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A Borrowed Dream (Cimarron Creek Trilogy) by Amanda Cabot

I really, really liked this book! Good steady plot with great characters! This story is #2 in the Cimarron Creek Trilogy but they can be read as stand alone books.

Austin and his daughter move to Cimarron Creek to escape a wanted dangerous criminal from their hometown. As a former surgeon/doctor, Austin must pose as a rancher and establish a new life for him and his daughter. He meets school teacher Catherine and as they work together to help his daughter and fellow neighbors, he has to decide if he can trust her with his secret.

I really loved the characters in this book. Catherine is passionate about helping her school kids and especially Austin’s daughter Hannah. I love reading about the small town and how they interact and help each other, especially in time of need.

Well written christian romance with some drama. I can’t wait to read book #3 in this series!

I received a copy of this book complimentary for blog and social media review. All opinions are my own.

About the Book:
Catherine Whitfield is sure that she will never again be able to trust anyone in the medical profession after the town doctor’s excessive bleeding treatments killed her mother. Despite her loneliness and her broken heart, she carries bravely on as Cimarron Creek’s dutiful schoolteacher, resigned to a life without love or family, a life where dreams rarely come true.

Austin Goddard is a newcomer to Cimarron Creek. Posing as a rancher, he fled to Texas to protect his daughter from a dangerous criminal. He’s managed to keep his past as a surgeon a secret. But when Catherine Whitfield captures his heart, he wonders how long he will be able to keep up the charade.

With a deft hand, Amanda Cabot teases out the strands of love, deception, and redemption in this charming tale of dreams deferred and hopes becoming reality.

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About the Author
Amanda Cabot is the bestselling author of A Stolen Heart, as well as the Texas Crossroads series, the Texas Dreams series, the Westward Winds series, and Christmas Roses. Her books have been finalists for the ACFW Carol Awards and the Booksellers’ Best. She lives in Wyoming. Learn more at www.amandacabot.com.

Hurricane Season: A Southern Novel of Two Sisters and the Storms They Must Weather by Lauren K. Denton

I really enjoyed this story! Good steady plot and characters. The chapters alternate between Ty, Betsy and Jenna point of view; so readers get a feel of each character and how they are feeling and experiencing.

I could relate to Betsy’s heartache of not being able to have children, while still having to take care of her nieces and other children visiting the farm. I could also relate to Jenna’s frustration of having children at a young age and not knowing what to do with her life and trying to provide for her family and do what she thinks would be best.

I liked reading the family interactions between the 2 girls and Aunt Betsy and Uncle Ty. They were so patient with teaching the girls the chores of the dairy farm and gardening. I also liked how Betsy and Ty used prayer and communication to work thru their marriage struggles.

Christian romance and general fiction book-the characters and story line was down to earth and relatable for readers. I enjoyed this story from start to finish!

I received a copy of this book complimentary for blog and social media review. All opinions are my own.

About the Book:
Betsy and Ty Franklin, owners of Franklin Dairy Farm in southern Alabama, have long since buried their desire for children of their own. While Ty manages their herd of dairy cows, Betsy busies herself with the farm’s day-to-day operations and tries to forget her dream of motherhood. But when her free-spirited sister, Jenna, drops off her two young daughters for “just two weeks,” Betsy’s carefully constructed wall of self-protection begins to crumble.

As the two weeks stretch deeper into the Alabama summer, Betsy and Ty learn to navigate the new additions in their world—and revel in the laughter that now fills their home. Meanwhile, record temperatures promise to usher in the most active hurricane season in decades.

Attending an art retreat four hundred miles away, Jenna is fighting her own battles. She finally has time and energy to focus on her photography, a lifelong ambition. But she wonders how her rediscovered passion can fit in with the life she’s made back home as a single mom.

When Hurricane Ingrid aims a steady eye at the Alabama coast, Jenna must make a decision that will change her family’s future, even as Betsy and Ty try to protect their beloved farm and their hearts. Hurricane Season is the story of one family’s unconventional journey to healing—and the relationships that must be mended along the way.

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About the Author
Born and raised in Mobile, Alabama, Lauren K. Denton now lives with her husband and two daughters in Homewood, just outside Birmingham. In addition to her fiction, she writes a monthly newspaper column about life, faith, and how funny (and hard) it is to be a parent. On any given day, she’d rather be at the beach with her family and a stack of books. Website: LaurenKDenton.com; Facebook: LaurenKDentonAuthor; Twitter: @LaurenKDenton.

“Tripwire” by Traci Hunter Abramson

Another fantastic suspense and drama filled story involving the Saint Squad characters from previous books. Although the characters from previous books are in this story, it can be read as a stand alone and mostly involve Jane, Sienna, Craig and Reed.

I loved the fast paced action, light romance between characters, and the comradery of the squad. They work well together, trust each other, and do amazingly dangerous missions together.

Loved this book-highly recommend!

I received a copy of this book complimentary for blog and social media review. All opinions are my own.

About the Book:
Jane Napierski is back at work at the job she loves—being a personal assistant to her friend Sienna Blake, a rising star actress. The duo is on location in Virginia Beach to film Sienna’s new TV series, along with costar Reed Forrester—the man with whom the world thinks Sienna is in love. Wrong.
Sienna’s heart actually belongs to her fiancé, Craig, a Navy Seal with the Saint Squad. Craig must fly under the radar if he is to keep Sienna safe from his world of terrorists and toxic bombs. And Reed has no problem pretending to date his old friend Sienna simply because it means he can spend time learning more about Jane. Making a TV series is grueling work but not nearly as difficult as the treacherous adventure that is about to begin with a simple photo taken in the wrong place at the wrong time—an image worth killing for.

When Craig returns to the United States to spend time with Sienna, he’s not expecting to spend that time protecting her and Jane. Frightening incidents targeting the two women rapidly escalate, and as Craig and his Saint Squad investigate a tangled conspiracy, they find themselves tracking, here at home, the terrorists they have searched for across the globe. But can they shut the terrorists down in time to save Jane, Reed, and Sienna?

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Biography
Traci Hunter Abramson was born in Arizona, where she lived until moving to Venezuela for a study-abroad program. After graduating from Brigham Young University, she worked for the Central Intelligence Agency for several years, eventually resigning in order to raise her family. She credits the CIA with giving her a wealth of ideas for suspense novels as well as the skills needed to survive her children’s teenage years. She has gone on to write a number of bestselling suspense novels that have consistently been nominated as Whitney Award finalists. She considers shoes an optional accessory which became evident when she won her first three Whitney Awards in 2013 (Code Word), 2014 (Deep Cover), and 2016 (Failsafe.) She currently lives in Virginia with her family where she enjoys sports, travel, writing, and coaching high school swimming.

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