Field of Secrets

 Field of Secrets by Crystal Estell

The story opens with Josie and Knox trying to create a special night together.  They are two teenagers in love that have sex together for the first time. However, their special night is interrupted when cops show up to deport Josie’s father.  When they get to her trailer, he is taken away and her mom takes her and her siblings away in a cab.  Knox promises Josie if she ever comes back he will marry her.

Ten years later, you find out Josie had gotten pregnant that night.  She has been raising Cam on her own. Her sister Eva received a call from Tommy the Heyward farm manager with a request for Josie to call him. He informed Josie that he had her parents wedding rings and a bonus that was owed to her father that she would need to go to South Carolina to claim.  The rings were the reason she decided to get on the plane but the $10K bonus was a factor as well.

While on the Heyward Farm, she decides she is going to found out what happened with her father as the whole deportation doesn’t add up.  Plus the private investigator she reached out to found a rap sheet her her father when he was never actually arrested.  Indicated he was set up.

Josie and Knox need up having to spend a lot of time together.  Knox is getting the farm ready for his father’s wedding and Josie is roped in to help every step of the way.  He helps her look into her father’s deportation.  They need up picking up where they left off ten years ago when it comes to their feelings.  You slowly watch them start to fall in love all over again.

Things seems to be going well for them as a potential couple and with the investigation into her father.  Until Carl, the main suspect shows up with a gun and threatens Josie.  He is mad because he was fired since he altered Camillo’s records to show he was a criminal.

Knox finds Cam’s pictures after they had sex and knocked her purse over. This is when he finds out he has a son.  Josie never told Knox because he had big plans about becoming a big shot lawyer and she didn’t want Cam or herself to be the reason he didn’t get that.

They fly Cam to South Carolina so he and Knox could meet.  They become a family until Avery, Knox’s ex, shows up an claims him as hers.  Josie had just left Meemaw’s who told her the truth about what happened with her father.  Josie drove as fast as she could to Knox to tell him only to see Avery and hear the “news.” She decides it’s time for her to return to California.

In the end, Knox is able to fix the misunderstanding with Avery.  Cam helps him fix things with Josie. Mr. Heyward and Millie give their wedding to Knox and Josie stating they have plenty of time to get married but that is was time for Knox and Josie.  With their father’s record fixed, Mr. Hayward is able to locate him and bring him to the farm so he can walk Josie down the isle.

I absolutely loved this book.  I got so captivated in what was going to happen next that I couldn’t put it down.  If you like second chance love stories or second chance family stories, you will love this book.

I received a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review and I plan to buy a copy when it available. 

Reviewed by Shelly