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Toni's vow
Anita's fortune
Mary's choice
Entertain your Southern sensibilities as you relax with four faith-filled romances from a small northeastern Alabama town. Will love be the remedy for yesterday's pain?
Toni's vow
Anita's fortune
Mary's choice
Entertain your Southern sensibilities as you relax with four faith-filled romances from a small northeastern Alabama town. Will love be the remedy for yesterday's pain?
480 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1999
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October 20, 2010
This book containing four novelas, which are all intertwined, is a Christian fiction about overcoming the hard times and seeing past oneself. Each novela becomes predictable, but the author kept me hooked, wanting to know more through various twists or unexpected turns. The book is an easy read and is full of inspirational nuggets.
November 4, 2009
This is a good book that shows that love can happen at any age from an elderly spinster finding love for the first time to a young woman with a troubled background learning that marriage is not necessarily a bad thing. The four stories in this book also have a Christian theme in them.
June 10, 2012
Nice christian book. A heart lifter
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February 7, 2013Love it!
January 26, 2020
What a refreshing book by Kay Cornelius and Barbour Publishing. For beautiful love stories that interact with each other in one book. This book has no foul language and inspirational messages of God's love and care. I thoroughly enjoyed it.
May 6, 2023
i loved this Christian fiction book. It's a series of four books in one where the next story includes characters met in the previous story. It's easy reading
about small town life.
about small town life.
July 22, 2024
Inspiring stories about faith and lives of people in a small town in Northern Alabama.
October 15, 2025
Wonderful Christian based book- very uplifting
January 10, 2016
The first one was cute. There was starting to be good character development and then suddenly the story ended. Yes that happens with books that are like three or four books in one but I've seen it done better.
2nd book
Tony and David have no chemistry. They are like two brick walls bumping into each other and then enter the children small annoying brick walls that have no character motivation and are just there to like make things more complicated. He doesn't even seem to love his kids. We are not given any glimpses into the characters like David has some business but he's hiding it or not knowing what it is personally I think that he's doing something illegal I hope he is. I like Toni a little better but we never get to see her in action. Their love seems unnatural it's just thrown in there. In three dimensional characters their love grows and develops. For the case of Toni and David was just them being told to love each other. I have no reason to believe that these two actually have developed feelings for each other. They have no no no chemistry. And then all of the sudden bam love and marriage. And then you have the whole thing that everybody is telling her that she needs to get married. That does sometimes that happens but not to that extreme. She just got back to town and gets force fed a husband. Also I get really bothered with the idea that the only way for a Christian woman to be happy and fulfilled is to have a husband. I don't like how Christianity is being used as a motivation and kind of like a deus ex machina, " take those kids to church and then suddenly they will behave better, that doesn't happen.
3rd Book
Pretty good. The story ended rather suddenly but I liked what I was reading up till then. They actually had character development (especially Anita). I would have liked to read a longer story about them.
4th Book
I'm 3 pages in and I want to hit something. First off she uses her weight as a reason why she doesn't have a man - I hated when weight and appearance future strongly in a character's personality. It drives me nuts. Also I hate all the busy bodies in this town. Ahhhhh I mean her students are telling her she needs to get a husband - it is none of their business and it's so rude. I am really not excited to see how she overcomes her weight and her calling to be single to find a herself a man. Also why does Mary keep on wearing the lime green pant suit? I did like Jason's character - he was sweet.
(hard copy).
2nd book
Tony and David have no chemistry. They are like two brick walls bumping into each other and then enter the children small annoying brick walls that have no character motivation and are just there to like make things more complicated. He doesn't even seem to love his kids. We are not given any glimpses into the characters like David has some business but he's hiding it or not knowing what it is personally I think that he's doing something illegal I hope he is. I like Toni a little better but we never get to see her in action. Their love seems unnatural it's just thrown in there. In three dimensional characters their love grows and develops. For the case of Toni and David was just them being told to love each other. I have no reason to believe that these two actually have developed feelings for each other. They have no no no chemistry. And then all of the sudden bam love and marriage. And then you have the whole thing that everybody is telling her that she needs to get married. That does sometimes that happens but not to that extreme. She just got back to town and gets force fed a husband. Also I get really bothered with the idea that the only way for a Christian woman to be happy and fulfilled is to have a husband. I don't like how Christianity is being used as a motivation and kind of like a deus ex machina, " take those kids to church and then suddenly they will behave better, that doesn't happen.
3rd Book
Pretty good. The story ended rather suddenly but I liked what I was reading up till then. They actually had character development (especially Anita). I would have liked to read a longer story about them.
4th Book
I'm 3 pages in and I want to hit something. First off she uses her weight as a reason why she doesn't have a man - I hated when weight and appearance future strongly in a character's personality. It drives me nuts. Also I hate all the busy bodies in this town. Ahhhhh I mean her students are telling her she needs to get a husband - it is none of their business and it's so rude. I am really not excited to see how she overcomes her weight and her calling to be single to find a herself a man. Also why does Mary keep on wearing the lime green pant suit? I did like Jason's character - he was sweet.
(hard copy).
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June 23, 2007This is good book, a little to get into at first but well worth the time.
The book is great reminder that everything happens for a reason!
The book is great reminder that everything happens for a reason!
October 3, 2009
Christian love stories. It was a little too slow moving for me, but easy reading.
April 7, 2010
such cute stories.
October 7, 2010
I liked the book it had a good story. a nice book
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October 11, 2007Cornelius, Kay PB
January 18, 2010
I like this series! I would not read this book again. Not one of the better ones in this series.
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