Hidden Among the Stars

Melanie Dobson's latest tale, Hidden Among the Stars, will take you back to the days of WWII.  You will meet Max Dornbach and Annika Knopf on the opening pages.  These two young people are thinking about what their lives will be someday, not of what their lives are soon going to become under the Nazi oppression touching their quiet Austrian homes!

This tale will fast forward to current day, where you will meet Callie Randall, a bookstore owner, and Josh Nemeth, a college professor.  These two individuals have been brought together as they both are researching into names from the past.  Josh is looking into what happened to Annika Knopf and her connection to the lost treasures of Jews killed during WWII, while Callie is determined to discover what she can about a woman, by the name of Luzia Weiss.  This woman may be the long-lost mother of one of Callie's dearest friends!

As this book jumps between the time of WWII and present day, the details of this terrible time will slowly come to light.  You will be drawn toward Max, Luzia and Annika as they battle the devils of the past.  You will also learn more about Callie and Josh's lives, as you wonder if they will have a future together!

Hold on until the final page to see Callie and Josh put all of the pieces of the past together!


I received this book from Tyndale House Publishers in exchange for my honest review.

The Patriot Bride

In Kimberley Woodhouse's latest book, The Patriot Bride, the author will take you back in time to the founding of our country.  The Revolutionary War was a time of suspicion and intrigue, where you did not know if you could trust your own neighbor!

It was fun to return to this time and be reminded of events you learned about earlier in your life.  This book introduces you to two fictional spies, Faith Jackson and Matthew Weber.  As you follow these spies around the back streets of Boston, you will be reminded that the early Americans were willing to give up everything, even their own lives, for the sake of this new land!

You know how this story will end; however. it is fun to be reminded of the colorful characters involved in the early days of our country, The United States of America!

I received a copy to read and review from Netgalley.com.

Ours for a Season

Ours for a Season is the latest from Kim Vogel Sawyer.  You will meet a young Mennonite couple, Anthony and Marty Hirschler, on the opening pages.  Following a miscarriage early in their marriage, this couple learned that they would be unable to ever become pregnant again.  This fact causes Marty to turn her back on both her husband and on God!

In response to Marty's coldness, Anthony spends his days focused on building up his construction company.  However, when he and Marty receive an invitation to move to Kansas to help Marty's childhood friend, Brooke Spalding, convert a ghost town into a resort, Marty feels this might be an opportunity to save their marriage at the same time!

Anthony and Marty encounter two surprises when they arrive in Kansas.  First, they learn that Brooke has recently been diagnosed with cancer.  Next, they learn that part of the resort will contain a casino.  Marty is committed to staying to help Brooke deal with her cancer treatments, while Anthony is willing to continue this job to see how God may be at work in this world, so different from their home!

When Anthony and Marty encounter several teenagers who have been abandoned and forced into sex-trafficking, they feel that God has placed this real need before them.  They may not be able to conceive their own children; however, God has placed some young lives in their path, in need of love!

Hang on, until the final page, to see how God will influence lives and bring beauty from ashes!

I received this book for my unbiased review, in partnership with WaterBrook Multnomah.

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Where Hope Begins

Where Hope Begins is the first book that I have read by Catherine West.  The first thing that caught my attention about this book was the beautiful cover; however, once I dove into the pages, the writing brought me to experience deep emotions about each of the characters in this tale!

You are introduced to Savannah Barrington on the opening pages of this book.  Savannah has just learned that her marriage of over twenty years is ending!

As you walk with Savannah during these early days of learning to live on her own, you will gain insight into the details and the hardships that brought her marriage to this sad ending!

Hang on until the final page, where you will see the hope that only God can bring to a situation that seems hopeless!

I received this book from Thomas Nelson in exchange for my honest review.

Sons of Blackbird Mountain

Sons of Blackbird Mountain begins the latest series of books by Joanne Bischof.

After Aven Norgaard loses her husband, she decides to journey from Norway to America to make her new home with her late-husband's cousins.  When Aven arrives at the Norgaard Farm, she meets Thor on the lane leading up to the family farmhouse.  Once Aven meets all three of her new cousins, she is surprised by two facts.  First, she was expecting these cousins to be young boys, not grown men.  Second, the lack of conversation with Thor on their walk to the house was not due to rudeness; but rather, because this newest member of her family, was born deaf and is unable to speak!

Aven learns that the oldest, Jorgan, is soon to be married.  She is excited to know that there will soon be another female added to the household.  However, when the two other brothers seem to have their eye on Aven, she does not know how to balance this new revelation.  Aven's uneasiness grows further, when she learns that the farm is financially supported by the hard cider that Thor brews from their apple harvest.  Aven's late husband died, primarily from his addiction to alcohol!

The atmosphere in this house grows rather chaotic as Thor's family works very hard to help him overcome his own addition to alcohol.  Hang on to see if Thor's desire to overcome this addiction is successful and where the state of this family will be at the end of all their hard work!

Looking forward to the next book in this series, Daughters of Northern Shores!


I received this book from Thomas Nelson in exchange for my honest review.