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

Bad Day for a Bombshell (Cindy Vincent) – Review

  Publisher’s Description: December 5th, 1941. Houston socialite, Tracy Truworth, is always on the lookout for something suspicious. Especially after growing up with her nose in the latest Katie McClue mystery novel, a series featuring a twenty-something female detective and her constant feats of derring-do. And for Tracy, escaping reality through reading couldn’t come at a better time, since her own life isn’t exactly going along like she’d hoped. Not with her overbearing mother determined to see Tracy marry Michael — a lawyer likely to be a U.S. Senator someday — in a wedding rivaling royalty. Yet everything changes for

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6 December 2016

Anchor in the Storm (Sarah Sundin) – Review

  Publisher’s Description Nothing slows Lillian Avery down–not her personal challenges and certainly not America’s entry into World War II. She finally has a chance to prove herself as a pharmacist in Boston. The demands of her new job energize her. But society boy Ensign Archer Vandenberg’s attentions only annoy–even if he is her brother’s best friend. During the darkest days of the war, Arch’s destroyer hunts German U-boats in vain as the submarines sink dozens of merchant ships along the East Coast. Still shaken by battles at sea, Arch notices his men also struggle with their nerves–and with drowsiness.

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30 May 2016

The Cairo Code (Glenn Meade) – Review

  Once, Harry Weaver had a photograph taken of the three of them together, standing among the tombs in the scorching desert at Sakkara, the Step pyramid as a backdrop, all of them tanned and smiling for the camera, Rachel between the men, her arms around their waists.  And though no one ever said it, they each knew it was a happy time, perhaps the happiest in their young lives.  But summer had to end.  None of them could ever remember the exact date they had first met, but they would each remember exactly when the shadow was thrown across

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22 December 2015