Love and a Little White Lie

 

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After a heartbreak leaves her reeling, January Sanders is open to anything - including moving into a cabin on her aunt's wedding-venue property and accepting a temporary position at her aunt's church despite being a lifelong skeptic of faith.  Choosing to keep her doubts to herself, she's determined to give her all to supporting Grace Community's overworked staff while helping herself move on.

What she doesn't count on is meeting the church's handsome and charming guitarist.  It's a match set for disaster, and yet January has no ability to stay away, even if it means pretending to have faith in a God she doesn't believe in.

Only this time, keeping her secret isn't as easy as she thought it would be.  Especially when she's constantly running into her aunt's landscape architect, who seems to know everything about her past-and-present sins and makes no apologies about pushing her to deal with feelings she'd rather keep buried.

Torn between two worlds that can't coexist, can January find the healing that's eluded her, or will her resistance to the truth ruin any chance of happiness?

Review

This novel read like a really great chick flick - and I  mean that in the highest form of praise!  A great chick flick is one that you watch over and over even after you have learned all the lines.  And no matter how many times you watch the movie, you still laugh at the same hilarious scenes and cry ugly tears at the sad moments.  In reading Love and a Little White Lie, I laughed and giggled my way through the story as the witty dialogue kept me in stitches.  This isn't just a comedy of a story, however.  There were plenty of sigh-worthy, emotional moments as well.  I love seeing the characters grow and develop, thereby adding an even greater richness to the story.

If this were a movie, I would place it proudly on my "classics" shelf alongside "Pride and Prejudice", "Ever After", "Nicholas Nickleby", and "A Walk to Remember".  But as it is a novel, it is destined to become dog-eared one day as it takes its spot in my "to be read over and over again" bookcase.  It is just that good.

Book has been provided courtesy of Baker Publishing Group and Graf-Martin Communications, Inc.