By Sarah Sundin

Allie has never felt pretty enough to please her beautiful Mother.  But Allie will do whatever it takes to make her Mom happy even if that means Allie marry a man she does not love and feels she may never love.  Allie has been asked to be part of a friends wedding and has gone to CA for the wedding and some time to think.  On her train ride to CA Allie meets Lt. Waker Novak, a handsome, sweet, pilot also on is way to CA to take his last furlough and help a friend who is getting married.

Little do Allie and Walter know that this short  train trip is going to turn into friendship the begins to grow as more.  Walk and Allie soon realize that have much in common including their love for music.  Allie and Walt build a friendship so tight that once Allie returns home and Walt returns back to war they continue to write and keep connected, by letters and by spirit.

But Allie soon has a tough decision to make and she knows that if it is the wrong one her Mother will never forgive her.  So will Allie marry the man she has no feeling for or will she take a leap of faith not knowing if Walt shares the same feelings Allie has.

A Distant Melody is the first of the Wings of Glory Series.

This is one book that I seriously could not put down and ended up staying up late into the night to finish.  I could not put the book down and had to know what was going to happen next.  Sarah Sundin grabs your attention at the beginning of the book and never lets it go.  Even once you finish the first book you can’t wait for the second book to come out so you can pick up where you left off.

44 Cranberry Point is the fourth book in Debbie Macomber’s Cedar Cove Series.

Peggy Beldon owns a beautiful bed and breakfast at 44 Cranberry Point in Cedar Cove, Washington. Peggy loves living in Cedar Cove but recently strange things have been happening.  Like Fidning a man named Max Rusell dead in one of thier B and B rooms.  With no idea whey Max was in Cedar Cove and even worse who killed him Peggy is iching for someone to solve the case soon.

But you know small towns.  The murder is not the only news floating around.  Jon Bowman and Maryellen Sherman are going to be getting married soon.  And Maryellen’s Mom Grace has a couple men chasing after her since she became a widow. But Grace does not know who she is going to choose.  She feels love for both men and they both have there own wonderful qualities.

There is much more gossip going on in Cedar Cove but you just need to read the book to find out all the rest of the great juicy gossip.  Debbie does a wonderful j0b of picking up where where 311 pelican Court leaves off and continues her story.  This is book for in the series of Cedar Cove Series.  Debbie keeps the mystery and romance going through each book in the series and makes you feel like you are right there in Cedar Cove living and listening to the daily gossip.

Deidre Knight

Eternity is Ajax Petrakos’s prison.  Centuries later after Ajax and his Spartan brothers made a bargain to become immortal, Ajax is struggling to keep himself disciplined.  He only has one true source of strength and that is that he will one day find is other half Shay Angel.

When Ajax finally finds his soul mate he realizes he is not the first to find her.  Ajax enemy finds her first and that begins the story of a bond that can’t be broken.

Shay is the youngest of a demon-hunting family and wonders if her angel hero is a angel or a demon.  As the story goes on Ajax continues to have to rescue Shay until the tables are turned and it is up to Shay to rescue her angel in disguise.

As Ajax and shay rush to solve the mysterious prophesy, a prophesy that will lead to Ajax’s death if they don’t succeed, they begin to fall deeper into love and Shay soon realizes that she can not live without her Ajax.

Deidre kept me turning the pages and I got to the point where I could not put the book down because I had to know what happened next.  There is adventure, passion and mystery in the book and that is just the type of books I love to read.  The best part is that this is the first book in the series A God of Midnight Novel.

Book two Red Kiss Came out June 2009

Bride on the Loose

Jason Manning love living the bachelor life, he loves sports, loves not having to pick up after himself. Then one of his tenents daughters decides her mom needs some companionship, so she decides she is going to get her Mom Charlotte and Jason to fall in love.

Jason refuses to have anything to do with this whole game that Charlotte’s daughter is playing, but soons finds himself wanting to spend more time with Charlotte.  Jasons feelings grow deeper but he is not sure he is ready to take the next step.  Will Jason land his bride on the loose?

I love this story.  I love how Jason is in love one minute and the next minute is pretending he does not want anything to do with Charlotte.  Debbie captures the true nature of a man falling in love and a single mom not wanting to get involved.

Same Time Next Year

At one time James Wilkens was about to marry a Manning Sister. But with his broken engagement in his past he decides to spend New Year’s Eve in Las Vegas.  While wondering around Las Vegas he meets Summer Lawton. She is broken hearted and to make things even worse she has been betrayed. James makes her a promise that she will be over it within a year and to make sure that he is serious he also tells her he will meet her back there same time next year.

During that year they being to contact and comminucate with each other more and more and by the time they meet again on New Year’s Eve the following year they are having more then a date.  They are getting married.

This is a wonderful story about love at first sight and how a friendship can blossom into so much more.  I love how Debbie shows the reader that a relationship can be so much more if there is a friendship first.

Never Seduce a Scoundrel

Sabrina Jeffries

Lady Amelia Plume has men wanting to court her at ever corner.  If only they were not after her fortune, but wanted her for her and her love. Amelia wants adventure, love and passion.  Lady Amelia goes to yet another boring ball, but this time it becomes more exciting then she ever imagines.  She meets an american named Major Lucas Winter.  And Lucas turns her borning life into adventure.

But Lucas has many things he is hiding and as he beings to woo her she begans to think that he has other reasons for wooing which might include her step mother. Lucas begins to call on Amelia in her home and takes her on adventures full of passion and leaving her yerning for more.

But will it all be a lie? Amelia intends to find out what Lucas true motive is no matter what she has to do…….

But Jermey finds all three of these things coming true in a short matter of time. He now is living in Boone Creek, soon to Marry Lexie Darnell, and to top it all off he is about to become a father after he was told he could never have children.  Just when everything seems to be perfect for Jeremy he begins to receive emails that make him begin to second guess everything including his fiance, his soon to be child and living in Boone Creek.

At First Sight captures all of the ups and downs of being engaged, living in a small town, and becoming a parent.  And just when you think everything is back to normal you are hit with the worst pain of all.

This was a truly awesome book to read.  I loved every aspect of this book until it began to deal with the couple finding out that their unborn child might be born with birth defect due to Amniotic Band Syndrome.   I was a little upset with how the author made ABS seem so awful.  And I think the only reason this hit so close to home for me is because I have a child born with a birth defect due to ABS.

I would suggest every mom, parent, and lover read this book and go on this exellent journey with Jeremy and Lexie.

The Manning Brides: Marriage Of Inconvenience\Stand-In Wife

By Debbie Maccomber

Marriage of Inconvenience

Rich Manning and Jamie Warren have grown up being best friends since high school, but never any more then just friends. But Jamie changes everything with just one question to Rich, “Will you father my child?” And to everyones suprise including Rich’s, he says yes, but with one stipulation. She has to marry him. Rich believes that if they get married he can turn this marriage into a real marriage.

Jamie agrees but soon does not think she did the right thing. And Jamie’s and Rich’s once friendship has turned into arguments, fights and things that neither one of them ever wanted to happen. Will Jamie and Rich work through their marriage or is it truly a Marriage of convenience.

Stand In-Wife

Paul Manning has lost his wife and while he is grieving he is also raising three small children. Paul’s sister in law Leah Baker has been helping the only way she knows how. But Leah soon sees Paul struggling even more and decided that it is time to step up to the plate and move in to help Paul with the kids. Paul finally agrees to let Leah move in.

Once Leah moves in feeling that Paul did not realize he had for Leah begin to surface. Are Paul and Leah meant to be together or are they just getting too comfortable.

I can see where Paul and Leah could fall for each other. They are not only living together but raising children together and spending more time together then many couples do.

By Stephenie Meyer

When I first thought about reading the Twilight series I was not too sure if I was going to like it.  Both my children had read Twilight and could not put it down.  Before my kids had read Twilight I had not even heard of the Novel much less had any interest in reading the book.  Now I have to admit once I picked up Twilight by Stephenie Meyers I could not put it down.  The book keep me interest from the start until the finish and once I was finished Twilight I was ready to pick up the next book in the series. Below you will find a short review of the book and thoughts at the end.

Bella decides it is time to go and live with her Dad for a while in the small town of Fork where the sun never shines and they says always seem gray.  After the first day of school Bella has made a new friends, a boy hate her and a boy hot on her heels.

But after a few weeks of school she is sure of two things.  One she can not stay away from Edward who is sure positive is a vampire and two she want to find out as much as she can about vampires, Edward and Edwards family.  Plus she starts to notice that Edward is always there when she gets herself into trouble.

It all comes down to will Edward be able to get her out of the last mess she has gotten herself into or will he have to leave town to get away from her?

Stephenie Meyer is an amazing author who keeps you on your toes and wondering what is going to happen next and who is hiding around the next corner.  She finds a way to make Vampires and love seem normal.  Not even halfway into the first chapter of this book I could not put it down.  I had to now what kind of trouble Bella was going to get into next and how she was going to get out of it.

New Moon is the next book in the Twilight Series.

Baby Love is a wonderful Romance Novel By Catherine Anderson. Once I read this book I just new that I had to share this book with you.

Maggie Stanley and her new born baby are on the run. And Maggie is alone and being threatened when Raf Kenkaid is her bum in shining armor. Rafe Saves her from the most scariest time of her life and then turns around and buys her and her baby a good nights sleep and food for their bellies.

But the is much more to Rafe then he is letting on. Rafe is scared to death that Maggie is dying as he rushes her to the nearest hospital. Once Maggie wakes up and realizes where she is at she learns much more then what has happened to her in the last 24 hours.

Rafe is not the bums Maggie thought he was. Rafe ends up taking Maggie home to meet the family, but will Rafe keep Maggie and Baby Jamie safe for danger that is looking for them? And will Rafe be the man Maggie deserves? But most important will Maggie and Jamie fill the empty feelings Rafe has been feeling for way too long?

Catherine Anderson writes a wonderful novel about romance, lost love and danger.

Looking to read a true Christmas Story with an amazing, yet shocking ending? Then you have to read this years Christmas Story By Debbie Macomber.

Soon to be mom Mary leaves her brothers wondering what she is up to when she heads to Cedar Cove looking for her unborn childs Dad.  Once in Cedar Cove she realized two things.  Once David has lied to her once again and two it is Christmas Eve and she has no where to stay.  And if things could not get worse, she is not feeling well and ends up having the handsome EMT Mac check her Stats.

Mary ends up in labor in a small living quarter that is over Grace and Cliff’s Stables.  And those stables are housing all the animals for the live nativity scene. Mary alone and scared all the one person she realized can help her.  Mack.  Will Mary’s brothers who are worries sick find Mary in time to see their new niece or nephew?