Vancouver: Gone Camping/At Arm's Length/On the Road Again/My Name is Mike

My Name Is Mike #1-4

by Gail Sattler

What is the best thing about living in a beautiful, modern city--being surrounded by buildings, people, and activity? Or just getting away from it all? Meet four women who hold different views of life in Canada's jeweled city.... Roberta, desperate for some solitude in which to reevaluate her life,has left downtown and Gone Camping. But as a novice in the great outdoors, she finds herself depending on the local park ranger's assistance - again and again. If she can't be alone, how will she find true peace? Molly works in Vancouver's business district. On her new boss's first day she accidentally breaks his arm - and soon is caught up in rumors of a "tawdry affair." Can she save her job by keeping romance At Arm's Length? Gwen's summer job - helping to drive her uncle's semi trucks - takes her away from the city, across the Canadian border, and On the Road Again. Reluctant to be paired with a handsome codriver, can Gwen maintain a friendly distance until they get the job done and return home? Patricia, helping at her father's Vancouver church, hears My Name Is Mike whenever she takes a recovering alcoholic to his mandated meetings. Can she give him guidance toward a better life without entangling her heart? Laugh and cry with these resourceful Canadian women and watch how faith and love uphold them on the drifting currents of life.

Genres: Christian Fiction, Christian Romance, Fiction, Canada, Contemporary

480 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 2003

About the author

Gail Sattler is the author of numerous novels, novellas, gift books, cookbooks and devotions. She is a longstanding member of East Ridge Community Fellowship, a Mennonite Brethren church. She lives and writes in Vancouver, B.C., Canada.

Gail is a wife, mother, writer, and musician, and the order of those things will depend on what day it is. She leads a busy life, with music affiliations in a jazz band and string orchestra, as well as writing, which is her passion. She wrote her first book back in middle school on a clackety old manual typewriter. Her writing has changed a lot since then. Now Gail writes romantic comedy, and most of the books she's written in the last few years are part of a series. Gail loves to continue a story, to make a new book with the story of a minor character from a previous story.

When Gail isn't writing, she loves to take pictures. Her primary targets, err, volunteers, are usually her family, pets, friends, and bandmates.

Reviews

[CorkyNSam92 · Rating 4 out of 5]

I like her books. Loved Gone camping. In My Name Is Mike he actually goes to see the characters from Gone Camping to apologize. I don't remember why at the moment. It also mentions how the characters from Gone Camping had twins, but I don't think it says if they are boys or girls.

[Lauri · Rating 3 out of 5]

Read awhile ago, and don't remember much either way. One thing I do remember was the story about driving a truck seemed to reflect very little of what I know about truck drivers.

[Sue · Rating 2 out of 5]

all 4 stories were about different people but basically same outcomes. I skimmed lots of it.

[Cherie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Sweet Christian romances

[Emmie · Rating 3 out of 5]

A collection of novels. I love this author.