Yesterday

The present timeline of this was all over the place as were some plot points, but I can applaud Michaels for making me hate a character as much as she did.

Saw a review that said this was a total miss - couldn't disagree more! The plot is very involved, lots of good and bad characters, secrets, tragedies love, friendships, and family dramas. I was up most of the night reading/listening to this story and feel that I must read it again because I feel I missed somethings. When you get so tired that you fall asleep while reading, it makes a second reading necessary.

FROM AMAZON: Raised on her father's South Carolina plantation, Callie Parker wanted for nothing, and now she is about to marry wealthy local scion Wyn Archer. But her wedding wouldn't be complete without the three people she grew up with under the sheltering branches of the angel oaks at Parker Manor. There's Bode Jessup, part show more brother and part idol, who has become a wildly attractive man. Next is Brie Canfield, Callie's freckle-faced playmate, now an FBI agent with a life of her own. Last is shy waif Sela Bronson, whose only reason for returning to Parker Manor is to escape an unhappy marriage. As Callie's childhood companions gather to relive the charmed years they spent together, they discover how little they know of their beloved yesterday...and how one woman's darkest secret can tear them apart. show less

Pear raised all 4 children from different parents. The spoiled one all the others thought was the born daughter to the parents residing at the estate was really adotped and half black. She turned out to never change in her needy ways, even though the others went out of their way for her. Brody thought he was black and as it turned out he had 2 white parents. His mother died at child birth and the real father (Pearl worked for) took him in. The other 2 girls had "run-around" mothers.

Filled with surprises, secrets, wonderful characters. The surprises just keep coming.

Excellent reading!!!

Unique book with unusual twists and turns.