Lark has come home to Bellamy, Virginia, to launch a successful magazine. When she runs into her old high school sweetheart, Rich Desmond, she sees that he's still as handsome as ever. As Lark works on her magazine and tries to improve her relationship with her sisters, the other two Bellamy's Blossoms, can she solve the mystery of Rich's “other” identity and find true love?
Ginny Aiken, a former newspaper reporter, lives in Pennsylvania with her husband and their three younger sons--the oldest is married, has flown the coop, and made her a doting grandmother. Born in Havana, Cuba, and raised in Valencia and Caracas Venezuela, Ginny discovered books at an early age. She wrote her first novel at age fifteen while she trained with the Ballets de Caracas, later to be known as the Venezuelan National Ballet. She burned that tome when she turned a "mature" sixteen. An ecletic list of jobs--including stints as reporter, paralegal, choreographer, language teacher, retail salesperson, wife, mother of four boys, and herder of their numerous and assorted friends, including the 135 members of first the Crossmen and then the Bluecoats Drum & Bugle Corps--brought her back to books in search of her sanity. She is now the author of twenty-seven published works, but she hasn't caught up with that elusive sanity yet.
This is an inspirational of the evangelical variety. It is the story of two successful people who were enamored with each other as children who have come back to their home town as adults. It is wrapped around a mystery of his mother and her friend in need of help and the whole town's desire to get them together. It has a small town feel with very quirky characters and mistaken perceptions. Sometimes it is almost silly to read.
Another Christian romance following the book Magnolia. I think this was even better for character development than Magnolia. Very good Christian teaching/psychology of the character's behaviors. The reader will probably solve the mystery before Lark and Richard, but it is interesting to see how they do it.