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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780373873692
ISBN: 0373873697
Label: Steeple Hill
Manufacturer: Steeple Hill
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 256
Publication Date: May 01, 2006
Publisher: Steeple Hill
Studio: Steeple Hill
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Product Description:
It was the surprise of a lifetime for recluse Molly McCreight when single dad Ethan Hunter entrusted her with his infant daughter while he delivered medicine to an elderly man during an ice storm. Past experience had taught Molly how fragile life could be, but she was touched by this stranger's faith in her abilities. Once the storm had passed, though, and her guests returned home, normalcy eluded Molly. The Hunters' presence had brought much-needed joy to her quiet world, but their absence threatened to crush her forever. Still, was she ready to admit that this tiny family held the key to the future she'd always secretly craved?
Average Rating: 
Rating:  -
I tried this book because it is one of the free books that Amazon offers on the Kindle. I could not finish it. The story was predictable and the praising of God every few lines made the story unreadable for me.
I am glad I did not waste any money on this, because it is not worth any thing.
Rating: -
the transitions were not very good, there were too many times the story just changed out of nowhere.
Rating:  -
It is such a relief to find a romance story where the characters don't just fall into bed together. This book develops love with out needing to get gritty. I absolutely adore how they are both so in love and sex is not the primary response.
Rating:  -
***** Spoiler Alert *****
The first half of this book was strongly written in my opinion. You come to find the female lead has a tragic secret (her sister blames her for the death of her child) and her mother and sister have turned their back on her.
Then when you get to the middle of the book, you come to find out that the reason her sister is blaming her is logically explained. The baby died of SIDS.
Although I can understand people are illogical when they blame you for things you're not guilty of, I couldn't believe this particular issue--not due to the blame coming from the sister, but because Molly (the heroine) knew of this issue and still blamed herself to an illogical degree. So it wasn't that she blamed herself... it was the intensity of her blame that I found was not believable.
Molly (in my opinion) simply allowed herself to be accused by her sister unjustly. I found it ridiculous and a subtle ploy just to keep the plot moving. She was way too ok with allowing herself to be blamed wrongly when obviously the death would've occurred anyway. She goes so far as to have no life so her sister doesn't feel "burdened" by her presence.
Her entire choice through the entire book is to be a doormat. Not get upset... not even once. I can venture to guess that most people might feel some guilt but would also be quite peeved at being unjustly accused when there's a reasonable medical explanation for the death of a seemingly healthy baby. One that doesn't implicate you.
Again, I get some guilt, but this woman was just immersing herself in it and just being a doormat her sister could walk all over. She had my sympathy all the way up until I realized the death could be logically explained and all of this supposed self-recrimination was just her playing the victim. How about standing up for yourself a bit? I don't believe God would mind that as long as you did it in a decent, upstanding manner. Come on now. If she had attempted to do that some, I would've found the plot more believable.
Also as the plot moves along she gets more ridiculous and acts silly about her relationship with Ethan. She continues to play the victim and it begins to get annoying.
I believe what was initially a good plot gave way to predictable scenes and a wobbly story-line after the halfway point. I commend Linda Goodnight for trying, but I think her book would've been quite a bit stronger if she'd pushed the heroine to own up to a believable set of events.
This is why I gave it 2 stars. Because it's a book that relies heavily on unbelievable actions in order to keep the book going. And also because the wrap-up along the end of the book between the sisters was lacking in depth and not the best way (in my opinion) to go about resolving the issue. It was too predictable and weakened the story's strength.
Rating:  -
I loved the fact that I didn't know what was gonna happen next .. so many books of late are all the same .. this one had a bit of twist ..
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