A Mother's Wish (The Caldwell Kin Series #2)

Caldwell Family #2

by Marta Perry

MATT CALDWELL WAS FINALLY COMING HOME . . .

After years of trotting around the world, running from his faith, detaching from love, stunning events had flung the handsome bachelor back to quaint Caldwell Cove. But widow Sarah Reed, publisher of the Cove's Gazette, couldn't imagine that Matt's sudden return would be anything but trouble for her and her young children.

A BLESSING OR A CURSE?

Then the unlikely business partners met, and her once-silent partner, Matt, was no longer silent. Sarah had never imagined that love strikes twice, but she was beginning to hope that the heavens were smiling down on her. And that the path to righting old wrongs would turn out to have hidden blessings.

Genres: Love Inspired, Christian Fiction, Christian, Christian Romance, Romance

256 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published September 1, 2002

About the author

Marta Perry is a Pennsylvania-based author of over 35 novels, many of them inspirational romances. She uses her rural Pennsylvania life and her Pennsylvania Dutch heritage in writing her books, especially in her Pleasant Valley Amish series for Berkley Books and her new Amish-set suspense series for HQN Books.

Marta and her husband live in a centuries-old farmhouse in a quiet central Pennsylvania valley. They have three grown children and six beautiful grandchildren, and when she's not busy writing her next book, she's usually trying to keep up with her gardening, baking for church events, or visiting those beautiful grandkids.

Reviews

[Cheryl · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good little romance book, made you want to know more about the family, so I will be looking for other books by this author when I'm out shopping. Who can resist cute kids with a widowed mother and a broken good boy from down south? I guess I can't. The author gives you not just a story about the love of men and women but of family and even the area in which these characters live. If you like romance with a moral twist this book is for you.

[Barbara · Rating 2 out of 5]

Journalist Matt Caldwell returns to his family's enclave at Caldwell Cove, seeking some well-earned R&R following a bombing in which a friend of his was killed before his eyes. He has part ownership of a local paper, currently being run by a single mother, Sarah Reed, and the two elect to be co-editors and co-publishers.

Their relationship goes from professional to personal rather quickly, and there are obvious repercussions. Matt learns about a family feud between his father and his uncle that he eventually becomes involved with, and Sarah learns that her late husband Peter (who sold part ownership of the paper to Matt) wasn't the saint she made him out to be. It's a fairly fluffy, sweet romance.

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[Pam · Rating 3 out of 5]

Nice, quick read. Christian romance. Caldwell series.

[Melissa · Rating 4 out of 5]

Better then I thought it would be

[Tammy Cable · Rating 4 out of 5]

I loved the characters and storyline but Sarah became a little to whiny in the last few chapters.