Life, Love and Books

Engraved on the Heart by Tara Johnson This book brings to Pre-Civil War Savannah Georgia, to the home of a very staunch Confederate family. We meet Debutante Keziah Montgomery who is being brought out to meet her potential suitors, but her family hides a very deep secret from the public eyes.  This beautiful young woman has lived her life being forced to hide her illness from others. Now she has to be the object of attention for the balls and parties  to come. When one evening she runs into an old classmate that introduces her to a very life changing truth. It is at this moment she feels she can do something to help others out of the circumstances by becoming an conductor in the underground railroad.  Dr Micah Greyson never dreamed he would come back home and run into his childhood classmate at a ball.  But the moment Keziah waltzes back in to his life, he is taken in by her beauty and reminded why he...

Thief of Corinth by Tessa Afshar In the newest novel about the Biblical time period by Tessa Afshar that is based in the city of Corinth. We are introduced to a young woman Ariadne who chooses to run away,  when she finds out she is going to be forced to marry a very mean man.  She finds safety in the home of her estranged father in the bustling rich trade  city of Corinth. Longing for a close relationship with Galenos, she stumbles on a very dark secret that had destroyed her father's marriage. Galenos is a Greek of high birth but he is also the infamous thief who has been robbing from the corrupt of the city.  When her fathers life is in danger,  Ariadne chooses to risk everything she has longed for to become Galenos apprentice. Blessed with a very unusual talent of athletic ability, she uses this to continue her fathers exploits leading her deeper into dangerous territ...

A Light on the Hill Connilyn Cossette What drew me to reading a series by Connilyn Cossette, was that she was writing biblical fiction. After picking up the 2nd book in her first series, I was hooked to her writing style. So when I received the chance to read this book, i jumped on it.  We met the heroine Moriyah in the last book in the first series, a young girl that faced a down danger. Now as a young woman, Moriyah lives with the reality that she will not ever be looked at as being beautiful. The brand  on her face is a shameful remainder of her time in captivity in Jericho. Also she believes that no man will ever want to marry her. One night at on of the festivals she finds herself finally feeling like she is beautiful, until one of the local girls recognize her. It is at this festival she meets a young man, who seems very intrigued by her. Her deepest longing may actually come true it this young man is the one that her father has betrot...