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Reviewed by Asher Syed for Readers' Favorite
In Tracey Magruder’s Between the Lines, Sadie Reed accepts a temporary editing assignment in Great Missenden after leaving Nate, her controlling ex-fiancé, in New York. Her job is to help Corbyn Pearce, a reclusive British mystery author, finish Echoes of Ash before his publisher cancels. Corbyn distrusts editors after a manuscript leak exposed his unfinished work, so Sadie must earn access to his pages, his home, and his careful routine. As she edits the detective novel, Corbyn begins to trust her judgment, while Sadie receives Nate’s continued messages from across the Atlantic. Pearce House becomes the center of a deadline that tests Corbyn’s fear of being seen, Sadie’s return to her own writing, plus a connection linked to a blue-eyed stranger she met years earlier on a London train.
Tracey Magruder’s Between the Lines is a finely rendered romance about a New York editor sent to Buckinghamshire to fix a stalled mystery novel. The author gives the romance superb push and pull when Sadie finds Corbyn shirtless near the pool, then later when he tracks her to the hillside overlook to apologize. Sadie is easy to admire because she protects her voice after Nate, her ex-fiancé, belittles her writing, then proves her editorial skill by helping Corbyn reshape his work. Corbyn works beautifully as the male lead because his guarded manner softens organically. The settings are finely described through lived space, especially Pearce House and Great Missenden’s rain-soaked hillside trail. This romance suits adult readers who enjoy love stories with slow trust-building.
