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Seaside Seasons #4
Winter Winds
In Winter Winds , Gayle Roper concludes her delightful Seaside Seasons series with a tale of romance, crime, startling mix-ups, and a few hard hearts that just might get a much-needed midwinter thaw.
After his guardian's severe illness, pastor Paul Trevelyan returns to his congregation in Seaside with a big surprise - a wife he's been estranged from for seven years. It was the old man's ailing wish that Dori and Trev return to each other, and they agree, as long as they can sleep in separate bedrooms. The dangers of a sinister luggage mix-up are compounded by discord within the church, as a highly opinionated elder proves he will stop at nothing to see Trev gone. This blizzard of difficulties leaves just a snowball's chance of a thaw between the stubborn spouses.
Bitter winds...
After a tragedy-riddled early life, Dori MacAllister has made a quiet place for herself on the West Coast, far from the landscape of her earlier heartbreaks. When she receives word that the man who raised her is gravely ill, she is drawn back to a place full of love and longing—and betrayal.
Winds of love...
Pastor Paul Trevelyan hasn't seen the woman he loves in six years. When he's given a second chance with her, he longs to make it work this time. The trouble is, if he doesn't win her back, it could cost him his job—and his happiness.
Winds of danger...
The charming town of Seaside now has its very own crime boss, and Officer Maureen Galloway would love to be the one to make charges stick. her investigation leads to Dori MacAllister, but is Dori an accomplice or a victim? And why is pharmacist Phil Trevelyan so bent on getting in Maureen's way?
After his guardian's severe illness, pastor Paul Trevelyan returns to his congregation in Seaside with a big surprise - a wife he's been estranged from for seven years. It was the old man's ailing wish that Dori and Trev return to each other, and they agree, as long as they can sleep in separate bedrooms. The dangers of a sinister luggage mix-up are compounded by discord within the church, as a highly opinionated elder proves he will stop at nothing to see Trev gone. This blizzard of difficulties leaves just a snowball's chance of a thaw between the stubborn spouses.
Bitter winds...
After a tragedy-riddled early life, Dori MacAllister has made a quiet place for herself on the West Coast, far from the landscape of her earlier heartbreaks. When she receives word that the man who raised her is gravely ill, she is drawn back to a place full of love and longing—and betrayal.
Winds of love...
Pastor Paul Trevelyan hasn't seen the woman he loves in six years. When he's given a second chance with her, he longs to make it work this time. The trouble is, if he doesn't win her back, it could cost him his job—and his happiness.
Winds of danger...
The charming town of Seaside now has its very own crime boss, and Officer Maureen Galloway would love to be the one to make charges stick. her investigation leads to Dori MacAllister, but is Dori an accomplice or a victim? And why is pharmacist Phil Trevelyan so bent on getting in Maureen's way?
336 pages, Paperback
First published May 5, 2004
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About the author
Gayle Roper
84 books90 followersGayle Roper rejoices every day that she gets to be a writer because she's in love with story. Even on the days that words rebel and have to be coerced onto the paper, there is nothing else she'd rather do. When readers like her work, it's like God says, "See? I knew what you were wired to do." When her books win awards like the Carol Award (Caught Redhanded) or the RITA Award (Autumn Dreams), the Holt Medallion (The Decision, Caught in a Bind, Autumn Dreams) or the Reviewer's Choice (The Decision), it's icing on the cake. And she gets to teach others how to write at conferences too. She spends a lot of time smiling. She is a member of American Christian Fiction Writers and Romance Writers of America and is the best-selling author of Hide & Seek and more than forty other books.
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November 29, 2023
Too much Jesus
March 12, 2019
Wonderful read. Really enjoyed it. A story of reconciliation and restoring a marriage.
June 25, 2024
Dori McAllister spent six years in San Diego hiding from her family, specifically her adoptive brother- her husband. But, when her adoptive grandfather falls deathly ill, she is forced to return to Seaside to be with him- and risk seeing "Trev" again.
Pastor Paul Trevalyn has spent the past six years wondering why his wife left him after only three days of wedded bliss and avoided him ever since. He's currently the interim pastor at Seaside Chapel, where his congregation loves him and where he'd love to hire on full time, but he fears that his estrangement from Dori would torpedo his ministry, particularly in the eyes of the Warrington family, who think they run the church.
As he goes into surgery, Pop extracts Dori's promise that she will live with her husband for six months and try to make their marriage work. Dori wants nothing more than to flee back to San Diego, but wonders if there's any chance of reviving what they had.
Picking up the wrong suitcase at the airport throws a monkey wrench into Dori and Trev's attempt to reconcile. They're having enough problems getting to know each other all over again without a criminal investigation added to the mix, but the bag Dori mistakenly took contains stolen property worth millions.
While I didn't enjoy this one as much as I did the first three, it was a solid story and well written. I enjoyed the struggle Dori and Pastor Paul- her "Trev"- as they tried to figure out what went wrong between them. There was no easy fix, and that to me is as realistic as church elder Jonathan Warrington throwing his weight around and trying to run the church to his satisfaction. It was a good read.
Pastor Paul Trevalyn has spent the past six years wondering why his wife left him after only three days of wedded bliss and avoided him ever since. He's currently the interim pastor at Seaside Chapel, where his congregation loves him and where he'd love to hire on full time, but he fears that his estrangement from Dori would torpedo his ministry, particularly in the eyes of the Warrington family, who think they run the church.
As he goes into surgery, Pop extracts Dori's promise that she will live with her husband for six months and try to make their marriage work. Dori wants nothing more than to flee back to San Diego, but wonders if there's any chance of reviving what they had.
Picking up the wrong suitcase at the airport throws a monkey wrench into Dori and Trev's attempt to reconcile. They're having enough problems getting to know each other all over again without a criminal investigation added to the mix, but the bag Dori mistakenly took contains stolen property worth millions.
While I didn't enjoy this one as much as I did the first three, it was a solid story and well written. I enjoyed the struggle Dori and Pastor Paul- her "Trev"- as they tried to figure out what went wrong between them. There was no easy fix, and that to me is as realistic as church elder Jonathan Warrington throwing his weight around and trying to run the church to his satisfaction. It was a good read.
March 10, 2008
I loved the premise of the book and I liked the way it played out too.
April 20, 2016
I read this and the whole series quite a while ago. Loved it.
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