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Reviewed by Alice DiNizo for Readers' Favorite
Maggie Stevens has been a faithful wife to her husband, Carter, for twenty years. But she finds he has cheated on her for five years and now has the audacity to divorce her, leaving Maggie for an older, wealthier woman. Poor Maggie! Carter has taken most of their furniture and paintings, leaving her with hardly anything beyond the Steuben glass they have collected over the years. Then Maggie finds that the father, Jacob Murphy, who abandoned her and her now dead mother when Maggie was only a newborn baby, has died. He has left her his cabin, a Jeep and a gold mine named the French Mistress. So, bidding farewell to Houston, Texas, and her dear friend Barbara Stanowski, Maggie heads to Eureka, Colorado, where her inheritance is located. Jacob, as he is known to everyone in the small town of Eureka, was a town eccentric. He fought in Vietnam and he carried awful memories of his time there. Jake found peace living with the residents of Eureka and even made a friendship with Winston, a mountain goat who loves being fed Lorna Doones. Can Maggie settle down here in Eureka and enjoy the view that is offered?
"The View from Here" by Cindy Myers is a delightful and well-written story of a middle-aged woman, Maggie Stevens, who has to chart a new path in life. The residents of Eureka are three-dimensional to say the least. They come alive with the author's sense of humor which is apparent in "The View from Here". On page 137, the author reminds readers that the gate to Jake's French Mistress mine has a sign that reads "No trespassing. Violators will be shot. Survivors will be shot again." The plot flows smoothly to the story's conclusion and readers will love reading every word in "The View from Here". It is a story, a romance, and a tale that will bring smiles to faces everywhere.
