Texas Angel

Texas

by Debra White Smith

PAPERBACK

Genres: Christian Romance, Christian Fiction, Fiction, Mystery

170 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 2000

About the author

Debra White Smith is a seasoned Christian author, speaker, and media personality who has been regularly publishing books for over a decade. In the last twelve years, she has accumulated more than 55 books sales to her credit with more than 1 million books in print. Her titles include such life-changing books as Romancing Your Husband, Romancing Your Wife, The Divine Romance: Developing Intimacy with God, the The Lonestar Intrigue fiction series, and The Jane Austen fiction series.

As a woman of God, Debra is committed to the highest standards of integrity and to spending hours a week being still before the Father, staying in tune with Him, and listening for His voice of direction in all she does. This commitment to romancing the Lord, coupled with her lifestyle of devouring, analyzing, and dissecting the Word of God has allowed God to bring about a miracle of deliverance and healing in Debra's spirit, mind, and soul. Debra holds a double Ph.D. from the toughest schools in the world. The first Ph.D. from the "School of Hard Knocks" and the second, from the "School of Very Hard Knocks." Aside from that, she holds an M.A. in English from the University of Texas.

Along with Debra's being voted a fiction-reader favorite several times, her book Romancing Your Husband was a finalist in the 2003 Gold Medallion Awards. And her Austen Series novel First Impressions was a finalist in the 2005 Retailer's Choice Awards. Debra has been a popular media guest across the nation, including Fox TV, The 700 Club, ABC Radio, USA Radio Network, and Moody Broadcasting. Her favorite hobbies include fishing, bargain-hunting, and swimming with her family. Debra also vows she would walk 50 miles for a scoop of German chocolate ice cream.

Reviews

[Brettandleosmom · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a feel-good story about a woman who thought she was to live out her years as a spinster school marm after having had her heart broken 15 years earlier. After sheltering a man mistakenly marked as a murderer, she finds that she can love again.

[Ulana · Rating 3 out of 5]

Angela is a 30 year old school single teacher. There is a jail break in town. Angela finds a man with a gunshot lying in her vegetable garden. She takes him in her house. Should she help him or turn him in ? He swears he is not guilty.

[Dorothy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Angela finds a hurt man in her garden who has been shot. Against her better judgement she takes him inside and hides him in her cellar. It is believed by the law that he shot the bank president in a nearby town. But everything isn't what you expect.

[Karolyn Olson · Rating 2 out of 5]

Ridiculous premise and overblown descriptions. If you’ve read one of this authors books, you can skip others because they are all the same.

[Gretchen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Reread! Enjoyed this back in the day & hadn’t read it in forever. Cute, simple story.

[Cathy · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is more interesting than most romances. The plot is almost absurd, but interesting. The romance develops too quickly for people with such reasons to doubt and mistrust others. I liked the way the author resolved the various conflicts, but she could perhaps have done more with Noah Thorndyke reaching out to Rupert Denham towards the end of the story. There would have been more depth to the story if Noah had wrestled with forgiving Rupert, or if Travis, Noah, or Angela had more concern over Rupert's soul. There were conversations about other characters making peace with God, but was anything done to help Rupert make peace with his Maker as he approached his own life and death moment? (Either answer, whether or not Rupert accepted that peace could have made an interesting part to the story.) The conclusion of the story, "As long as the end result is gained, that is all that matters" is NOT a sound statement. Whenever good ends are achieved through wrong means, they generally carry with them some unwanted seeds of bitterness and regret that cannot be so easily dismissed.