Lake Season by Denise Hunter

Lake Season is the first in the Bluebell Inn Romance series. I usually don't enjoy a first book in a series a lot because I am getting to know the characters and am not connected to them very much. In this book I got connected to the characters from the get go. I enjoyed this story and hated for it to end but with a series I will get to see the characters again in subsequent books. I enjoyed the friendship of Molly and Adam that grew into love. Molly with her family are running an inn that was formerly a post office and a home. It was a dream of Molly's parents to open this inn in this small town once the father retired from his career as a physician but they were tragically killed in an auto accident before the dream could be fulfilled. Adam shows up at the inn and rents a room. Molly and Adam quickly become friends when they get involved solving a mystery. What Molly does not know is that Adam is keeping a secret. She does not know that Adam is her favorite author. What will she think when she realizes Adam has been hiding who he is? I also loved the time slip storyline. There are some twists that I did not see coming. I can't wait to read the next book in the series. The next one will be centered around Molly's brother Levi. I was hoping it would be her baby sister but I guess she has some more growing up to do. I am so enjoying this series!

I received a complimentary copy of this book. Opinions expressed in this review are completely my own. Lake Season will be released on November 12. Thanks to Netgalley and Thomas Nelson for providing me a digital copy to read and review.

The Loyal One by Shelley Shepard Gray
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This is second full length book in the Walnut Creek series. I loved reading Katie and Harley's story. Reading about Katie's secret of her hoarder mother makes me want to seriously clean out my house so I don't leave a mess to my kids to clean up. I am far from being a hoarder but do have the tendency to hold on to things longer than I should. I loved the characters in this story. At first I thought Harley's family would be standoffish but I grew to love them. I thought I would dislike the father but learned he would just a man of few words, a quiet man. There is a secondary storyline of Harley's younger brother Kyle and an English girl he has befriended. I wish that story had been resolved in this book but it will be resolved in another book. I an curious on the direction that story will take. Will she turn Amish or will Kyle jump the fence?


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Vow of Justice by Lynette Eason

Lynette Eason takes us on a wild ride with this finale to the Blue Justice series. Each book in this series focused on one of the St. John siblings. In this book Linc gets his story. In this story he at first believes that Alison has died and he vows to find her murderer. He does not know that she is indeed alive and has to stay "dead" to protect the people she cares about. Of course he is irritated with her at first but it soon comes a battle of trying to keep her alive. She comes close to being murdered for real many times. There are more than one evil men in this story. There was one I suspected early on but I did not know his motives  until the very end and I did not know the extent of his evil ways that he was going to manifest. This book will keep you up late reading but all Lynette Eason books tend to do that. You won't regret reading this one. I suggest you read the others in the series.  Thanks to Revell and LibraryThing for providing me an ARC of this book to read. This book is due for release on August 6, 2019.

Yours Truly, Thomas by Rachel Fordham

Years ago I watched a series on the Hallmark channel about a group of people who worked in the dead letter office of the post office. Like the characters of that series Penny Ercanbeck also works for the post office reading dead letters and trying to get the letters forwarded to the rightful owner. She works hard trying to support herself and her widowed mother. Life has gotten hard for her. They were used to so much more before father died. She is a cheerful woman trying to make the best of a bad situation. One particular letter touches her heart so she goes above and beyond the call of duty to find the owner of the letter. Will she find love in the process. A delightful read!

Strands of Truth by Colleen Coble

Strands of Truth is a stand alone romantic suspense novel. Having your DNA analyzed is a popular thing to do these days and it has really gotten inexpensive to do. Harper Taylor has been alone since her mother after giving birth to her prematurely. She is successful as a marine biologist. She has her DNA and finds she has a half sister who is about 20 years older than her. She quickly bonds with Annabelle and finds out Annabelle's mother also died when Annabelle was an infant. Annabelle was about 5 months old. Were both women murdered? Neither woman has any clue who their mutual father is. As Harper comes closer to the truth both women's lives are in danger. I thought one person was behind all the was going on but I was wrong and it was somebody else. I loved it that the author was able to stump me.  

I received a complimentary copy of this book. Opinions expressed in this review are completely my own.

Fire Storm by Nancy Mehl

Fire Storm in the second in the Kaely Quinn Profile series. This series just keeps getting better.  Her special friend that we were introduced to in the last book returns. Kaely is estranged from her mother  who is very ill with cancer.  She does want to spend time with her mother but agrees at the request of her brother.  An arsonist is starting fire in her mother's town. Kaely is soon dragged into finding who the arsonist is. The clues point to one of two people but there is a twist that I did not see coming. I am looking forward to reading the next book in the series.

Thanks to Netgalley and Bethany House Publishers for providing me an e-copy of this book to read and review. This book will be published on August 6, 2019