Love and a Little White Lie
(State of Grace)
Paperback – ebook, audio, hardcover
August 4, 2020
by Tammy L. Gray (Author)
- Paperback : 368 pages
- ISBN-13 : 978-0764235894
- Publisher : Bethany House Publishers;
There's a lot of irony in hitting rock bottom
After a heartbreak leaves her reeling, January Sanders is open to anything--including moving into a cabin on her aunt's wedding-venue property and accepting a temporary position at her aunt's church despite being a lifelong skeptic of faith. Choosing to keep her doubts to herself, she's determined to give her all to supporting Grace Community's overworked staff while helping herself move on.
What she doesn't count on is meeting the church's handsome and charming guitarist. It's a match set for disaster, and yet January has no ability to stay away, even if it means pretending to have faith in a God she doesn't believe in.
Only this time, keeping her secret isn't as easy as she thought it would be. Especially when she's constantly running into her aunt's landscape architect, who seems to know everything about her past-and-present sins and makes no apologies about pushing her to deal with feelings she'd rather keep buried.
Torn between two worlds that can't coexist, can January find the healing that's eluded her, or will her resistance to the truth ruin any chance of happiness?
After a heartbreak leaves her reeling, January Sanders is open to anything--including moving into a cabin on her aunt's wedding-venue property and accepting a temporary position at her aunt's church despite being a lifelong skeptic of faith. Choosing to keep her doubts to herself, she's determined to give her all to supporting Grace Community's overworked staff while helping herself move on.
What she doesn't count on is meeting the church's handsome and charming guitarist. It's a match set for disaster, and yet January has no ability to stay away, even if it means pretending to have faith in a God she doesn't believe in.
Only this time, keeping her secret isn't as easy as she thought it would be. Especially when she's constantly running into her aunt's landscape architect, who seems to know everything about her past-and-present sins and makes no apologies about pushing her to deal with feelings she'd rather keep buried.
Torn between two worlds that can't coexist, can January find the healing that's eluded her, or will her resistance to the truth ruin any chance of happiness?
My thoughts (lvh): LOVE AND A LITTLE WHITE LIE is the first book I've read by Ms. Gray, but it hopefully won't be the last. There were things I loved about the book and things I didn't.
January is a unique character, strong, sarcastic, smart, and very broken. She attracts men easily, falls into relationships, makes bad choices, and yet has a good heart that helps heal other people's relationships.
For more conservative readers, there are soft swear words, heavy make-out scenes, and a very weak faith message. The church is very modern with a rock band.
And then there's a quiet, broken man who builds trust and despite his own broken faith, reaches January where she doesn't have any.
A slow story that touches the heart.
I was given a copy free. All opinions are my own.
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