Good Breaks

by Zoe M. McCarthy

Life has dealt Jassie Kinnamon bad breaks. Her hardships have shaped the mammography tech into a woman who desires to fix other people’s situations. After her last tragedy, she left the ski community of Denver for Birch Gap, a small ski town in the Blue Ridge Mountains of western North Carolina. Jassie is fasting from romantic relationships and puts all her energy into her job, detecting breast cancer. Entrepreneur Connor Noble has had bad breaks of his own. He has also moved from Denver’s skiing scene to Birch Gap. For the love of a woman—a much older woman—Connor has brought a huge responsibility with him to Birch Gap. A new bad break introduces Jassie and Connor. The love of skiing and first-hand knowledge of ski resorts in the West seems to be the only things they share in common until Jassie offers to help Connor with his responsibility. He cautiously accepts her kindness. Too often for Jassie’s liking, they are thrown together at Connor’s chalet. Jassie tries to resist her growing feelings for Connor and deal with trust issues she prays about. Will Jassie break her fast for Connor, or will she try to fix his flaws?

210 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 9, 2019

About the author

A full-time writer and speaker, Zoe M. McCarthy, author of Gift of the Magpie and Calculated Risk, writes contemporary Christian romances involving tenderness and humor. Believing opposites distract, Zoe creates heroes and heroines who learn to embrace their differences. When she’s not writing, Zoe enjoys her five grandchildren, teaching Bible studies, leading workshops on writing, knitting and crocheting shawls for a prayer shawl ministry, gardening, and canoeing. She lives with her husband in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia.

Reviews

[Cherye Elliott · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interesting read

Jassie is a character that lacks warmth, friendliness or compassion. She is the person you can't stand. So negative. Sees the worse in men. Throughout the book how could Connor even like her. Throughout the book my opinion stayed the same. The other people were great. I can't say anything negative about the book because not liking someone is a emotion.

The author wrote a sentence that was just lovely.
I can close my eyes and see the curlicues.
Two mugs of hot chocolate sat on the table’s protective paper, sending up curlicues of steam.

[Deena Adams · Rating 4 out of 5]

Sweet romance set against the backdrop of a snow skiing accident that brings the hero and heroine together. This was my first read by this author and I would read her work again.

[Tracy Wainwright · Rating 4 out of 5]

Sweet story

It took me several pages to get into the story, but once I did, I found it enjoyable. The heroine is not quite as likable as most. Maybe if there was a little less telling about her background her reactions might have felt more reasonable and her less irritating at times. There were a handful of typos, including missing quotation marks in several places, and one section repeated twice (which oddly occurs in a good portion of ebooks). The ending came a little fast for me, but the overall story and themes were enough to have me willing to read this author again.