Echoes (Glenbrooke, Book 3) [Paperback]

Robin Jones Gunn (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 15, 1999

In this dramatic contemporary romance by bestselling author Robin Jones Gunn, Lauren Phillips enters the wild, uncharted territory of the Internet on her home computer and "connects" with a man known only as "K.C." As she struggles to recover from a broken engagement, Lauren keeps busy by working full time and striving to finish her college degree. But her correspondence with K.C. quickly becomes the thing she loves most...and the source of dreams she cannot bear to relinquish. When the opportunity comes for them to meet after a year of corresponding, Lauren faces a tough choice: Is she willing to risk everything...including a broken heart? Readers will stay "on-line" to find out in this bestselling former Palisades release, now the third book in the new Glenbrooke series.

Will Lauren risk losing her heart...to a man she's never met?

Lauren Phillips tries to keep busy while recovering from a broken engagement. Then one day, through her home computer, Lauren accidentally connects on the Internet with a mysterious man she knows only as K.C.

Lauren's e-mail relationship with K.C. quickly becomes the thing she loves most in life..and the source of dreams she cannot bear to relinquish.

After a year of corresponding, the opportunity appears for them to meet. Lauren faces a tough choice: Is she willing to risk everything...including another broken heart?

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

After a painful breakup with her fiance, Lauren Phillips is searching soulfully for a love that will fill the void in her heart. When her brother buys her a computer, Lauren joins an online Christian E-mail group called God-lovers. Under the pen name Wren, she strikes up friendly cyber-correspondence with an online pen pal named KC. Very soon, Wren and KC's virtual friendship blossoms into a passionate cyberlove, filling Wren's heart with a hope and happiness she thought she had lost forever. But when KC and Wren leave the anonymity of their virtual love to meet face to face, will their relationship last? Gunn (Whispers, Palisades, 1995) weaves a lively romantic tale of hope and love in the world of virtual Christianity. For most libraries.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

About the Author

Robin Jones Gunn is the award-winning, bestselling author of more than 45 books, including 8 in The Glenbrooke series. She is also the author of the nonfiction work, Mothering by Heart. Robin and her husband, Ross, live in Portland, Oregon, with their teenage son and daughter.

Product Details

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Multnomah Publishers (June 15, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1576736482
• ISBN-13: 978-1576736487
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (25 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,569,162 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

You are warmly invited to visit Robin's website at www.robingunn.com. Be sure to sign up for the Robin's Nest Newsletter and have a browse in the Online Shop.

Over the past 25 years Robin has written 70 books with over 4 million copies sold.

She started writing for teens when the girls in her church youth group challenged her to write stories for them. It took 2 years and 10 rejections before the first Christy Miller novel was published in 1988. Since then the tales of these Forever Friends have continued. The Christy Miller series was followed by the Sierra Jensen series, Christy and Todd the College Years and the Katie Weldon series.

As Robin's readers grew older they asked for more stories about characters their age. The 8 book Glenbrooke series was launched followed by the Sisterchicks(R) series and a variety of standalone destination novels including "Under a Maui Moon" and "Canary Island Song".

Join Robin Jones Gunn on her facebook public figure page where she frequently posts updates on her latest travel or writing adventure.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars My favorite RJG book!, July 15, 2000

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M. Tidman (nowhere in particular) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Echoes (Glenbrooke, Book 3) (Paperback)

In Echoes, Robin Jones Gunn creates characters that really seem to live. After a painful breakup, Lauren meets another believer, known only as K.C., on-line. They begin an intense e-mail relationship, one that others are not likely to understand. How can she be in love with a man she has never even seen? To find out how it ends, you'll have to read it for yourself. After you do, I would recommend that you go back and read the first two books in the Glenbrooke series, which give background information about other characters. And, after you read this, you'll be glad to know that Lauren and K.C. appear in other books later in the series. Enjoy!

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Robin Jones Gunn does Christian Romance beautifully!, October 15, 1998

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[e-mail] (Indpls, IN) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Echoes (Glenbrooke, Book 3) (Paperback)

I really really enjoyed this book. I am now reading another of hers, Sunsets, which is good also. I will have to keep on reading more of her books as they have really entertained and uplifted me. I read on my break at work and sometimes I laugh out loud because of the funny things she says in her books and I'm sure my coworkers are wondering what I'm reading. lol Anyway, I'd recommend this book! It's interesting how she and the guy met on the internet and corresponded for a year and then eventually met. I really like the christian values in her books!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars another winner from Gunn!, February 18, 2001

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Beverly "bevreader" (Mississippi) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Echoes (Glenbrooke, Book 3) (Paperback)

Echoes explores on-line relationships. Lauren, fresh from a broken romance, "meets" KC on line, and they strike up a friendship in cyberspace. Both share a love for everything Victorian, including Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barret Browning, and English Breakfast tea. After a year of corresponding through the magic of the "Web," Lauren finally realizes that she loves KC. Circumstances allow her to finally meet him face to face, but she "chickens out" at the last minute and stands him up. Will Lauren ever meet her true love? And will he actually live up to all that she believes of him? What is God trying to tell Lauren to do with her life? This is a great Christian romance novel, and I recommend it highly.