Everything to Prove [Large Print]

To me, this is the perfect romance. I received the book from a woman who said it was the best book she'd ever read and that she had read the book three times! So I hung in through the slow start. About a third of the way in, the action picks up or the plot gets thicker! Anyway, from that point on, it's hard to put down, and, at the end, I have to say, it's the best book I've ever read! To me, it's the perfect romance because the sex takes place off-stage and there's even a hint of a prayer toward the end of the book, out of the mouth of he-man hero himself Carson Dodge! Loved it once it got good till the very end! Thanks, Nadia!

She never met her father as he died in a plane crash twenty-eight years ago just before she was born. However, Dr. Libby Wilson has come home from the lower Forty-Eight to Alaska with a need to know whether someone murdered her father on the day he was to marry her pregnant mother as she suspects his business partner killed him since the will was not changed and he instead of his daughter or his fianc?e inherited all. Libby hires Carson Dodge to salvage her dad's plane that crashed into Evening Lake, Alaska. Carson admires Libby's courage and agrees to help her with her quest by bringing up the plane as she wonders whether her theory will prove right. Meanwhile someone, she assumes her prime suspect, will do anything including murder to prevent the plane rising out of the watery grave. This action-packed thriller is made even stronger by the lead couple. Libby is fixated on the truth and her obsession grips the decadent Carson who finds her bravery intoxicating; he believes he has EVERYTHING TO PROVE to her that he is her champion. The powerful lead couple and strong support cast including the Alaskan geography make for a delightful exhilarating romantic suspense that the audience will read in one sitting. Harriet Klausner

EVERYTHING TO PROVE by Nadia Nichols April 12, 2006 I can always count on an enjoyable book when written by Nadia Nichols, and EVERYTHING TO PROVE is no exception. The story takes place in the beautiful state of Alaska, with the prologue detailing the story of a young man, Connor Libby, a Vietnam War Vet, who is about to marry his girlfriend, Marie Wilson, an Athaspakan Indian who worked for him and his godfather, Daniel Frey. Connor's father, Ben Libby, had been a very wealthy man, but when he passed away, his business went to Daniel, his business partner, making him Connor's guardian. Daniel never kept it a secret his disdain and hatred of the Indians that lived near the surrounding areas, and he was not happy that Connor had decided to marry Marie. On the day of their wedding, as Connor is flying his plane to meet Marie in her home village, his plane crashes and disappears into the deep lake across from their cabin, taking Connor with it. Connor's faithful dog, HoChi, a three-legged dog Connor saved in Vietnam, escaped the sinking plane but rumors had it that the dog's spirit haunted the grounds after that fateful day. Twenty-eight years later, Libby Wilson is in Alaska searching for answers about the father she never knew. She can't yet prove that Connor was her father, making her the rightful heir to the wealth held by Daniel. But she suspects that Daniel had something to do with her father's death. Her mother Marie never fought for the inheritance due to Libby, and continued to live in poverty to this day. Libby wanted to right what was wronged all those years ago, and despite her mother's warnings, she travels to the Lodge at Evening Lake, where her father's plane reputedly crashed, hoping to find the answers to her questions and to prove that she was indeed the daughter of Connor Libby. Libby asks the owner of a salvage company, Carson Dodge, to help her locate the plane. Despite a horrific diving accident that nearly took his life only 6 weeks before, he accepts the assignment to dig up the plane, but because of other engagements he can only devote a week of his time. She promises him a down payment of $5000, money she does not have, and although she does not tell him exactly what he is looking for in that plane, she promises him $150,000 for compensation, knowing that once she proves who her father is, she will have enough money to pay Carson. Carson imagines all sorts of treasures hidden in that plane, not realizing that all Libby wants to do is find the remains of her father which would help prove her paternity. Libby is up against a lot of challenges. Carson can barely change his clothes, let alone dive or handle a boat by himself because of his injuries. And Daniel Frey, now a very old man, had never stopped hating the Indians. When Libby comes to interview him under the pretense of a study for the Libby Foundation (Daniel doesn't seem to notice the coincidence of her first name), Daniel becomes nervous, and spies on them as th