Reading Excursions

  MY REVIEW     Paperback:  304 pages Publisher:  Revell (March 7, 2023) Language: English ISBN:  0800739760 ISBN-13: 978-0800739768 ⬅️ Click Photo for Purchase Information   “ Who doesn't love a second chance?    When Mallory Farrell inherits her grandmother's run-down tourist shop in Portside, Oregon, she knows selling it is the only sensible thing to do. The place holds treasured memories for her, but it would take a fortune to restore it.   But she learns her childhood crush, Grayson Matthews, wants to buy the building to redevelop the funky town's business district into a soulless, cookie-cutter outdoor mall, Mallory digs in her heels. With a lot of hard work and a little bit of help, she is sure she can renovate the property herself.   Though Mallory makes incredible progress turning the store into an eclectic home décor shop, she’s heartbroken when an exciting opportunity turns into a guaranteed nightmare. Shou...

  MY REVIEW     Paperback:  400 pages Publisher:  Revell (October 20, 2020) Language:  English ISBN-10:  0800736893 ISBN-13:  978-0800736897 ⬅️  Click Picture for Purchase Information   “ Focused on a career in medicine and not on romance, Willa Duvall is thrown slightly off course during the summer of 1865 when she discovers a never-opened love letter in a crack of her old writing desk. Compelled to find the passionate soul who penned it and the person who never received it, she takes a job as a nurse at the seaside estate of Crestwicke Manor. Everyone at Crestwicke has feelings--mostly negative ones--about the man who wrote the letter, but he seems to have disappeared. With plenty of enticing clues but few answers, Willa's search becomes even more complicated when she misplaces the letter and it passes from person to person in the house, each finding a thrilling or disheartening message in its words.  Laced with myste...

   MY REVIEW   Paperback:  336 pages Publisher:  Revell (October 13, 2020) Language:  English          ISBN-10: 0800738896 ISBN-13:  978-0800738891 Click Picture for Purchase Information “ The only thing Bri Duval loves more than baking petit fours is romance. So much so, she's created her own version of the famous Parisian lovelock wall at her bakery in Story, Kansas. She never expects it to go viral--or for Trek Magazine to send travel writer Gerard Fortier to feature the bakery. He's definitely handsome, but Bri has been holding out for a love story like the one her parents had, and that certainly will not include the love-scorned-and-therefore-love-scorning Gerard. Just when it seems Bri's bakery is poised for unprecedented success, a series of events threaten not just her business but the pedestal she's kept her parents on all these years. Maybe Gerard is right about romance. Or maybe Br...

MY REVIEW Paperback:  352 pages Publisher:  Revell (March 3, 2020) Language:  English ISBN-10:  0800737237 ISBN-13:  978-0800737238 Click Picture for Purchase Information “Home is the place to heal, right? At least, that's what Dillon Michaels is hoping as she leaves her disappointing career and nonstarter love life behind to help her grieving and aging grandfather on his small Oregon farm. The only problem? Her eccentric mother beat her there and has taken over Dillon's old room. After a few nights sleeping on a sagging sofa, Dillon is ready to give up, until she receives an unlikely gift--her grandfather's run-down vintage camp trailer, which she quickly resolves to restore with the help of Jordan Atwood, the handsome owner of the local hardware store. But just when things are finally beginning to run smoothly, Dillon's noncommittal ex-boyfriend shows up with roses … and a ring …” Thank you in advance to the publisher, ...