Chasing Sunsets by Karen Kingsbury

Mary Catherine love God more than anything and wants to live life to the fullest way possible. She finds herself being attracted to Marcus, the baseball pitcher but she cannot let herself get too involved in a relationship with him or anybody else for that matter. She has a threatening health problem, a bad heart. She may not have much time to live. Besides Marcus currently has a girlfriend, Shelly. Shelly is shallow and immature and the more he is around Mary Catherine the more he desire a girl like Mary Catherine. The friendship between Mary Catherine and Marcus grows as they work in the community with troubled youth. One girl, Lexi is very troubled. She is involved with gangs and her boyfriend is responsible for critically injuring a young child.

I liked this book. The characters and the story were well developed but I must say that I am a little disappointed that we will have to wait until the next book in this series to find out what happens with some of the characters. This is the reason for the four stars instead of five. At the end of this book Mary Catherine was headed to Africa for six months against the advice of her doctors. The relationship between Marcus and Mary Catherine was left hanging. What will become of them? Also, will Lexi be scared straight and stay out of trouble? Will she give her life to Christ? All of these questions were unanswered in this book. I am just hoping that the time will not be long before the next book is released.

Thanks to Netgalley and Howard books for allowing me to read and review this book. Chasing Sunsets is due for a publication date of April 7, 2015.