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Keeping the Family Peace Kindle Edition

4.4 out of 5 stars 6 ratings

Deprived of his father’s love and approval growing up, a history scholar must convince his aging father to reveal family secrets. The revelations will either tear them apart or allow him to become the man his father was never able to be.

A son searching for answers. A father who won’t talk. A family rocked to its very core.

Nick Peace knows more about the Middle Ages than about his own family history. His father Jack, a retired Navy captain, wants to keep the past buried. Nick struggles with his own desire to dig it up, though he’s certain it holds the secrets to the distance between them. Nick’s sisters aren’t much help – they have secrets of their own. The rift between father and son grows wider but as tragedy strikes the family, and the girls’ secrets come to light, Jack’s defenses begin to crumble.

Join the family Peace as they gather to celebrate – or mourn – life changing events…and underlying tensions reveal the secrets that could tear them apart.

Product details

  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00APPCVW0
  • Accessibility ‏ : ‎ Learn more
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ December 16, 2012
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1.2 MB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 308 pages
  • Page Flip ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.4 out of 5 stars 6 ratings

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Charlene Newcomb
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Charlene Newcomb, aka Char, writes historical fiction and science fiction. Her award-winning Battle Scars trilogy is set in the 12th century during the reign of Richard the Lionheart. Her writing roots are in the Star Wars Expanded Universe (aka Legends) where she published 10 short stories in the Star Wars Adventure Journal. She published the scifi/space opera Echoes of the Storm in 2020, and returns to medieval times with her latest novel Rogue in 2023.

Librarian (retired).

U.S. Navy veteran.

Mom to 3, grandma to 3.

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  • Reviewed in the United States on December 24, 2012
    Format: KindleVerified Purchase
    Nick Peace, youngest child, only son, tries for years to find out why his father seems to reject him. His sisters are loved, hugged, and cared for. Nick's father, the retired Navy man, says he loves him, but always seems to be disappointed. The Captain rarely touches him.

    Readers follow the family Peace over a number of years, watching Nick fall for the daughter of his dad's friend. She's a childhood friend who always wants to be "just friends," close friends, but never more than that. Nick watches as his sisters graduate from the Naval Academy and move on. He maintains his interest in history, not the military or ships. He's close to all of his sisters. Every time the family is together, Nick tries to make headway with his father. What's wrong? Why does his dad always change the subject or leave the room if they start to talk about him & ask him questions about his childhood?

    Charlene Newcomb has put together a very moving book. As the years pass by in the book, this reader continues to be attached to the Peace family and concerned about what happens to them. You will be too. In the end, the mysteries will be solved.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on January 12, 2013
    Format: KindleVerified Purchase
    "Keeping the Family Peace" follows the Peace family over a number of years, focusing on the youngest and only son, Nick Peace. Nick and his father, a retired Navy captain, struggle through a rocky father-son relationship, while his four picture-perfect sisters get along fine.

    We meet each member of the Peace family, and they each have a story to tell - some with secrets of their own. The author brings the characters to life, so much that you feel you are part of the story with them... you can feel the emotion, the tension, the highs, and the lows. The book pulls you in straight from the beginning and you won't want to put it down!
  • Reviewed in the United States on March 29, 2014
    Format: KindleVerified Purchase
    Do we really need to know all the family secrets to be a functional family unit? this family felt that they needed to know their father's secrets.
  • Reviewed in the United States on April 27, 2013
    Format: Paperback
    "Keeping the Family Peace" was a fantastic book by a fantastic author. The book was well written and the story brought out a full range of emotions. The family trials and eventual outcomes kept me reading. I could not put the book down towards the end.
  • Reviewed in the United States on January 29, 2013
    Format: Kindle
    Loved this fascinating family drama of young Nick Peace, his father and his 5 older sisters. While forced to secrets for a sister and his best friend, he tries desperately to learn his fathers secret that could tear this family apart. Lots of love, laughter and tears will keep you reading and once finished still wanting more. Hoping the author will write a sequel, but in the meantime, looking forward to whatever she publishes next.
  • Reviewed in the United States on January 10, 2013
    Format: Kindle
    Keeping the Peace is a really interesting story centered on a family with the events (and secrets) that mold their lives and which pulled me into their world. Really, I felt like I was in their home seeing them and hearing their voices as they move through the rooms - that's how fresh the characters are. Keeping the Peace was never boring, rather I was continually intrigued wanting to find out "what's next?"
    Nice!

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