Category: Romance

BOOK REVIEW | Love on the Line

Title: LOVE ON THE LINE Author: Deeanne Gist Publisher: Bethany House October 2011 ISBN: 978-0764204098 Genre: Inspirational/historical/romance Georgie Gail is a rural switchboard operator, and proud of her independence. She may live in a man’s world, but she does a man’s job…or at least she did, until the telephone company sends out Luke Palmer to [...]

BOOK REVIEW | Point of No Return

Title: POINT OF NO RETURN Author: Susan May Warren Publisher: Love Inspired Suspense January 2011 ISBN: 978-0-373-44434-3 Genre: Inspirational/romantic suspense Mae Lund would do anything for two things. One is the opportunity to fly. The other is her nephew, Josh. When she’s leaving her hated job of flying tourists (too calm) she gets a phone [...]

BOOK REVIEW | Love Finds You in Sugarcreek Ohio

Love Finds You in Sugarcreek Ohio 2010 2010 Serena B. Miller Summerside Press Fiction/Amish/Contemporary Reviewed by Cindy Loven Rachel Troyer, lives in the middle of Amish country.  She is not Amish, but is related to many of the Amish, her father having left the faith.  After she orphaned at eleven years old, three of her [...]

BOOK REVIEW | Love Finds You in Deadwood South Dakota

Tracey Cross 2010 Summerside Press Fiction/Historical/Romance Reviewed by Cindy Loven Jane Albright, is a widow.  A widow who was married to a worthless man, who gambled away his business, and their home.  Franklin Lloyd is the man who holds the note that turns her homestead over to him.   Determined to somehow, someway keep her home, [...]

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 [...]

BOOK REVIEW | Spring’s Renewal

SPRING’S RENEWAL Author: Shelley Shepard Gray Publisher: Avon Inspire April 2010 ISBN: 978-0-06-185236-7 Genre: Inspirational/Amish Clara is the local Amish school teacher. When Clara was five-years-old, she was severely burned in a kitchen fire, and now her mother tells her that no one will have Clara since she is deformed. Clara is resigned to staying [...]

BOOK REVIEW | Montana Rose

Montana Rose by Mary Connealy Fire up your love of romance with Montana Rose, where Cassie Griffin, a seemingly spoiled pregnant woman, is widowed one day and wedded the next. Marrying handyman Red Dawson seems the only alternative to Cassie’s being hitched to a brutal rancher. But can this “China doll” bear exchanging smooth silk [...]

BOOK REVIEW | Save the Date

Title: SAVE THE DATE Author: Jenny B. Jones Publisher: Thomas Nelson February 2011 ISBN: 978-1-59554-539-8 Genre: Inspirational/contemporary romance You are cordially invited to the wedding of the year with the most unlikely bride and groom. Save the date … and say your prayers.  (from the back cover) Lucy Wiltshire runs a home for homeless girls [...]

BOOK REVIEW | Love Finds You in Golden, New Mexico

Philip Smith is old and decrepit, needing help from his mining friend, Jeremiah, to take care of things. But Jeremiah is flabbergasted when Philip decided to write for a mail order bride. Jeremiah is determined to send the woman right back home on the train. What use does Philip have for a woman? She’d only [...]