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USA Today bestselling author Lorhainne Eckhart’s books have been described as Longmire meets old school Dallas and she recently received the 2013 Readers’ Favorite Award for Romantic Suspense for her title Lost and Found. With over 30 titles under her belt, she is frequently a top 100 bestselling author in multiple genres such as Romance, Westerns and Mystery/Suspense, including such series as The Outsider, Walk the Right Road, The Wilde Brothers, The Saved and her most recent addition The Friessens: A New Beginning.
Lorhainne lives on sunny Salt Spring Island with her family where she is working on her next novel.
Reviewed by Natasha Jackson for Readers' Favorite
Andy Friessen, his wife Laura, and their children have packed up and moved to Montana to escape his blue-blooded mother. In The Deadline, Andy and Laura learn that their five-year-old, Gabriel, is sick and needs a bone marrow transplant, which opens up a can of worms and old hurts from Laura’s past. Laura must confront the parents who tossed her out when she became pregnant as a teenager, as well as the biological father who turned her away just as easily, in order to save the son she fought so hard to keep. Author Lorhainne Eckhart is adept at showing deeply felt emotions through actions, instead of just telling us. The insecurity, fear and paranoia practically emanated from Laura at the beginning of the story and watching her find her strength was truly an honor.
So much happened in The Deadline, yet it did not feel like an overwrought melodrama. Andy and Laura are two people unused to asking others for help, but when one of their kids falls ill, they quickly learn that’s what family does. Lorhainne Eckhart should be commended for her ability to create characters that are real instead of caricatures. Laura’s parents were reprehensible; Sue was too cold and inflexible and George was just an ornament, doing as his wife requested. It is a wonder that Laura and her brothers, Brian and Chad, grew into loving, decent people with them as role models. The characters in this story were multi-faceted and I’m hoping there will be an entire book dedicated to neighbor Kim and the good doctor, Bruce. The Deadline is an amazing tale of parental love, familial devotion and the strength required to keep it all together when a child’s life is on the line. As timid as Laura began in this story, she proved she was strong-willed when it really mattered and we’d all be lucky to have a little bit of Laura in us.
