Holding the Dream

Nora Roberts

Kate Powell's parents were killed in a car accident when she was young. Her relatives the Templetons adopted her. She now was part of a family, with Laura and Joshua as brother and sister, and Margo as close as a sister. While she missed her parents, she loved her new family.

Kate became a successful accountant at a firm in Monterey. At the beginning of this novel she discovers her father had been convicted of embezzlement shortly before his death. Her world is rocked. The Templetons must have known, but took her anyway. Her logical, accountant mind has trouble accepting the newly discovered past. Then she is accused of misdirecting funds at her own firm. She hides this information from her family while she tries to discover ways to prove her innocence.

Byron De Witt was the new manager at the Templeton Hotel in Monterey. He finds himself thinking about Kate. She is not his type, yet she invades his dreams. She is stubborn, secretative, and opposite of what he likes in women. So why does he feel the need to protect her when he realizes she has problems?

Holding the Dream gave me insight into the type of mind I don't have. Kate is well drawn and shows the logical, "bean counter" mentality. My mind does not work that way. I enjoyed this story, and felt it was a great middle book for this trilogy. It follows Margo's tale in Daring to Dream and is before Laura's story in Finding the Dream.

Notice: Explicit sexual content