Love Stories and Chocolate Treats (Part 3 of 4) Please join us for Book Club February 26th!
Friends! Grab some of your friends and head over to Book Club to hear what promises to be a grand discussion of an even grander love story and mystery, Sandpiper Cove by Irene Hannon.
The Branches Book Club gals will be meeting at Middletown United Methodist Church on Monday Night, February 26th, from 6:30-8:00 p.m.
While Irene keeps the story moving, she dots it throughout with what I call “wow” statements. An early example is: “Letting yourself care for anyone—or anything—was an invitation for grief.” Perhaps she does this to brace us readers for what’s around the corner.
Irene also weaves pictures of grace throughout the book. We readers struggle right along with some of the characters trying to overcome their past. Adam Stone spent time in prison and is trying to get a new start.
Single mom, Lexie, is the police chief of Hope Harbor. She conveniently works on Sundays so as to avoid church. She and Adam converge over vandalism done to his home which triggers sparks for a potential romance. Irene says, “Strange how adversity could turn some people away from God yet lead others to him.”
You’ll find yourself turning pages more rapidly once the mystery of multiple vandalism unfolds coupled with Adam and Lexie’s relationship. Other characters enhance their relationship in fun and many times humorous ways.
One teenage boy, after being discovered as one of the kids involved in one of the vandalisms, gets mentored by Adam, keeping him out of trouble. His mother is also a single mom. His, and later his Mother’s transformation is another bonus we readers get to witness.
It’s surprising so many of these characters wind up together at the local church. Don’t miss the orchestration!
Hurry and read Sandpiper Cove to find out if the mystery gets solved with the vandalisms, if Lexie and Adam jump the hurdles necessary to start a relationship (including a late-into-the-story complication against Adam’s character), and if grace really can be extended to those who seem guilty.
Come join us Monday night, February 26th from 6:30 – 8:00 p.m. Please call Nancy Tinnell to RSVP at (502) 245-8839. We’d love to see you!
Our chocolate treat this week comes from Kentucky cookbook Bluegrass Winners by the Garden Club of Lexington. Don’t miss the Chocolate Torte on p. 280.
‘Til next time!