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The Riverbend Romances 1-5: A Collection of Christian Romance Novellas Paperback – November 9, 2015
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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.
- Print length432 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateNovember 9, 2015
- Dimensions6 x 1.08 x 9 inches
- ISBN-10198806807X
- ISBN-13978-1988068077
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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
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About the author
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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Although each couple was different, they all loved God and opened their hearts to love more.
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.