The Biological Bond is the story of Rebecca Martinson who meets the daughter she gave away for adoption when the girl develops aplastic anemia and needs a bone marrow transplant. This could have been a very interesting plot, but it ended up anemic instead. Sam Winslow and his wife had adopted a baby in the…
One of my favorite novellas of all time is Anne Avery’s A Dance on the Edge. Unfortunately, the poignancy and emotion of that work was nowhere to be found in Fire and Ice, the story of a young woman in the Depression era who returns home in search of her mother’s legacy and finds herself…
Always Dakota is the final book in Deb Macomber’s contemporary trilogy about Buffalo Valley, North Dakota and deals with various couples involved in the rejuvenation of the town. I have not read the other books in the series and perhaps it would have helped in understanding all of the quick shifts in this book. But…
Dakota Born is an uncomplicated, straightforward book about a North Dakota farmer who falls in love with a “city girl.” Unfortunately, the characters are flat, the farmer is a jerk, and the story is about as exciting as watching grass grow. Buffalo Valley, North Dakota is a town that’s dying on the vine. Once a…
This book tiptoes quietly into your brain until you are so involved in the story it becomes impossible to separate fiction from reality. An unconventional yet compelling story, it is romance where you would never expect to find it and it is, quite simply, wonderful. Cleveland Black Horse, or “Cleve” as he is informally known,…
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