LOVED The Secret Life of CeeCee Wilkes

I love Diane Chamberlain and this is the novel that got me hooked.  This has to be one of my all time favorites.  Consider the lack of trashy romance that is saying loads.  Who can resist a long hidden secret that involves the whole family?  This reading starts when CeeCee was a teenager hanging out with the wrong crowd as most troubled teen movies began.  A pregnant lady is kidnapped and held for ransom.  While being held, she goes into labor.  The dying woman notices a lot of blood plus the fact that she has been kidnapped and pleads with the only female there to make sure her baby is safe.  

The teenage girl leaves with the newborn.  She has a few helpers along the way that give aid to begin a new life for her and the baby.  CeeCee finally settles down.  Marries and raises another child of her own.  The entire time noone knows that her first born is not actually her first born.

The body of the kidnapped woman is finally found while an aging CeeCee is faced with the decision to keep her secret or to let an innocent man face judgement for a murder he did not comment.  The emotions felt while reading this is a roller coaster ride of ups and downs.  The writing is amazing at making you feel exactly what the characters are feeling.  The family battles feel real, and the situation the teenager is placed in is an amazing wrong time wrong place situation that she tried to make the best of the only way that she thought was right.

I highly recommend this for any type of reader.