Book Review: Andrea Carter and the San Francisco Smugglers

Written by Susan Marlow
Reviewed by Stephanie Reed

Andi Carter is back in the fourth exciting Circle C Adventure.  But there's a difference–she's in San Francisco, far from the ranch and her palomino, Taffy.  The boarding school Andi attends threatens to snuff out every spark of her independent spirit.  She's even forced to ride side saddle.  The only saving grace at her new school is spunky roommate Jenny Grant, the fiery-haired daughter of a Washington Territory logger.
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Book Review: Jewel of the Adriatic

Written by K.M. Daughters 
Reviewed by Cami Checketts 

What happens when a nightgown model and a soap opera star meet in a Croatian village where millions believe the Mother of God appears to three visionaries? The soap opera star finds his faith and the woman he is meant to be with, after he convinces her to trust him.
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Book Review: Wild Prairie Roses

Written by Lena Nelson Dooley, Lisa Harris, and Laurie Alice Eakes 
Reviewed by Marty Norman 

What a joy and delight to review “Wild Prairie Roses” a trilogy written by three separate authors.  Each story revolves around women of the western prairie, who find true worth through an encounter with the risen Christ.
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Book Review: Veiled Freedom

Written by Jeanette Windle 
Reviewed by K.M. Daughters 

Idealistic relief worker Amy Mallory arrives in Kabul ready to change the world. She soon discovers that as a woman in Afghanistan, the challenges she faces are monumental.  As the new security chief to the Minister of the Interior, former Special Forces veteran Steve Wilson is disillusioned to find that the country he fought to set free has fallen into its old habits of greed and corruption.  Afghani native Jamil returns to his homeland seeking a job while his painful past continues to haunt him.  All three search for truth and for freedom.  But at what cost?
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Book Review: Rose House

Written by Tina Ann Forkner 
Reviewed by Michelle Sutton 

About the book:
 
A vivid story of a private grief, a secret painting, and one woman’s search for hope Still mourning the loss of her family in a tragic accident, Lillian Diamon finds herself drawn back to the Rose House, a quiet cottage where four years earlier she had poured out her anguish among its fragrant blossoms. She returns to the rolling hills and lush vineyards of the Sonoma Valley in search of something she can’t quite name. But then Lillian stumbles onto an unexpected discovery: displayed in the La Rosaleda Gallery is a painting that captures every detail of her most private moment of misery, from the sorrow etched across her face to the sandals on her feet. As the mystery surrounding the portrait becomes entangled with the accident that claimed the lives of her husband and children, Lillian is forced to rethink her assumptions about what really happened that day.
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