Harlequin Everlasting Love

This was about grandparents and their grandson and his wife . . . the young wife has a past that could hold back the grandson in his career and so she thinks that they should divorce. The grandmother sends the guys to town and from there we get the story of how the grandmother became a prostitute at 16 y.o. in order to feed her family prior to WWII and how the grandfather loved her and served in WWII. The POV varies from the grandma telling the young wife and the grandpa telling his gson, so many incidents told from both perspectives. The love between the grandparents was amazing. The story unfolded nicely and had a funny twist at the end. I enjoyed it but wish it had pulled me in more. The descriptions were fantastic, though, and really made me think about that older generation. NFM

#33-How would you react if you were 43,mom to 2 grown daughters,and going to start college in little over a week only to find you are pregnant? Linda Warren does a wonderful job sharing the very mixed emotions of Claire Rennels with us.

This was
an excellent summer read. Emily Porter is constantly trying to keep her
mother happy and out of her business. She satisfies her mother’s need to be
involved by making up little white lies about her personal life. But when one
of her fibs leads her to the man of her dreams, fate steps in and deals her a

     I have literally been looking for this book for a year or so.  I read someone's review last year ~ a common refrain, ne? ~ and was immediately wanting to find it; it just sounded so wonderful.  Thanks to Christa, I was able to borrow her copy and finally, finally have a chance to read this story and Oh. My. God.  It was amazing!  When I first started it I was reading a bit at a time because it was so intense, but as I got a little further in, I was extremely loathe to put the book down.  Indeed, I read this book with the avidity normally reserved for the BDB. 
     Honestly, if you've not read this book before, hunt it down.  It has joined the ranks of beyond outstanding books that I've read this year.  Beautiful, beautiful, even when the pain Julia undergoes, there is such a spirit of... something ~ something that makes this a story that I will NOT soon forget ~ if ever I do. 
                EXTREMELY AND UTTERLY HIGHLY RECOMMEND!!!!

RATING:
Excellence: OUTSTANDING and More ~ 5.0++ stars
Steaminess: Romantic

4 Stars! ~~~ A compelling and heartfelt story of love, sacrifice and forgiveness.

Fall from Grace by Kristi Gold

Harlequin Everlasting Love #2 ~ February 2007

Audio ~ Narrated by Suzanne Toren

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This book really started out slow for me and was a little difficult to get into.  It was about a woman named Keti who was visited by the "ghosts" of Christmas past, present and future.  All of the "ghost" were people who had been in her life when they were alive.  She is made to take stock of her life and see what she had become which was a very hard and cold person.  She

Summer After Summer by Ann DeFee, Everlasting Love, #16, September 2007

This is the telling of the lives of Jasmine Bourdeax and Charlie Morrison and what happens each time  they meet in the Summer of 1973, 1993 and 2007.

Nick and Stephanie met in high school.  He was the boy with the bad reputation from the wrong side of the tracks that her family told her to stay away from that he would hurt her.  In a way he did.  He left town, but told her he loved her, and he would be back for her.  He got himself and education and he did indeed come back for her.  They married and had children.  He owned a flying busine