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An Uncertain Refuge ReviewI downloaded An Uncertain Refuge, by Carolyn J. Rose for an afternoon read on the couch, chips and ice-tea at hand. I managed to move from couch to dinner table, then back to couch, then to bed and by 11:30pm I finished this very satisfying Indy author's book in record time because I simply had to read it all without stopping.
This is suspense at its finest. Kate Dalton runs a women's shelter in Arkansas, but when an abusive ex-con husband takes a knife to his wife, Kate steps out of her comfort zone and in the altercation, he dies. Pushed by her superiors to capitalize on the incident with a sleazy movie company, Kate, without anything to keep her in this town, leaves her job for the open road, intent on starting over. Then she gets a request from the victim: Take my son with you. Kate has no husband, no children and she intends to keep it that way. But, the woman is adamant, take him, or she'll put him in foster care. In spite of her better judgment, Kate's heart softens and she agrees to take the shattered woman's nine-year old son for two weeks while the woman recuperates--at least that's her take on it, until the road trip gets to Oregon and the boy has a medical emergency and Kate must get the mother's permission for an apendectemy. The mother's phone message says to refer all questions to her lawyer. She's gone, leaving behind a sick and agitated child, and Kate, who is trying not to panic. The lawyer fixes the problem with the hospital about Kate's guardianship, but not the final question of where Way-Ray's mom has gone or why she ran.
Seeing an opportunity to get a cheap place for the boy to recover and some additional money, Kate takes a temporary job in a local motel as manager, and in doing so, acquires a ready-made circle of friends in Rhea, the wise cracking, chain smoking and big hearted motel manager and Evie who runs a wildlife refuge on the coast, and eventually, a man of steadfast character who loves her and in whom she learns to return that love.
The question of why the boy's mother is soon resolved when Kate hires a PI to look for her. The dead ex-con husband has a half-brother and he's hell-bound to finish the job on the mother and take the boy back to the father's drunken, abusive family.
This book reads like women's fiction, thick with beautifully written atmosphere, a deeply introspective protagonist with incredibly well developed secondary characters. The ending is perfect, and remarkable in that there was not the over-the-top violence. I'm going back for more Carolyn J Rose books, they're terrific at any price.
RP Dahlke,
A DEAD RED HEART
A DEAD RED CADILLAC
Kindle @$2.99
An Uncertain Refuge OverviewA child orphaned by violence. A woman sworn to protect and raise him. A killer come to claim him. A few deadly minutes in An Uncertain Refuge.Kate Dalton lives by the rules of honesty and fair play until she steps between a battered woman and the man intent on killing her. Amanda Blake barely survives; her ex-husband dies by Kate's hand. The repercussions force Kate from her job at a domestic violence shelter. Fleeing unwanted publicity and yearning to break with her past, she heads to the Oregon coast, burdened by a coerced promise to Amanda-to care for the nine-year-old son of the man she killed and shield him from the truth. For several weeks Kate holds a tattered web of lies together. Then Way-Ray's vengeful uncle murders Amanda, an ambush journalist tells the story, and the boy bolts in horror. Aided by a dangerous man she only half-trusts, Kate searches for the boy she's come to love. But a sadistic killer intent on claiming his kin is watching every move.

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