Big Girls Don't Cry

Keith has a wonderful loving wife Reenie, two kids and a home in the country. So why then does he mess around with Elizabeth and get her pregnant? Oh, and he never tells her he is currently married. His logic is that he'll marry her also, have another child and buy another house. Duh, now he is stressed and it affects both marriages. You think? For a smart man he isn't intelligent. Isaac, Elizabeth's brother, suspects that there is something wrong with Keith and he intends on finding out what it is. So he heads to Dundee, ID, thinking that the Other Woman is no good. He finds out that not only is Reenie sweet, kind and Keith doesn't deserve her but his sister is the Other Woman. The story builds from there. The book had me feeling sorry for both women- they each loved Keith so much and neither suspected that he was a bigamist. If nothing else, I was happy that Reenie and Isaac found each other. I am now looking forward to reading Elizabeth's story: The Other Woman.

Reenie and Elizabeth O'Connal think that they have good lives. Reenie lives in Idaho with her three daughters and Elizabeth lives in California with her son and daughter. The only problem is that while they do not know it they are married to the same man-Keith O'Connal. Then one day Liz's brother Issac sees Keith going onto a flight to Boise when he had told Elizabeth he was in Phoenix. Issac then discovers the double life that Keith had been hiding. Both Reenie and Elizabeth are devistated. Elizabeth decides to move to Dundee, Idaho with her brother and children in tow looking for some closer. While Reenie does not want to like Issac there is an unmistakeable chemistry that pulls the two of them together. What happens between Reenie and Issac as well as Reenie and Elizabeth and their kids? Read Big Girls Don't Cry.

I have read just about every one of my mom's books and Big Girls Don't Cry is one of my very favorites!

Unable to believe the number of business trips his brother-in-law Keith O'Connell makes to Dundee, Idaho, Isaac Russell decides to serendipitously follow him. Isaac is stunned to find that Keith has another wife with three young daughters besides his sibling Liz. Forced to make a decision, Keith chooses his Idaho family for the sake of his offspring. When his despondent sister Liz decides to follow her "husband" to Idaho, Isaac does likewise to insure she does not break the law by doing something stupid or even try to do something stupider like getting her "husband" to come back to her. Complicating matters at least in Isaac's mind is his attraction to Keith's schoolteacher first wife Reenie Holbrook, who uses her maiden name. Big girls do cry when they suffer broken hearts as both women do when the truth about Keith's bigamy surfaces. However, Reenie recovers faster perhaps because she has the kids to take care of (no time for breakdowns) and the interest of Isaac to help her move on while Liz feels abandoned and betrayed first by her two-timing spouse and then her brother. She and the kids provide the fresh extended look at the impact of bigamy. Harriet Klausner