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Everything I Long for (Whispering Pine)

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Maggie takes in a runaway teenager girl who is looking for her real father (book two of Whispering Pines). What a shock to find out who he is! She also deals with her son's band, her mother's illness and her own uncertain feelings about her future with Jed.

This is a delightful series (like Mitford) where you care about all the people in this quaint town.

this is the most delightful series that i have ever read. it was so enjoyable that i let several of my friends and family share the series of books. we were constantly trading. the one thing that we all agreed on was that there needed to be a book 5. truly some of melody carlsons finest works.

Having relocated to the small town Whispering Pines a year or so before, journalist Maggie Carpenter and her son learn more about its characters as they take in a stray girl and try to find out more about her past and her father's identity. I didn't actually know this was a second in a series when I read it but that doesn't detract too much from the narrative, which can almost stand on its own. The intermingling of the different persons moves along a friendly pace--not too fast, not too slowly--with the rhythm of an early evening stroll through a favorite park. At least within this story, Maggie's Christian faith is only peripheral to the main plot so when she voices certain opinions rooted in it, they can appear rather jagged and sudden. But they still have some merit as she ruminates on her life and tries to discover everything she longs for.