Submerged by Dani Pettrey

Bailey Craig ran away along time ago from her small hometown of Yancey, Alaska. She had made bad choices and felt major judgement due to those choices. When she gets a call that her aunt has died she has to face those same people that judged her so many years ago. The problem is that the only man she ever loved is also still living in Yancey. How will she be able to face him after all that has gone on between them?

Cole McKenna and his familyare co- owners of a successful business. He is a family oriented,and still is in love with Bailey Craig.It is very hard on him when he recovers Bailey's aunt's body from a plane crash.Will this bring Bailey back to Yancey? How will everyone treat her?

Cole and Bailey get asked by the local police to work on the case being Bailey understands the Russian language and some of the history and folklore of the area. Getting stuck working together brings all kinds of feelings up from the past.Can they deal with their feelings while trying to find out if her aunt was murdered and why? Does it have anything to do with the other murders that have happened in the area? This book takes you through history, mystery, love, forgiving and forgetting. The person that is reading the book can relate on so many levels as we have all struggled with love, being judged by others or the loss of a love one. Mix all those feelings along with a good mystery and you jave Submerged!

This was a really good book that I would recommend reading.I received it free of charge from Bethany House. All they asked in return was for me to post a book review. The opinions written here are solely my own.

The Messenger by Siri Mitchell

This is a good curl-up book, I started reading and just had to finish it! Hannah, who is a Quaker really struggles between her faith and her heart. Her brother ends up in trouble but she is unable to help or comfort him due to her faith. Will she follow her heart? Or will she do as she is suppose to as a Quaker and not pick sides?

Jermiah is a Colonial spy and really asks some hard things of Hannah. She is put in the hot spot on more than one occasion for her beliefs. She has to come to terms with what she believes and how she will be able to balance those beliefs with being able to help out Jeremiah and her brother.

This book is set in Philadelphia under the British Occupation. It makes you wonder what you would have done in the same position. What are your core values? Are you willing to change those values or work with them to achieve something that is dangerous but is worth changing?

I would recommend you grabbing the book for with yourself or as a gift for someone on your holiday list.

I did receive a copy of this book from Bethany House free of charge. Thank you very much! All they ask of me is to post  my own personal review on the book, either positive or negative.

Book Review-The Fiddler by Beverly Lewis

I really enjoyed reading the new Beverly Lewis book The Fiddler. She did a wonderful job of blending two people from different backgrounds that were each at a crossroads in their life. Both are very hard working, goal oriented people that do not want to let their families down but at the same time feel smothered by what they are expected to do. I appreciate that Ms Lewis does not have them take the easy way out which would be to throw in the towel and do what they want when they want it. Instead she has them think it through, get counsel from various different people and then follow through with some previous obligations.
It is always refreshing to see an author show their characters with some depth, morals and values. I like when I read a book and the character remembers something that they had been taught but may not have been living to the fullest. This book shows with Amelia that she had not been living a life where she was being true to herself and honest with her family. She had forgotten the simple pleasures of some of the things that she had learned with her Grandmother, including talking to God and having a relationship with him. It all shows that Michael is very family oriented, has a strong faith but still has to make some hard decisions. It shows that tough decisions can be made with putting others first and waiting on the right timing. I think we forget that as we live in a very instant, give it to me now world that is pretty "self-centered".
It was refreshing to be reminded that although we all walk our own road in life we all go through similar trials, its how we deal with those trials that makes the journey good or bad.
I would highly recommend reading this book. I want to thank Bethany House for sending out a copy to me free of charge. All that they ask of me is to post a review, good or bad. I would also like to thank Ms. Lewis for writing another good book that I have had the privilege to read.