Plain Jane

Read this years ago, probably when it was first published and remember liking it. This time, I found the writing choppy and the premise a bit unbelievable. Jane is a tubby child, who grew into a swan. And she wants to bring the football team who had raped her friend, who then committed suicide, to justice.

Plain Jane by Fern Michaels
Jane and Connie are on their way back to the dorms when several men pull them off into the bushes and Connie is raped. She's the head cheerleader and most popular and is to be wed to the football hero. They didn't want Jane she's overweight and ugly the men say.
What happens next you can never imagine. Many years later Jane is now a psychiatrist and not only has a practice but a radio call in show where she talks others through their problems. She's had enough of the career and now wants to change and run a doggy care business.
She collects clues to solve the mystery. She has a love interest Mike that not only helps with her career choices but her whole life.
The house she lives in also is haunted and many a show more night she's awakened telling her she needs to call or do something...
Tragedy occurs and she let a friend, Betty down...and now a stalker is on her trail...
Love hearing how the other couple helps with the dogs as they are rescued and cared for. show less

Read years ago, but thoroughly enjoyed this audio version, which will be archieved 9/12/2023.

FROM AMAZON: Back in college, Jane Lewis would have given anything to be like homecoming queen Connie Bryan. Instead she was just Plain Jane - overweight, frumpy, and painfully shy. That was then. Today, a lovely and confident Dr. Jane Lewis has a thriving psychotherapy practice, her own radio talk show, a beautiful old Louisiana mansion, and her affectionate, nutty dog, Olive, to keep her company. The only thing missing is someone to share her life.

Jane has never forgotten Michael Sorenson, the boy she'd admired from afar in college. Now he's inspiring her to hope for a future together. She's also never forgotten the brutal, unsolved attack show more that ended Connie Bryan's life - and haunts Jane still. Suddenly the present collides with the past as she finds clues into the identities of Connie's attackers - clues that send her into a world of risk and excitement, challenging her to become a truly extraordinary woman...if she dares. show less

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