The power of fiction, the beauty of words, and the God who made us to wield them for His glory.

The Thirteenth Chance (Amy Matayo) – Review

  Publisher’s Description: Baseball star Will Vandergriff knows any number of women who would happily pretend to be his girlfriend. In a last-ditch effort to restore his good standing with his team’s higher-ups, he enlists the help of his neurotic, goody-goody neighbor. Schoolteacher Olivia Pratt might be a bit quirky and a bit of a loner, but she’s a lot more inviting than she knows. Will hopes that bringing her to his next game might revamp his reckless reputation and help get his career back on track. The only problem? The plan works a little too well. Not only do

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27 September 2016

Broken Ground (Karen Halvorsen Schreck) – Review

  Publisher’s Description Newly married to her childhood sweetheart, twenty-one-year-old Ruth Warren is settling into life in a Depression-era, East Texas oil town. She’s making a home when she learns that her young husband, Charlie, has been killed in an oil rig accident. Ruth is devastated, but then gets a chance for a fresh start: a scholarship from a college in Pasadena, CA. Ruth decides to take a risk and travel west, to pursue her one remaining dream to become a teacher. At college Ruth tries to fit into campus life, but her grief holds her back. When she spends

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2 May 2016

The Jazz Files (Fiona Veitch Smith) – Review

“Come in!”  A distinctive accent: transatlantic, possibly Canadian, maybe American.  Poppy opened the door. […] Her eyes focused through the dim light filtering through a filthy windowpane and she saw a shock of red hair above a moon-shaped face. “Sorry for the mess.  Here, take a seat.” The red hair moved from behind what Poppy assumed was a desk and lifted a pile of files off a chair.  Attached to the head was a very short, squat body.  Poppy, who was five foot five, towered above him.  Rollo Rolandson – if that’s who it was – couldn’t have been more

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7 January 2016