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Christian Fiction March 2019
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| The Bride of Ivy Green by Julie KlassenWhat happens: In a Regency England village, several women face change and choices. First, Mercy Grove is forced to close her girls' school and ponders life as a spinster governess; Jane Bell is in love, but to marry means giving up her inn; and a new seamstress has arrived, but there's something she's hiding.
Series alert: This is the sweet 3rd entry in the Tales from Ivy Hill series. Newcomers may want to start with the 1st book, The Innkeeper of Ivy Hill, to see characters develop over the course of the trilogy.
For fans of: Jane Austen and regency romances. |
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Mending fences
by Suzanne Woods Fisher
As Luke Schrock struggles to reenter his Amish community, an audacious request from a deacon seems impossible--until he meets unpredictable Izzy Lapp.
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Cherished Mercy
by Tracie Peterson
Historical Romance. In 1855 Oregon Territory, a letter arrives asking midwife Mercy Flanagan to travel to Rogue River Valley and aid her pregnant friend. Mercy, who survived the Whitman Massacre as a child, goes even though tensions between whites and Native Americans are increasing. While there, she meets a handsome young minister, but in the wake of a tragedy, their relationship and faith are tested. This is the 3rd book in the Heart of the Frontier trilogy; if you want to start with the 1st book, pick up Treasured Grace.
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| Whenever You Come Around: A Kings Meadow Romance by Robin Lee HatcherWhat it is: a fast-paced, Western-flavored romance with appealing characters; the 2nd in the Kings Meadow trilogy.
Starring: author Charity Anderson, whose house in Boise, Idaho, floods, sending her and her sweet dog Cocoa to her childhood home.
What happens: With her parents on a long trip, Charity should have time to write -- but when Cocoa causes her high school crush (and only neighbor) to break his ankle and wrist, Charity's obliged to help him. |
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| The Proving by Beverly LewisWhat happens: Having left the Amish life five years ago after a disagreement with her twin sister, Amanda is shocked when her widowed mother dies and leaves Amanda her popular bed-and-breakfast.
The catch: In order to keep the Lancaster County B & B, she must return home and run the business for a year...and it must remain profitable.
Read this next: Shelley Shepard Gray's Florida-set Amish Brides of Pinecraft series, which has plots often revolving around a B & B. |
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| The Wednesday Letters by Jason F. WrightFeaturing: siblings Malcolm (a businessman with a failing marriage), Matthew (who's had trouble with the law and is in love with an engaged woman), and Samantha (a single mom and police officer).
What happens: After the deaths of their parents, they return home and find boxes of love letters that their father wrote to their mother each Wednesday -- and inside the letters, they discover shocking truths.
For fans of: Hallmark movies or emotional, leisurely paced stories about marriage, family, and forgiveness. |
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