Against The Tide

Against The Tide

Lydia Pallas was a young girl when her parents passed away. Having just moved to Boston she was sent to the Crakken orphanage where she learned English and went to school. When she was old enough to move out of the orphanage she got an apartment at the Laughing Dragon and a job at the Navy Yard translating important documents. Alexander Banebridge, an old friend of Admiral Fontaine's, needs a translator, the Admiral recommends Lydia. Bane brings Lydia document after document for her to translate. the more translating she does the closer she gets to Bane. But he cannot love a woman and can never ever marry. Bane leaves Lydia broken hearts and because of him she loses her job as well as her apartment she's always known as home. Now she has to readjust to a new home and a new job. Although she still hasn't forgotten Bane, she's making it through life. A few months has gone by and Bane shows up again, he needs Lydia's help one more time. The Admiral's son has been kidnapped. Will Lydia agree to Bane's request or will she walk away? She fell in love with him and he broke her heart, promising he would never marry. Lydia is still determined to get the man she wants. What will happen? Should she just walk away? It would break her heart from shattering again.

This book was great! Elizabeth Camden has written a great book. I am excited to read The Lady of Bolton Hill!! To see more books of Elizabeth's click here.

I received this book from Bethany House Publishers as a review book. Thank you Bethany House! :)

Unending Devotion

Unending Devotion

Lily Young is working as a photographers assistant, going to logging camps and towns she's searching desperately to find her sister, Daisy. You see, as small children they were orphans. When they got older Daisy went to live with the Wretchman family and Lily found a job with Oren, a photographer. Oren and his wife grew to love Lily as their own child. Lily learns Daisy has run away and possibly sold herself into prostitution. She is more desperate than ever to find Daisy and for them be a family again. While in Harrison, Lily meets Connel McCormick, a logging boss for his father's company. Connel has turned his eye on the wrong going on in the town, that is until Lily, a fearless and beautiful woman, came into his life. After she risks her life helping Daisy escape and almost gets caught, Connel realizes how much he cares for her and that business isn't the only thing that matters. But will Daisy and Lily be together as a family again? And what will happen to her and Connel's relationship?

Jody Hedlund is an amazing author. I could barely put this book down, it definitely kept me from sleep multiple nights. She has also written The Preacher's Bride, and The Doctor's Lady.

This book was received free from Bethany House Publishers for review.

A Kingsbury Collection

Where Yesterday Lives

Ellen Barrett is a famous journalist in Miami. Her marriage is questionable her faith forgotten and her haunted with memories from her childhood. Getting a call that her father had a heart attack and had passed away leaves her devastated, from feeling sadness that he's gone to feeling angry that he didn't take better care of himself. She goes to her home town of Petoskey, Michigan, to plan for the funeral with her family. She's the eldest of five children that never get along. The love they once had for each has fallen apart over the years. Can they look past their differences and get along for just a week? Ellen Barrett has a lot to learn about her family that she never imagined any of them had gone through!

Karen Kingsbury is an amazing author I've loved every book I've read by her. She always has a real to life experience in her books that could happen to any of us. This particular book has 3 in one. Where Yesterday Lives, When Joy Came to Stay, and On Every Side.

A big thanks to Water Brook Multnomah Publishing Group for sending me this free book to review! :)

The Orphan King

Thomas was raised behind manastery walls, he know nothing of him mysterious past or fulfilling his daring future. The last words of his dying nurse maid will change his life. Thomas leaves the monks who raised him and the monastery that held him for so many years. On a search to fulfill the destiny he has. Finding himself in unfamilair territory with a knight, a child thief, and a beautiful silent woman who may not be all she seems. They are headed to Mugnus to over throw the lord there. The question is will they succeed and what will happen next?

I got this book from WaterBrook Multanomah for review.