I love sequels and this one–A Wealth Beyond Riches–follows The Bounty Hunter and the Bride. It is Jimmy’s story. His world is spinning after rescuing a beautiful woman who disappears. He’s surprised when she appears at the very place he has been hired to build a house.  Sasha’s world is turned upside down in the first few pages. She discovers she’s not who she thought she was and heads west to look for her uncle and finds a way of life she’d never imagined. McDonough is a great storyteller. Her plots and characters stay with you after you finish the…
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This is our archive pageCAN Book Review by Diana Brandmeyer: Deadly Exposure by Cara Putman
T.V. news Reporter, Dani Richards moves to Lincoln, Nebraska to care for her Aunt Jayne who has Alzheimer's. Taking her aunt to see Cats, Dani prays she won't see Caleb Jamison, the man who stole her sixteen-year-old heart. Not only does she see him, she has to work with him when she discovers a dead body at the theater. Caleb is on the police force and is assigned to keep Dani safe, but can he protect her heart from him? Deadly Exposure is a page turner. It was a delight to read a suspense novel that doesn't go into grisly…
CAN Book Review by Diana Brandmeyer: Touching the Clouds by Bonnie Leon
When Touching the Clouds arrived in the mail I wasn't sure if the author could pull off a book with such an independent heroine during the depression. Well, Leon did it. Kate Evans calls off her marriage and heads to Alaska in her small plane to be a bush pilot. She leaves Washington State and its heartaches behind, hoping to support herself in the rough Alaskan terrain. She runs into major problems, from unpredictable weather to judgment from other male pilots. She's not the only one hiding in Alaska. So is Paul Anderson. He has his own memories that he…
CAN Book Review: The Anonymous Bride by Vickie McDonough
THE ANONYMOUS BRIDE by Vickie McDonough Review by Carla Stewart Publisher: Barbour Publishing, Inc. (April 1, 2010) ISBN-13: 978-1602606968 Veteran writer Vickie McDonough’s first trade length novel, THE ANONYMOUS BRIDE, delights and entertains with fresh characters and puts a fun, new spin on the mail order bride story. Set in late nineteenth century Texas in the fictional town of Lookout, the characters dance off the page from the very first scene. When Luke Davis returns to the hometown he left several years, he is excited about being the new town marshal, but dreads facing Rachel, the woman who betrayed…
CAN Book Review: A Distant Melody by Sarah Sundin
A DISTANT MELODY by Sarah Sundin Review by Carla Stewart Publisher: Revell; Original edition (March 1, 2010) ISBN-13: 978-0800734213 Once in a while a book comes along that wraps its arms around you and so enchants you that you don’t want to the story to end. Sarah Sundin’s debut novel, A Distant Melody, is one of those books. At the height of WWII, a chance meeting brings Allie Miller and Walt Novak together, but Allie’s upcoming marriage, arranged by her wealthy parents, and Walt’s dispatch to pilot a B-17 bomber from an airbase in England, halts the romance before…
CAN Book Feature: Love Finds You in Golden, New Mexico by Lena Nelson Dooley
Love Finds You in Golden, New Mexico By Lena Nelson DooleyISBN: 978-1935416746Summerside PressHistorical Romance All that glitters is not gold. It’s 1890, and Golden, New Mexico, is a booming mining town where men far outnumber women. So when an old wealthy miner named Philip Smith finds himself in need of a nursemaid, he places an ad for a mail-order bride—despite the protests of his friend Jeremiah. Hoping to escape a perilous situation back East, young Madeleine Mercer answers the ad and arrives in town under a cloud of suspicion. But just as she begins to win over Philip—and Jeremiah himself—the…
The Anonymous Bride by Vickie McDonough
The Anonymous Bride, Book 1 in the Texas Boardinghouse Brides series by Vickie McDonough from Barbour Publishing released April 1, 2010 ISBN: 978-1-60260-696-8 Three mail-order brides arrive in Lookout, Texas, each expecting to marry the local marshal. But—he didn’t order a bride. When a contest ensues to discover which bride will make him the best wife, there is a surprise fourth entry –an anonymous one. Mayhem occurs as the whole town tries to figure out who the anonymous bride is, and the mayor pressures the marshal to pick a bride or lose his job. Will Marshal Davis tuck tail and run for the hills? Or…
CAN Book Feature: More Than Conquerors by Kathi Macias
More than Conquerors Book two of the four-book Extreme Devotion series from New Hope Publishers ISBN-10: 1596692839 ISBN-13: 978-1596692831 Release Date: April 5, 2010 With violent crime on the rise and the political climate changing throughout certain parts of Mexico, the opportunity for open Christian witness, particularly in some areas of Chiapas State, is rapidly decreasing. Hector Rodriguez pastors a small church in the tourist-popular border town of Tijuana. He also routinely carries Bibles deeper into the hostile areas of Mexico, where he ministers despite increasing difficulty and persecution. Hector’s mother accompanied him on one of those trips and felt God called her to stay in…
CAN Book Feature: No Greater Love by Kathi Macias
No Greater Love Book one of the four-book Extreme Devotion series from New Hope Publishers ISBN-10: 1596692774 ISBN-13: 978-1596692770 Release date: April 5, 2010 Orphaned four years earlier when their parents, active in the African National Congress (ANC) movement against Apartheid, were murdered, 16-year-old Chioma and her 15-year-old brother, Masozi, now live and work on an Afrikaner family’s farm. When Chioma and Andrew, the farm owner’s son, find themselves attracted to one another, tragedy revisits their lives. Chioma escapes to join an ANC rebel band in her effort to survive and gain revenge for her family and race. When cultures clash…
CAN Book Feature: Patterns and Progress by Amber Stockton
Patterns and Progress By Amber Stockton December, 2009 ISBN-10: 1602606870 ISBN-13: 9781602606876 Shannon Delaney was right. Every time she might consider changing her stance on what other people called progress, something bad would happen and she would be proven right again. Take the day Jacob Berringer almost ran her over in that new Model-T, for instance. And he had the nerve to suggest she'd been daydreaming? Or the Titanic. A marvel of modern invention. Look where that got them. Or how about the new tractor her brother insisted they try out. What did he get from that? A broken…
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