canada

From the back cover:

Loreth's best yet! The spine-tingling suspense kept me reading! Satisfying romance despite incredible danger!

When her sister Emily breaks her ankle during their camping trip in the Canadian Rockies, Jo Davidson's life soon faces some drastic changes.

Rae Benton wants nothing to do with Hunter Gordon, the man she believes set fire to her father's woodworking shop ten years earlier.  On her father's death, however, she discovers that Hunter has been left half of the business and property, and since she can't afford to buy him out, she's stuck with him.  Hunter made a promise to Rae's father to protect her from the shady characters involved in their business, and whether Rae wants him to or not, he is determined to keep her safe, not only from the criminals, but from him!

I feel ambivalent about this book. It was well written I wasn't crazy about no quotation marks but I got used to that but the subject matter isn't my favorite--mental illness. I doubt that it's anyone's. I can see what mental illness can do to a family and this poor family has been through the wringer with Min, the mother of 15 y.o., Logan, and 11 y.o., (Theodora) Thebes.

A sweet love story set in Canada (Finally!!).

Book Blurb: "Jonas Kirkpatrick left town to be a soldier without ever looking back. But Shannyn saw him every day in her little girl's green eyes... Six years later, Jonas has come home, changed utterly from the carefree boy Shannyn once knew. Hardened by war, Jonas can't allow himself to open his heart. Until he discovers what he left behind - the unbreakable bond with a child he never knew existed, and the enduring love of the only woman who can make him whole again." NFM.

I am so glad that I'm not a writer b/c I think we non-writers really don't get how hard it is. This was Donna's first published book. I hate to do this review -- it's kind of a backhanded compliment. This book was okay. (cringing here -- sorry Donna!) What it really did for me, though, was to point out how quickly Donna developed as a writer. I've read all her books up to 2008 (haven't read her 2008 releases yet) and I can say that she is an author I highly recommend. I would say that in one or two books, she really learned how to give us the emotion that we look for in the HR line (which she now writes for). So, buy the book to support someone who's been part of the community for a long time (remember when she was Canadian Cook?) and to study her development . . .NFM

It’s set in Canada,
so that’s cool. Alex is single but pregnant, cowboy(!) Conner needs to
get married to get his trust fun to save the family farm. Marriage will

Second in the Anne of Green Gables series. If you haven't read this series, it is full of people who are nice (or at least interesting) to spend time with. If you have read it, is it time to re-read it? This is the one in which Anne teaches in Avonlea and Marilla adopts Davey and Dora (the orphaned twins). At the end of this book, Anne heads off to Redmond College. I love Davey. (Well, I love them all but Davey is such a normal boy full of curiousity, "Tell me, Anne, I want to know.") All the characters are well-written. NFM