A famous actress goes head-to-head with a powerful politician when she dares to name her abuser publicly in this small-town romance ripped from the headlines by USA Today bestselling author Tess Thompson. Genevieve Banks is one of Hollywood’s most successful actresses. While on set in the small Oregon town of River Valley, she forms a deep friendship with her handsome male co-star. He wants more, … deep friendship with her handsome male co-star. He wants more, but trauma deep in Genevieve’s past holds her back.
When her closely guarded secret is revealed, Genevieve must make a painful choice: stay silent and let others suffer at the hand of the man who victimized her or confront the violence in her past and hold her abuser accountable.
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Another great Tess Thompson read! This is the fourth book in the River Valley series and can be read as a stand alone.
This is the story of Gennie Banks, Hollywood it girl, fortune, fan, success but no one knows the real Gennie. Gennie is filming a movie on location in River Valley where she’s teamed up with actor Stefan Spencer. Stefan wants a relationship, Gennie is emotionally closed off after a tragic event when she was 15.
Gennie discovers that River Valley is more than a place , it is “her tribe”, it is filled with friends that are true, people who look out for one another, and genuinely care and love each other !
The world could do with more River Valley !
Thank you Tess Thompson for always being. the light at the tunnel !
This story
Keeps you on your toes, but brings a grouping of friends and family together to stand behind Gennie & Stephen. But also brings to light great long hidden abuse of power that people or I should say have over women. Tennis was raped and threatened at 15 and ended up giving up a child from that rape. I so enjoyed how this was written.
I had read book 2 some time ago and instantly became a fan of Ms Thompsons writing. This series can be read as individual standalones but take it from me, read together makes them even better. Each book is as terrific as the one before it
Sweet romance
This is such an excellent, amazing story. Very highly recommended and wish it just never had to end.
Good read.
This is not your typical romance novel. Riversnow by Teas Thompson deals with an emotional journey for Gennie as she finds true love in River Valley. Her past, which includes a unwanted pregnancy as a teenager, holds her back but the magic of the town and the people she befriends sets her free.
Really enjoyed this book Couldn’t put its down
Riversnow is another triumph for author Tess Thompson. It is the fourth installment in her highly-acclaimed River Valley series, but works equally well as a stand-alone novel.
In each of the River Valley books, the author has focused on a few main characters, while introducing others that appear in future storylines. Readers met Genevieve Banks in Riverstar. When this fourth book opens, we are taken back into the past, to a snowy town in Wisconsin. We are given an emotional view of a terrifying event that takes place when Gennie is a shy fifteen-year-old child. This incident shapes the rest of her life and becomes the foundation of Tess Thompson’s latest novel.
This story is a powerful illustration of how events that happen to us as children take root in our hearts and minds and shape who we become as adults, and how the decisions we make in our lives affect all those that we love—sometimes as much as they do ourselves.
I’ve read each book now in the River Valley series. I’ve enjoyed every one of them for different reasons. Tess Thompson has managed to center her novels largely in one setting—the enchanting town of River Valley— but she’s brought in a cast of characters who are wonderfully diverse, who come from all different backgrounds and who have a variety of experiences that make up who they are. She has deftly woven elements of domestic abuse, alcoholism, homelessness, suicide, political corruption and, most of all, love into this collection of tales, making them incredibly real and very relevant.
Although there were many things about the first three novels that I could relate to, Riversnow has touched me the most on a personal level. This was an emotional but satisfying read, and a perfect addition to the River Valley series.
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Wonderful story! Wonderful characters! Interesting series. I can’t wait to read more.
loved it!
Only read a little bit, didn’t like the storyline. Did not finish it.
Excellent book. — it ought to be made into a movie.
Good read!
It could happen to anyone, and it shows what power can do.
I liked this book.I found the characters realistic and engaging and thought the story moved along at a good pave.The storyline includes an issue that has unfortunately had exposure in our media recently and is timely.Well done.
It was an ok book
Heart warming.
This book is somewhat like a sporting event … the first half plays out by setting up the plot and story line, but it’s almost the the point of being boring. But the second half … wow … definitely zooms from a three-star-rating to a five-play (higher if that was possible). Super, fantastic action scenes that leave you cheering for those wearing white hat, and hissing those wearing black hats.
The two story lines blend well into an action filled creation by Tess Thompson …. this is probably one of the best action thrillers I’ve read over the past three years … the action scenes are well-written; the romantic scenes just descriptive enough, and the co-plots written so the characters are quite believable.
And what is even more delightful, if you take time to notice, is the releasing of a lot of behind the scenes secrets of what goes one with the entertainment industry’s elite.
Even the epilogue is delightful … and I really hate epilogues … but not this one.
Definitely worth putting on your ‘must read’ list.