Sunday, July 3, 2016

Love's Rescue

Love's Rescue: A Novel 

Keys of Promise 

Paperback, ebook

June 2, 2015

by Christine Johnson


  • Series: Keys of Promise (Book 1)
  • Paperback: 352 pages
  • Publisher: Revell 
  • ISBN-13: 978-0800723507

Can a girl enamored with the adventurous seas ever be content with the tame life of a Southern belle? 
When her mother dies, Elizabeth Benjamin heads home to Key West, determined to transform herself into the perfect Southern belle her parents always wished her to be. But nothing goes according to plan. Her brother resents her, the servants do not obey her, and Rourke O'Malley, the dashing man she vowed to forget, refuses to relinquish his hold on her heart. Worst of all, it becomes painfully obvious that her father is not the man he appears to be.

As family secrets come to light, Elizabeth is faced with a difficult choice: to perform her duty and abandon her dreams, or to leave her life of privilege behind to chase the man her father sees as little better than a pirate.

From the first emotional page, author Christine Johnson throws you into a world of impossible choices, hidden desires, and heart-melting romance in the steamy South.

My thoughts:  LOVE'S RESCUE is Ms. Johnson's first book in her Keys of Promise series. At first I wasn't real sure what to think of it, as Elizabeth is a lady of means and being paraded among eligible bachelors to find an approved husband. Translation, a man of means who she doesn't love. 

When Elizabeth's father's clerk pays attention to her, her father is thrilled. After all this man owns a plantation even though he works as a clerk. Fantastic. Except Elizabeth loves another. A man who owns a wrecker business and is, according to her father, little more than a pirate. 

Secrets come to light and Elizabeth is torn between waiting for the man she loves or marrying to please her father... for reasons I won't share, but it is compelling. I wondered  how on earth Elizabeth and Rourke would surpass the difficulties facing them. I had to keep reading to find out! 

If you love historical fiction, then LOVE'S RESCUE by Christine Johnson is certainly a book to consider. It will keep you spellbound as you read how this unlikely couple found each other, then overcame the odds stacked high against them. 4 stars. 

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