Book Review and Giveaway: A Heart's Forgiveness

There's nothing worse than a conniving snake who seeks to steal what is rightfully yours.  Madeleine is put into dire straits when she is led to believe that she is near penniless.  With an infant left to her care and two servants who are more like family, she escapes what could be a disastrous future to go cross-country to New Mexico.  There, she finds friendship and safety . . . for a short time.  A Heart's Forgiveness was a really good book.  I liked the characters and I liked seeing how Jeremiah changes in the story (can't say much - a little bit of a spoiler).  I loved seeing the love between baby Pearl and Madeleine's intended Philip.  The theme of forgiveness is shown several times in this book - in a very real way.

Book Review and Giveaway: Love at First Flight

One of my top genres of books to read is historical fiction.  I love learning about the life and times of people of places and events that I would not otherwise experience.  Love at First Flight takes place during WWII.  It is a very quick and easy read.  I think it only took me one night, or maybe two, to read it.  Even though it was shorter than I expected, it wasn't too short.

Book Review and Giveaway: Heart Pressed

Two families divided by an old conflict dating back decades result in Dante and Amara never knowing each other or even knowing about each other.  I enjoyed reading the backstory and how Dante's Nonno and Nonna found love after heartbreak.  I also enjoyed seeing Dante's and Amara's love for one another unfold. 

Book Review and Giveaway: Sing in the Sunlight

I spent part of my childhood in Southern California which was a huge culture shock for this little girl who had only known of life in the piney woods of rural South Mississippi among kith and kin.  Not only were the people different (colder), but everything was different:  the schools were different, living in surburbia that was not quite ghetto was different, the stores were different, and even the landscape of the California wilderness was different.  I honestly didn't know that the biome of California had a name until I exchanged some emails with the author Kathleen Denly after I read the first book of this series.  The name is Chaparral (which is a rather neat name) and although I never knew what that was, when I viewed photos on the website link she sent me, I instantly knew what it was.  "Oh, yeah, that's California."  While reading Sing in the Sunlight, I was able to get a pretty good mental image of the setting because I knew what it looked like; after all, I had lived there, too.

Sing in the Sunlight comes after Waltz in the Wilderness which I read and enjoyed some months back. Even though they are part of a series, each can be read in any order without any spoilers or missing backstory.