Reading Excursions

MY REVIEW   Paperback:  400 pages Publisher:  Bethany House (December 13, 2022) Language: English ISBN:  0764237497 ISBN-13: 978-0764237492 ⬅️ Click Photo for Purchase Information   “ At the height of World War I, two sweethearts face impossible odds in this powerful tale of courage, duty, and heartbreak.     In the summer of 1918, Captain Marcus Weatherford arrives in Russia on a secret mission, with a beautiful ballerina posing as his fiancée. He's there to find the Romanov tsarina and her son and glean information about a plot to assassinate Lenin. As the danger intensifies, Marcus's sense of duty battles with his desire to return home to Clare, the woman he truly loves, before it's too late.    Military hospital orderly Clare Danner still suffers from Marcus's betrayal after learning he's engaged to another woman. Clare also fears losing her daughter, Daisy, to the heartless family who took her away once before. Only Marcus ca...

    MY REVIEW   Paperback:  416 pages Publisher:  Bethany House Publishers (January 24, 2023) Language: English ISBN:  0764240013 ISBN-13: 978-0764240010 ⬅️ Click Photo for Purchase Information   “ In two world wars, intelligence and counterintelligence, prejudice, and self-sacrifice collide across two generations     In 1942, Evie Farrow is used to life on Ocracoke Island, where every day is the same--until the German U-boats haunting their waters begin to wreak havoc. And when special agent Sterling Bertrand is washed ashore at Evie's inn, her life is turned upside down. While Sterling's injuries keep him inn-bound for weeks, making him even more anxious about the SS officer he's tracking, he becomes increasingly intrigued by Evie, who seems to be hiding secrets of her own.    Decades earlier, in 1914, Englishman Remington Culbreth arrives at the Ocracoke Inn for the summer, never expecting to fall in love with Louis...