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A story with a multitude of surprises

Tidewater Inn by Colleetn Coble

 

This is the second book by Colleen Coble that I have read and enjoyed it just as much as the first. Tidewater Inn was a difficult book to put down. I wanted to know how everything turned out.

Libby Holladay restores historic buildings that are usually added to the National Historic Registry. With the ability to see the possibilities, she sees what others do not and Tidewater Inn is no exception. But Tidewater Inn has more than just its appearance to snag and get hold of Libby. Her partner, Nicole, has preceded her to the Outer Banks and calls Libby excited about the Inn, a dilapidated lifesaving station and lighthouse ruins. When Nicole is kidnapped, Libby rushes to the Outer Banks to search for her. To add to her anxiety about Nichole’s safety, Libby finds that she is also a suspect. But all of this is only the tip of the iceberg. Libby learns that Tidewater Inn has been left to her by a father she never knew. Oh, and she also has a sister and brother. The reader gets caught up in the events surrounding Vanessa and Brent, Alec and his nephew Zach, an unscrupulous lawyer and meets a wonderful search dog named Samson. I leave it to the reader to do as I did and immerse yourself in Tidewater Inn. You won’t regret it.

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Vivian Sinclair is joining her married sisters in Colorado and she isn’t sure she will fit. She wants to make her own way as a fashion designer, but there is a problem. She can’t find a job in the mining community. Being a telephone operator only lasted a day or so, the local stores didn’t need women clerks and the clothing stores had no extra money to hire a new employee. When offered a job as a hostess in a sporting house, Vivian felt that a past mistake sort of gave her leave to work in such an establishment. However, her streak of independence is about to land her in trouble. When Miss Pearl, the owner, ends up dead Vivian becomes a suspect. The outlaw boyfriend of Miss Pearl is convinced she killed Miss Pearl and he is out for revenge. The sheriff and her sisters also want to know what has happened. How can she ever explain why she even considered working for Miss Pearl? Will her sisters reject her when they find out about what happened before she left Portland? Is she worthy of the love of the sheriff's love now?

The third book in the Sinclair Series of Cripple Creek series, The Bride Wore Blue still is a good stand alone book. Once I began, it quickly became a book that competed with my need for sleep.

I received this book for free from WaterBrook Multnomah Publishing Group for review.

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My Stubborn Heart by Becky Wade

Her heart said yes, but God was saying no. He said God hadn’t answered his prayers and had abandoned him. So begins the story of the stubborn hearts of Kate and Matt. Kate has returned to her ancestral home, called Chapel Bluff, with her grandmother to fix up the old house and bring it back to life. Unsuccessful in relationships, Kate hasn’t found the man God had for her future husband. Discouragement has set in. Matt had been hired to do the work at Chapel Hill. Preferring to work alone and actually to be left alone, he doesn’t appreciate Kate’s wanting to help, wanting to talk, wanting to be his friend. When his wife died, he had withdrawn into himself and given up his career, but he didn’t count on the persistence of one young woman who saw the hurt in his eyes and wanted to help.

As Kate spends time with Matt, she sees his heart and believes that God sent her to help him find purpose in his life again. Finally, her heart says yes and God says yes.

The reader hurts with the main characters, laughs with the antics of the “older” generation, and cheers for Matt and Kate when the final chapter is read. I don’t want to give away what happens to both Kate and Matt as they work on finding out that God does care about them and does answer prayers in His time.

I received this book to review for free from Bethany House.

 Beloved Enemy 

Al Lacy

What do you do when the love for family comes in conflict your feelings for a man you love? Such is the dilemma faced by Jenny Jordan. Her father, maintains his Southern sympathies and agrees to work as a spy for the south. A member of President Lincoln’s Senate Military Committee, he is part of the group planning the Northern offensive and defensive. As the north continues to lose battles, it becomes apparent that there is a spy in their midst. As this is going on, Jenny has met and fallen in love with a Union office names Buck. Being discouraged by her father for forming an attachment with Buck, Jenny can’t help herself and fears what will happen when Buck learns her father is a spy.

As part of a network of young ladies recruited to carry the battle information south, the day comes when Jenny is asked to carry her first message to the Confederate troops. Caught at a Union road block, she is now under arrest and subject to being put before a firing squad. Buck, as commanding officer, now seeks to intercede with the president on her behalf. Because she was instrumental in saving the life of Tad Lincoln, the president commutes her execution.

A behind the scenes look at the Civil War, I enjoyed this book and recommend it as a book worth reading. The male Confederate spies were caught and executed.  Because of an aversion to shooting the female spies, the woman responsible for recruiting the young girls with information for the Confederates was imprisoned for a while and then sent back south. She never arrived, having drowned in a boating accident on the trip.

I received this book for free from WaterBrook Multnomah Publishing Group for this review.