Life, Love and Books

A Heart Adrift By Laura Frantz A Heart Adrift is a story of a long lost love reunited in a time filled with the threat of war. We meet twenty-eight year old, Esmee Shaw who has devoted her life to making sweet treats that brings smiles to those who eat them. But her own heart is heavy as she longs to find a passion that fills her each day. To Esmee's surprise, one day her long lost love walks back into her life turning it upside down.  Captain Henri Lennox returns to port from a lengthy absence, with plans to complete the lighthouse that he and Esmee had dreamed of together as a couple. His return brings him back into Esmee's life and their romance is rekindled as the days go by. But the wounds of their past still hang over each of them as they navigate back toward other. The threat of war has the colonial government requesting Henri to lead a secret naval expedition against the French. With their future being plunged into the unknown, Henri and Esmee have to cling to the ho...

Never Leave Me By Jody Hedlund We return to the Waters of Times series and find Harrison Burlington caring for the dying Ellen Creighton. While Ellen has accepted that she is dying, she is still struggling with the deaths of her sister and father who have been taken by the quest for the healing waters. Harrison has kept hidden his true feelings for Ellen; so he desperately continues the search for the Holy Water to save his one true love. . But when he finds 2 more vials, Ellen is still not convinced that they actually contain the Holy Water. Harrison makes a decision to demonstrate his everlasting love by drinking one of the vials. When she witnesses the healing properties of the Holy Water, Ellen is unable to  deny the truth in front of her.  But there some dangerous criminals that will do anything to get their hands on a vial of Holy Water. Harrison and Ellen soon learn they will do anything, even sending Ellen back to the past to get more of the Holy Water for them.  ...