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    Just Destiny (Destiny, #2)

    By Theresa Rizzo

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    What would you do if your whole world fell apart?
    Jenny Harrison made some poor choices in the past, but marrying Gabe was the best thing she’d ever done. They had the perfect marriage, until a tragic accident leaves Gabe brain dead and her world in ruins.
    Devastated by grief, she decides to preserve the best of their love by conceiving his child, but Gabe’s family is adamantly opposed, even willing to chance exposing long-held family secrets to stop her. Caught in a web of twisted motives and contentious legal issues, Jenny turns to best friend and attorney, Steve Grant. Steve wants to help Jenny, but he has reservations and secrets of his own.
    When something so private and simple turns public and complicated, will Jenny relent? What is Steve willing to sacrifice to help Jenny?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTheresa Rizzo
    Release dateMar 31, 2014
    ISBN9780989045032
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    Just Destiny (Destiny, #2)
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    Theresa Rizzo

    Theresa Rizzo is an award-winning author who writes fascinating stories that explore the complexity of relationships and families through real-life trials. Born and raised in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, she lives outside of Boulder, Colorado with her husband of thirty years.

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    • 5/5
      Just Destiny............. Theresa Rizzo. FIVE Stars This is the second novel I have read by Ms. Rizzo and it is equally as enjoyable as the first! Her combination of emotion, romance and controversial legal issues and courtroom drama is fascinating and kept me from putting this novel down!Jenny Harrison has been married for two years to a man she loves with all her heart. He has two college age children, and they get along with Jenny beautifully. The Harrison's next door neighbor is Steve Grant, Gabe's best friend and a wonderful friend to Jenny. He is secretly in love with her, but vows no one will ever know. For their anniversary Jenny and Gabe are taking a weekend trip to a bed and breakfast, to enjoy each other and just relax. Before their marriage, they had discussed having children, and they both agreed it was not for them. But, Jenny is changing her mind. In fact she is five weeks pregnant, despite using birth control. How would she tell Gabe, what would he do, would he hate her? Their wonderful weekend ends in tragedy, and Jenny's life changes forever. In the ensuing pages we go through Jenny's heartbreak, guilt and confusion. Gabe is clinically brain dead, and they want her to donate his organs. She knows it's the right thing to do, but how can she make the decision to end his life so abruptly? She finally acknowledges the need for swift action and signs the papers, with one stipulation. When harvesting his organs, they will harvest his sperm, and it will be frozen for her to use when she's ready. A legal battle begins when Gabe's uncle, who raised him after his parents died, is outraged and will do all he can to stop this procedure. His grounds are that Gabe did not give permission for this "atrocity." Steve is by her side constantly, supporting her in any way he can. The law suit gets ugly, and secrets and lies surface. Jenny depends more and more on Steve, and she realizes how important he has become to her. She thought she could never love again. This is a gripping story, with valid legal questions, wonderful characters, and leaves you with the question, who is right? I would highly recommend this novel.I received this e-book from the author for an honest review.Pat Fordyce
    • 2/5
      The characters’ are presented with quite a few social, moral and ethical issues, and it feels like the author’s stance on those issues is shouted out quite loudly. Although it is not uncommon for authors to address current issues, I much prefer a story told in a way that the makes the reader think about their own perspective on the topic rather than to be told how to feel about the issues. A little more writing finesse and ambiguity in the writer’s opinion would have made this story significantly more interesting to me.The story focuses on Jenny and her decisions and actions after the death of her husband. Jenny is an interesting character. She is in an unenviable situation which would usually make her a sympathetic character, however, her inconsistency, selfishness and dishonesty made her an unlikeable character for me. In fact, there were many times in the book that if felt like the author didn’t like this character given the way Jenny was presented. I would have liked more insight to Gabe, deceased husband, and Steve, hunky next-door neighbor, in order to form an opinion based on something other than Jenny’s perspective of them.The story was well paced and engaging. I had a hard time with some of the character reactions to situations in the story, and I can’t say if that is because I didn’t get a good feel for some characters or I thought the response was inconsistent with characters’ presented attributes. Although a HEA ending is usually appealing to me, I’m not sure that I buy into the epiphany that lead to this one. I enjoyed the book. It is an easy vacation read.