For The Love Of The Writer: Drama

Fleeing an abusive relationship, Kate Hill finds herself stranded and hiding in a quiet and guarded community of Amish in rural Iowa. When she meets a troubled Amish man, she learns that with a leap of faith, one can discover love and kindness. Nathan Fisher is an innocent Amish man questioning his faith after the loss of his family. He discovers his guiding angel when an English woman becomes his inspiration to his heartsick soul. Is she temptation to lead him astray, or is she his salvation. Together they will discover that love can break down boundaries in cultural differences, and heal broken faith.

Healing Faith is a story about more than just two characters finding love, but also finding their faith being renewed.

For Nathan, it was finding faith in not only his beliefs, but in God and himself.

And for Katherine, it was about finding faith in love, people, and family. It was also about her finding her own inner strength.

In a way both Nathan and Katherine lost their families, only to find it again in a home with so much love.

After Nathan loses his whole family to illness, he feels lost and alone. This is until a very unlikely woman finds herself in a very unlikely location.

By a combination of circumstances Katherine ends up finding herself hiding in the middle of an Amish community. She never imagined that when she ran away from her past she’d find her future.

Not much more I can say about this story without giving it away. What I can say is that when I won the ARC for this story I was so excited that I stopped in the middle of the book I was reading to read this, and didn’t put it down until I finished.

I enjoyed the story so much that I contacted the author, Jennyfer Browne, and requested a signed hard copy. This is one book that I will feel honored to have on my bookshelf, and encourage anyone who will listen to purchase it.

I wish Ms. Browne all the luck in the world and look forward to the next book in this series.

(review written by One of Eddie's Girls)

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As the captain of a schooner catering to the elite on the Caribbean Seas, Sebastian Stark does his best to avoid any human encounters. Interacting with people isn’t his thing, and he prefers the company of a bottle of vodka, a shot glass, and maybe a whore. There’s no doubt he’s hiding from a checkered past, but he does well keeping everything to himself…

…until the night his schooner capsizes, and he’s stuck on a life raft with one of the passengers.

Raine’s young, she’s cute, and Bastian would probably be into her if he wasn’t suffering from alcohol withdrawal. As the days pass, DTs, starvation, and dehydration become the norm. Even the most closed person starts to open up when he thinks he’s going to die, but when she realizes their traumatic pasts are connected, it’s no longer the elements that have Bastian concerned.

He has no idea how he’s going to Survive Raine.

Let me start out by saying I really did enjoy the book. It was very well written and flowed pretty well. My only two real hang-ups with the story were; it being written from the male characters point of view and his crassness, and that the epilogue kind of felt like it came out of left field. If Shay’s epilogue is a set of for a second book, then it makes sense.

So to discuss the first issue... Bastian is a very crass character that mainly thinks about his dick. Which is true of most men, but because I deal with WAY too many men in my daily life, and use reading as my escape, it became an issue for me. Now please don’t take this as a negative, if that is something you enjoy or are not bothered by then I highly recommend you read this. Again the crassness of the way Bastian thinks is only a turnoff for me.

The story overall is quite fun to read. You want to pull for them to be rescued, and once they are you just want them to be back to being the two of them again. The growth of both characters throughout the story is natural and does not feel forced in anyway. The way Shay’s written the story makes you want to be in that raft with Bastian and helping him rid himself of his past demons.

Raine’s need and desire to learn not only more about Bastian, but his link to her past, as well as her will to survive is what makes her strong enough to deal with Bastian. Her determination is very honorable.

I give the story 4 flowers because my personal feelings on the male point of view should not take away from the good job done on the story over all. And on a side note, my inner nerd chuckled for at least 5 chapters because every time I read the name Bastian I had the theme song to The Neverending Story playing through my head.