Life, Love and Books

Long Time Gone by Mary Connealy Mary Connealy has taken us on another wild adventure that has excitement from the first page to the end of the last page. We  have met the Boden family in the first book in the series "No Way up, where we found out that their was someone out to get rid of the family.  The second installment follows the second brother Justin, as he takes over the care of the ranch; while Cole is laid up from being shot. Justin is still trying to deal with the thoughts that someone is out there wanting to kill each of the members of the Boden family. As new facts come to light, he starts to realize that anyone close to the family could be in more danger than before. Choosing to protect, he try's to push away the one female that has caught his eye and literally fell into his life. Angie is not looking to get married again, she just wants to be stronger person than she was before she came to the west.  But it seems that God had other plans for these two ...

An Amish Home: Four Novella's Beth Wiseman, Amy Clipston, Ruth Reid and Kathleen Fuller Four very amazing authors come together to create An Amish Home: Four Novellas. Each of these stories is very heartfelt and draw the reader into the book.  In A Cup Half Full, we meet a dear wife who longs for a child. Before they can have a family, Sarah was in an accident that causes her to lose the use of her legs. As her husband works to transform their home to adapt to the changes in their lives. Sarah to goes thru a transformation of her own in her spirit.  Home Sweet Home finds Chace and Mia O'Conner homeless and desperate to find a place to stay. When they are offered a place to stay and a job for Chace to bring in an income. Finding themselves living in a very rustic cabin with no modern conveniences, it wears on both of them. Instead of turning toward each other for the hope they end up at each other's throats blaming the other person.  With the hel...

Love Bears All Things (An Amish Secrets Novel) by Beth Wiseman In the second installment of the An Amish Secrets series, we find Charlotte Dolinsky needing time to recover from a bad breakup with her boyfriend. When suddenly the answer to her troubles shows up on her doorsteps in the form of her Amish friend's brother. Turning away from all of her life issues, she focuses on helping this young man in his time of struggle. In the midst of all the things going on. Charlotte chooses to be very deceptive of what is going on. But she is not the only one that is hiding secrets from their friends. Daniel Byler lives with a struggle to heal every day in his beloved Amish community, after being betrayed by his fiance. Now his pain has turned to fear after he discover's that another of his family members is in danger of being shunned.His only hope is to turn to the most unlikely person for help, an  Englisher, Charlotte Dolinsky. As the two spend time together,...