Like most romance novels, with the exception of every Nicholas Sparks book I’ve ever read, the story ends happily and readers shouldn’t be surprised by the outcome.

This novel is peppered with moral dilemmas and biblical lessons including forgiveness, honesty, honoring your parents and withstanding temptation. While Deborah doesn’t hide the Christian undertones to her story, she doesn’t make them awkward moments either. Each time one of the believers in the story is faced with a dilemma they meditate on scripture they are familiar with to help them through, but it’s more natural than other Christian novels I read where it was almost like we took a break from the story in order to throw a scripture in. In this book I could see myself doing the same thing, meditating on the same scriptures, if I was facing the troubles these people were facing.

My one complaint? The only ones who seemed to read or study the Bible outside of church were the non-believers in the story. I wished that the characters had at least been more involved in their church activities within the story. There may have been room to put it in. Overall I’d give this story a 4 of 5 stars and would encourage anyone looking for a great, conservative story to read to check this one out. It’s not just for those romantics.

This book is linked with the post “Book Review: Snow Melts in Spring by Deborah Vogts”.