BOOK REVIEW | A Necessary Deception
A Necessary Deception by Laurie Alice Eakes 2011 Revell Set in 1812, in England, young widow Lydia Gale, helps a prisoner who showed her a kindness, only to discover that now she is being blackmailed into helping the French spy on her nation. Angry at being deceived, all she is interested in to doing, is [...]
BOOK REVIEW | Love Finds You in Amana Iowa
Title: LOVE FINDS YOU IN AMANA, IOWA Author: Melanie Dobson Publisher: Summerside Press June 2011 ISBN: 978-1609361358 Genre: Inspirational/historical Amalie Wiese is traveling from New York to Iowa to join the new Amana communities as a head cook. She’s also engaged to marry Friedrich, another man in the Amana community. It takes five weeks of [...]
BOOK REVIEW | Chasing Mona Lisa
Title: CHASING MONA LISA Authors: Tricia Goyer and Mike Yorkey Publisher: Revell January 2012 ISBN: 978-0800720469 Genre: Inspirational/historical fiction In August of 1944 Paris is on the cusp of liberation. The soldiers of the Third Reich are fleeing the Allied advance, but enroute they steal countless pieces of irreplaceable art. Reichsmarschall Hermann Goring will stop [...]
BOOK REVIEW | Marrying Miss Marshall
Chasing Miss Marshall by Lacy Williams Danna Carpenter cannot buy help, since her husband was murdered, she is now the Sheriff and cannot get any help. It is nearly like there is a plot against her. A new man in town offers his help, turns out he is a private investigator hired to find out [...]
BOOK REVIEW | Bathsheba
The Wives of King David Book Three Jill Eileen Smith 2011 Revell Fiction/Biblical Reviewed by Cindy Loven This story caught my attention, because I have always loved the stories of King David, and having read several of the other books in this series I definitely wanted to read this book. Bathsheba was a lovely young [...]
BOOK REVIEW | The Lightkeeper’s Bride
Title: THE LIGHTKEEPER’S BRIDE Author: Colleen Coble Publisher: Thomas Nelson October 2010 ISBN: 978-1-59554-266-3 Genre: Inspirational/historical suspense Katie Russell works as a telephone operator in Mercy Falls, California, a job she loves. A well-off suitor has just asked for her hand in marriage, and her father has agreed. Even though Bartholomew Foster doesn’t stir her [...]
BOOK REVIEW | A Corpse at St. Andrew’s Chapel
A Corpse at St. Andrew’s Chapel The Second Chronicle of Hugh de Singleton, surgeon Mel Starr 2009 Monarch Books Fiction/Suspense/Historical Reviewed by Cindy Loven Set in 1365, in a small English village, Hugh de Singleton, surgeon and bailiff for Lord Gilbert Talbot finds himself in the middle of several mysterious deaths and occurences. A dead [...]
BOOK REVIEW | The Bride Backfire
The Bride Backfire by Kelly Eileen Hake Opal Speck and Adam Grogan have both worked for years towards peace between their families. Set in 1857, the Specks and the Grogans have been fueding for years over a peice of property they both claim is their own. Opal and Adam just want peace, but it seems others [...]
BOOK REVIEW | Highland Blessings
Highland Blessings by Jennifer Hudson Taylor Abingdon Press May 1, 2010 Akira MacKenzie’s joyous wedding is blemished by not only the absence of her intended husband but her own kidnapping at the hands of their enemy clan, the MacPhearsons. The middle brother carries her off to keep the oath he made to honor his late [...]
BOOK REVIEW | The Lightkeeper’s Daughter
The Lightkeeper’s Daughter (Mercy Falls #1 ) by Colleen Coble Thomas Nelson January 12, 2010 When she was too young to remember the events or her parents, Addie was rescued from a shipwreck by the local lighthouse at the scene of the wreck. The couple who took her in raised her as their own though [...]
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