The Pirate Queen

by 

Patricia Hickman 

 Saphora has a successful life; but she’s had enough of her husband’s running around on her and decides to leave. She’s stoped by her husband’s announcement that he has cancer and now that he is sick  he wants her to take care of him. He wants to go to their home on the beach at the Outer Banks in North Carolina.  Saphora is a beautiful woman even though she is a mother of grown children and a grandmother, she finds herself overrun with children and grandchildren while she is trying to take care of her sick doctor husband.

I really enjoyed this book because it takes place in the state next to me as I live in South Carolina. I also enjoyed reading a love story about an older woman who is at a crossroads in her life. I am older than Saphora is in this book but I feel as though we could be friends as we have a lot in common, except the doctor husband mine was a welder before he retired, and we don't own a second home on the beach, just one little one midstate where it gets so hot and humid in the summer. It seems as most books are written about a young slim beautiful woman and the authors seen to forget that we older women need love and romance also.  Saphora is a woman that likes to know what is going on and does not mind sticking her nose in her neighbor's business. 

I received this book for free from WaterBrook Multnomah Publishing Group for this review

 

The WAITING

by

Suzanne Woods Fisher
ISBN: 9780800433865
$14.99 paper back

In the second book of this series "Lancaster County Secrets" Suzanne once again write a great story about the Amish people.  I have not got to read "The Choice" yet but this one picked up just fine on it's own.In this one Jorie King is living with her grandparents helping with their Percheron horses.  Her parents had left and moved to Canada to set up a new Amish settlement up there, but Jorie didn't want to go as she was in love with a neighbor boy named Ben Zook, but he had signed up to go to Vietnam, but as the Amish do not believe in bearing arms toward another human, he was supposed to just be a helper, but was he?  He left Jorie behind as he wanted to see more of the world, so she was going to be the school teacher the next year.

She was not sure about teaching so many large eighth grade boys and they were all behind in their studies, so she needed to do something done, so that when the school board came around the next May they would pass their exams, but could she control so many large boys?

In this book, a good friend passed away with Leukemia and left her husband and little girl.  The lot was also coming up for a new preacher in their community, who would the lot fall on?  This book is really good it is a little different than a lot of the Amish books I have read before, as it changed some of the ways, the older books wrote about. 

This book was sent to me by Revell Publishing for review.

CHRISTMAS TREE ORNAMENTS

Alone with reading books I also enjoy making beautiful things on my embroidery machine, so I though I would show some of them off.

Set of Towels

3D praying angel to hang on a Christmas tree.  I make a lot of these.

This little purse I made this past week, it is lined with a pocket, so beautiful!!

School images on a bath towels

I use my butterflies on cards                                  
 



This is a small laptop bag

If would like to buy some of these just email me or leave a comment with your email address and we will get together with price and shipping. I can put anything you want on items not necessary any of these, I make some of these with my regular sewing machine and some as towels I buy in your colors.

 

• Pub. Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Zondervan
• Format: Paperback , 336pp 

ISBN: 0310289858

A Man's Heart is a story about potato farmers in Washington State.  Jules Matias was engaged to be married to Cruz Delgado a neighboring farmer but she had left him standing for the second time.  She wanted to go back to school so that she could grow the perfect potato, he was hurt beyond words as they both had loved each other all their lives.  Cruz just could not understand why she wanted to wait and he said he was not waiting on her anymore.

Jules had finished her studies but was not anywhere near finding that perfect potato.  She received a call that her dad had passed away, so she locked her apartment and got in her car and started driving home.  She was so sad, her Mom had left them when she was small and had taken her baby sister, so he was her only close family.  She knew when she got home she would meet up with Cruz and she was ready now to marry him but was he ready to forgive her for standing him up two times.

In this book written by Lori Copeland there is so much going on.  Jules graduates, closes her apartment and moves back home, where she had to run the potato farm.  Her sister came up from Florida where she had been raised by their now deceased mother, she just moved in for an unlimited time.  Then there was a drought, a friend with cancer, two little children that needed care, and Pop Jules' dad had left a surprise in his will that was not expected.

All in all this was a great book and I would give it 5 stars.  God's healing hand, with love, forgiveness, and learning that only one being could make anything perfect.

This book was sent to me by Zondervan publishers for my review.

 

Christmas Miracles

by

Cecil Murphey and Marley Gibson

A Great gift for everyone on your list that like to read.

 

Pub. Date: October 2009
ISBN: 0594034728
Hardcopy 256 pages
Publisher: St. Martin's Press

This is the perfect book to help you get into Christmas by reminding you of what Christmas is really all about. The authors have taken true stories from different authors and wrote them into this book.  These are all short stories about miracles that has happened to different people. They are so touching that you may even see a miracle that has happened to you!  Their is a story about everything from births, deaths, injuries, and poverty , each with their own message of hope and faith.  You can sit down and read one short story or read as many as you want, one thing I am sure of it that this book will touch your heart and let you remember the reason for the season of Christmas.  I hope these stories remind readers that Christmas is a time of miracles, starting with the first one over two thousand years ago with the birth of a baby boy in a manger who came to save the world.

Thanks so much to Revell Publishing for sending me this book to review.

 

Finding Becky is the third book in the series Winds Across the Prairie by Martha Rogers.  I read Morning Dove and really enjoyed it better that I did this one.  I like the older historical storied better than in the 1900 ones.  This one took place in 1905 in the Oklahoma territory before it became a state the the women suffrage movement  was in full force.

Rebecca Haynes had just returned home from college in Boston and had a joy in the local newspaper, but she was really into the suffrage movement.  She believed that woman should have the right to vote and should be able to get a job and get paid as much as a man.  She had a long time beau waiting on her at home but had met a man on the train by the name of Geoff Kensington that was going to her home town, but he didn't look like a cowboy, so what was he going to do there?  Rebecca (Becky) started dining and going riding with him, so her beau Rob Frankston the lawyer did not take to that very well.  He had always loved her, even when they were children so it had always been his intent to marry her, but she wanted to be independent.

As the story progresses Rebecca get more involved with the newspaper in town that she works for and had gotten away from God.  Geoff didn't believe either and on Sunday he would ride our to the Haynes ranch and nosy around so what was he after?  He had come to town to buy beef but that had already been taken care of and he was still going out to the ranch to see where the neighbors had tried to farm but nothing would grow so they had sold off their land to the Haynes and two other ranchers, but they had to keep their cattle out from that place as even the water was bad.  Bad things begin to happen at the Haynes ranch, cattle were killed and left, their barn had been set on fire, so what was behind all of this?  Could it be Geoff, the new man in town or was is someone else?

You need to buy this book and read the continuing series of Winds Across the Prairie.

This book was sent to me by Strang Book Group for review.

Book and Blog Tour




Andrea Boeshaar has been married for over 30 years. She and her husband Daniel have 3 grown sons and 4 grandchildren.
Andrea has been writing stories and poems since she was a little girl; however, it wasn't until 1991, after she became a Christian, that she answered God's call to write exclusively for the Christian market. Since then Andrea has had more than 25 novels published as well as numerous novellas and nonfiction pieces.
Andrea served on the Advisory Board of ACFW (American Christian Fiction Writers) and is one of the organization's cofounders. Andrea is represented by literary agent, Steve Laube.
In addition to her own writing, Andrea is a certified life coach and helps writers organize, prioritize, set goals, and work toward publication. For more about Andrea, visit her web site at: www.andreaboeshaar.com

My Review:

I have read the Unwilling Warrior so I was excited to read Uncertain Heart  Book Two by Andrea Boeshaar! I was not disappointed!

These are stand alone reads so one doesn't have to read book one to get into reading book two but it is better if you do.
In the Uncertain Heart we meet up with Sarah McCabe. Being young and of full of adventure, Sarah was always wanting to go and see different places. Like a lot of young ladies almost into womanhood, Sarah wanted more that what she has. She wants excitement, adventure and a true love and want to so somewhere beside her home state of Missiouri. 

Sarah takes the position of governess and this is where Captain Brain Sinclair enters the picture.  Being "older" and very handsome he immediately got Sarah's attention but, of course, this was easy for him since Sarah has fallen in love with the thought of luxury, culture and social privilege. She loves the children in her care but also enjoys the attentions and the finer things that surrounds her.

But then Sarah meets Richard Navis, Captain Sinclair's  indentured servant on his vessel. Captain Sinclair   sees immediately the wonderful heartof  Sarah. He also treats her as the beautiful, special lady that he knows she is to become. Richard realizes that Sarah longs for more than he can give her, for Richard wants to be a farmer and his heart has always been into working the land.

However, beyond Sarah's control, something causes her reputation to be questioned.  Not a good thing to have in the 1800's. For a bad reputation usually means that she could not get a good job or in her case probably not a good husband. Sarah is heart broken for she loves working with the children. But Richard steps in and with a  plan to protect Sarah. But will he or Sarah end up getting hurt? Will the plan really make everything come to light and help the truth to be revealed? A surprising plan with a surprising ending.

This book was sent to me by Glass Roads Publishing for review. 

 I also received a copy from Strang Publications for review. Thanks to both of the great publishing companies.

 

A RUSH OF WINGS

by

Kristen Heitzmann

Noelle St. Claire has left from her home on her father's estate in New York. She doesn't know where she is going, but has to get away from something that she fears but can not put a finger on what it is. She end up in Colorado and finds a place to stay at a ranch owned by Rick Spencer. Will she find  a chance to just be herself and not be afraid of what she ran away from?

 This book is an ok read but Noelle is a spoiled rich young woman that has everything she has ever wanted at her finger tips and has never had to do anything. She seemed to be a headstrong,  who is not willing to accept anyone's rules. 

In spite of my not really getting into the books with the way that Noelle  acted throughout. Anger should be turned loose and Noelle did have some reasons to be angry with her life and the people in it.   In the end, the story does have a good ending that should satisfy almost everyone.

I received this book from Bethany House Publishers to read and review.

 

A Plain and Simple Christmas

by
Amy Clipston

A Novella (Hardcover) $14.99

Bridgette Brooks ZONDERVAN

Read First Chapter here:

My Review:

This is another Amish book with a different twist. I have read Amy's first book "A Gift of Grace" and loved the author and the way it was written, well here is another one. Amy takes the Amish Faith and writes in a more modern way than some of the other writers.
Anna Mae McDonough was born and raised by Amish parents and in the Amish community, but when she met Kellan, "who was not Amish" and fell in love with him, he was not accepted by her community. Anna Mae had already joined the church so if she married him that meant she would be shunned, but she choose Kellan.

Kellan is a Christian man just not Amish so they moved to Baltimore where he owned and operated a car dealership. It had been three long years since Anna Mae had saw her people and she missed them so and she wanted to share with them that she was expecting a bobbli in January. She wanted to see them for Christmas so she wrote to her sister-in-law and see if she thought it would be alright to come to Lancaster, Pa. They both felt that it was in God's plan to get together and try to reconcile their family.

Will her dat accept this, he was the Bishop or will he still shun her. I started reading this book the day I received it and could not put it down, I read the complete book. It is so good, also such a beautiful book, would make a great Christmas gift for anyone on your list that reads. I also have to say as all of Amy's books she has some great Amish recipe's in the back.

This book was sent to me by Library Thing for my complete honest review, I give it 5 stars.*****

 

I have been Tagged................

Thanks Abi

This is a fun simple tag meme and since I was tagged by Abi at 4 The Love of Books.
1) Accept the tag and link to the tagger at the beginning of your post.
2) Answer the questions honestly in your post by listing four things.
3) Pass on the love by picking four other people to tag and listing them at the bottom of your post. Notify them that you tagged them.

4 things that are in my handbag or backpack or briefcase

• wallet
• medicine
• money sometimes
• chapstick

4 favorite things in my bedroom

• books
• my bed
• clothes
• TV & Cd/radio player

4 Things on My Desk

• computer and monitor
• blood checking meter
• glass of water
• printer

4 Things I've Always Wanted To Do (but haven't yet)

•  Visit up in Maine
•  Get better with my blogs
•  For God to get my family back together
•  Visit Alaska

4 Things I Enjoy Very Much At The Moment

•  The quietness of the house when hubby is outside
•  being on the computer
•  Reading
• Not being responsible for anyone but myself

4 Songs I Can't Get Out Of My Head

• What A Day That Will Be
• What A Beautiful Day for The Lord to Come Again
• God On the Mountain
• Heaven Will be my Home

4 Things You Don't Know About Me

• I'm a Deacon's wife
• Mother of four
• I am afraid of about everything
• I have depression & hate to leave my house

4 Bloggers I am Tagging

     Reviews by Martha
     Kathi Macias
     Laura Frantz
    Mary McConnealy

 

BLOG TOUR TIME: Radio Host and Christy Award Winner Chris Fabry Releases Exquisite New Novel

See A Trailer of the book.

                                                   Read the first chapter here

                                      

About the Author form Amazon's Author page:

I was born in West Virginia in 1961 and grew up in a small town much like Dogwood. I was affected by my parents, my older brothers, the hills, and books. I was never a very fast reader, but the things I read really helped change me. Particularly novels. I vowed I would write if I ever got the chance.
I met Jerry Jenkins at Moody Bible Institute in the 1980s. He discovered I wanted to write and said, "I can help you do this if you want, but it will be painful." Boy was it painful. Gloriously painful. In 1998, Jerry and Dr. Tim LaHaye hired me to write the Left Behind: The Kids series. I had published five books up to that point. I wrote 35 books in that series over the next six years, finishing in 2004. I later collaborated with Jerry on the Red Rock Mysteries series and The Wormling series, and in 2008 the NASCAR-based RPM series rounded out my work in the area of children's fiction.
Dogwood was my first attempt at writing fiction for adults. It took more than six years to get to the page and to find a publisher. It received the 2009 Christy Award for Christian fiction in the Contemporary Standalone category, which surprised the Dogwood out of me! My next novel, June Bug, draws its themes from the classic Victor Hugo tale, Les Miserables. A nine-year-old girl walks into Walmart and sees herself on a missing children poster. Who is she? Who is her father who travels with her in the beat-up RV? Charles Martin wrote this about the story: "Anne Lamott said that 'good writing is about telling the truth.' Chris Fabry has done this. Beautifully. June Bug is masterful. An honest story that dove deep inside me and lingered long after I turned the last page." June Bug was named a 2010 finalist for the Christy Award and the ECPA's Christian Book Award.
My latest novel, Almost Heaven, is the third book set in the mythical town of Dogwood, WV. Sometimes you find a great story. Sometimes you hunt for an idea and come up with gold. This time the story found me, in the form of an email from Lost Creek, WV. It was from a listener to a local station there that airs my daily radio program. She said she wouldn't be listening to me that day because the station was off the air. The owner/operator had died. His name was Billy Allman, and what I learned about his life, his dream, and his love for God became the heart of Almost Heaven. The novel stands alone, but readers of Dogwood and June Bug will recognize a few familiar characters woven into the scenes of Billy's life.
In addition to my fiction work, I have also collaborated on a couple of best-selling football biographies with Ohio State's Jim Tressel and, most recently, Drew Brees of the New Orleans Saints.
I graduated from the W. Page Pitt School of Journalism at Marshall University in Huntington, WV. I have been married to Andrea since 1982. We have nine children and are not Mormon or Catholic. Just prolific Protestants. In October of 2008, our family evacuated our house in Colorado, leaving behind all our belongings because of a toxic mold exposure. Since then we have been living near Tucson, AZ in order to get medical help for the mold exposure.
Stop by my website at www.chrisfabry.com to learn more about my writing and radio endeavors, and be sure to sign up for my e-newsletter, the FABRYGRAM. I can also be found on Facebook, or you can e-mail me at chris@chrisfabry.com.

My Review:In Dogwood, West Virginia Billy Allman is considered a genius as well as a great mandolin player. But, as brilliant as he is, Billy does not have the common sense when it comes to  being with a lot of people.

Billy works hard on making a great radio station from his home using spare parts as he doesn't have a lot of money . Over the years he remains interested in his dream and  his Creator though he has been taken aback by the angry assaults on his soul and the bad talk of others.  Malachi the angel becomes  silent and soon a fan of Billy who has spent his lifetime choosing faith over worldly things.

This is an interesting book of a deeply religious person who chooses to honor God in his way through music although he faces all sorts of hardship  whatever he does turns into failure. Billy is a person with a great mind that the townsfolk feel should take him far, but he prefers looking for parts to create his radio station so that the West Virginia hills are alive with the sound of music dedicated to the Lord.

This book was sent to me by Glass Roads Publishing for review.

 

MY REVIEW:

As I live on the East coast I love any book that is written on it.  This book by Alice J. Wisler is such a book, it takes place at the Outer Banks North Carolina.  They lived in a tourist town of Hatteras and Jackie Donovan works for the newspaper there called "The Lighthouse News".  She loves her town and everything in it, as her parents had moved her to Charlotte, NC when she was younger but she came back to the Outer Banks.  She and her friend Minnie and Millie's young son lived in a duplex near the beach.  Millie's husband had gotten killed in a boating accident the year before and she was still having trouble over losing him.

Jackie and Millie used to visit the Bailey House, a bed and breakfast , when they were small and Jackie had always dreamed of owing the house and opening up her own.  She was having trouble finding who owned it and she finely found out Davis Erickson (the Bailey's grandson) owned it and she started talking to him about getting the house.  She even started dating him, but there was something wrong with that, she just didn't know what every one else in town knew about him.  She was almost thirty and her family and friends were always setting her up with blind dates but they always went wrong.  So she though she had found the perfect man.  But had she?  She just didn't know what he was like and then maybe there was someone that had always been there just waiting for her to notice him.

I loved this book, but as I said I live in SC but not on the coast and I knew where the Outer Banks are and the language had its southern charm, just like I have always been used too.  This is the first book I have read by Alice J. Wisler but I hope to read more, I really enjoyed it.  I have got to mention that Jackie loved her "Diet Pepsi" so do I.

This book was sent to me by Bethany House Publishers for review.

 

Because Of the Love of have always had for the Statler's music I just wanted to post this as a tribute to this great group.

This was taken from their site, go to that site here:

The repertoire of the Statler Brothers was always as uniquely American as Babe Ruth, John Wayne, and the Statue of Liberty.  Don and Harold Reid’s account of the Statlers’ four decades in show business repeats that authentic approach to storytelling in Random Memories. From starting as a backup group for Johnny Cash, the quartet rose to become country music’s most awarded act.  Along shoulders with nearly all of the legendary entertainers of their time.  Random Memories captures many of those moments, as well as the stories behind the writing of the group’s biggest hits and most loved songs. Harold and Don Reid are brothers by birth and founding members of the Statler Brothers. They are award-winning songwriters, having penned countless hit songs including “Class of ’57” (Don and Harold), “Bed of

Rose’s” (Harold),  and “I’ll Go To My Grave Loving You” (Don). Together they co-wrote the #1 television series The Statler Brothers Show, and Yesteryear. Harold is the father of five and lives with his wife, Brenda, in Staunton, Virginia. Don, the author of three previously published books and the father of two, lives in Staunton, Virginia with his wife Deborah. 288 pages, including nearly 80 memorable photos of the Statlers' career.

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REMEMBER ME

by

Maureen Lang

My Review:

This book begins in Washington DC in 1917.  Josef had been hurt and could not remember anything not even his name.  Hank was taking care of him and told him his name but that was all. Josef had a dream about a little boy along with his father putting his dead mother on a ship sending her back to Germany where they were from.  But Josef didn't know if this was true.  Finally Hank told him that he was his illegitimate son and that his mother was dead and the man was his step father. 

After that Hank carried Josef back to him home Sadddebrook.  Hank also told Josef that he had a step brother and sister, but Hank's wife and daughter had gone to New York on a shopping spree.  A neighbor Larisa who was a nurse.  She was a disappointment to her parents as she had joined the Red Cross and was going overseas to help in the war.  But she came and help treat Josef but wanted him to go to a doctor to which he refused.

When Hank's wife and daughter came home Josef was better but could not remember much, but by reading the Bible he was beginning to realize that he knew Jesus.  He was telling Larisa about this when the family came home and Hank's wife turned so pale they though she was going to pass out.  She knew about Josef  but did not like it because Hank brought him to their home.

Will Josef get all his memory back and if so what will he remember?  Do he fall for Larisa and will she still go overseas with the Red Cross?  A great book with a lot of history.

This book was sent to me by the Kregel Publishing Company for review.

Brave Boys of Derry 

or No Surrender Blog and Book Tour

 

About W.S. Martin

Not much is known about the author. Mr. W. Stanley Martin was a stationer and was partner in the City of London firm, Martin & Purnham.  He spent his last days in Felpham in Sussex, England and used to attend services at the Chapel of the Bannister, Theological College in Felpham.
You can visit the publisher online at www.NordskogPublishing.com to learn more about the Brave Boys of Derry or No Surrender!

About the Brave Boys of Derry or No Surrender!

The story of the 1689 siege of Londonderry proclaims the power of God in the incredible resistance of the City of Londonderry against the attempted Jacobite conquest of Ireland by the deposed King James II of England.  While the city leaders vacillated, thirteen bold and brave young apprentices took the initiative to close the city gates.  “No surrender!” became the rallying cry.  Faith in Christ gave the people of Derry the courage to resist in the face of extended siege, blockade, starvation, and disease.  Liberty lovers—young and old—should read this book.

Read the Excerpt!

It was now clear that the city was not to be taken by assault.  Other means must be tried.

It was not only the enemy outside the walls that the brave defenders had to contend with; remorseless foes, in the shape of hunger and fever, came to the aid of the Irish, and it was now evident that the besieged would have to be starved out of their position.  The most extraordinary means were adopted to prevent any food being taken into the town.

The Brave Boys of Derry is a true historical narrative of how courageous young apprentices helped save their besieged Protestant town of Londonderry in 1689. (Taken from front of book)

My Review: 

 When the people found out about King James II was about to wage war against England and the church, using Ireland as his point of attack it was noticed that the Roman Catholic was putting aside their ammunition  and the priest was preaching and reminding the poor people that the wrath of God was approaching. The city was not intended for a siege so it was overgrown with grass and weeds. It was well known there were traitors within the gates of the city, and the Governor of the city was a man named Lundy.  He was ready to hand over the city to the enemy so as he slipped out of town as the gates had been left open and the keys had disappeared.

Two Governors were elected in place of Lundy as they started to take over, one was over the ammunition as they awaited the attack.  This little book is full of history and a great read for any age.

The author W. S. Martin decided to make the journey to Londonderry in the early 1900s. In the back of the book is a poem written by Mrs. C. F. Alexander which is 8 pages long.

This book was sent to me by the publisher Nordskog for review

 

 This is the second book in the series "A Rocky Creek Romance" by Margaret Brownley.  I have read the first one so this one is such a joy to read and to see what is going on in the little town.

Jenny and her two sisters Mary Lou and Brenda rode into Rocky Creek, Texas in a cloud of dust on a stage loaded down with their belongings.  Jenny had come to town to find husbands for her sisters.  After their parents died they had lost everything they had and also almost starved if it had not been for Jenny, they would have.  She had given her father a promise that she would take care of the younger women, so that she tried to do in anyway she could.

Jenny had a book to go by on "How to find the perfect husband"  so she went by the book and kept notes and then set up interviews for the men in Rocky Creek to be sure she got the correct man for her sisters.  She had not backed on someone finding her attractive.  All the men came and they had to fill out forms and then she selected the ones she though would be good for her sisters.  Jenny did not think her sisters might find a husband of their own.  She fell in love with two little boys that was being starved and whipped by their dad as she stayed drunk all the time since his wife had died in childbirth.  Can Jenny straighten this man out also?

The little town did not know what hit them with these young women.  The men nor women didn't know what to do with them.  Jenny was not afraid of anyone or anything, no place was beyond her going into.  She got into trouble with the men for intruding upon their territory.  The women talked about them and thought they were after their men.  At the end of this book another stage full of women enter the picture, can't wait for the next book to come out. 

I love historical fiction better than any other type of book.  I love back in the 1800s and Margaret Brownley is just the author to please me.

This book was sent to me by Thomas Nelson Publishers the BookSneeze dept. for review.

 

 Book 3 of Strangers and Pilgrims Series

by

John and Patty Probst

This book was a little disappointing to me as the first two book was more historical.  This one is about the granddaughter of Farmer and Emilie Trevor and she lived in California with her parents Lana and Harold.  In book two it had led up to this book.  Janee was in the movies as a small child and when she was nine years old her grandfather Farmer was killed by a hunter and Janee could not accept it.  She had always gone to church and as she had a good singing voice she sometimes sang solos.  But at Farmer's funeral Janee was very bad, and she blamed God for letting her grandfather get killed, so she told God that she hated him and would never believe on him again.  And this is what she did for most of her life.

She became famous as a movie star and also a singer, she also did all the sex and drug scene. She fell for her director and became pregrant with his child which she aborted.  She contacted Aids and really had a very painful death.  She did accept God as her Savior before she died.

What really got to me was after she died and the way the book described heaven, I know this book is fiction and I looked at it that way, BUT, there was some sadness and crying and worring up there and the Bible states that there will not be any more sickness, sorry, or pain in Heaven.  A last third of the book was about entering Heaven and Janee seeing her relatives and friends there.  I wonder if she will see her aborted baby there?  The authors made heaven sound so beautiful that the only things I didn't agree on was the sadness and tears.

This book was sent to me by Nordskog for review.