Tuesday, November 5, 2019

Review, Guest Post, and Giveaway: Aiming for Love by Mary Connealy


About the Book


Book: Aiming for Love
Author: Mary Connealy
Genre: Christian Historical Romance
Release Date: October 2, 2019

Josephine Nordegren is one of three sisters who grew up nearly wild in southwestern Colorado. She has the archery skills of Robin Hood and the curiosity of the Little Mermaid, fascinated by but locked away from the forbidden outside world–a world she’s been raised to believe killed her parents. When David Warden, a rancher, brings in a herd much too close to the girls’ secret home, her older sister is especially frightened, but Jo is too interested to stay away.


David’s parents follow soon on his heels, escaping bandits at their ranch. But his father is wounded and needs shelter. Josephine and her sisters have the only cabin on the mountain. Do they risk stepping into the world to help those in need? Or do they remain separated but safe in the peaks of Hope Mountain?

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My Thoughts:


Can we ever really be safe by shutting the outside world out? This is a story of three women who have been raised exactly like that by their grandparents on top of a mountain after their parents disapperance. Told with action and adventure and through the innocent eyes of Josephine (Jo) Nordegren, this fairy tale like story opens a whole new world to her and her sisters.

Looking for a place to call his own, David Warden heads up the mountain to stake his claim. Unfortunatley not all is well at his parents sprawling ranch and soons finds them joining him in the mountains under dire circumstances. Not only that but David’s older brother comes back from the big city to find out the danger he left there may pale in comparison to the danger he now finds his family in.

So the clash of the two families begins. David and Jo develop a liking for one another, and although Jo is quite headstrong and can take care of her own, she finds she likes the attentions and protection of this man. (Who obviously thinks he must protect her from danger.)

Touching a lot on fears and how they can lead to mental illness, this story of adventure holds some great truths in its pages. I look forward to Ilsa’s story and hope Ursula can be saved.

I was provided a copy of this novel from the publisher. I was not required to post a positive review and all views and opinions are my own.


About the Author


Mary Connealy writes “romantic comedies with cowboys” and is celebrated for her fun, zany, action-packed style. She has more than half a million books in print. She is the author of the popular series Wild at Heart, Kincaid Brides, Trouble in Texas, Lassoed in Texas, Sophie’s Daughters, and many other books. Mary lives on a ranch in eastern Nebraska with her very own romantic cowboy hero. Learn more at www.maryconnealy.com.

 

More from Mary


What it would do to someone to run wild from nearly their earliest memory?

What if three young girls had the basic skills to survive a rugged life but no adults to guide them?

Would they grow up to be a completely odd and untamed version of themselves, or the truest, in some ways most honest version?

I wanted to explore that idea: wild children, tough young women, afraid of the invading world, but lonely, too. So I created the plot for my Brides of Hope Mountain series by mixing the three little girls who’d grown up wild on the top of a mountain with some fairy tale ideas.

Book one, Aiming for Love, is Josephine Nordegren’s story. I had this vision of Ariel the mermaid seeing a man for the first time when strangers invade the high valley she lives in with only her two sisters. Curiosity is her besetting sin, or so she’s always been told. She has wilderness skills, mainly in the form of owning a bow and arrow and understanding wild animals, but for the first time, she is drawn to a man.

Jo needs to be tamed, or Dave, the man she can’t stop watching from in the woods, needs to learn the ways of the wild, because they’re out of place in each other’s worlds.


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Giveaway


To celebrate her tour, Mary is giving away a grand prize package of a $20 Amazon gift card, a copy of Aiming for Love, and a copy of Fairy Tales from Around the World!!
Be sure to comment on the blog stops for nine extra entries into the giveaway! Click the link below to enter.

5 comments:

  1. Thanks for the review! Really sounds like a good book! Thanks for the chance to win!
    faithdcreech at gmail dot com

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  2. This sounds like an intriguing read. I love the cover!

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  3. Thank you all for stopping by. This was a unique read. I adored the fairy tale like elements in the story.

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  4. This sounds like a really good read. Very pretty cover!

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