Signs That Might Be Omens

by Billie Hinton

Bingham Wade lives in near isolation on a NC mountain, leaving only to do recovery work - finding lost children. Cynical and lonely, bound by regret to the past, a lost girl with curly red hair forces him to his porch in the middle of the night, where he searches the internet for a woman he lost twenty years ago. Claire Caviness is married and owns an art gallery in Savannah. When she returns to NC for a funeral, things begin to she inherits money, buys a horse, reconnects with her father, and suddenly, things she lost in the past return to her. Signs That Might Be Omens, book two in the Claire Quartet, is a story of love, loss, and illumination. Signs is a #1 Smashwords bestseller in suspense. Book one, claire-obscure, is a #1 Smashwords bestseller in both literary and suspense.

Genres: Contemporary, Fiction, Suspense, Drama

262 pages, Kindle Edition

First published March 20, 2011

About the author

Billie Hinton lives on a small horse farm in North Carolina with her human family, two horses, a painted pony, two miniature donkeys, five fanciful felines, two Corgis (Pembroke and Cardigan), and a Golden Retriever girl learning to be a service dog.

She sees magic happen every single day.

Reviews

[Lisa Ann Hultgren · Rating 3 out of 5]

I didn't realize it was a sequel when I started it. Or apparently part of a quartet? It was just okay for me as a stand alone story. Not sure I'd feel much different if I read whatever came before it. I'll assume by how it ends that there is another book that comes after. I don't feel the need to find the rest of the series.

[Naomi · Rating 4 out of 5]

I have really enjoyed this series. Claire is just a character I could really sink my teeth into. In claire-obscure, I thought at the end, we would see an older wiser Claire make better choices in the sequel. There were many times..I just kept thinking "What are you doing??" and that is what I like in books.

One last thing, though, is that I don't know if I necessarily agree this book's description that finding things from the past are good things in Claire's case.

[Rebecca · Rating 2 out of 5]

Honestly, I was disappointed in this sequel. The book overall wasn't worth the elements I didn't enjoy, like the very frank language. Since the book was set some 20 years after the first one, I was sad to see the main characters only finally starting to break free from their pasts and move on. And the coincidences as the story was wrapping up were a bit too unrealistic. Oh well. At least I can imagine these characters with a happy ending now.

[Kathleen Valentine · Rating 5 out of 5]

Utterly hypnotic prose that draws the reader into a world of both obsession and undying love. This book, and its predecessor claire-obscure are bewitching narratives of heart-break and redemption. Highly, highly recommended!

[Holley Mouser (Clendening) · Rating 2 out of 5]

Too bad I found out about Claire-Obscure AFTER I finished this!! I felt lost through most of the first half!! Big build up to reunion then just ended! After trudging through all the different perspectives and timelines I expected much more!!

[Jackie · Rating 3 out of 5]

So far it's interesting although very choppy - jumps around A LOT so sometimes I think I'm reading about one period of the story when it's actually another.

[Jennifer]

loved this book but didn't. like the way it ended......unless there will be a third?????

[Terri · Rating 2 out of 5]

..I started this and really liked it for a while..then I got too bored with the "best friends both loving the same women" thing....so, I quit it....that rarely happens. blah...

[Naulayne Raiche Enders · Rating 1 out of 5]

Could not finish this. The abusiveness is just too much.