Book Review: Harboring A Deep Secret
The Roberts, a prominent, small town family, has been harboring a deep secret and enabling a sick family member for too many years. Evil like this cannot stay silenced, especially with the ramped gossip among New Attica’s intimacy-starved housewives and nosy neighbors. When Jenny Masters returns to her hometown 10 years after being abused and exiled by the Roberts, she has not forgiven, nor forgotten the long-term emotional suffering inflicted on her by Dr. Samuel Roberts’ pedophilic ways and the family’s “blood is thicker than water” mind-set. The Roberts’ housekeeper sets the tone of the novel when she exclaims, “Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. And I do believe that the Roberts family scorned that girl.”