lived in and been inspired by every place I've ever been. I've now written somewhere around 80 books, and I think I've got only about 8,000 stories left to tell.

My biggest hobby is starting new projects -- starting. Not completing. I'm still not done with the cross-stitched Army seal I started when our son joined out of high school. He did tours in Georgia, Colorado, Korea, Italy, Iraq, Afghanistan and Louisiana, and has been out for a few years. So I'm a little slow.

I like to think about getting organized, painting my living room in cool beachy colors, and turning my entire five-acre yard into a garden. I also dream about having every room in my house clean at exactly the same time, but I live by the motto of the woman who taught me to quilt: A clean house is the sign of a bored woman.

And I've never been bored.

Reviews

[Saly]

The beauty of Marilyn Pappano's writing and books is that her characters may not be the most likable when they start of but by the end of it they do get redeemed in a way.

Serenity Street is the meanest and toughest part of town, where the goons of mob boss Jimmy Falcone run free, and where people have given up hope and have accepted it as a way of life. Jamey O'Shea is one of them, raised by crappy parents he married and had a kid at seventeen and his wife took off with the kid, so did Jamey for a while. He doesn't have that many regrets in life, he knows his bar won't be very profitable and that he is a bad father and husband.
His biggest regret in life is his son Reid who was abandoned by his mother at the age of fifteen and who runs with the meanest people in town. Jamey has enough caring about his patrons and their sorrow without adding his new neighbor, dreamer and do-gooder Karen, who wants to open a women centre.

Karen was married to Evan, a cop, she loved her husband and when he died on the job and she later learned she couldn't have children, she moved home allowing her family to comfort her, but now because of her sister's death she is ready to move on. She knows her task won't be easy, everyone thinks she is nuts to think that things can change but she preserves even at the cost of her safety.
Karen sees the good in people even Reid and tries to make Jamey see how how un-fair he's been.

There are no easy solutions or rosy pictures painted, Jamey doesn't suddenly become a father or start believing in his son Reid.

The relationship between Karen and Jamey is very slow to build and for the most part Jamey acts as a cynic but despite all of that I enjoyed the book, it seemed real with people who aren't perfect and have made mistakes.

I am liking this series and can't wait to Reid and Nick's books.

[Robyn Martin]

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[NorthernLightsGirl]

Serenity Street was a rough place to say the least. You never saw a lone police car there.So what was she doing there? Karen bought an old Victorian. A fixer upper. She intended to open it to be a woman's center under the name of Kathy's House. Kathy was Karen's twin.























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