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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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| Perennials by Julie CantrellWhat it's about: Two estranged middle-aged sisters face each other for the first time in decades.
What happens: In the weeks leading up to their parents' 50th anniversary party, their dad plants a special memory garden for their mom and wants his daughters' help, but bitterness from the past may keep the sisters' relationship taking root and growing.
For fans of: Southern fiction (Perennials is set in Oxford, Mississippi) or books with thought-provoking themes like truth and redemption. |
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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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