I finally got around to reading another great novel I recieved from www.booksneeze.com to review! This is my honest opinion on the novel and I hope you will take a chance to check it out!
Beauty For Ashes: A hickory Ridge Romance
written by Dorothy Love
**** 4 stars!
The main character in this novel is a young woman who has recently lost her husband in the Civil War. She is scared and moves back to Hickory Ridge with her brother. The two have been inseperable and get along just great since their parents passed early in their lives. They are always looking out for each other and helping out on the great farm they own in Hickory Ridge.
An old beau of Carrie's is after her to say yes she will marry him, but she just doesn't feel ready for that setp into the relationship. Always questioning wether he is the one? or if its too soon after her late husband's death.
And then mystery strikes Hickory Ridge, when a down to earth mysterious man shows up with "business" to attend to. Many of the townspeople despise this man, yet Carrie seems to have a wild attraction to him. Griff is always showing up right when she needs help the most and she is drawn into his charm. Griff has a special touch with horses and since the town is struggling with the war and such, Griff offers to stay and help around with a country carnival for the city to bring in some tourists.
Carrie was doing great helping along her brother with the farmhouse, then he decided he needed to go work elsewhere, only after he married a lady whom was "eccentric" in her ways and she had two young boys. Carrie was an instant Aunt, and before her brother moved his new wife was pregnant . . . and very sickly with her pregnancy. Carrie took on the role of caring for the boys and her brother's wife, Griff started stopping in and helping out around the house more and more...brought Christmas gifts for all of them and news came that Carrie's brother had died in a tragic accident....what would happen of the cozy farmhouse in Hickory Ridge now?
This novel was a keeper! Will the community accept Griff and Carrie's partnership ? will the town fall under due to the debt its facing? I guess you'll have to read the rest of the novel to find out!!
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