Book Reviews

Book Review: The Shadowed Onyx by Nicole O’Dell

Book Review: The Shadowed Onyx by Nicole O’Dell

The Shadowed Onyx by Nicole O'Dell Barbour Books, 01 December 2012 At age seventeen, Joy Christianson is the life of the party. That is, until her best friend commits suicide. Joy’s already wavering faith slips completely out of her reach. Afraid of letting the...

Book Review: A Light in the Window by Julie Lessman

Book Review: A Light in the Window by Julie Lessman

A Light in the Window by Julie Lessman Available Now on Kindle One Woman. Two Men. One stirs her pulse and the other her faith. But who will win her heart? Marceline Murphy is a gentle beauty with a well-founded aversion to rogues. But when two of Boston's most...

Book Review: An Eye for an Eye by Irene Hannon

Book Review: An Eye for an Eye by Irene Hannon

An Eye for an Eye by Irene Hannon Revell, September 1, 2009 After he accidentally shoots a teenager at a tense standoff, FBI Hostage Rescue Team member Mark Sanders is sent to St. Louis to work as a field agent and get his bearings while the bad press starts to...

Book Review: A New Resolution by Rose Dee

Book Review: A New Resolution by Rose Dee

A New Resolution by Rose Dee Even Before Publishing, 01 November 2012 Resolution Island is a safe haven for Anika Deumer. A chance to fulfill dreams, find her place in the world, and a new life for her and young son, Kye. But her dreams of a future are shattered when...

Book Review: The Trouble with Cowboys by Denise Hunter

Book Review: The Trouble with Cowboys by Denise Hunter

 The Trouble With Cowboys by Denise Hunter Thomas Nelson, October 2, 2012 Annie Wilkerson is Moose Creek’s premiere horse trainer and equine columnist for Montana Living. Money is tight as she tries to put her kid-sister through college and provide for her young...

Book Review: Against the Tide by Elizabeth Camden

Book Review: Against the Tide by Elizabeth Camden

Available @ Fishpond AU  & Amazon | Kindle Against the Tide by Elizabeth Camden Bethany House, 01 October 2012 Love and Lives are Threatened in Camden's Latest Offering As a child, Lydia Pallas became all too familiar with uncertainty when it came to the future....

Book Review: Love’s Reckoning by Laura Frantz

Book Review: Love’s Reckoning by Laura Frantz

Available @ Fishpond AU  & Amazon | Kindle Love's Reckoning by Laura Frantz Revell, 01 September 2012 On a bitter December day in 1785, Silas Ballantyne arrives at the door of master blacksmith Liege Lee in York, Pennsylvania. Just months from becoming a master...

Book Review: The Art of My Life by Ann Lee Miller

Book Review: The Art of My Life by Ann Lee Miller

Available on Kindle The Art of My Life by Ann Lee Miller Publication Date: 15 September 2012 Cal walked out of jail and into a second chance at winning Aly with his grandma’s beater sailboat and a reclaimed dream of sailing charters.   Aly has the business...

Book Review: Through Rushing Water by Catherine Richmond

Book Review: Through Rushing Water by Catherine Richmond

Available @ Fishpond AU  & Amazon | Kindle Through Rushing Water by Catherine Richmond Thomas Nelson, 03 July 2012 Sophia has her life all planned out-but her plan didn't include being jilted or ending up in Dakota Territory.   Sophia Makinoff is certain 1876 is...

Book Review: Perfectly Ridiculous by Kristin Billerbeck

Book Review: Perfectly Ridiculous by Kristin Billerbeck

Available @ Fishpond AU & Amazon | Kindle Perfectly Ridiculous by Kristin Billerbeck Revell, 01 July 2012 Daisy's ready for summer fun--but it seems summer has something else in store. High school is over, and Daisy Crispin is happy to leave it in her past and...

Book Review: Still Life in Shadows by Alice J. Wisler

Book Review: Still Life in Shadows by Alice J. Wisler

Available @ Fishpond AU & Amazon | Kindle Still Life in Shadows by Alice J. Wisler River North, 24 July 2012 It's been fifteen years since Gideon Miller ran away from his Amish community in Carlisle, Pennsylvania as a boy of fifteen. Gideon arrives in the Smoky...

Book Review: A Lasting Impression by Tamera Alexander

Book Review: A Lasting Impression by Tamera Alexander

Available @ Fishpond AU  & Amazon | Kindle A Lasting Impression by Tamera Alexander Bethany House Publishers, 01 November 2011 To create something that will last is Claire Laurent's most fervent desire as an artist. It's also her greatest weakness. When her fraud...

Book Review: Veil of Pearls by MaryLu Tyndall

Book Review: Veil of Pearls by MaryLu Tyndall

Available @ Fishpond AU  & Amazon | Kindle Veil of Pearls by MaryLu Tyndall Barbour Books, 01 July 2012 Be swept away to Charleston of 1811, a city bustling with immigrants like Adalia, who is a runaway slave so light-skinned that no one guesses her past....

Book Review: Disaster Status by Candace Calvert

Book Review: Disaster Status by Candace Calvert

Disaster Status by Candace Calvert Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., June 3, 2010 ER charge nurse Erin Quinn escaped personal turmoil to work on the peaceful California coast. But when a hazardous material spill places Pacific Mercy Hospital on disaster status and...

Book Review: Love at Any Cost by Julie Lessman

Book Review: Love at Any Cost by Julie Lessman

Love at Any Cost by Julie Lessman Revell, April 15 2013 He’s looking to take care of his family. She’s looking to take care of her heart. Trouble is . . . love’s looking to take care of them both. Cassidy McClare is a spunky Texas oil heiress without a fortune who...

Book Review: Water’s Edge by Robert Whitlow

Book Review: Water’s Edge by Robert Whitlow

Water's Edge by Robert Whitlow Thomas Nelson, July 19, 2011 Sometimes small towns hold the biggest secrets. Ambitious young attorney Tom Crane is about to become a partner in a high-profile Atlanta law firm. But first he must clear one final matter from his docket-the...

Book Review: Saving Hope by Margaret Daley

Book Review: Saving Hope by Margaret Daley

Saving Hope (Men of the Texas Rangers Book 1) by Margaret Daley Abingdon Press, March 1, 2012 When a teenager goes missing from the Beacon of Hope School, Texas Ranger Wyatt Sheridan and school director Kate Winslow are forced into a dangerous struggle against a human...

Book Review: A Bride for All Seasons

Book Review: A Bride for All Seasons

A Bride for All Seasons by Margaret Brownley, Debora Clopton, Robin Lee Hatcher and Mary Connealy Thomas Nelson, January, 2013 It All Started with an Ad in a Mail Order Bride Catalogue…Melvin Hitchcock of the Hitching Post Mail Order Bride Catalog isn’t dishonest—not...

Book Review: Stealing the Preacher by Karen Witemeyer

Book Review: Stealing the Preacher by Karen Witemeyer

Stealing the Preacher by Karen Witemeyer Bethany House Publishers, June 1, 2013 A cowboy who wants to be a preacher. An outlaw's daughter who wants to change his mind. On his way to interview for a position at a church in the Piney Woods of Texas, Crockett Archer...

Book Review: Injustice for All by Robin Carroll

Book Review: Injustice for All by Robin Carroll

Injustice For All By Robin Carroll B&H Books; January 1, 2012 A federal judge lies bleeding on his office floor, betrayed by a most unlikely source—people who helped him bring criminals to justice. Now, why would someone working for the FBI need to disappear after...

Book Review: Trauma Plan by Candace Calvert

Book Review: Trauma Plan by Candace Calvert

Trauma Plan by Candace Calvert Tyndale House Books , April 18, 2012 Sidelined by injuries from a vicious assault, chaplain Riley Hale is determined to return to her former duties as an ER nurse. But how can she show she’s competent when the hospital won’t let her...

Book Review: Undeniably Yours by Becky Wade

Book Review: Undeniably Yours by Becky Wade

Undeniably Yours by Becky Wade Bethany House Publishers, 1st May 2013 When Meg Cole's father dies unexpectedly, she becomes the majority shareholder of his oil company and the single inheritor of his fortune. Though Meg is soft-spoken and tenderhearted--more...

Book Review: My Stubborn Heart by Becky Wade

Book Review: My Stubborn Heart by Becky Wade

My Stubborn Heart by Becky Wade Bethany House Publishers, 01 May 2012   Kate Donovan is burned out on work, worn down by her dating relationships, and in need of an adventure. When Kate's grandmother asks Kate to accompany her to Redbud, Pennsylvania, to restore...