A Promise to Keep

By Ann Durand

Reviewed by

Marie Davies

          In A Promise to Keep, elementary school teacher Karen Hudson  is taken from her quiet and lonely life in a small town in southern California to lush mountains of South America to the dark underside of a luxurious suburb of Los Angeles. Karen has nearly surrendered all hope of finding a finding a genuinely loving relationship when she finds romance with the father of one of her students, Michael Browning. But a secret from Michael’s his past resurfaces.  Michael disappears and Karen is left behind to mourn the idyllic life she could have had with Michael and his daughter. To solve the mystery Karen places in herself in mortal peril.  The villain’s scheming and cruelty will leave you stunned while the suspense keeps you turning the pages into the small hours of the morning.

    Ann Durand shows us that evil can come in appealing and beautiful packages while true beauty is often overlooked.   A Promise to keep is the book for lovers of whodunits and romance novels. Chapter by chapter the tension mounts in this romantic mystery whose fairy tale ending satisfies both the hopeless romantic and the thrill junky.