BLOGWORDS – Tuesday 8 July 2025 – TUESDAY REVIEWS-DAY – BOOK REVIEW – THE SECRET DOOR by SCOTT R. REZER
BLOGWORDS – Tuesday 8 July 2025 – TUESDAY REVIEWS-DAY – BOOK REVIEW – THE SECRET DOOR by SCOTT R. REZER
TUESDAY
REVIEWS-DAY - BOOK REVIEW – THE SECRET DOOR by SCOTT R. REZER
THE BOOK
THE BLURB
2024
When Army Specialist Brant Morgan returns home to Castile, New York, to lay his mother to rest after her unexpected death, he inherits a mysterious key to an unknown lock. A key that sends him on a search for answers to questions about his mother’s past he didn’t even know existed. He is not alone in his search, however. His childhood friend, Taylor Ross, encourages him to stay the course and discover the long-held secrets his mother hinted about in her last letter to him. But Taylor has a secret, too, one she hasn’t even told her father, the pastor of a small local church. As Taylor and Brant’s relationship deepens, will fear and shame prevent her from standing beside the man she has loved since high school? When the past and present collide, he needs her more than ever as the answers he uncovers threaten to shatter his future.
1777
When Louise Ahrenson finds herself unexpectedly sent back in time to the beautiful Vale of Three Falls in the heart of the Seneca Nation—a place she has always known as Letchworth Park in her own time—she is at a loss to understand the circumstances that brought her there. However, she is immediately and irresistibly drawn to Michel Allende, a French trapper who reluctantly shelters her, a man whose tragic life strangely mirrors an old Seneca legend she learned about as a child. As a new chapter of her life unfolds, she prays that Michel’s love, and the friendship of the native Seneca people who adopt her as their own, can silence the siren call of her past that beckons her back to the future.
A dual timeline story about mothers and sons, and the special bond of love between them…
THE AUTHOR
Two of his books have garnered Editor's Choice selections by the Historical Novel Society, and were long-listed for the HNS Indie Award (The Leper King and Shadow of the Mountain).
Retired now after a career in federal service, he spends his days writing and reading and enjoying the great outdoors with his wife or taking a nap. He loves naps. It’s when he does his best writing!
MY REVIEW
Oh my days! What a story!
Hiding secrets. Why do we feel the need to do it? But for Brant Morgan and Taylor Ross, it’s what kept them from being together. Or at least, that’s what they both thought.
But as they search together for the clues his mother left him of a deep dark secret, Taylor and Brant rekindle the feelings they felt in high school, and their relationship takes root.
Meanwhile, the scavenger hunt takes them into unbelievable territory—time travel. Sure, we’ve all read about it in fiction or watched it in movies and TV, but to learn that it really has happened? And to his mother? Impossible!
And yet…
Louise Ahrenson has landed in a crude cabin and she has no idea how she got there, let alone how to return, well, to her own time. With her heart as torn as the war-torn landscape, deeply in love with her husband and missing her beloved sister—who did not travel with her—Louise settles in to a new life with the handsome, rugged, Michel Allende. Until she is thrust back to her old life, in her own time.
Now, I’ve read plenty of stories with a big fat plot twist, but this may very well be the first time I’ve read one with two plot twists. WHOPPER plot twists. The first one, while I didn’t expect it, didn’t surprise me. But that second twist!! Well, you’ll just have to read this story for yourself to find out.
ROBIN’S FEATHERS
FIVE FEATHERS
I purchased this book and give my review of my own free will. The opinions expressed in my review are my own honest thoughts and reaction to this book.
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Thank you for reading and reviewing, Robin! The mother-son relationship was deeply personal for me writing this as my recently passed mother’s name was Louise, and Brant is an old family name. I’m so glad you enjoyed reading this and were surprised by the plot twists! Thanks again! 🙂
ReplyDeleteLoved the story, Scott! Also love the personal touches with your mother's name, and Brant.
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