Reviewed by Sashon Davis for Readers' Favorite

Her grandmother's death causes Jackie and her mother Faith to move back home after being away for six years. Having completed her degree, Faith decides to reacquaint herself with the place she once called home and see some old friends, while working at her aunt's café. As a result of these decisions, she finds herself at the Tannell's dinner table. Thomas Tannell and his family were known as ‘The Joneses’ of their town, Bayouville. But all is not as polished and perfect as it seems. In this flourishing town, the family had risen to make a name for themselves, but many of this family’s secrets remain hidden. Thomas Tannell finds himself visited by an old friend, someone that he doesn’t want to be associated with the Tannell name. The Tannell’s Family Secret: The Drama & Secrets Series Book 1 by Lashonda Beauregard draws on friends and family from all parts of the Tannells' lives, reuniting them with business partners and enemies alike. Follow the story to see where the cracks in our picture-perfect family will lead them.

The Tannell's Family Secret by Lashonda Beauregard focuses its storyline on the ideals of family. Surrounded by the common people of the town, the Tannells are the most powerful family in Louisiana. This short novel contrasts the idea of the perfect family by slowly breaking down the characters and bringing out the bully, the snob, and the murderer. In this short novel, the author focuses on the themes of death, sadness, theft, and murder. Although the plot is slow to develop at first, it soon reveals secret after secret, holding the reader in a state of shock at the drama of it all.