Does She Love You? By Rachel Spangler

Diane Wallace

Loved! very impressive and insightful writing..it hit all the points that was necessary and needed..the author got this one right for once! To all who have been in similar situation like this,it must be painful to read but your life will get better once you have overcome the pain. Great topic to write about and take the risk with because it leads to us/readers to see of what being married looks like sometimes..highly recommend

Carrie

Holy infidelity.

There is this woman who has a wife but she ends up falling for another woman on a business trip. Then she thinks she should string them both along because it is the best for all of them if none of them get hurt. And it is making HER happier, so of course it is a good thing.

This was recommended to me when I asked for a book with a love triangle. This wasn't that, but I did love it. Spangler did a great job of making us like the two cheated women. Annabelle is the perfect adoring stay at home wife. She loves Nic so much and has sacrificed everything to make her happy. And Davis is a spunky hipster full of wit and sarcasm.

I was appropriately uncomfortable with Nic's lying, justifying, and manipulation. This is the kind of story that builds up and you anxiously await the moment that Nic is going to get caught. You know it is coming and you can't wait. Spangler did it justice and there was no let down.

My favorite thing about this book was watching Annabelle grow and discover herself.

My only complaint is the amount of attention still paid to Nic once all was revealed. At that point, I didn't have much interest and couldn't have cared less about what happened to her. Every time it switched to a chapter about her, I was bored.

Overall, this was a book with quite a bit of angst but in the last 2/3 was all growth, hope, and love.

I recommend this to people who love to read about marriage, betrayal, cheating, keeping up with the Joneses, Atlanta, the Braves, roller derby, romance, and scotch straight up.

Jem

Nic and Anabelle lead a picture perfect suburban life courtesy of Nic's successful sales career. But success breeds boredom and complacency. And an ultra competitive alpha like Nic just couldn't resist the challenge and the thrill of the chase when she crosses paths with fiesty and sassy Davis. As their affair escalates, so does the tension and dread, as the risk of discovery looms imminent. But time and again, Nic gets away with it because of the absolute trust of her wife and Davis' being blinded by her infatuation with Nic.

No good ending can possibly come of this. I cried for Annabelle, felt sorry for Davis and wanted to kill Nic. How can the author possibly squeeze an HEA out of this mess? I was completely hooked. No matter how she takes the story, someone is bound to be hurt (that's the thing I hate most with love triangles, but the guaranteed angst is hard to resist :) ). But the author totally shocked me. I admit I didn't see that coming. It was surreal. Something out of a telenovela. A real, true-blue WTF moment. Really? How is the author gonna pull that off? Well I'm happy to say she managed to convince me. How she does it is the interesting part.

Luce

I was reluctant to read this book, because infidelity isn't what I want to read about. However, a number of my Goodreads friends gave it good marks so I gave it a try.
The first half of the book was difficult to read as Nic lies to herself and to Annabelle (her wife) and Davis (the other woman). Liars are the worst in my opinion. I knew someone who lied to my face without blinking an eye. I pictured Nic with that same look.
The second half of the book we see Annabelle and Davis connect and help each other recover from Nic's betrayal. What makes this book unique is that we also follow Nic's journey. I loved Annabelle. Yes, she seems too good to be true, but I don't care. She is just someone you want to know and be your friend. I need to (I will) read it again to get a clearer picture of Davis.
An excellent book. I'm glad I got over my qualms and read it.

UPDATE: April 2018 - re-read. I listened to half the book and read half. I liked it more the second time. As a result I’m upping my rating to 5 Stars.

Farah

Cheating, what is it good for? Absolutely nothing, say it once, twice, thrice, drill it into our thick skulls, tattoo it onto our foreheads until we get it.

What drove Nic to cheat on his 13 years marriage? Annabelle was nicknamed Stepford Wife, she was loving, supportive, beautiful, she cooks everything from scratch - nothing from the box or the freezer section - much to Davies' surprise. So why did Nic cheat? Why do anyone cheat?

Isn't it the very best feeling when you start reading a book without having any high expectations and then you end up devouring it, wishing it would never end? Spangler had an amazing ability to let her readers experience this married couple's + the other woman's genuine love for each other while, at the same time, allowing the reader to recognize the devastating damage being done as these women try to resolve the break down of their marriage/relationship due to unwise choices.

Rather than conforming to what would be considered 'right', this book focuses on what is real...and real life isn't always pretty. Instead of shooting for 'predictable', this book became relatable and simply put, I loved it.

Annabelle and Nic's relationship has only ever known perfection. Nic exudes self-control and confidence and is intent on supporting Belle and Belle happily basks in the safety of Nic's protection. When real life relationship issues arise, they are both ripped off the pedestals the other has created, and neither of them is equipped to deal with the heartaches of broken trust and betrayal.

I truly enjoyed the three leads as individuals and as couple. Their touching story was realistically portrayed and there was an honest beauty in their flaws. Let's face it, life's much easier when we're not expected to be perfect. Why should our fictional characters be entirely faultless?

I can't stop matching Does She Love You to Something To Talk About - Dennis Quaid and Julia Roberts.

Gaby LezReviewBooks

I have to admit that I refused to read this book for a long time. A plot in which two lovers of the same woman discover her infidelity, slowly become friends and eventually get romantically involved had seemed a bit far fetched and endogamous for my taste. Of course infidelity happens a lot in real life but normally romance readers don't want to be reminded about it. So, kudos to Ms Spangler to raise such an uncomfortable issue and somehow make it work in a lesbian romance. The three characters in the love triangle are multilayered, the author brings to life the 'villain' with good and bad traits, in her human contradictions as she falls slowly in her own manipulative trap. The main characters, Annabelle and Davis, each show vulnerability and strength at the same time. Their chemistry isn't forced despite the strange situation they've been thrown into and their eventual involvement flows seamlessly. Despite my previous reticence, it was an enjoyable read.

Overall, a different romance that doesn't shy of presenting a contentious issue. 4 stars.

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Corporate Slave

Wow! Such a kick ass plot I loved every single bit of it! Amazing characters and the pain you feel was so real! And the happiness was even more real! I know it's quite strange and I should hate Nic but for the weirdest reason, I felt so sorry for her when I finished the book. For sure she's an idiot and deserves the worst but by the end of the book I just couldn't be happy when her life started collapsing. People do make mistakes and I understand that it's so hard to forgive what she's done but I couldn't not feel sorry for her unfortunately! My fav character was Davis :)

I enjoyed Does She Love You? even more on the second reading, so I changed my rating from four to five stars. This is so far my favorite book by the author.

Ted

Reading other reviews on this only confused me. There's not much that I liked about this book. I knew by the blurb there was going to be infidelity so that wasn't a surprise. What does surprise me is how many folks just gush over this book. So maybe it's my perspective? IDK. But just about cover to cover this book is about anguish, anger, distrust, self loathing, insert your bad feels here and it's probably covered. Why does that appeal to so many people? Absolutely mind boggling. How is that appealing to read for enjoyment? To derive pleasure from reading about despair doesn't balance any equation I know about. This was a 100% grind.

Carly

This book was frigging awesome!! I was unsure at first as infidelity isn't my favourite subject within a story and my God it left me feeling emotionally drained. These characters really draw you in and you really care for them. Annabelle is the most genuinely lovely person in the entire world. I loved how the story developed and how emotions were processed and dealt with, it felt real. I don't think I could re-read this as it did take its toll on me and at times felt heavy, however I highly recommend this book to everyone who loves a romance.

Ardila

Truthfully, I have avoided Rachel Spangler’s books. Solely because I did not enjoy
Edge of Glory which seems to be in most people’s favourites list, and I thought maybe her writing just didn’t work for me. From Lex’s recommendation, I’m so glad I didn’t avoid this one.

Going through the first half of the book makes me feel like I have an affinity for pain. I had a constant ache in my chest reading through Nic’s cheating adventures on her loving wife of 13 years, Annabelle, and her mistress - passionate, strong-willed Davis. Not only from the lying and deceit Nic put them through, but also from the guilt Nic manipulated them into feeling from their paranoia, just to save her own ass.

I didn’t expect things to progress the way they did, but in the best way possible. I expected Davis’ story to mellow down and slowly disappear, and we’ll only be able to see Annabelle and Nic’s progress and POV after she got caught. Fortunately, Ms. Spangler had a way better approach than my mind of limited infidelity stories can ever come up with. I was not expecting a HEA :’)

There are so many things that are done right in this book. Blaming your spouse for cheating instead of her oblivious mistress, explaining the thoughts of the person who did the cheating, the confrontation after she got caught, the character developments for all 3 MCs, the burning chemistry, the slow burn, the sex scenes, honestly I could go on and on. A great read that will cause some if not many feelings of pain and acceptance.

4.5 stars.

Leah

I’m not really sure how I felt about this one. I need to think about it.

Julia

This was a damn awesome book. At first I wasn't all that excited about the prospect of reading so much about two relationships that were about to collapse epically, but the quality of the writing and the depth of the characters were what kept me interested. And after the big breakup, it gets impossible to put down.

While Davis was great from her very first scenes, it takes a while for the book to start showing how interesting Annabelle also is. Before the breakup, it was frustrating to see her not allowing herself to demand anything more from Nic, and just be grateful for having a wife that supported them and made her feel loved. But we slowly start to understand why she was like that, and it turns out she's so much more than a boring Southern housewife.

Nic was an asshole. Not completely unlikeable, and the ending was satisfying to me, but from her POV we could see just how much she put herself first always. Not that that's a completely bad thing, but being in a relationship, she cared more about the relationship itself and what it meant to her than about the other person.

That scene where Annabelle and Davis — I couldn't wait for them to realize that these things that they lacked in their relationships with Nic, these were some of the aspects of their personalities that would make them perfect together. They complete each other in a way that Nic didn't. Nic didn't appreciate them as their own individuals as much as she saw them for what they offered her: Annabelle was the housewife she could be proud of providing for, the stability; Davis was the passion and adventure. And she failed to see how both of them so desperately wanted to be a bit more like the other, if only she'd let them.

Annabelle was, in Cass's wise words, "a reverse M&M, all sweet and smooth on the outside with a tough shell inside". She spent so long with the same woman that she hardly realized that Nic was keeping her from so many things she wanted to do. Davis, on the other hand, kept her soft side well hidden; she lamented the fact that her tough and independent exterior made her the kind of woman that others wanted to have sex with, not a serious relationship. She claimed not to mind being single, but deep down she wanted someone who wouldn't just spend the night, but also wake up in her arms the next morning.

(On a side note, Cass was such a great supporting character. Her logical approaches to the situations Davis was dealing with and all their interactions were brilliant, and she was just so much fun.)

All of this was so beautifully written and developed. And I loved the name thing with Annabelle. Nic called her Belle, which sounds beautiful and gracious and reminds me of how Nic treated her and put her on a pedestal to be cherished, like a delicate porcelain doll. And then, when she was beginning a whole new part of her life, there was Davis calling her Anna instead, and it just sounds so much more... normal. Less like the idealistic perfect housewife that Nic saw, and more like the woman with her own dreams and opinions who deserved someone that would fully respect that.

I wish we had seen more of Annabelle and Davis after they finally got together, but all the time it took meant that we got to read all about how their relationship developed and they slowly realized they were able to see each other as so much more than "Nic's ex-wife" and "Nic's mistress".

Luce

This is a re-read - this time the for the audiobook. Full disclosure- I listened to half during a road trip and finished it on my own.

As always excellent narration by Melissa Sternenberg. This is the 7th book with Sternenberg I’ve heard.

This is a reread so I knew what I was getting. But that doesn’t make the premise more likely or the subject matter more likable. I said in my review of the ebook - I don’t read books with infidelity but many of my Goodreads friends gave it high marks so I decided to give it a try.

I think I liked it better after the reread. Listening may have contributed to my increased enjoyment. Plus I just got more out of it. The characterization and journey of growth of the three main characters are excellent. Rarely (if ever?) do you also see the journey of the cheater. In this case, Nic. She is unlikeable but by the end of her journey I didn’t hate her as much. That is saying a lot. I learned more about Davis (the other woman) this time around that I missed. This is why I love to reread books. It’s either like visiting an old friend or getting something new out of it that you missed or didn’t fully appreciate before.

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Nic(ole) and (Anna)Belle have been together for thirteen years. Nic's career is progressing and Belle has quit work to be a "housewife" and is looking forward to starting a family.

Nic travels regularly for work. One night, not for the first time, she hooks up with a stranger in a bar and something sparks between her and Davis.

Davis has been hurt before and is closed off to the possibility of a new relationship, but she sees something in Nic, who doesn't reveal to Davis that she is already in a relationship.

Nic chooses to string both women along rather than hurt Belle or Davis by breaking things off with them.

Of course it all falls apart, all three women a devastated and we follow them as they rebuild their lives.

I enjoy books that deal with infidelity and there don't seem to be many sapphic romances that fall into this category. This is a great one.

Nic is easy to despise and I was surprised when the story continued to follow her after the big breakup - her path isn't an easy one and I felt she deserved everything she gets. Annabelle was the star of the story for me, and seeing her grow in strength and independence as she builds a better life for herself was a joy.

If you can handle the angst then this is a great read. Very recommended.

hubsie

An unexpectedly great read with a high dose of infidelity, which I know is gross, but the author deals with it in such a raw, real way. The three main characters are all fleshed out in this book, and the story is from the perspective of all of them. Annabelle and Davis and Nic, three completely different personalities, all layered and complicated in their own way. This is a slower read, and there is a lot of OTT language, some scenes are almost excruciatingly drawn out, but a shit ton of heartache happens in this one, so I just let it ride.

Even though I of course struggled with Nic and her cheating and selfishness, it is certainly not often that an author has been brave enough to try and get into that person's psyche. We get glimpses of Nic's awful past and reasons why she's so driven and has this "idealized" life planned out. Normally in fiction the cheater is the bad guy/girl and we readers are led to just hate them. While I don't condone Nic's behaviour in the least, I do feel that the story was much richer by including her voice.

Tiff

Whew, I just finished Does She Love You? by Rachel Spangler. This book will take you for a ride on an emotional roller coaster. I felt sadness, oh the sadness. Then happiness, yay, I love happy feelings. Oh but the one emotion that stuck with me, hatred! Not for the book, no worries there, the book is damn good. No the hatred is for one character that I am 100% sure was an offspring of Lucifer. I’m being overly dramatic, yes, but let me explain and you can join in on the emotional roller coaster that is Does She Love You?

So there are three main characters to this book, Nic, Annabelle and Davis. Nic is married to Annabelle. 13 years of wedded bliss for the couple, or so Annabelle thinks. They have it all, a large house in Athens, Georgia, a country club membership, and a loving marriage to boot. Annabelle, a former debutante, quit her job years ago to be the stay at home wife Nic wanted her to be. Annabelle does everything she can to be the wife Nic needs. She spoils her, helps her navigate the upper crust society of Athens and Annabelle also supports Nic in her drive to be the very best at her career. Annabelle is and has always has been the guiding force to Nic’s success. They only problem is Nic has become bored with her life, and frightened at giving Annabelle her true dream, to become a mother.

So what does the competitive, successful Nic do? She finds an unsuspecting lover on her weekly trips to Atlanta. Enter Davis. Davis is spunky, fierce and full of passion. She has a sassy way to her that captivates Nic. So after a few well-placed lies here and there, Nic has herself both an amazing sexy girlfriend and a beautiful supportive wife. This horrible little prick really thought she could have it both. She believed she was making them both so happy, so what is the harm in her deception. I told you hate was on this roller coaster. I HATED Nic! I wanted to slap the daylights out of her, squirt her with maple syrup and then release the fire ants on the evil hussy. That kind of HATE! (I promise I am not normally a violent person, pinkies swear :)

I felt so much sadness for Annabelle and Davis. These two amazing women were duped by a master manipulator. They gave their trust, their hearts and their bodies to Lucifer’s spawn. I literally jumped for joy when Nic got busted and the truth came pouring out.

By this point I’m wondering where the romance to this book is going to come into play. Surely Nic is out of the equation right? If not this book would be set aflame, (not literally cause I tend to read on my phone and that would be ludicrous but you get the point). Have no fear where there is a will there is a way!

So, a friendship of pain is forged between the cheated, Annabelle and Davis. They bond over their misfortune and help heal the wounds that the Devil’s baby, Nic, created. These two found strength in each other and discovered after much soul searching how Nic had been holding them back from their true nature. Annabelle was tired of being someone’s trophy and Davis was more than just someone’s between the sheets playmate. Lastly their friendship turns into something more, even though the odds are against them. So freaking sweet and abounding with happiness!

How Rachel Spangler wraps this story up is excellent. The range of emotions is vast but the ending, oh well that is the best part! A great book is one that wraps you up in it, one that makes you feel real emotions. Rachel Spangler delivers in spades with this one!

Just a man's point of view

Now, this was not all cozy and fluffy reading, this has been quite tough.
It is a novel about betrayal, it's about what betrayal is, what there is behind it, in terms of causes and effects. The final effect of cheating, in its core, is simple. It destroys trust, and when trust is lost, love follows. But dealing with so much loss is everything but easy, it touches the inner cords, upsets every balance. It is indeed hard.
So here we have all the main characters facing this difficult, ugly situation, the hit and the consequences. And not only we see that from the point of view of Annabelle, the betrayed wife, or of Davis, the unaware mistress who falls in love, but (and here Rachel Spangler proves to be a hell of a writer) even from the point of view of Nic, the cheater.
The story could have been much more superficial, seen only by Annabelle and Davis, a description of fall and rebirth. Nic could just have been the baddy, the contextual catalyst of the events.
On the contrary, Spangler shows us how the treachery is conceived by her, the psychological flaws that made it possible, her hopes and feelings (even guilt) during the process. It's all so believable.
While the other two women, from a basis of a clear conscience, gradually start to overcome the blow, grow into better individuals and open again to love, Nic falls in a personal hell of guilt, loneliness and neglect. The consequences for her are much heavier. I felt for her, reading.
Overall, the book is wonderfully rich, psichologically intense and coherent, the love story and the romance is sweet and original and Nic's odissey is a rare gem.
A full five star, for me.

Ty

If I hadn't been 1) working my way through all of Rachel Spangler's books and 2) enjoying myself immensely as I did so, I probably wouldn't have chosen to read this. Infidelity is not something I like to read about. It's hard for a writer to be successful with that as a plot device. In most cases, they seem forced to create a character for the reader to hate, a proxy for us to heap our displeasure for cheating on. Sometimes it's the cheater we hate. Worse, sometimes we are given a partner to hate so we will forgive the cheating in the character we are supposed to like. It all becomes very clear cut and one dimensional.

So I wouldn't have chosen to read this. But I'm glad I did. The only way a story like this can be successful is if it has good character building and good writing. Spangler has both. Her characters in particular are wonderfully flushed out, and written so that you root for everyone, even though you are rooting for different outcomes for them.

I found the sprinkling of Reba McEntire lyrics throughout the dialogue very cute, although also distracting because every time my eyes ran over them, I would start singing the song in my head.

Megzz

4.5

This was a great story. It took me a long time to decide to read it because I'm not a fan of love triangles, it confuses me and my heart and often undermines my attachement to one couple.
But this one works, it really does.

It's hard to like Nic, but strangely enough, it's also very hard to dislike her. We get to read some chapters from her POV and we understand that she is struggling to find fulfillment in her life. She's egotistical, that's for sure. And dishonest. But there's something really sad about how lost she seems to be in the world, how lonely.

It's obvious from the beginning though, that Nic doesn't see Anna for who she is. There is love between them, but maybe because of a sense of obligation after 13 years of marriage. Or maybe simply out of habit. Their relationship lacks passion. Nic is away for work 3 days a week, and finds passion in other women's arms. Anna is left in her suburban home doing the boring housewife thing and hanging out at the country club. Something she feels grateful about but really just eats at her soul little by little, even if she doesn't realise it. She craves adventure, deep down too. She is sweet and caring but unbelievably strong. However, we don't really get to see that until later. In the beginning, she is the really devoted wife who's spent years sacrificing her desires and dreams to satisfy Nic's needs. So much that she forgets how to even voice her opinions.
Nic and Anna are clearly not a good match.

Nic and Davis, either. Their connection and passion seems real, on the surface. Even their proclaimed love, later. But they don't really know each other. Each other's souls and inner selves. Nic loses herself in the wonders of fun and adventure and Davis loses herself in the idea of true love while ignoring the signs that not everything is as it seems. Both cling onto a false sense of satisfaction but really don't look past their own desires. They just don't go well together.. both are a little butch, competitive, fiery. They don't complete each other.

And it's also obvious from the start, that Davis and Anna would. And that's the lovely part of this story. Unfortunately, the first part was way too long and the second a bit too rushed. But... Davis and Anna are so perfect for each other. Davis is tough on the outside and sensible on the inside, she's caring and honest and romantic. Anna is graceful and almost fragile on the outside, but strong and opiniated on the inside. Both feel a connection from the start, and if at first it comes from the pain they share, they both realise it's way more than that. And this is dealt wonderfully by the writer. They form a friendship and closeness based on trust and honesty, they see each other, understand each other, and fall in love without knowing.... The connection is there, the love, the passion, the chemistry, well... the full package. And everything falls into place.

It lost a star because we don't get to read enough about Davis and Anna after they get together. And because during that second part I didn't care much for Nic's story. I found it boring and skipped some of the chapters about her. I was just interested in the one lovely romance of the book.

Anyway, great writing, great characters, engaging and exciting plot that keeps you up all night, and lots of feelings!

Agirlcandream

I was impressed with Spanglers ability to create such fully developed characters. Nic is sexy and controlling, driven by her need to prove herself better than her trailer trash roots. Annabelle, the beautiful southern belle is possibly the first lesbian housewife I have ever read in f/f lit. She does everything for Nic out of love and the reader feels that love and devotion. Davis is the wild child, less well developed initially but a character that Spangler fleshes out as the story moves and the plot begins to tangle.
I struggled to put this book down as I sat in the bleachers shouting at the characters to beware the approaching train wreck.
I was impressed again by how deep and raw the emotions of the the three MC's are expressed. Spangler hold little back. Well done.
The ending of the book gets a bit predictable and wanders aimlessly losing one star from this reader, but overall the book is an excellent read.

Jo reece

well... I'm afraid this is a no for me, but that's just my opinion... Don't get wrong, I'm a big fan of Rachel Spangler, but if this was the 1st book of hers I'd of read, I think it would have put me off reading any more of her books. It just didn't 'catch' me like the rest of her books.

2 stars because I liked Davis personality ...

Fia

They should've talked less about Nic and more about anything else.

And I didn't give a damn about Nic's points of view. She didn't deserve any.

Bib

I finish reading this book in one sitting. I pitied Nic, the antagonist; and could not wait to find out how things developed for the protagonists, Annabelle and Davis. This will definitely be a more memorable book I read, by the author. While reading this book, I can’t help but remember other infidelity theme books. Before It Stains by R.E Bradshaw and another which I have been putting off, The Other Mrs Champion by Brenda Adcock.

Kexx

Not for me, not in this mood. Well written as always by Rachel, but too much angst for me. My bad. Sorry.

Musa

When I was reading the synopsis of the book, I wonder how this story would end as it was obviously a situation where nothing good can come out of.

Annabelle has been Nic's perfect wife for more than a decade. She focuses on making Nic happy and taking care of every single aspect in day-to-day life for Nic. Shit hits the fan when she realized Nic was having an affair with Davis, an absolute wild child and a complete opposite of Annabelle.

I think how the author wraps up the story is brilliant, and it is probably the best out of this messy situation. I've loved reading Annabelle morphed from being the housewife with limited character, into the strong and mature woman towards the end. Though Nic was the "villan" throughout the book, towards the end, you can't help but wish that she'd also get her second chance with life. This is a book that certainly worth reading.

Kennedy

This story is about what could happen when the day-to-day life of a long term relationship is not enough and instead of getting out, you choose other options. Nicole cool, smooth and sexy. Annabelle elegant, gracious and caring. I thought the support characters Cass and Liz were important to the story because they not only provided perspective but stood up for their person yet not saying what they thought Nicole and Annabelle wanted to hear but what they needed to hear. Although I did not like the choices and decisions Nicole made, I can understand why she did what she did. It is hard as heck to distance yourself from your upbringing.

Tara

Very good book. I wanted to punch Nic for most of it, but I loved Annabelle's arc and Davis was great.

Angie

Does She Love You? is not an easy novel to read, but it's definitely unlike anything I usually read and somehow Rachel Spangler pulls it off.

So this novel caused me a lot of anxiety. Nic and Annabelle have been married for 13 years. Nic, who's come from nothing, not only manages to woo and marry the quintessential Southern Belle and daughter of a successful rancher but she also manages to build a life of upper-middle class luxury few will reach and even fewer expected her to reach. Annabelle adores Nic. So much so that she's given up everything to be the perfect housewife while Nic continues to climb the corporate ladder. Never mind that she'd just as soon trade all of their comforts in things for more time with her wife. But Nic's trajectory to the top will not be deterred.

It's during a business trip to Atlanta that Nic meets Davis, who's basically the complete opposite of Annabelle. And it's the stark contrast between the two that appeals to Nic. Where Annabelle is sweet, Davis is sarcastic. Where Annabelle is a Southern Belle, Davis is non-conforming. Where Annabelle is dependable, Davis is brash and unpredictable. And Nic thinks she deserves to have them both. And she does, for a while.

Most of the angst of this novel is waiting for everything to crumble for all of them and it's hard to experience because both Annabelle and Davis are so damn likeable and definitely don't deserve what's happening at the hands of Nic. And that's what makes the second half of the novel so interesting--as we get to see Annabelle and Davis (and even Nic) deal with the fallout of Nic's infidelity. This isn't some great, sweeping romance, but it is, ultimately, a romance that's found through forgiveness, work, mutual understanding, and, ultimately, the thing that's still so hard to grasp: trust.

Title	:	Does She Love You?
Author	:	Rachel Spangler
Rating	:
ISBN	:	1602828865
ISBN-10	:	9781602828865
Language	:	English
Format Type	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	264
Publication	:	First published July 15, 2013

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