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The Riverbend Romances 1-5: A Collection of Christian Romance Novellas Paperback – November 9, 2015

4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars 57 ratings

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Welcome to Riverbend… where love is in the air in every season.Come visit this idyllic town in the mountains of British Columbia and make yourself at home. Kick off your shoes like we do in Canada, and curl up with your favorite beverage to suit each seasonal story. Enjoy snowshoeing in the winter moonlight, cycling the riverside path in spring, and paddling through rapids to cool off in the heat of summer. Visit the fall fair, and dream about kissing the mall Santa at Christmas…This Christian contemporary romance collection includes five Riverbend novellas.

Secretly Yours (a winter Christian romance)

The boy who was never good enough is now a far better man than she deserves.

Pinky Promise (a spring Christian romance)

How can two single parents fall in love for real with a pair of mini-matchmakers pushing from both sides — pinky promises or not?

Sweet Serenade (a summer Christian romance)

Will secrets from the past drown their future, or can this idyllic summer romance lead to a lifetime of sweet serenades?

Team Bride (a fall Christian romance)

Can Corbin convince Sarah he's ready to settle down and make her the head of her own Team Bride, or will their past keep getting in the way?

Merry Kisses (a Christmas Christian romance)

Can a disillusioned toy store clerk and a mall Santa resolve their differences in time for merry kisses at Christmas?

Enjoy this collection of inspirational romance stories, together in paperback for the first time.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ GreenWords Media (November 9, 2015)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 432 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 198806807X
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1988068077
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.39 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1.08 x 9 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
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Valerie Comer
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Valerie Comer is a USA Today bestselling author and a two-time Word Award winner who writes where food meets faith and fiction. She has been called "a stellar storyteller" as she injects experience laced with humor into her green clean romances.

Valerie's life on a small farm in western Canada provides the seed for her stories of contemporary Christian romance. Like many of her characters, Valerie grows much of her own food and is active in the local foods movement as well as her church. She only hopes her imaginary friends enjoy their happily-ever-afters as much as she does hers, shared with her husband, adult kids, and adorable granddaughters.

Join Valerie at http://valeriecomer.com, where you can sign up for her newsletter and follow her on social media. You can also find her blogging at http://inspyromance.com

WHAT READERS AND REVIEWERS ARE SAYING about Valerie's writing:

"I know when I open the cover of a Valerie Comer book pretty much what to expect. Humor, romance, and environmentally friendly living, mixed with a healthy dose of faith." ~ Amazon Review

"Comer's writing style is brisk and savvy." ~ Amazon Review

"Valerie crafts a strong romance with a current message without beating readers over the head." ~ Amazon Review

"Comer has an incredible talent for combining great dialogue and real faith to captivate the reader." ~ Amazon Review

"I love Valerie Comer's warm, easy and humorous style of writing." ~ Amazon Review

"Valerie's characters lived and breathed on my electronic page, and I was most struck with how she illustrated the challenges of faith." ~ Amazon Review

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Reviewed in the United States on April 21, 2021
I can’t get enough of Valerie’s books. So sweet and romantic. I think I have almost bought every single one!!! And always waiting for the next one to come out!
Reviewed in the United States on November 11, 2021
My 90 year old grandma just loves these books. Good clean books.
Reviewed in the United States on May 18, 2020
It is so inspiring and uplifting to see an author of fiction teaching Christians how to live more God cantered life.
Reviewed in the United States on July 15, 2019
I really liked 'getting to know' some of the people in Riverbend.

Although each couple was different, they all loved God and opened their hearts to love more.
Reviewed in the United States on December 24, 2018
All the books held my attention until I finished it. They all teach the love of Christ in this season.
Reviewed in the United States on August 2, 2020
I loved this collection of stories set in Riverbend British Columbia, Canada. I love Valerie Comers stories. I've been binge reading her books through this whole pandemic we are in. A nice escape. All the characters have life issues they are dealing with. I could identify. Leering to relearn some things. Learning to trust and rely on God. I love how we see the characters from previous stories in the next. That's what I love about series, seeing the characters flow through the other books. I just love to read and I hope you will read, enjoy and be blessed by these stories of faith. Blessings!
Reviewed in the United States on November 17, 2015
I read each of these novellas individually as they came out, and while I really enjoyed them, in my opinion, the sum of them is more than their parts! I was so excited to find that Valerie was releasing them all together in one volume! Valerie writes beautiful, heart-warming, clean romance, but what I love most about her books is the communities she creates around her main characters. She has a knack for demonstrating in her novels what real Christian community looks like - the fun and the encouragement along with the discomfort and the challenges. Putting these five novellas together allows the reader to join in this community that Valerie has created and to see how they spur each other toward deeper growth in their relationships with one another and with their significant others.
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Reviewed in the United States on December 17, 2015
I already bought the novellas individually, and have enjoyed the first three so far. Here's my review of the first:

Originally posted on Tales to Tide You Over

I didn’t have the chance to finish the longer book I’m in the middle of, so I thought I’d slip in a novella I picked up earlier this year but hadn’t read. I’ve mentioned enjoying Valerie Comer’s books a time or two, and Secretly Yours is no different. The characters are strong, complicated, and struggling both with questions of life and faith in a way that makes it easy to walk the path with them.

Secretly Yours is very religious, though with one of the main characters a youth pastor, it didn’t come as a surprise. I was raised Catholic, but I had no trouble wrapping my mind around a pastor romantic hero in part because Lindsey had trouble with seeing Nick as more than his calling as well.

There are cute, romantic moments, but what made me enjoy the novella the most had to be the way they both mature across the pages.

Lindsey starts out wary of him because in their teen years, he had courted her just to get back at her friend then dumped her hard. She has no way of knowing how that event—not him being a jerk, but in courting her—has stuck in his head all these years. He’s changed in a lot of ways, but his confidence isn’t shaken until she can’t see herself involved with a pastor because her own faith has slipped into a habit.

That’s when the story changes course from a man crushing on a woman to a pastor helping a woman relearn the love of God, and in doing so, opening a place in her heart and life for him as well.

This is not a subtle book despite the secret admirer bit. The length doesn’t allow for a lot of wrestling and so both Lindsey and Nick tend to face their realizations head on. This made it seem a little rushed at times, but that’s a characteristic of novellas in general for me.

The kicker that solidified my enjoyment is the random thought that Valerie Comer would have made a solid youth pastor herself if Nick’s words are any judge. She has a way of presenting the words from the Bible in context that can soften even a jaded heart like that of Lindsey’s stepfather.

Lindsey comes to the story with a lot of resentment, closed off from love. Nick arrives with years of loving someone he thought never to see again. It takes patience, effort, and opening up to bring these two to the same place at the same time, and I enjoyed seeing that transformation in both faith and the willingness to love.

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Janice Onski
5.0 out of 5 stars So so so good!
Reviewed in Canada on December 12, 2020
I have read these with relish and the hope they would just go on and on. I want more! You will not be disappointed. Love these books!