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In the Light of Love
From the moment Talisa London woke on the operating tableand looked into Dr. Jericho Becton's mesmerizing blue-greengaze, she knew he was unlike any other man she'd ever met.Running into him a few weeks later only confirmed the sparkbetween them wasn't imagined. But this time they were in a war-torn African nation, far from the safety of their Atlanta home.…
Working toward a common goal in a world where danger lurkedin every corner, Jericho and Talisa found themselves swept upin a wave of desire that left them both breathless and wantingmore. But would they survive their mission with their love—andlives—intact?
Working toward a common goal in a world where danger lurkedin every corner, Jericho and Talisa found themselves swept upin a wave of desire that left them both breathless and wantingmore. But would they survive their mission with their love—andlives—intact?
304 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published February 1, 2007
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About the author
Deborah Fletcher Mello
130 books202 followersFor Deborah Fletcher Mello, writing is as necessary as breathing and she firmly believes that if she could not write she would cease to exist. Her first novel, TAKE ME TO HEART, earned her a 2004 Romance Slam Jam nomination for Best New Author. In 2005 she received Book of the Year and Favorite Heroine nominations for her novel THE RIGHT SIDE OF LOVE. In 2008, Deborah won the Romantic Times Reviewers Choice award for Best Series Romance for her ninth novel, TAME A WILD STALLION.
A true renaissance woman, Deborah's many career paths have included working as a retail buyer and size model for a national women's clothing chain, a finance manager for a well-known beverage organization, a sales manager for an infamous candy company, a telecommunications administrator and corporate trainer for a hotel-owning company, an art gallery director for a world-renowned artist, and an administrative consultant for multiple organizations throughout the United States. Deborah is also a licensed real estate broker and general building contractor.
Born and raised in Connecticut, Deborah maintains base camp in North Carolina but considers home to be wherever the moment moves her.
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October 28, 2014
Talisa and Jericho story is wonderful.
You know since I have obtained a Kindle, my whole reading world has been incredibly expanded. New genres have been introduced to me, book clubs, book chats and everything book related. My Kindle is full of great books and I am incredibly happy. Butttttt....There is something about always coming back to your true love of sweet romance and for me nothing beats that. I had no idea I was missing it until I read the book "In The Light of Love".
Talisa works at Wesslyn College in the Christian department, she is going on her first missions trips and is leading a team of 8 college students into Africa. Talisa is a hard worker, well liked, always willing to lend a helping hand and a good daughter. Jericho is a surgeon like his dad whom he is in private practice with. He is an only child, well loved by his parents, great friend and well liked both personally and professionally. Talisa first meets Jericho as a patient who has to have emergency surgery for a ruptured appendix which he is her surgeon. As Talisa was being pulled under by the anesthesia she says to Jericho "You have the most beautiful eyes, I think I could love you" and with that she is asleep. As with all things once everything is done, life goes on.
They meet again outside of a surgery room at a male auction ball for charity hosted by Jericho's mother Irene and the hospital to raise money. This chance meeting seemed like fate until an intervention stops them from seeing or being with each other after the event. Jericho secures Talisa's number from his mother and has made several phone calls to her but the message was never relayed and therefore both are left believing neither wants to see the other.
Jericho leaves for Africa to help out his best friend by providing medical and surgical services for the people there, Talisa is on her way with her group to help out as well. Their chance meeting once again proves that they were fated for each other it just had to align up right for them. Now in another country, they can properly get to know one another without the interruption of others and it seems like a great opportunity for them. As they all are working together the Rebels are stirring up trouble and instantly everything that could go wrong, does and now it becomes a desperate fight for survival for these two. What happens in this story will have you on the edge of your seat but harm others try to bring upon you always backfires. What winds up happening is new stories of love, hope and second chances are birthed. New purposes are found and new families are formed.
I can go on and on about this story but then I will wind up telling the whole thing LOL!! I will say this author Deborah Fletcher Mello really did an excellent job in writing Talisa and Jericho's story, it was absolutely perfect. I do wonder if the author is going to write stories for Talisa's friends hoping that they too will find true love like she has.
Well Until My Next Review Ciao Bellas!
You know since I have obtained a Kindle, my whole reading world has been incredibly expanded. New genres have been introduced to me, book clubs, book chats and everything book related. My Kindle is full of great books and I am incredibly happy. Butttttt....There is something about always coming back to your true love of sweet romance and for me nothing beats that. I had no idea I was missing it until I read the book "In The Light of Love".
Talisa works at Wesslyn College in the Christian department, she is going on her first missions trips and is leading a team of 8 college students into Africa. Talisa is a hard worker, well liked, always willing to lend a helping hand and a good daughter. Jericho is a surgeon like his dad whom he is in private practice with. He is an only child, well loved by his parents, great friend and well liked both personally and professionally. Talisa first meets Jericho as a patient who has to have emergency surgery for a ruptured appendix which he is her surgeon. As Talisa was being pulled under by the anesthesia she says to Jericho "You have the most beautiful eyes, I think I could love you" and with that she is asleep. As with all things once everything is done, life goes on.
They meet again outside of a surgery room at a male auction ball for charity hosted by Jericho's mother Irene and the hospital to raise money. This chance meeting seemed like fate until an intervention stops them from seeing or being with each other after the event. Jericho secures Talisa's number from his mother and has made several phone calls to her but the message was never relayed and therefore both are left believing neither wants to see the other.
Jericho leaves for Africa to help out his best friend by providing medical and surgical services for the people there, Talisa is on her way with her group to help out as well. Their chance meeting once again proves that they were fated for each other it just had to align up right for them. Now in another country, they can properly get to know one another without the interruption of others and it seems like a great opportunity for them. As they all are working together the Rebels are stirring up trouble and instantly everything that could go wrong, does and now it becomes a desperate fight for survival for these two. What happens in this story will have you on the edge of your seat but harm others try to bring upon you always backfires. What winds up happening is new stories of love, hope and second chances are birthed. New purposes are found and new families are formed.
I can go on and on about this story but then I will wind up telling the whole thing LOL!! I will say this author Deborah Fletcher Mello really did an excellent job in writing Talisa and Jericho's story, it was absolutely perfect. I do wonder if the author is going to write stories for Talisa's friends hoping that they too will find true love like she has.
Well Until My Next Review Ciao Bellas!
August 5, 2008
Talisa London meets a blue eyed hottie on the operating table before under going anaesthesia for a ruptured spleen. She wakes up, thinks that it's all a dream or some sort of erotic narcosis - until she actually meets Jericho Becton at a fund raiser - the guy with the eyes! *gasp*
Before they're able to make that connection (again!), he's whisked away from her, and she puts him out of her mind until they meet in Uganda. Becton is there administering to the war wounded at the behest of a friend, and Talisa is there on one of those church outings, where the people go to do good deeds for brothers and sisters of 'the spirit'.
So, Talisa and Becton (finally!) make that love connection, only for Becton to be swept into the chaos of war that lurks on the edges of civilization, and the book is a journey of how he gets back to Talisa, and how Talisa, like a Penelope, holds the fort waiting for her Odysseus.
Overall, the book was alright in the sense that the events kept you moving. I didn't really get the eroticism that the writer was trying to put across - it's as if the book wanted to be Christian (i.e. no sex before marriage), but the writer was held to contract to include sex before the proposal, dammit, so you got the feeling that it was a lot of rote, and no heat.
Heh. If I'm going to be reading this book on a rock overlooking Holy Island, I except a fair bit of erotica in exchange for my immortal soul. Is that so much to ask?
In addition, the author throws in schizophrenia - I understand why she did it, because in these books you need the tension - but it really ruined the smoothness of the story.
There were good points to the book though, Ms Mello captures the mood of a country holding its breath, waiting for something to set it off. She also writes movingly about child soldiers and the male protagonist is the product of a mixed race union and its accepted as 'just is'. There was this odd phrase that Ms Mello would use though, like, she'd refer to Mr Becton Snr (white guy)his Christian name (Elijah), then in the next line, call him 'the man'. Normally, people might use this device in mystery novels, in order for the reader to get the hint that all was not as it seems - but this wasn't it here.
If you're at sixes and sevens, and the book is next to another book in the library, you can put it in your basket.
Before they're able to make that connection (again!), he's whisked away from her, and she puts him out of her mind until they meet in Uganda. Becton is there administering to the war wounded at the behest of a friend, and Talisa is there on one of those church outings, where the people go to do good deeds for brothers and sisters of 'the spirit'.
So, Talisa and Becton (finally!) make that love connection, only for Becton to be swept into the chaos of war that lurks on the edges of civilization, and the book is a journey of how he gets back to Talisa, and how Talisa, like a Penelope, holds the fort waiting for her Odysseus.
Overall, the book was alright in the sense that the events kept you moving. I didn't really get the eroticism that the writer was trying to put across - it's as if the book wanted to be Christian (i.e. no sex before marriage), but the writer was held to contract to include sex before the proposal, dammit, so you got the feeling that it was a lot of rote, and no heat.
Heh. If I'm going to be reading this book on a rock overlooking Holy Island, I except a fair bit of erotica in exchange for my immortal soul. Is that so much to ask?
In addition, the author throws in schizophrenia - I understand why she did it, because in these books you need the tension - but it really ruined the smoothness of the story.
There were good points to the book though, Ms Mello captures the mood of a country holding its breath, waiting for something to set it off. She also writes movingly about child soldiers and the male protagonist is the product of a mixed race union and its accepted as 'just is'. There was this odd phrase that Ms Mello would use though, like, she'd refer to Mr Becton Snr (white guy)his Christian name (Elijah), then in the next line, call him 'the man'. Normally, people might use this device in mystery novels, in order for the reader to get the hint that all was not as it seems - but this wasn't it here.
If you're at sixes and sevens, and the book is next to another book in the library, you can put it in your basket.
September 14, 2015
Right on
There was never a dull moment in this story. It was love at first sight for T and J (as I call them) . Their love grew through adversity and because of their belief in God.
There was never a dull moment in this story. It was love at first sight for T and J (as I call them) . Their love grew through adversity and because of their belief in God.
January 23, 2014
Magnificent
what can I say this was a magnificent love story. It I would really recommend this book. It was true love at first sight.
what can I say this was a magnificent love story. It I would really recommend this book. It was true love at first sight.
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