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Gingham Bride (Mills & Boon Historical) (2011)

by Jillian Hart(Favorite Author)

4.03 of 5 Votes: 2

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English

genre

Romance

publisher

Mills & Boon Historical

series

Buttons & Bobbins

review 1: I’ve been a fan of Jillian Hart’s writing for some time now. Once again, Hart had me pulled into her story from the very beginning and kept me there through the entire book. I felt as I was living right alongside her characters. I didn’t want to put her book down.***Fiona thinks her life can’t get any worse and dreams and plans for the day that she can escape the control of her abusive father and defeated, angry mother. Since her brother died, she has lived in a house completely void of kindness, caring, or love of any sort. Her only respite is when she finds solace in the barn with the animals and at school or church with her friends. She lives in fear that one false move will send her drunken father into a fit of rage and invite yet another beating from him.Just... more when she thinks life can get no worse, she finds that Ian, the man who her father had "arranged” for her to marry someday, shows up. Does he really want her or just her father’s land? When terms cannot be met and he leaves, her father finds someone else for her to marry. Will she be forced to live in a worse place with a horrendous man even more abusive than her father? Ian comes to the rescue, but with terms she can’t seem to understand. She tries to keep her heart uninvolved and out of harm’s way. Will she keep her vow to never marry and let a man have control over her?This is a wonderful holiday love story showing how God’s love works through a patient man who lives as the Lord leads him and puts those he loves first before himself and his own dreams. This story is woven beautifully to show how God can heal the broken heart of a young girl who’s lived a lifetime of pain and rejection, helping her learn to trust and even love a man who seems too good to be true.In fact, I want to be a part of Fiona’s sewing circle. I would love to read more love stories of the characters in this book, as well as see more into the married life of Fiona and Ian. The characters are so likable that you don’t want their stories to end. I’m late getting this review out, but if you can get your hands on this book – read it - you won’t regret it! I thoroughly enjoyed it.
review 2: I got this book as I had won it from one my Goodreads groups. This was my very first 'anything I ever won' and so getting it in the mail to read was doubly exciting for me. And I just love Jillian Hart, so very exciting indeed. I had to laugh to myself when I saw the name of the heroine for that was what my Dad wanted to name me! But my mom won out with Melody, and I have to say I like my name, so it's good. :)She was a great Fiona, and I loved her from the start. The relationship development was real and believable, and I found myself laughing and crying. :) less

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