About the book: When Laney Carrigan's adoptive parents encourage her as an adult to seek out her birth family, her only clue is the Lokelani quilt in which she was found wrapped as an infant. Centering her search on the Big Island, she battles fears of rejection from a family that abandoned her once before while her faith struggles to embrace God's love.
Along
the path to her true heritage, she meets Hawaiian cowboy/helicopter
pilot, Kai Barnes. Kai is determined to protect the people he's come to
regard as family against a woman he suspects of being nothing more than a
gold-digger, but he finds himself drawn to Laney in spite of his
reservations. He's spent his entire life seeking forgiveness from past
mistakes and longs for a second chance at happiness.
Laney's
painstaking journey to find restoration and a place to belong among the
breathtaking allure of the Big Island will lead her closer to her past
and maybe even something more.
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Meet the author:
Lisa Carter has been published in MomSense and Christian Parenting Today.
Lisa is currently teaching music at a preschool and enjoying the
enthusiasm and joy for life for which preschoolers are famous. She and
David have two beautiful daughters.
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My Review:
I'll admit I had a hard time getting into this book. It took me awhile
to get interested. I stuck it out, and was not disappointed.
Lanny Carrigan, feels completely abandoned when she arrives in Hawaii to maybe meet her birth mother's family. Her adopted mother has died and her dad has remarried and now has a new wife and step-son.
She is greeted...or met at the airport by a rather cute, but not very nice Kai Barnes. He is worried she is a gold digger. You begin to wonder if she has made a big mistake coming here.
There are many twists and turns in this story, and the final chapters will really have you on the edge of your seat. We also deal with Alzheimers, which her Grandmother is suffering from. Now having dealt with dementia of a loved one, I know how she ended up in tears, when she was ordered out of the house. What a horrible disease.
We also experience the beauty of this lava built Island, and it made me want to get out of the cold of the North and go there. Guess the best I can recommend is cozy up with a blanket and grab this book...hang on you won't be dissatisfied.
I received this book through the Litfuse Publicity Book Tours, and was not required to give a positive review.
Lanny Carrigan, feels completely abandoned when she arrives in Hawaii to maybe meet her birth mother's family. Her adopted mother has died and her dad has remarried and now has a new wife and step-son.
She is greeted...or met at the airport by a rather cute, but not very nice Kai Barnes. He is worried she is a gold digger. You begin to wonder if she has made a big mistake coming here.
There are many twists and turns in this story, and the final chapters will really have you on the edge of your seat. We also deal with Alzheimers, which her Grandmother is suffering from. Now having dealt with dementia of a loved one, I know how she ended up in tears, when she was ordered out of the house. What a horrible disease.
We also experience the beauty of this lava built Island, and it made me want to get out of the cold of the North and go there. Guess the best I can recommend is cozy up with a blanket and grab this book...hang on you won't be dissatisfied.
I received this book through the Litfuse Publicity Book Tours, and was not required to give a positive review.
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I enjoyed your review! I'm on this tour also, and I thought this book was very interesting. =)
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