Comforting Books

The Secret Garden by Francis Hodgson Burnett

I recently had a couple of weeks of illness which left me often depressed and sleepless at three in the morning. What do I turn to for comfort and help? Not a bottle of pills. A Book!
The best help in times of trouble is, of course, the Bible; but there are many other books I include in my collection of healing words. In just a few chapters, I can feel my muscles relaxing, and my stomach settling down. My headache is forgotten, and my heart is soothed. Then sweetly I am drifting to sleep with lovely thoughts in my head. Here are a few of those magical comforting books: Continue reading

“Tried and True” by Mary Connealy

Kylie Wilde is the youngest sister—and the most civilized. Her older sisters might be happy dressing in trousers and posing as men, but Kylie has grown her hair long and wears skirts every chance she gets. It’s a risk—they are homesteading using the special exemptions they earned serving in the Civil War as “boys”—but Kylie plans to make the most of the years before she can sell her property and return to the luxuries of life back East.

Local land agent Aaron Masterson is fascinated with Kylie from the moment her long hair falls from her cap. But now that he knows her secret, can he in good conscience defraud the U.S. government? And when someone tries to force Kylie off her land, does he have any hope of convincing her that marrying him and settling on the frontier is the better option for her future?

It’s been quite a while since I’ve read any Christian Romance, and this was the perfect book to get me back into loving the genre! I liked this book a lot! The characters are complex and compelling, the plot is packed with action and mystery, and the writing is fun and full of cowboy charm. Continue reading