Reviewer: Amy Lignor
Title: Sealed With a Kiss
Author: Carly Phillips
Publisher: HQN
ISBN-13: 978-0-373-77239-1
Release Date: October 2007
Genre/Sub-genre: Romance/Suspense
Year/Setting: Present, Hawkens Cove, NY/CT
Overall Rating: 3.0
Sexual Content Rating: Sensual
Language (Profanity/Slang) Content Rating: None/Mild
Violent Content Rating: Minimal
Carly's Website:
www.carlyphillips.com
Molly Gifford is our heroine. She’s a strong, witty gal who can’t seem to settle down with anyone until she finds a place to call her own. I don’t blame her. Growing up with a mother who went from boyfriend to husband, trying with all her might to latch on to men who would keep her in the elegant, lavish lifestyle that she was used to, she had very little time for Molly growing up.
But good news arrives when Molly finds out that her real father is a retired Army man living in small-town Connecticut. She drops everything, runs from the man who loves her more than life, and soon we find her at her father’s house. The father/daughter bonding is, however, absent from this story because when she arrives she finds that her father has been accused of murdering his best friend and business partner. He seems to have motive, opportunity, and the future looks as if he’s going to be spending it behind bars.
Molly calls upon the one and only person who could possibly help her father. You guessed it – the man who loved her more than life that she left behind. Daniel Hunter is just about the best lawyer that the Northeast has to offer. He’s also a young man who’s been in and out of foster homes all his life, latching on to his two best friends Lacey and Tyler as he went through the "system."
He comes to Molly’s aid – not because he loves her – but because he thinks that by helping her save her father, he will put closure to their shattered relationship. I think we all know how this turns out.
The mystery of the murder itself is interesting and the supporting cast that the writer gives to us is great; especially Grandma Edna. She is the commander of this Connecticut family and is absolutely hysterical. She changes her hair color every week and owns a Macaw who squawks out one-liners like it’s the Jay Leno show. For Grandma and the bird…read this book. 
Amy
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