Dandelion Bride

by Joyce Livingston

When her husband's death leaves Trish Grayson Taylor and her three young daughters penniless, she must humble herself and return home. Forced into the role of a servant, Trish bites her tongue in order to provide for her girls. Bart Ryan knows the Graysons are an ill-tempered bunch - and is shocked to find that Trish is one of them. After overhearing a panicked prayer Trish utters, he pledges his friendship and support. Trish knows Bart could lose his lucrative Grayson Industries landscaping contract if her parents discover their friendship. But he's determined the Lord has brought them together. Can Trish allow their love to bloom, or will she convince herself she's no better than a lowly dandelion? Fall in love with this inspiring love story and our entire collection of Christian romance novels from Heartsong Presents!

Genres: Romance

176 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 1, 2004

Reviews

[Phylisha Stone · Rating 3 out of 5]

this story involves the Graysons very well to do family, with ugly family seacrets. Trish Grayson Taylor defied her family by running of with a young mechanic at the local gas station. Even tho they were in love, Trish's family highly dissaproved and cut her out of their lives. Down the road Trish finds herself in the position of having to humble herself (for the sake of their children) to retuen home to ask for help after the death of her husband. What follows is family drama, humiliation and an unexpected chance at new love.

[Amanda · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is more of a short story. It's a clean romance between two people that lost their spouse. It has a twist in it. A woman comes home to get help from her parents when her husband dies. They allow her to be a servant and stay with her 3 children. Things go pretty bad for her. Then she meets a handsome stranger and she lets this man hold her. They get very affectionate with each other very quickly. Though there isn't anything steamy between them. They were too comfortable with each other in my opinion. It was short so the author had to rush things in order to get all the story in such a small book. It wasn't a bad story but I won't go out of my way to read another one by this author.

[Michele · Rating 3 out of 5]

I read this during a major rain storm today. It is a good book about how secrets can unravel a family and how judging others makes life worse. Trish comes home, because she has no where else to go, with 3 children and as a widow. She meets Bart on the first day. He is a widow also. As all good stories go, there are issues-including she discovers she is pregnant, things get worse, but luckily, they end well.

[Siera · Rating 3 out of 5]

I wasn't any more or less impressed than I have been (and most likely will be) with all of the Heartstrong books. They're light, extremely predictable, quick, and fun to read. If there's anything you can count on with these books, it's that they'll be entertaining, clean, and happily ended. Always happily ended.

[Dorry Lou · Rating 3 out of 5]

At the death of her husband, Trish knows she has to leave Wichita Kansas but where are she and her 3 daughters to go? Penniless she goes back to her parents home and humbles herself and actually becomes their servant to have a place for the 4 of them to stay. Interesting story of wealth, friendship and support of friends.

[Hapie · Rating 3 out of 5]

A typical love story. haha.

[Alice · Rating 3 out of 5]

family conflict
anti abortion/ she choses to keep her pregnancy in face of parent's desire to abort her first and last child with 1st husband.