Passion's Shadow

by Nicole Conn

Overview

Fall into the passions of a love triangle as a mother and daughter find themselves in love with the same woman in this romantic and chic tale of addiction in multiple forms.

Lindsay Brennan is a Portland architect whose devotion to her work takes the place of all other things in her life. Sondra Pinchot, an interior designer, has always depended on the comfort of alcohol when things became too much. Her dutiful daughter, Samantha, is trapped in the affair of her mother’s alcoholism as it has become a natural habitat.

When Lindsay and Sondra begin work on a project together, they find themselves in a sparking romance that is hard for either of them to deny. But when Sondra’s alcoholism lands her in a rehabilitation center and Samantha takes her place on the project, sparks fly between Lindsay and Samantha, igniting an intense relationship.

As fate brings the three women together and their private addictions give way to deeper passions, they learn that sometimes love can be the most dangerous addiction of them all.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781476766898
Publisher:	Simon & Schuster
Publication date:	10/26/2013
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.30(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Nicole Conn is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. She is recognized worldwide for his talents, including eight novels, two teleplays, and thirteen screenplays. She is best known for her films, including Claire of the Moon, More Beautiful for Having Been Broken, and A Perfect Ending.

Editorial Reviews

Conn, a screenwriter best known for the lesbian-themed film Claire of the Moon (which she later adapted into her first novel), explores a lesbian love triangle in which a mother and daughter fall in love with the same woman. Unfortunately, with its slick melodrama and vapidly developed themes, this book also reads like a novelized version of a screenplay. Lindsay Brennan, a successful if workaholic architect who divides her time between Seattle and Portland, develops a sexual relationship with Sondra Pinchot, an attractive middle-aged interior designer who, until meeting Lindsay, had been heterosexual. After the women become partners on an important, lucrative architectural/design project, Sondra's uncontrollable alcoholism grows evident, and the affair dissolves. When Samantha, Sondra's married daughter, who is also an interior designer, sends her mother to an alcoholic treatment center and assumes her workload on the project, a much more intense love relationship evolves between Lindsay and Samantha. Both mother and daughter, upon learning of the other's affair with Lindsay, must deal with their alarm; the real conflict, however, is Lindsay's workaholism, which threatens to destroy her relationship with Samantha. Throughout, Conn emphasizes the ways and language of various Twelve Step programs, and readers not attuned to these may bristle at the emphasis. But in any case, despite the ``incestuous'' overtones to the love triangle, this tale is really just a routine, if chic, romantic potboiler. Author tour. (Oct.)

Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly

Conn (Claire of the Moon, LJ 7/93) here targets straight women as well as lesbians. Opening with a car accident whose victim is unknown, her romantic novel focuses on events leading up to the crash, with several characters as possible victims. The story concerns Lindsay, a talented, attractive, and driven architect. Through a series of twists, she finds herself involved with a vulnerable interior designer, Sondra, and, ultimately, Sondra's grown daughter, Samantha. The novel focuses on couples-gay, straight, and lesbian-but the love scenes are mostly lesbian. Although the writing is acceptable, the key question is whether straight women will read a lesbian romance. What may attract a broader readership is the novel's concern with issues: trust, passion, love, addictions (alcohol, food, and work), and the human quest for happiness. For large fiction collections.-Rebecca S. Kelm, Northern Kentucky Univ. Lib., Highland Heights

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