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Trinity Street West #4
A Man to Trust
THE MAN BEHIND THE BADGE
Kelsey Hall needed someone to trust. But the one man she wanted desperately to trust with her secrets AND her heart, was the one man she KNEW she couldn't....
One week at Kelsey's country inn was the only vacation Detective Cruz Gregerson allowed himself from his badge and the daughter he adored, but his hostess was turning out to be one irresistible case. Now Cruz was on the job again... and this time his heart was on the line.
TRINITY STREET WEST: Where danger lies around every corner -- and the biggest danger of all is falling in love.
Kelsey Hall needed someone to trust. But the one man she wanted desperately to trust with her secrets AND her heart, was the one man she KNEW she couldn't....
One week at Kelsey's country inn was the only vacation Detective Cruz Gregerson allowed himself from his badge and the daughter he adored, but his hostess was turning out to be one irresistible case. Now Cruz was on the job again... and this time his heart was on the line.
TRINITY STREET WEST: Where danger lies around every corner -- and the biggest danger of all is falling in love.
256 pages, Paperback
First published August 1, 1997
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About the author
Leah Bendavid-Val
34 books9 followersLeah Bendavid-Val is a historian of photography who has worked with Russian photographers for more than two decades. She is the author most recently of Song Without Words: The Photographs & Diaries of Countess Sophia Tolstoy (published in October 2007). Her two earlier books about Russian photographers and themes are Propaganda & Dreams (1999); and Changing Reality (1991).
Bendavid-Val is former Director of Photography Publishing for National Geographic Books. Books published in her program for popular and professional audiences have been translated into more than a dozen languages. Bendavid-Val is author of two books on the history of National Geographic photography—Stories on Paper & Glass (2001) and the best-selling National Geographic: The Photographs (1994), which is still in print. She is co-author and editor of National Geographic Image Collection, on the New York Times Bestseller List in December 2009.
Based on her Russia and National Geographic work, Leah Bendavid-Val has served as curator for exhibitions at the International Center for Photography, New York, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC, the Pushkin Museum, Moscow, and other museums. She teaches writing and book publishing for photographers at the Santa Fe Workshops in New Mexico. She was Commencement Speaker for the University of Maryland Department of Philosophy, Class of 2008.
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Bendavid-Val is former Director of Photography Publishing for National Geographic Books. Books published in her program for popular and professional audiences have been translated into more than a dozen languages. Bendavid-Val is author of two books on the history of National Geographic photography—Stories on Paper & Glass (2001) and the best-selling National Geographic: The Photographs (1994), which is still in print. She is co-author and editor of National Geographic Image Collection, on the New York Times Bestseller List in December 2009.
Based on her Russia and National Geographic work, Leah Bendavid-Val has served as curator for exhibitions at the International Center for Photography, New York, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC, the Pushkin Museum, Moscow, and other museums. She teaches writing and book publishing for photographers at the Santa Fe Workshops in New Mexico. She was Commencement Speaker for the University of Maryland Department of Philosophy, Class of 2008.
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May 7, 2011
A Man to Trust is such a great book. It is a book about two people with a lot of hurt.
Cruz is a decorated cop of Trinity West. He has two things in his life that he loves and concentrates on his job and his daughter Sam. He adores his daughter and makes sure he is there for her always and even keeps a pager on him so that he is always nearby. He lets Sam rescue her animals and even puts with the snake he hates. Their house is like a zoo and there is so much of love between the two.
Cruz married early, when he was 19 and his wife walked out on them when Sam was 3. She had been a part of an accident and realized that she had not lived her life, she filed for divorce and was killed shortly, so Cruz never got any closure, he was determined not to hate her for his daughter and never dealt with what her abandonment made him feel instead he tried to be the best father possible.
Every year Cruz takes one week for himself, to get away from the job at an inn. The inn is run by Kelsey. Kelsey keeps to herself though she is cordial and friendly she is not forth-coming about her life and Cruz likes it that way since he goes there for peace and also he despite trying has been unable to move forward and feels content with the life he has. Kelsey calls Cruz up to tell him that he can't come and makes up an excuse, but the way she says it makes him suspicious and it makes him think it may have something to do with Kelsey having found out that he is a cop on his last visit.
Cruz goes anyways and Kelsey behaves normally with him though there is some wariness in her eyes. Kelsey is hiding a 16 year old in her house and we later find out that her inn is a place where kids in trouble can find shelter as long as they follow her rules. Kelsey doesn't believe in cops since she was failed by the system. She has worked hard all her life and believes herself to be quite ordinary. In order to deflect Cruz from finding out about Melissa(16 year old), she starts spending time with him asking him questions about his life and deflecting his attempts to find out about hers. But when Melissa runs away somehow they are thrown together.
Kelsey was someone who had such a horrific childhood though we don't find out the specifics of it much later when she trusts Cruz enough to confide in him. She knows that cops are not bad that they have to work within the bounds of law but she also knows that sometimes it is not enough and there are victims like her who lose their innocence because of that. Through Cruz she comes to see them in a different manner and begins to let go of her prejudices. Seeing Cruz, Kelsey and Sam together was so great. Kelsey seeing them together , saw that a parent-child relationship can be something beautiful and not ugly. Cruz knows that Kelsey has secrets but he lets her trust him enough and then asks. Their relationship evolved from friendship to more and they don't get intimate until Kelsey makes Cruz resolve his issues with the past.
I loved this book, I did. It felt great to see how two damaged people came together and Sam was a bonus addition.
Cruz is a decorated cop of Trinity West. He has two things in his life that he loves and concentrates on his job and his daughter Sam. He adores his daughter and makes sure he is there for her always and even keeps a pager on him so that he is always nearby. He lets Sam rescue her animals and even puts with the snake he hates. Their house is like a zoo and there is so much of love between the two.
Cruz married early, when he was 19 and his wife walked out on them when Sam was 3. She had been a part of an accident and realized that she had not lived her life, she filed for divorce and was killed shortly, so Cruz never got any closure, he was determined not to hate her for his daughter and never dealt with what her abandonment made him feel instead he tried to be the best father possible.
Every year Cruz takes one week for himself, to get away from the job at an inn. The inn is run by Kelsey. Kelsey keeps to herself though she is cordial and friendly she is not forth-coming about her life and Cruz likes it that way since he goes there for peace and also he despite trying has been unable to move forward and feels content with the life he has. Kelsey calls Cruz up to tell him that he can't come and makes up an excuse, but the way she says it makes him suspicious and it makes him think it may have something to do with Kelsey having found out that he is a cop on his last visit.
Cruz goes anyways and Kelsey behaves normally with him though there is some wariness in her eyes. Kelsey is hiding a 16 year old in her house and we later find out that her inn is a place where kids in trouble can find shelter as long as they follow her rules. Kelsey doesn't believe in cops since she was failed by the system. She has worked hard all her life and believes herself to be quite ordinary. In order to deflect Cruz from finding out about Melissa(16 year old), she starts spending time with him asking him questions about his life and deflecting his attempts to find out about hers. But when Melissa runs away somehow they are thrown together.
Kelsey was someone who had such a horrific childhood though we don't find out the specifics of it much later when she trusts Cruz enough to confide in him. She knows that cops are not bad that they have to work within the bounds of law but she also knows that sometimes it is not enough and there are victims like her who lose their innocence because of that. Through Cruz she comes to see them in a different manner and begins to let go of her prejudices. Seeing Cruz, Kelsey and Sam together was so great. Kelsey seeing them together , saw that a parent-child relationship can be something beautiful and not ugly. Cruz knows that Kelsey has secrets but he lets her trust him enough and then asks. Their relationship evolved from friendship to more and they don't get intimate until Kelsey makes Cruz resolve his issues with the past.
I loved this book, I did. It felt great to see how two damaged people came together and Sam was a bonus addition.
October 4, 2009
I gotta say the geography of this bugged me. They are supposed to live in southern LA area (the area kind of reminded me of a racially simplified San Pedro/Palos Verdes) but her hotel is an hour north? In traffic? And at the end, she's supposed to commute up there and back all the time? YEAH RIGHT -- no love, however true, can survive commuting up the PCH.
May 15, 2011
it started a bit slow for me but it was good. Those TSW are cops to fall in love with.
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