Ashley St. Claire is in her last year of high school and once again her family has to move. She has to give up all of her friends and move to a small town in the south. All of the children are perfect. They say Ma'am and Sir to their elders and they never talk back. On the second day of school she finds out, the hard way, why that is when she is sent to see the principal. Her school stills believes in corporal punishment. When her father takes the school's side and not hers she decides to run away. But a boy in her class, Jackson, stops her. He has taken an interest in Ashley. Will she stay in this town or move away the second she graduates, thus breaking Jackson's heart.
This book is about Christian Domestic Discipline. If you don't care for that then this book isn't for you. Not for readers under 18.
Christian domestic discipline romances are few and far between. So, each new novel is eagerly read with hope and anticipation.
Ashley and her parents have settled in a small rural town with hopes of being more of a family now that Dad is off the road. Ashley is at odds finding her way into the strict yet loving society of corporal punishment at school and domestic discipline at home. It was unnerving how extreme her father behaved, for a father who had never spanked his daughter.
Jackson is the saving grace of the novel. A young man who knows what he wants, as he manages both sets of parents and Ashley to see they were meant to be married.
The novel is part how to manual and part young adult romance. A so-so read.
This book had so many elements I liked, the hero was like a little lost puppy with the heroine totally in love with her and even crying when she kept denying his advances. However, this book unlike many of her others has a very religious overtone that was just a little too much for me.