Contemporary Collection #3: Dance in the Distance / A Real and Precious Thing / Free to Love / Love's Sweet Melody

by Kjersti Hoff Báez, Brenda Bancroft, Doris English

This contemporary collection will please readers with every turn of the page. The four adventures of love and faith include Clair's search for her birth mother in Dance in the Distance (by Kjersti Haft Baez); Loralie's mystery of missing coins in A Real and Precious Thing (by Brenda Bancroft); Stephanie's fear of losing her dream in Free to Love (by Doris English); and Roshelle's battle with illness and lame in Love's Sweet Melody (by Norma Jean Lutz).

400 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 1999

About the author

KJERSTI HOFF BAEZ is a native of New York. She is a wife and mother, who enjoys writing in her spare time. She writes romance and children's books.

Reviews

[Lauri · Rating 2 out of 5]

The middle two stories were pretty good. Interesting women and women meeting cute and falling in love, having a conflict, and living happily ever after. And of course never compromising their morals. I like the idea of people falling in love without doing things that I would not do. However, the stories can go horribly bad. The first and last stories fall in this category. I’m not sure of the point of the first story. I don’t think the heroine ever found out the details to her conception and why she was put up for adoption. The reader can figure it out – but there isn’t a climax. She simply has questions and goes home and the guy follows her. In the last story, the heroine has been greatly wronged by her mother and uncle and runs off to become a singer. The family reconciles but I never got the impression that anyone learned anything except that for Christians making nice with the family is the be all and end all to God’s will.
Check this one out of the library for the sake of the middle two, don’t buy it because you won’t want to reread the first and last stories.