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Dance with Me

Audiobook
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Dance with Me resonates with the magic and mystery of human relationships...and the real beauty of the human heart.

Jane Porter has always been a free spirit, as wild and beautiful as the vast acres of apple orchards in rural Twin Rivers, Rhode Island -- the town forever etched upon her heart. Now, fourteen years after she left it behind, Jane is unexpectedly drawn home to her mother and only sister. Dylan Chadwick has come back too, shedding the steely exterior he wore as a federal agent in order to follow in the footsteps of his apple-farming father and escape the memories of the life he once lived.

Amid this landscape of loss and renewal, of families struggling to find their way back together with an innocent young girl as their lodestone, a haunting story about small-town secrets unfolds. Dance with Me explores emotional connections at their very core, with acute insights into the ties between mothers and daughters, sisters and lovers that will resonate for a long time to come.

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    • AudioFile Magazine
      Master baker Jane Porter visits her home in Twin Rivers, Rhode Island, to help her sister, who lives with their ailing mother, and to see how her daughter, Chloe, has grown under the love of her adopted parents. Dylan Chadwick, Chloe's uncle, owns the family apple orchard and is trying to return it to life as he repairs his emotional health after the death of his wife and daughter. When Jane begins to bake pies for Dylan's farm stand, managed by Chloe, sparks begin to fly. Karen Ziemba breathes life into all the characters so ably created by Rice. Ziemba's soft cadence adds romance and understanding to these tangled lives and the love that struggles to blossom in the orchard. M.B.K. (c) AudioFile 2004, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      January 26, 2004
      Heartbreak gives way to love and reconciliation in this poignant tale by veteran romance writer Rice (The Perfect Summer
      , etc.). After more than a decade as the owner of a trendy New York City bakery, Calamity Jane's, 35-year-old Jane Porter returns to her native rural Rhode Island to help her sister, Sylvie, care for their ailing mother, Margaret. Neighbor Dylan Chadwick has recently moved back to the Twin Rivers area, too, after abandoning his career as a federal law enforcement agent in New York. Both Jane and Dylan are badly scarred by life's blows: Dylan is still mourning the death of his wife and daughter in a shootout, and Jane can't forget the outcome of a doomed college romance. As Dylan embarks on the daunting task of restoring his father's beloved apple orchard, Jane takes an avid interest in Dylan's 15-year-old niece, Chloe, baking apple tarts for the orchard roadside stand where Chloe works. Sparks fly between Dylan and Jane, but the novel's plot hinges on Jane and Chloe's growing friendship. Rice relies heavily on coincidence and contrivance, concocting a tear-jerking mix of family strife, juvenile impetuosity and misunderstood motives, but her sympathetic protagonists keep readers engaged. Even secondary characters like Sylvie, a tightly wound school librarian, and Mona, Chloe's eccentric best friend, make an impression, and readers will breathe sighs of relief when the long-awaited happy ending comes for Dylan, Jane and Chloe.

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