The Blessing and Burden of Family

 "Her Family's Secrets" by Joanne C. Parsons is an easy read. It has a happy ending and is a modern story about a woman whose marriage is falling apart. She inherited a cottage on the Cape. Once she sees the place she envisions just the house she always wanted, but her loser husband resists. This pushback was the impetus for her to break out of the marriage.

Andrea, the major protagonist, throws herself into renovating the cottage. Accidentally, she finds some hidden diaries in the house and lives in the stories of her ancestors. She falls in love again, with another loser but she moves on. She moves on because she finds out she's pregnant. She had been trying to get pregnant for years, so finally when it happens, she just rejoices.

Once again, she restarts her life, and this time it is a keeper. She takes a regular job and makes a new home and a new life by making her own family.

There were a couple of unbelievable exploits that bothered me. The big one was that the author has Andrea reading a local priest's diary. In it, he writes about a confession he heard from one of his penitents. That could never happen. The other boo-boo was that the author mentions that Andrea googled a man who asked her out on a date. She found him and she didn't notice that he was married. He turned out to be the other loser in her life besides her ex-husband. Although he does father her child, so there's that; she desperately wanted to get pregnant. It does have a happy ending and everyone likes that.