Happily Ever After (Deep Haven Series #1) [Paperback]

Susan May Warren (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 12, 2007

God has answered Mona Reynolds's prayers and given her the opportunity of a lifetime: she is about to open her own bookstore-coffee shop, the Footstep of Heaven. Now Mona has no time for love and no hope that a man can ever be the hero of her dreams. But when she hires mysterious drifter Joe Michaels to be her handyman, she discovers that it isn't only in fairy tales that people live “happily ever after.”

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About the Author

Susan May Warren recently returned home to her native Minnesota after serving for eight years with her husband and four children as missionaries in Russia. She now writes full time from Minnesota's north woods.

Product Details

• Paperback: 384 pages
• Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. (April 12, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1414313837
• ISBN-13: 978-1414313832
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.5 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (82 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #336,404 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Growing up in Minneapolis and attending the U of MN, I learned to love city life, although I'm a woodsy girl at heart. Or maybe I'm an adventurer -- having lived and traveled all over the world, including Siberia Russia as a missionary for eight years. Probably that's why my characters can't sit still, and seem to get into one scrape after another -- they're too much like me! I love God, my family, my country, my church, and feel privileged every day to be able to write stories, that I hope inspire and entertain!

Customer Reviews

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127 of 133 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars "A Truly Touching Love Story", June 15, 2005

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chriscaglegirl83 "chriscaglegirl83" (Texas) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Happily Ever After (Deep Haven Series #1) (Paperback)

I just finished this book, and I have to say it is one of the best love stories I've read in some time. I love reading Christian romance stories, so when I found this new series by Susan May Warren, I was thrilled. The book is about Mona, a woman who has a dream of opening a bookstore/coffeeshop in an old Victorian house that is in need of many repairs. Enter Joe, a rugged, handsome, and charming handyman who can make Mona's dream a reality. The trouble is, Joe has secrets, secrets he has worked hard to keep Mona from finding out. Mona has a few secrets of her own, and as the story goes along both Mona and Joe struggle with those secrets, and the distance it puts between them. You'll cry with Joe as he learns about forgiveness, you'll cry with Mona has she's put through one trial after another, and finally, you'll laugh and rejoice with both as they finally find themselves in each other's arms!

27 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Made me smile, January 4, 2011

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This review is from: Happily Ever After (Deep Haven Series #1) (Kindle Edition)

At my core, I'm a romance novel fanatic. But, I'd never read a romance book with a heavily Christian take. It was interesting to note that stuff that crosses my mind was put in print. I honestly didn't even realize that there was this type of publishing in the main stream.

As for the story - it's totally cookie cutter. You can call this tale in the prologue/first chapter. I was put off by how weepy the female protagonist was from the mid point on to the end.

Overall, it was still worth my time.

26 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A really good book, May 24, 2004

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lor369 - See all my reviews

This review is from: Happily Ever After (Deep Haven Series #1) (Paperback)

This book is about a young woman, Mona, who tries to pursue a dream of building her own bookstore. Joe comes into the
picture as her handyman, to help get the store up and running.

There seems to be a little bit of everything in this book. We find that Joe has a brother with Down's syndrome. We seem him
deal with that, and with the fact that his father left him. We also find a little bit of mystery in this book, like who kept
trying to sabotage Mona's bookstore, and who was really Reese Clark.

The book was very well written and easy to read. The book didn't drag on and on about things. I enjoyed the discussions
between Joe and Ruth, who was the director of the group home where Gabe was staying. And the forgiveness theme, between Joe
and his father, was done well.

I guess I would have liked to see more of Mona's past expanded upon. The book mentioned that her mother moved to Arizona
after Mona's father's death. What was the relationship between Mona and her mother? I think that the parts about Mona's
guilt over her father's death could have been expanded upon a little more.

I really enjoyed this book. It was very easy to read.