'A Light In the Window' Will Bring Light to Your Heart.
Julie Lessman has done it again! Having
read the Daughters of Boston series, this long awaited prequel will delight and
warm the wintery heart. (Not to mention any other season your heart might be
in!) For those of us who fell in love with Ms. Lessman's writing with 'A
Passion Most Pure' , she holds true to her penchant for creating characters of
warmth, heart, and dare I say "guts" that drive the story. Marcy
Murphy and her best friend Julie (affectionately known as Jewels) are childhood
friends reunited due to the financial crisis of the Railroads during the mid
1890's. Julie's brother Sam and his best friend Patrick are roguish gents whose
flirtatious dallying with every girl they run into gives pause to enamored
Marcy and Julie. That is until Marcy and Julie volunteer to help with a
fundraiser to support St. Mary's Parrish soup kitchen. Thrown together to work
on a play entitled "The Light In the Window", Marcy soon finds
herself the object of affection of not one, but both of our handsome Irish
rogues. But our boys don't exactly fit her idea of a Godly man and having both
out to win her sends poor Marcy into a tailspin of emotions. Our gents do
figure out a way to make sure their friendship stays intact and who will win
the right to pursue our heroine. (Not saying anymore on that one! You'll have
to read it to find out!). You'll laugh, you may even cry, but one things for
sure, you'll not only fall in love with the characters, but 'see' how God's
redemptive love works. I must say, Julie Lessman does have a unique knack for
taking her characters from crisscrossed relationships, messed up lives and
attitudes not to mention broken hearts, introduce a strong faith and God into
the mix, and then masterfully have everything workout. By the time you get to
the end of the book, you realize, "Wow! Only God could have done something
like that!" And so He does.
This is a good book of Julie's to start
with for those of whom this is your first Lessman book. Trust me, you'll be
hooked!
Enjoy this wonderful Christmas read! You can get a copy here:
