"Top Gun" Started It All

"Though Magnus MacLeish and Lark MacDougall grew up on the same castle grounds, Magnus is now laird of the great house and the Isle of Kerrera. Lark is but the keeper of his bees and the woman he is hoping will provide a tincture that might help his ailing wife conceive and bear him an heir. But when his wife dies suddenly, Magnus and Lark find themselves caught up in a whirlwind of accusations, expelled from their beloved island, and sold as indentured servants across the Atlantic. Yet even when all hope seems dashed against the rocky coastline of the Virginia colony, it may be that in this New World the two of them could make a new beginning--together. Laura Frantz's prose sparkles with authenticity and deep feeling as she digs into her own family history to share this breathless tale of love, exile, and courage in Colonial America." Laura Frantz gave me another wonderful read with "A Bound Heart". I can always fly through her book's, and the am...

Suzanne Woods Fisher, you never disappoint!  I have read and reviewed the last two books in the Nantucket Legacy series, and absolutely loved them! "The Light Before Day" won me over just like the last two, and had me on the edge of my seat anticipating how it may end.  The book is set in 1840 and we are now following an all grown up Henry Macy after he returns home from a three year long whaling voyage, and his twin sister Hitty who is enjoying her life working at the Cent School, all the while trying to catch the eye of a handsome widower. Their late grandmother has just passed when the book opens and they are informed that they are the benefactors of her massive fortune. Henry and Hitty struggle with accepting the fortune for their own personal reasons, especially since their are some hoops the twins will have to jump through to even receive the inheritance. If they do not abide by the rules, the inheritance will go to their uncle who stole everything from their f...

"The Sound of Distant Thunder" is the first Amish fiction I have read in a long time. I have read my fair share though, and I have always loved them, but this one did not meet my expectations. The book follows a young woman named Katie and her sweetheart, Jonas. They are a young couple starting to make plans for the future, and of marriage, during the time of the Civil War. When Jonas's brother gets drafted, Jonas takes his place, and goes against everything the Amish believe regarding not involving themselves in war. Will Katie and Jonas make it through the trials and distance of war and find their way back to each other to start their life together? You will, for sure and certain, have to read the book to find out. The fact that this book was going to follow an Amish man in the Army during the Civil War was a huge draw for me to read this book, but their was much to be desired. Their seemed to be a lot of plot holes and scenes that seemed unnecessary and had no t...

                                                               ~Synopsis~ In 1911, Carrie Strahorn wrote a memoir entitled Fifteen Thousand Miles by Stage, which shared some of the most exciting events of 25 years of traveling and shaping the American West with her husband, Robert Strahorn, a railroad promoter, investor, and writer. That is all fact. Everything She Didn't Say imagines Carrie nearly ten years later as she decides to write down what was really on her mind during those adventurous nomadic years. Certain that her husband will not read it, and in fact that it will only be found after her death, Carrie is finally willing to explore the lessons she learned along the way, including the danger a woman faces of losing herself within a relationship with a strong-willed man and the courage it takes to accept her own G...

"The Daily Question for You and Your Child" is a three year long journey you get to take with your child, just by asking them one question a day. Each day their is a new quesion that the book gives you to pose to your child ranging from, "What is your favorite cookie?", "If you could trade places with someone for a day, who would it be?", and "What gift would you have given the Baby Jesus? How can you give Jesus a gift now?" Their are so many amazing, thought provoking questions that may just leave you amazed at your child's wisdom, or may just make you laugh at what is going on up in their head. I have a four year old daughter and some of these questions take some explaining, but I love to see her grasp and actually think about something she may not have understood before, or when the question is as simple as, "What imaginary creature do you wish was real?" and her face immediatly lights up and replies with, "Unicorn!...

"A Rumored Fortune" is a book that will have you enraptured from the very first page.  It is set in England in 1866 and follows a young woman named Tressa. Her father was a bit eccentric and had hidden his massive fortune somewhere on the grounds of their family home, Trevelyan Castle, without ever revealing to anyone else where he had hidden it. With her father's untimely death, and no idea where he may have hid the fortune Tressa is thrown into a life of heartbreak, fortune hunters, and skirting on the edge of poverty and scandal. Tressa will have to waid through the mysteries of the castle, that have been building for years, to find the answers and the fortune she seeks. In the end, the fortune she's after may not be that of money, but one of love. This is only Joanna Politano's second book, and you would never be able to tell by her style of writing. She writes with such a beautiful, classic, gothic way that I haven't had the pleasure of reading in a...

I have not read a historical romance that dealt with such a controversal topic in a long time, and it is not because I don't want to read one, they are just extremely hard to find. Kristi Ann Hunter has been one of the few Christian authors to address the issue of illegitament birth's of the nobility, and I absolutely adored the way she went about doing so. "A Defense of Honor" follows a young woman named Katherine who runs a secret home called, Haven Manor, for children of illegitament birth from parents of nobility. Katherine is hiding much more than just children, she's also dealing with the guilt of a past mistake that changed her life and her best friend's forever. After briefly meeting a man named Graham on a trip to London, she never would have believed he would soon be riding up to Haven Manor's doorstep as a favor to a friend. As Katherine starts developing feelings for Graham, she has to address some of her secrets, some of the things she...