Inspirational Romance

Series: Homecoming * Heroes * -- Caitlyn, overnight, becomes a mother to twin five-year girls. Her sister and husband, both soldiers, died in action. Caitlyn is the girls guardian. Caitlyn has to leave her job in New York to return home to Texas to assist her mother with the girls.

Comic book creator Parker Buchanan has been a recluse since the car wreck that nearly killed him.  He doesn't want to reconnect with anyone, least of all his college crush, Kate Brooks, who has moved back to town with her young son Brandon.  As the murderer continues to prowl the streets, things start to get scary for Parker and Kate, who have become the latest target of ill will.  The police are doing everything they can to apprehend the perpetrator, but will they fall for the deliberate planting of false clues that point the blame at Parker?

Dee Owens job doing public relations for Magnolia College was supposed to be temporary, but if the person responsible for the death of the body under the sidewalk has his or her way, her removal from the position may be permanent. Can Edgar Ortiz protect Dee, or will his attraction to her get in the way?

John's Quest is a Christian romance with very deep, inspirational elements in a complex story. The "hearth and home" values embodied by the characters can be enjoyed by anyone regardless of their personal salvation.

I received this book through a book club promotion.  I really didn't have time to read a book but I thought I'd just skim a few pages...several hours later I was putting the book down with a satisfied sigh.  Wonderfully written inspirational romance!

Score: 3.5

Rona is on the run from her family and feels a great burden/shame about her past.  She lands a temporary job as a waitress in a wharf-front cafe, and meets Nick, who is immediately attracted to her.  He wants her to come live on his island with him and his teenaged son, Gary, as their housekeeper.

FOREVERMORE by Cathy Marie Hake, Bethany House, Jan. 08.

There's no one quite like Hope Ladley.  A veritable dandelion in the wind, she blows from one farm to the next, roaming the Texas countryside as an itinerant cook.  When she rides her mule, Hattie, onto the Stauffer farm in 1891, Hope knows this is the place the Lord wants her to be.

James Graham has his future all mapped out:  he's going to keep building desperately-needed hospitals and clinics in remote areas of countries in Africa.  When a debilitating illness sends him home to the states for treatment and rehab, James still plans to return to carry out his goals, but increasing pain forces him to reconsider.  ~~  Rae Ashcroft is still haunted by the death of the man she was going to marry, and is killing herself keeping the stock trading business they started together not only functioning, but excelling despite a bear market.  ~~  The last thing these two wounded people are looking for is love, but when it finds them, they have some major choices to make. 

Pollyanna MacDonald is doing more than trying to get away from the big city when she moves with her eight-year-old son Gil to Mule Hollow, Texas.  She's trying to get away from all the pain of being in a place where memories of Marc are all around her.  Next-door neighbor, the reclusive Nate Talbert, at first makes no effort to get to know the MacDonald's, but when he finally overcomes enough of his emotional pain from the loss of his wife to welcome them to Mule Hollow, he discovers a flood in the making:  Polly has tackled the plumbing! 

Just blogging this towards the count. Don't have time to do a real review right now so it will come later. NFM