Bøger af Sonette Tippens

Come with Sonette as she reveals secret after secret of her astonishing life in the Mexican hill town of San Miguel de Allende, an adventure that started in the hidden Colonial city in a time when the old traditions and customs were so much still in practice that her engagement to Abelardo, resulting from a proposal during a mid-night serenade, became a secret even from her as she unwittingly acted out a role of acceptance. As Sonette is carried along throughout Mexico on a quest for undiscovered pyramids, jungle villages, and explorations that include the volcanic explosion that buried a church and a village, fun, dangers, and revelations are described in colorful and surprising detail. Meanwhile, Abelardo's family, and all of San Miguel, are expecting the betrothal to culminate in a wedding with Sonette in line to become the future mistress of The Great House he will inherit. Interrupted by Abelardo's murder, Sonette is accepted as his "widow" and invited to live in the same Great House which has passed to Abelardo's nephew, Raul. As the years continue, and Sonette is included in ever unfolding mysteries, including death threats from the strangers who are digging under the 1640 built Great House as they search for buried gold, other surprises await her on an almost daily basis, and all are shared, in this book of surprises, in her true story titled, "The Great House: Secrets and Sonette".

The true story of an American college student abroad in picturesque San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, as she unknowingly accepts a proposal of marriage during a midnight serenade. Complications arise when two years later her "fiancé" is murdered. Far from stopping Sonette, the ties of the presumed future marriage now forever bind her to Abelardo's family. The story of their romance is revealed in rich detail as she returns to San Miguel to take her place in the family home, one of the few Great Houses still occupied since 1640, as the "widow" of Abelardo. Embraced by Abelardo's only remaining sister as a sister-in-law, Sonette is on hand during the drama of mysterious digging which is undermining the house, presumably in a search for gold hidden under the stables centuries ago. Suspected and gradually confirmed, the mid-night excavations cause a portion of the upper stories to collapse, the one witness willing to testify is found mysteriously dead in his apartment across the street, and the family is menaced and threatened. Meanwhile Sonette describes the joys of becoming a part of the daily life of a wealthy and prestigious family's routines as well as their adventures, using her painter's eye to portray in words of colorful detail all who dwell in, or enter, "The Great House of Raul Rodriguez". She shares her blunders and angers as well as her delights with realistic honesty as, however loved and accepted by the family, she is still a stranger in a strange land.