A Shot at Love

Sound of Rain #1.5

by Sarah Loudin Thomas

In Sarah Loudin Thomas's A Shot at Love, Fleeta Brady's rough-and-tumble childhood means she prefers hunting to more feminine activities. She never expected her family's brooch might be how a fellow hunter turns her attention from competition to romance.

Genres: Christmas, Christian Fiction, Romance, Christian, Fiction, Novella

100 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 1, 2019

About the author

Sarah Loudin Thomas grew up on a 100-acre farm in French Creek, WV, the seventh generation to live there. Her historical fiction is often set in West Virginia and celebrates the people, the land, and the heritage of Appalachia.

Sarah holds a bachelor’s degree in English from Coastal Carolina University and is the author of the acclaimed novels The Right Kind of Fool–winner of the 2021 Selah Book of the Year–and Miracle in a Dry Season–winner of the 2015 Inspy Award. She has also been a finalist for the Christy Award, ACFW Carol Award, and the Christian Book of the Year Award.

Sarah’s career includes six years in the PR Department at Biltmore Estate in Asheville, NC, and she served as the inaugural director of Jan Karon’s Mitford Museum in Hudson, NC. She currently divides her time between ministry work serving foster and adoptive families and writing. She and her husband live in western North Carolina.

Reviews

[Sarah · Rating 5 out of 5]

Christy-award nominated! Not too shabby.

[Angela · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was so much fun! First of all, Fleeta (is that not the most delightful name) she is so strong, smart, adventurous, and eager to create her own life and make her own way in the world. I love her gifts and talents with guns and gun-smithing. What happens with the gun shop is crazy! I didn't see that coming! I loved how her family rallied around her and I love the romance that develops between her and Hank. I really enjoyed Sarah Loudin Thomas' writing style. This is the second novella I've read by her and am looking forward to finding and reading some full novels!

[Sherry · Rating 5 out of 5]

Loved this book.

[Barbara · Rating 5 out of 5]

The third in a series of novellas that center around a Scottish heirloom and those that possess it, the finding of love. Beautiful stories that warms the heart.

[Ian · Rating 4 out of 5]

Loudin Thomas writes so beautifully. This novella felt complete at the end without it being rushed as some novellas do. Fleeta Brady is a wonderful creation, an orphan who struggles with her own self-worth as a young woman. But she has remarkable talents in shooting a rifle and at carving designs into the wood of shotguns.

Hank Chapin is a southern timber merchant who unexpectedly meets Fleeta. He sees beyond the surface into her heart. Loudin Thomas crafts the growing affection between Fleeta and Hank beautifully.

This is a very enjoyable novella that once again displays Loudin Thomas' tremendous writing and storytelling prowess.

[Anke Nijdam · Rating 3 out of 5]

Een vermakelijke kerstnovelle. De hoofdpersoon was origineel, lekker stoere dame. Wat er gebeurde met de wapensmederij zag ik niet aankomen.
Verder was de schrijfstijl niet echt mijn smaak, soms wat langdradig en gedetailleerd.

[Dorel · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is the 1st book I read by
Sarah Loudin Thomas. This book's storyline was okay. The characters were okay. I liked the ending.

[Hannah Beth (Hannah's Book Cafe) · Rating 5 out of 5]

Can I get a whole novel please?😍

[Sarita · Rating 3 out of 5]

I started out really liking this story but by the end just wasn't that interested anymore and just wanted to get through it. The main lady was spunky and a very different type of female lead which I really liked. Hank was a dashing gentlemen.

It was cute, just liked the other two novella's a lot more.

I read this as part of the novella collection:

[Sue · Rating 4 out of 5]

Part of the Christmas Heirloom series.