Unspeakable

I just finished Sandra Brown's Unspeakable. It's an older novel (10 years now...), but one that I hadn't read. Lola mentioned it when she was looking through my books ("You don't have Unspeakable? Sad.") so I picked it up at work.

It's about a deaf woman (Anna) and her son (David). Well, and a whole bunch of other people. In a small town in Eastern Texas, Anna lives with David and her father-in-law (Delray). When Jack Sawyer, a drifter, comes to work at the ranch where Anna lives. When Delray's good-for-nothing stepson breaks out of prison and Delray dies, Jack is the only one who can protect her and David.

Like all the other Sandra Brown novels I've read, it involves love, a huge scene where everyone is going to die (but doesn't, of course), and the twist at the end (usually within the last 15 pages or so) that is shocking.

And, of course, in the end, love conquers everything else.

Because in novels, the ending is usually happy, if unresolved.