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His Saving Grace
His Saving Grace by Lyn Cote released on Mar 25, 2004 is available now for purchase.
256 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published April 1, 2004
About the author
Lyn Cote
127 books593 followersLyn grew up loving books. Her favorite night of the week was Friday night, when the Bookmobile came to her neighborhood in Illinois. She’d spend those two hours chatting with the driver of the Bookmobile and the librarian and making the big decision of the week — which books to check out! In those distant days, children were limited in how many books they could check out. Lyn could only take home six a week — and there were so many to choose from. Her favorites were Cotton in my Sack by Lois Lenski, The Little House series and the One of a Kind Family series. Later, she discovered Georgette Heyer’s Regency romances!
This love of books led to a desire to write. Lyn won prizes in high school and college for her poetry and, not surprisingly, Lyn became a history and English teacher. When she became a mother, she gave up teaching, and while raising a son and a daughter, she began working on her first novel. Then she wrote her second and third. Long years of rejection followed — as it does for most writers. Finally in 1997, Lyn got "the call." Her first book, Never Alone, was chosen to appear in the first year of the new Love Inspired line. Lyn has written many articles on writing and the emerging Christian Booksellers Assoc. (CBA) fiction market. In 2006, Lyn's book, Chloe, is a finalist for the RWA's RITA, the highest award in the romance genre in the inspirational category.
Now, Lyn spends her days writing books that show the power of divine as well as human love. Her nest is empty and she and her real life hero, her husband, have more and more time to spend together in their home on a lake in the lovely northwoods. And books are still dear to her heart.
This love of books led to a desire to write. Lyn won prizes in high school and college for her poetry and, not surprisingly, Lyn became a history and English teacher. When she became a mother, she gave up teaching, and while raising a son and a daughter, she began working on her first novel. Then she wrote her second and third. Long years of rejection followed — as it does for most writers. Finally in 1997, Lyn got "the call." Her first book, Never Alone, was chosen to appear in the first year of the new Love Inspired line. Lyn has written many articles on writing and the emerging Christian Booksellers Assoc. (CBA) fiction market. In 2006, Lyn's book, Chloe, is a finalist for the RWA's RITA, the highest award in the romance genre in the inspirational category.
Now, Lyn spends her days writing books that show the power of divine as well as human love. Her nest is empty and she and her real life hero, her husband, have more and more time to spend together in their home on a lake in the lovely northwoods. And books are still dear to her heart.
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March 23, 2016
Boring. Nothing much happened.
April 28, 2011
Ok in parts. BORING in others.
March 19, 2022
A lovely story about letting go of hurts.
Gracie as always loved Jack. He's handsome, incredibly intelligent, very focused... but he has no idea that there's life beyond a computer screen. He relies on Tom (his best friend and business partner) and Gracie (their office executive) to bring him work, send him home, find him meals, and keep him from completely losing reality.
Then Tom decides he's ready for a new enterprise, and Jack's world flips upside down. He has to move from the office he's always known, deal with customers (*P.E.O.P.L.E*), find a way to keep things going smoothly without Tom... and he finds himself relying even more on Gracie.
Except life has caught up with them, both. Gracie's sister has left her husband and children, and Gracie's helping with the twins. Gracie's dad has taken a building project which threw him together with Jack's mom, and they're getting romantic. Jack's dad re-appears in his life, and needs help finding a hacker who's screwing with his medical corporation's account. Oh, and there's a new step-mom... and Jack is still horrifically bitter about his dad leaving his mom (part of the reason he threw himself into computers, in the first place).
I don't see how people in the reviews before mine could say *ANY* of that is boring. What I believe they mean to say is that there's description, a fleshed-out and detailed story, characters with actual depth and feelings, and a plot that needs untwisting, coil by coil. And I'm noticing that people don't have the patience for well-written novels, anymore - they want basically streams of dialogue with few details and idiot characters.
This isn't that. This has the feel of being written in early 1980, even though it takes place in the late 1990s. BUT... it's still REALLY a beautiful read.
The only problem that I had with the story is the cover. Gracie's tiny with black hair and gray eyes, while the woman on the front is blonde with brown eyes. Who the HECK did that to Lyn's book, anyhow?! ((Well, and I also had a problem with them getting a Dumpster instead of a scrap metal bin for the new shop's renovation... but I'm a recycler, and have earth-friendly hang-ups that people didn't in the 80's.))
Overall, though? This is a fantastical story about a computer geek who's eyes are opened throughout the course of a string of difficulties, so that he can realize the importance of family, the beauty of a vacation, the fun that children are, and that his right-hand woman was the love of his life.
HIGHLY recommended.
Gracie as always loved Jack. He's handsome, incredibly intelligent, very focused... but he has no idea that there's life beyond a computer screen. He relies on Tom (his best friend and business partner) and Gracie (their office executive) to bring him work, send him home, find him meals, and keep him from completely losing reality.
Then Tom decides he's ready for a new enterprise, and Jack's world flips upside down. He has to move from the office he's always known, deal with customers (*P.E.O.P.L.E*), find a way to keep things going smoothly without Tom... and he finds himself relying even more on Gracie.
Except life has caught up with them, both. Gracie's sister has left her husband and children, and Gracie's helping with the twins. Gracie's dad has taken a building project which threw him together with Jack's mom, and they're getting romantic. Jack's dad re-appears in his life, and needs help finding a hacker who's screwing with his medical corporation's account. Oh, and there's a new step-mom... and Jack is still horrifically bitter about his dad leaving his mom (part of the reason he threw himself into computers, in the first place).
I don't see how people in the reviews before mine could say *ANY* of that is boring. What I believe they mean to say is that there's description, a fleshed-out and detailed story, characters with actual depth and feelings, and a plot that needs untwisting, coil by coil. And I'm noticing that people don't have the patience for well-written novels, anymore - they want basically streams of dialogue with few details and idiot characters.
This isn't that. This has the feel of being written in early 1980, even though it takes place in the late 1990s. BUT... it's still REALLY a beautiful read.
The only problem that I had with the story is the cover. Gracie's tiny with black hair and gray eyes, while the woman on the front is blonde with brown eyes. Who the HECK did that to Lyn's book, anyhow?! ((Well, and I also had a problem with them getting a Dumpster instead of a scrap metal bin for the new shop's renovation... but I'm a recycler, and have earth-friendly hang-ups that people didn't in the 80's.))
Overall, though? This is a fantastical story about a computer geek who's eyes are opened throughout the course of a string of difficulties, so that he can realize the importance of family, the beauty of a vacation, the fun that children are, and that his right-hand woman was the love of his life.
HIGHLY recommended.
February 16, 2022
While not completely terrible, I felt like this novel needed more work to be enjoyable. There seemed to be so many events taking place which made it hard to keep track of or they ended up being not as significant as they were originally made out to be, just something to move the story along and get key characters in certain places. Other times just when it felt like the action was capturing my interest, the author decided to leave us on a cliffhanger and move on to another scene. For a romance novel, I felt like it was lacking in that field, at least for our main characters. I sometimes felt like I was being told they were romantic interests and something was developing between them rather than being shown. Overall, I felt like this novel was just a bunch of concepts thrown together with weak connections to tie them together.
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