These Healing Hills

Title: These Healing Hills

Author: Ann H Gabhart

Chapters: 43

Pages: 345

Genre: Christian Historical Fiction/ Christian historical romance

Rating: 5 stars

     Francine Howard thought she had her future planned out, but life and God has other plans. She had thought that with WWII ending she be planning a wedding. Instead, she finds her in the Appalachian mountains of Kentucky.  As a nurse-midwife student at the Frontier Nursing Service, she starts to find her purpose in life again. She finds herself falling in love with the area and the people.  She doesn't want to fall in love again.

     Ben Locke is a solider that is happy to have made it home to his beloved Kentucky hills.  He just wants to forget the horrors of war and move on.  He doesn't know what else he wants to do with his life, though as a medic in the war he has the option to use the GI bill to expand on that. He doesn't want to fall for an outsider who could leave at any moment.

     I went into These Healing Hills knowing I was going to love it and I did.  I've loved all of Ann H Gabhart books I've read and this was one was no different.  I also loved that it was a part of Kentucky history of a nursing service that is still very much still in use today.

     As a child who loved history especially Kentucky history as it is my own state, I was fascinated by not only the Frontier Nursing service started by Mary Breckinridge and the pack horse librarians. I think the pack horse stories are one thing that leads me to become a library employee.  I am looking forward to her next book.

I received a complimentary copy of These Healing Hills from Netgalley . I was not required to write a positive review. All opinions expressed are mine alone. 

A Name Unknown

Title:  A Name Unknown

Author: Roseanna M. White

Series: Shadows over England Book 1

 

Chapters: 28

Pages: 428

Genre: Christian Historical fiction/ Christian Historical Romance

Rating: 4 stars

     Rosemary Gresham is an orphan young woman who is a part of gang of pickpockets and thief. However Rosemary and her "family" only steal from those who can afford it.  But then a man called Mr. V hires her to find out if an Englishman with German blood Peter Holstein is indeed loyal to England. However there is more than meets the eye to Peter he's an author who writes novels. Just not under his own name not a pen name.

     Rosemary pretends to be a librarian in order to gain access to his house and library.  She however doesn't know exactly what's she is looking for. However she is willing to do whatever it takes to do the job and find out what Mr. V is paying her to find out. Because the amount of money she'll get will help her family out.

     But the longer Rosemary stays the more she learns. And what she learns is that not everything as it seems. Peter isn't like any rich person Rosemary has every meet before.  Peter also isn't your typical hero he has a slight stutter but to that me it made him an even better hero, because of the way that he chose to communicate with Rosemary.

     With A Name Unknown you will discover that both Peter and Rosemary have a lot to learn about themselves and each other. But more importantly they both have to learn to try God.  Normally with Roseanna's books I don't tend to love the first book in the series but I loved A Name Unknown. Can't wait to read the next book in the series. 

Review of Happily Ever Ashten

Title: Happily Ever Ashten

Author: Erynn Mangum

Series: Carrington Springs book 3

Chapters: 19 plus epilogue  

Pages: 325

Genre: Christian Chick lit new adult

Rating: 5 stars

     Happily Ever Ashten is the last book in the Carrington Springs series by Erynn Mangum. Ashten has lived in Carrington Springs her whole life and has pretty much worked at her grandparent's restaurant her entire life it seems. Now that she is a teacher she still works at the resultant in the summer, but at 31 she wants more. Her family her father especially wonder why she's not married yet. As a 30 year old who's father asks the same question on repeat I can relate. She's living in a room in Katie's house and she knows that's going to have to change because Katie's is getting married. 

     Eliza gets it in her mind to play matchmaker between Mike and Ashten about the time that Ashten's ex-boyfriend the one she thought she was going to marry comes back to town.  Ashten is torn she doesn't know what to do. But then her grandmother gives her some awesome advice that sounded just like something my own would say. 

     Happily Ever Ashten wraps up the series nicely Katie and Eliza get their happy endings and we see the direction that Ashten's future is taking. Though I wish we could have seen Ashten's happily Ever After too, since it is the title of her book, but we did sort of get a look at it with the comment the guy who won her heart said.  I am looking forward to her next book or series. I've already finished one novella she wrote this year, review to come, and as always I look forward to her Christmas one this year.