Summary (from the publisher):

On her 7th birthday, Annie’s con artist father Jack told her two things: he was giving her an airplane, and he was leaving her behind. Then he raced out of her life.

Years later, Annie, now a top Navy jet pilot, returns home on her twenty-sixth birthday to visit with her aunt and uncle, who raised her as their own. But she arrives to the most unexpected: a call from her father to say he is dying and needs her to fly to St. Louis to bring him the airplane he gave her the day he left.

Is Jack really dying, or is it another one of his elaborate cons? Why would she help the man who abandoned her? And is he telling the truth that if she brings him the plane, he will give her the one thing she always wanted: the name of her mother? The answer will set Annie on a quest filled with hilarious characters, strange encounters, and the most unexpected of all: the mystery of falling in love.

I have to say while I enjoyed this book, I probably wanted to like it more than I actually did like it.

I loved the characters in this book and their dedication to each other. It truly showed that families are what you make them. Annie was the heroine and after having been abandoned by her father at the age of 7, she began her life with her Aunt Sam (Samantha) and Uncle Clark. What a pair. Sam is a lesbian with a failed relationship she has had difficulty getting over, and Clark is a twice married (and divorced) peditrician and long time friend of the family who lives with Sam in the ancestral home. Together they provided the roots for the life that Annie's father gave her wings for. This book would have been a great character novel...or a great mystery as Annie races to help her (presumed) dying father. Somehow it fails at both. I would have like to have picked the book apart and put it back together in a chronological manner that would make more sense. I wanted more of both generes and as a consequence had a difficult time keeping myself interested in the novel. I did finish it. I can't say I loved the ending. I think for the amount of development in the novel it was almost likesomeone said enough, this is the end. I am sorry for that because the book had so much promise.

I just finished this book today and I have to say it is one of the best that I have read in a long time. Right now I am wishing I hadn't finished the book. I want more of the characters and I want to know about where they went!

Dancing in the Lowcountry centers around Ella a mature, widowed woman who is entering the time of her life when her children start to doubt she can take care of herself. She has a companion who is a full blooded Cherokee Indian and the two of them take off for Myrtle Beach for a respite and some self introspection. Ella plans to give her oldest son some long hidden news and gets sidetracked when she learns that he is seriously ill. She meets and older gentle man at the genteel Priscilla and a touch of romance ensues. Ella slides back into her past looking at the choices she has made and how they have defined her life and she uses that to determine how she can stop losing control over her life now.

I loved everything about this book from the characters, to the locations (I believe I am truly a sucker for the lowcountry), oh my the food!!! (Bless this writer for his superior grasp of that part of the subject, I was drooling)This book itself was a slow dance, a romance of life if you will and how the decisions you make, even as a young adult have ripples even into the evening of your life. Heartily recommended! A wonderful read, it is hard to believe that A) it was written by a male and B) it is his first published book of fiction!

I just finished reading this book today and I have to say I thoroughly enjoyed it. This is the story of a displaced Texas homemaker who moves to Connecticut and pursues her dream of opening a quilt shop. Since that is a fantasy of mine of course I had to have it. This poor displaced person discovers shortly after the store opens that she has breast cancer. As this is a cause I am strongly aware of, again, it struck home. The bonds formed and reformed in this book make a wonderful development of characters. I didn't want the book to end and thankfully, according to her website, A Thread of Truth picks up where A Single Thread leaves off. I am off to the library tomorrow to find it.

Marie Bostwick is one of the authors I picked up the other day that I had never read before and I can heartily recommend her now. I my just be hooked on the series but I sure gobbled this first one up!