Ginny Aiken, Jeri Odell, and Elizabeth White What could be better on a chilly winter's night than a collection of heartwarming stories about special vacations? Readers will love the exotic locations-and unexpected romance-in this trio of novellas from HeartQuest.
Ginny Aiken, a former newspaper reporter, lives in Pennsylvania with her husband and their three younger sons--the oldest is married, has flown the coop, and made her a doting grandmother. Born in Havana, Cuba, and raised in Valencia and Caracas Venezuela, Ginny discovered books at an early age. She wrote her first novel at age fifteen while she trained with the Ballets de Caracas, later to be known as the Venezuelan National Ballet. She burned that tome when she turned a "mature" sixteen. An ecletic list of jobs--including stints as reporter, paralegal, choreographer, language teacher, retail salesperson, wife, mother of four boys, and herder of their numerous and assorted friends, including the 135 members of first the Crossmen and then the Bluecoats Drum & Bugle Corps--brought her back to books in search of her sanity. She is now the author of twenty-seven published works, but she hasn't caught up with that elusive sanity yet.
I read this book because I'm a fan of Elizabeth White. Since I'm familiar with her writing, I read her portion of the book first and it did not disappoint. I enjoy how Elizabeth's same characters keep popping up in all her books. I've read "Fair Game," which features the Gonzalez family and her portion of the book is about one sisters and of course, Granny. All three stories were very sweet and this was an enjoyable read.
My favorite of the stories in this anthology was the one by Jeri Odell. The three stories were romances taking place during vacations. As indicative of Christian romances, all the stories place emphasis on the characters' relationships with Christ. Light stories, perfect for a weekend's read when you don't want to read anything very "heavy."