Brenda Hill -

"...sensual, emotional and beautiful."
 M. Jean Pike
Award Winning author of Waiting For The Rain

". . .  about a woman who loses everything - and finds her way back."
Michael Prescott,
NY Times Bestsellng Author, including,
Comes the Dark, Stealing Faces, The Shadow Hunter, and Last Breath

Beyond the Quiet was so good, I couldn't put it down. I rushed home after a basketball meeting to continue reading. So many lessons along the way that make you think about life, relationships, etc. I absolutely loved it.
Cheryl Peetz, mgr
Office Depot
Redlands, CA

A great read! Ms Hill is a cross between Iris Johansen and Nora Roberts. Then tension kept me spellbound until the end.
Claire M Teeters, editor
Yucaipa/Calimesa News Mirror 

Emotionally abused as a child, Lisa Montgomery learned at an early age to keep her feelings well hidden, believing that the only way to be loved and accepted was to be perfect. As an adult, she finds stability and happiness in Mac Montgomery. When Mac loses his battle with cancer after twenty-five years of marriage, forty-four year old Lisa is devastated. On her own for the first time in over two decades, she returns to her job as a real estate agent, desperate to escape the pain of losing her husband and determined to carve out a new life for herself. Just when things seem to be getting better, she receives a strange notice in the mail; a letter stating that Mac’s post office box is due for renewal. The couple had always received their mail through home delivery, so thinking it must be a mistake, Lisa heads to the post office to straighten it out. What she discovers is the beginning of a nightmare as Mac’s secret life of lies and betrayal begin to unravel.

This book took me on an emotional roller coaster ride; a ride that pulled me along and refused to let me go until it reached its final destination. I was gripped by Lisa’s situation from the opening scenes, and with each turn of the page I found myself making more of an emotional investment. Lisa deals with some tough issues that any woman can sympathize with: an alienated daughter, a friend’s betrayal, a husband’s deceit. The plot took many twists and turns as Lisa made her journey to self-discovery, learning how to love again, how to live again. I was right there in every scene, feeling her joy, her anguish, and her outrage.

Brenda Hill succeeded in creating a character that I truly cared about and even loved, and placed her in a setting that became as real to me as my own neighborhood. Beyond the Quiet is a love story, but more than that, it is a life story. It is the story of what it means to be a woman.

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