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Five #3
Five Months
When widow Tavora Kar first encountered the magnetic actor Luke R’phael, a close friendship formed that would change their lives. Upon the death of his wife, Luke found himself drawn back to Tavora. Passions flamed, and the two lovers’ worlds united. Now, Luke and Tavora are finding that going from friends to spouses is complicated. Getting married was the easy part, but truly blending their lives together will take more than either one expected. The new couple will need to overcome their independence and pride, or their newly created life will be torn apart. They must leave behind habits from their past marriages while dealing with Tavora’s difficult pregnancy. Is their love forever, or is five months all they will have together?
194 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 17, 2019
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Cathy Jackson
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Cathy Jackson is an Award-Winning Author and Midwestern mother of two twenty-somethings and two teenagers. Reading is a passion of hers, but she adores writing. Some of the best people have been placed in her life to help her with her books. They are a blessing and mean more than they will ever know.
Jennifer Harshman of HarshmanServices.com has been her Editor for the first eleven books. Opal Campbell of Videos by O. has designed her book teasers and trailers. Matthew Jackson of Mad Celt Designs has designed her book covers.
Three of the most excellent Actors have come alongside her books, too: John Wells, a Multi-Award-Winning Actor from Louisville, Kentucky; Tom Proctor Actor/director, another Actor and Stuntman; Official John J Thomassen from New York. and Martin Lopez, Leading Actor, Model, Stunt Man, and Author.
She reads books in almost every genre, but have published Contemporary Inspirational (Christian) Romances. She'll be publishing books in other genres.
It is her goal as an Author to write scenes that uplift and encourage along with making one feel the experience. She wants readers to finish the books feeling hope, love, and happiness.
Please check with me before making any changes. I make all the necessary changes and updates myself. Thank you!
MESSAGES:
I DO NOT check my messages on Goodreads. If you want to contact me, please do so at: Cathy Jackson (@AuthorCJackson on Facebook). Thanks!
Cathy Jackson is an Award-Winning Author and Midwestern mother of two twenty-somethings and two teenagers. Reading is a passion of hers, but she adores writing. Some of the best people have been placed in her life to help her with her books. They are a blessing and mean more than they will ever know.
Jennifer Harshman of HarshmanServices.com has been her Editor for the first eleven books. Opal Campbell of Videos by O. has designed her book teasers and trailers. Matthew Jackson of Mad Celt Designs has designed her book covers.
Three of the most excellent Actors have come alongside her books, too: John Wells, a Multi-Award-Winning Actor from Louisville, Kentucky; Tom Proctor Actor/director, another Actor and Stuntman; Official John J Thomassen from New York. and Martin Lopez, Leading Actor, Model, Stunt Man, and Author.
She reads books in almost every genre, but have published Contemporary Inspirational (Christian) Romances. She'll be publishing books in other genres.
It is her goal as an Author to write scenes that uplift and encourage along with making one feel the experience. She wants readers to finish the books feeling hope, love, and happiness.
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February 29, 2020
Cathy Jackson has done a great job as always when it comes to her series she writes. Cathy’s faith flows throughout the series and you can see and feel the characters take on this faith. They actually come to life where you can feel and see them in your mind. I am not a religious person by far, but I believe in God and his reasoning for doing things. I believe everything happens for a reason and what Tavora and Luke go through in this book has a reason behind it. I look to my own personal experiences in life and find that Things do happen for reason some unbeknownst to us at the time, but you will think about it later in life. I always felt in my heart, something bigger and better is coming my way, and sure enough I have gotten to a point in my life that, yes, this incident in particular was the reason for that feeling. I enjoyed the book and hope you will too.
January 4, 2020
MY WORLD IS A BETTER PLACE BECAUSE YOU ARE IN IT
I will be the first to admit that the Five series is much different than what we as the reader came to expect with the Bloom series. Ms. Jackson has stepped the game up with this series and the cast of characters that takes the reader on an emotional roller coaster of faith, acceptance, trust, and love. Just remember readers, these are about humans, imperfect people, and please keep reading because there is going to be a moral lesson, and I see rejoicing down the line in the next book or two.
The Five Series is an ongoing saga and will need to be read in the written order. I will admit I felt lost when I started Five Months; it has been three and a half years (May 2016) since reading Five Days. I had to go back and read the last several chapters in Five Days to refresh myself what had happened, that Tavora was in the hospital and Luke has rushed from filming a movie in Canada to America to be with her---that is where Five Months begins.
Two people, with two different backgrounds, one a born-again Christian, who strongly believes and trusts in God, and one who has had minimal church interaction only as a child, takes God as a myth and fantasy. Now, these two are married, and their lives have entered a new crisis—Tavora is pregnant and having health issues and Luke has rushed to be with her. The Bible says not to be unequally yoked, yet that is exactly the case; she has complete devoted faith in God and he considers it all a hype? How will their marriage survive when she cannot exist without God in her life and he cannot accept Him? Why does he keep telling her she needs another man—one who has a strong faith and believes in God as she does?
“Because my heart and mind love you. I would give my life for you. You are everything I want in a husband. I. Love. You.”
“Don’t be afraid. I will always be there to catch you.” “I don’t understand your religious devotion.”
“I think you fear the control He has over my life because that is more control than you think you have over me.”
The plot kept me captivated as the story continues to unfold, with the passion and emotions these two have for each other—they can’t seem to keep their hands off each other either. Tavora’s faith in God is just as strong as it was before, and in some ways, it upsets Luke, because he can’t accept a God who would allow death and pain. There is even a sense of jealousy that Luke has with other Christians that are part of Tavvy’s life, her church family, and including her OB-GYN doctor, who takes the time to pray with her.
Tavora’s acceptance of Xavier, Luke’s son, with his late wife, Mara, is so moving. She embraces him as a mother and gives him a peace. Now if her body will hold out for the lives she is carrying. The dialog is raw, open, honest and heartwarming at times and painful at others. There are mildly explicit spoken scenes of intimacy between a husband and wife.
“Her life was whole now. She had a husband she loved with her whole heart and a son that had lost a mother, as she had lost a son. It seemed almost impossible that they would find one another, but God had made it happen. She was sure of it. Despite everything she had lost, she now had her family.”
I hope the next book will follow shortly, and we won’t have to wait so long for the continuing saga of the R’Phael family. Luke has become so angry---is it conviction? He hasn’t always been a non-believer and yet even his own son, Xavier, believes in God and wants to learn more. OMG at the way this story ends---hanging with so many painful emotions!
“I am! I’m the problem! I can’t be who you need me to be. You should love a man who lives his faith like you do. Who loves the same God you do.”
“But I love you. He has brought us together, and He never makes a mistake.”
“Maybe He didn’t make the mistake. Maybe I did.”
I will be the first to admit that the Five series is much different than what we as the reader came to expect with the Bloom series. Ms. Jackson has stepped the game up with this series and the cast of characters that takes the reader on an emotional roller coaster of faith, acceptance, trust, and love. Just remember readers, these are about humans, imperfect people, and please keep reading because there is going to be a moral lesson, and I see rejoicing down the line in the next book or two.
The Five Series is an ongoing saga and will need to be read in the written order. I will admit I felt lost when I started Five Months; it has been three and a half years (May 2016) since reading Five Days. I had to go back and read the last several chapters in Five Days to refresh myself what had happened, that Tavora was in the hospital and Luke has rushed from filming a movie in Canada to America to be with her---that is where Five Months begins.
Two people, with two different backgrounds, one a born-again Christian, who strongly believes and trusts in God, and one who has had minimal church interaction only as a child, takes God as a myth and fantasy. Now, these two are married, and their lives have entered a new crisis—Tavora is pregnant and having health issues and Luke has rushed to be with her. The Bible says not to be unequally yoked, yet that is exactly the case; she has complete devoted faith in God and he considers it all a hype? How will their marriage survive when she cannot exist without God in her life and he cannot accept Him? Why does he keep telling her she needs another man—one who has a strong faith and believes in God as she does?
“Because my heart and mind love you. I would give my life for you. You are everything I want in a husband. I. Love. You.”
“Don’t be afraid. I will always be there to catch you.” “I don’t understand your religious devotion.”
“I think you fear the control He has over my life because that is more control than you think you have over me.”
The plot kept me captivated as the story continues to unfold, with the passion and emotions these two have for each other—they can’t seem to keep their hands off each other either. Tavora’s faith in God is just as strong as it was before, and in some ways, it upsets Luke, because he can’t accept a God who would allow death and pain. There is even a sense of jealousy that Luke has with other Christians that are part of Tavvy’s life, her church family, and including her OB-GYN doctor, who takes the time to pray with her.
Tavora’s acceptance of Xavier, Luke’s son, with his late wife, Mara, is so moving. She embraces him as a mother and gives him a peace. Now if her body will hold out for the lives she is carrying. The dialog is raw, open, honest and heartwarming at times and painful at others. There are mildly explicit spoken scenes of intimacy between a husband and wife.
“Her life was whole now. She had a husband she loved with her whole heart and a son that had lost a mother, as she had lost a son. It seemed almost impossible that they would find one another, but God had made it happen. She was sure of it. Despite everything she had lost, she now had her family.”
I hope the next book will follow shortly, and we won’t have to wait so long for the continuing saga of the R’Phael family. Luke has become so angry---is it conviction? He hasn’t always been a non-believer and yet even his own son, Xavier, believes in God and wants to learn more. OMG at the way this story ends---hanging with so many painful emotions!
“I am! I’m the problem! I can’t be who you need me to be. You should love a man who lives his faith like you do. Who loves the same God you do.”
“But I love you. He has brought us together, and He never makes a mistake.”
“Maybe He didn’t make the mistake. Maybe I did.”
January 4, 2020
MY WORLD IS A BETTER PLACE BECAUSE YOU ARE IN IT
I will be the first to admit that the Five series is much different than what we as the reader came to expect with the Bloom series. Ms. Jackson has stepped the game up with this series and the cast of characters that takes the reader on an emotional roller coaster of faith, acceptance, trust, and love. Just remember readers, these are about humans, imperfect people, and please keep reading because there is going to be a moral lesson, and I see rejoicing down the line in the next book or two.
The Five Series is an ongoing saga and will need to be read in the written order. I will admit I felt lost when I started Five Months; it has been three and a half years (May 2016) since reading Five Days. I had to go back and read the last several chapters in Five Days to refresh myself what had happened, that Tavora was in the hospital and Luke has rushed from filming a movie in Canada to America to be with her---that is where Five Months begins.
Two people, with two different backgrounds, one a born-again Christian, who strongly believes and trusts in God, and one who has had minimal church interaction only as a child, takes God as a myth and fantasy. Now, these two are married, and their lives have entered a new crisis—Tavora is pregnant and having health issues and Luke has rushed to be with her. The Bible says not to be unequally yoked, yet that is exactly the case; she has complete devoted faith in God and he considers it all a hype? How will their marriage survive when she cannot exist without God in her life and he cannot accept Him? Why does he keep telling her she needs another man—one who has a strong faith and believes in God as she does?
“Because my heart and mind love you. I would give my life for you. You are everything I want in a husband. I. Love. You.”
“Don’t be afraid. I will always be there to catch you.” “I don’t understand your religious devotion.”
“I think you fear the control He has over my life because that is more control than you think you have over me.”
The plot kept me captivated as the story continues to unfold, with the passion and emotions these two have for each other—they can’t seem to keep their hands off each other either. Tavora’s faith in God is just as strong as it was before, and in some ways, it upsets Luke, because he can’t accept a God who would allow death and pain. There is even a sense of jealousy that Luke has with other Christians that are part of Tavvy’s life, her church family, and including her OB-GYN doctor, who takes the time to pray with her.
Tavora’s acceptance of Xavier, Luke’s son, with his late wife, Mara, is so moving. She embraces him as a mother and gives him a peace. Now if her body will hold out for the lives she is carrying. The dialog is raw, open, honest and heartwarming at times and painful at others. There are mildly explicit spoken scenes of intimacy between a husband and wife.
“Her life was whole now. She had a husband she loved with her whole heart and a son that had lost a mother, as she had lost a son. It seemed almost impossible that they would find one another, but God had made it happen. She was sure of it. Despite everything she had lost, she now had her family.”
I hope the next book will follow shortly, and we won’t have to wait so long for the continuing saga of the R’Phael family. Luke has become so angry---is it conviction? He hasn’t always been a non-believer and yet even his own son, Xavier, believes in God and wants to learn more. OMG at the way this story ends---hanging with so many painful emotions!
“I am! I’m the problem! I can’t be who you need me to be. You should love a man who lives his faith like you do. Who loves the same God you do.”
“But I love you. He has brought us together, and He never makes a mistake.”
“Maybe He didn’t make the mistake. Maybe I did.”
I will be the first to admit that the Five series is much different than what we as the reader came to expect with the Bloom series. Ms. Jackson has stepped the game up with this series and the cast of characters that takes the reader on an emotional roller coaster of faith, acceptance, trust, and love. Just remember readers, these are about humans, imperfect people, and please keep reading because there is going to be a moral lesson, and I see rejoicing down the line in the next book or two.
The Five Series is an ongoing saga and will need to be read in the written order. I will admit I felt lost when I started Five Months; it has been three and a half years (May 2016) since reading Five Days. I had to go back and read the last several chapters in Five Days to refresh myself what had happened, that Tavora was in the hospital and Luke has rushed from filming a movie in Canada to America to be with her---that is where Five Months begins.
Two people, with two different backgrounds, one a born-again Christian, who strongly believes and trusts in God, and one who has had minimal church interaction only as a child, takes God as a myth and fantasy. Now, these two are married, and their lives have entered a new crisis—Tavora is pregnant and having health issues and Luke has rushed to be with her. The Bible says not to be unequally yoked, yet that is exactly the case; she has complete devoted faith in God and he considers it all a hype? How will their marriage survive when she cannot exist without God in her life and he cannot accept Him? Why does he keep telling her she needs another man—one who has a strong faith and believes in God as she does?
“Because my heart and mind love you. I would give my life for you. You are everything I want in a husband. I. Love. You.”
“Don’t be afraid. I will always be there to catch you.” “I don’t understand your religious devotion.”
“I think you fear the control He has over my life because that is more control than you think you have over me.”
The plot kept me captivated as the story continues to unfold, with the passion and emotions these two have for each other—they can’t seem to keep their hands off each other either. Tavora’s faith in God is just as strong as it was before, and in some ways, it upsets Luke, because he can’t accept a God who would allow death and pain. There is even a sense of jealousy that Luke has with other Christians that are part of Tavvy’s life, her church family, and including her OB-GYN doctor, who takes the time to pray with her.
Tavora’s acceptance of Xavier, Luke’s son, with his late wife, Mara, is so moving. She embraces him as a mother and gives him a peace. Now if her body will hold out for the lives she is carrying. The dialog is raw, open, honest and heartwarming at times and painful at others. There are mildly explicit spoken scenes of intimacy between a husband and wife.
“Her life was whole now. She had a husband she loved with her whole heart and a son that had lost a mother, as she had lost a son. It seemed almost impossible that they would find one another, but God had made it happen. She was sure of it. Despite everything she had lost, she now had her family.”
I hope the next book will follow shortly, and we won’t have to wait so long for the continuing saga of the R’Phael family. Luke has become so angry---is it conviction? He hasn’t always been a non-believer and yet even his own son, Xavier, believes in God and wants to learn more. OMG at the way this story ends---hanging with so many painful emotions!
“I am! I’m the problem! I can’t be who you need me to be. You should love a man who lives his faith like you do. Who loves the same God you do.”
“But I love you. He has brought us together, and He never makes a mistake.”
“Maybe He didn’t make the mistake. Maybe I did.”
December 28, 2019
Absolutely Amazing
Another great book by Cathy Jackson.. And again another cliffhanger. Can't wait to see what happens next for Like and Tavvy.
Another great book by Cathy Jackson.. And again another cliffhanger. Can't wait to see what happens next for Like and Tavvy.
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