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In His Arms (Coming to America #3)

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Mary Emeline Malone is looking for everyone else is seeking - love, family and a place to call home. When in Ireland she gave her heart and body to a man who said that he loved her and promised to send for her once he got settled in America with a job. They were to be married and live happily ever-after but the situation changed when Mary discovered that she was pregnant and couldn't wait to hear from him. She set off for America on her own to search for her to-be-husband only to discover once she arrived that he had already married another and had died in a miner's accident. Now Mary is left in New York to raise her baby boy on her own. But when an employer makes advances towards her with plans to make her his mistress, Mary does the only thing she knows to do and that is defend herself from him by hitting him on the head one afternoon when interrupted from cleaning in his study. Now she fears going to jail for murder and rushes to get her baby and head get out-of-town on the next train. While on the train, she meets up with a Madame who owns a saloon in Whistle Creek, Idaho but is dying of cancer. Trusting her instincts, Mary is offered a place to live and a job as bookkeeper at the saloon and Mary agrees. The first person Mary sees when she gets off the train is Sheriff Carson Barclay of Whistle Creek and Mary realizes that she is going to be running from the law the rest of her life. She has to avoid the sheriff or possibly be arrested for murder. Sheriff Carson Barclay has nothing for the saloon/whore house and "sees red" when he realizes that the beautiful woman with a son thats getting off the train is a new "girl" for the madame. But no matter how hard he tries to stay away- Carson is drawn to her only to lose his heart to a head strong woman with an Irish lilt and a past that is soon to catch up with her.

It was my first RLH book to read and is a good one though a little slow at times. The characters came to life for me and I really liked Mary and Carson but I also enjoyed the sub-characters as well. Yes, its a good story and one I would recommend it to read.

I couldn't disagree more with the reader who said she struggled to finish and finally gave up. When I finished this book I immediately went to amazon to order the other two books in the series. I wanted more of Hatcher. She gave me what I always look for in a novel. Good people who are human and struggle with the same types of sins that I do and evil people who either repent or pay the price.

I read only Christian novels and this is an excellent example. I look forward to more books by Robin Lee Hatcher. She's great.

I cannot review the actual book as I did not read it. I purchased the series (four books) for my grandma because she was looking for some historical Christian romance novels. She is happy with them, so I give it four stars. I may read them when she is done, so if I do, I will definately update this review.

I have really enjoyed this series as these three young women come to Amercia to seek husbands and a better way of life. In this book it features Mary Malone as she is expecting a baby and is on her way to meet the daddy of it as he told her he would send for her when he got to America from Irland but she had not heard anything so she made the trip on her own. When she reached America and went to find that her entended had married another as soon as he got to America and that he had been killed in a silver mine accident. After she had her little son she started to work in a rich man's house and as he was making a pass at her she hit him and left with the intent that he was dead.

She went and got her baby son and fled New York. She meet this woman on the train that had a terrible cough but she made friend with Blanch Loraine who was on her way back home to Whistle Creek, Idaho to die. She had been in New York trying to get well but was told she was dying. She talked Mary into going home with her but when she told Mary that she ran an house of ill repute and a saloon Mary was not sure, but she went as she had no other place to live and she got the job as tending to the books not as one "of the ladies of the night"

This book is filled with love, death and some mystery. A very good read and I want to thank Zondervan Publishing for sending me this book to review.

A continuation of the story of three immigrants who arrived to view the Statue of Liberty together and went their separate ways. This one, a colleen with the Irish brouge and lift in her words which was almost musical, the accent so appealing as were her physical looks. She proved to be a strong woman with many problems caused by loving the wrong man. She ended up at a "den of iniquity" quite by chance and found that late hours come with the territory.

We are born to look the way we'll look as we age. Mary was an orphan who followed her intended husband and her brother to America to start a new life. Instead, she found "bitterness in cold company." The quest for money can make people do strange things. Time, however, can do what words cannot. Dreams help, too.

The sheriff was a practical man, the sort who lived by the rules and hard facts and reality. The lady of his dreams had a secret and made sure that no one was privy to her "sin" of long ago. She was in his arms, where she belonged. A woman should have a special supper on the night she received a proposal of marriage and all it entails, roots plus obligations, family and a real home. Her guilt kept her unwed until she learned the truth the hard way and almost lost her life in the mine.

There was mutual animosity with the mine owner and she couldn't change the past but could her future. The "crime" she ran from didn't have the consequences she feared and ran from. The ending was worth some of the trivial day-to-day happenings. Waiting to be rescued from the silver mine, she started humming a melody; she couldn't remember the words or even the title, just the tune. Mark whistles; on the Greyhound, I also hummed to blot out an offensive cell phone conversation. "Get behind me Satan," to the enemy. Another miracle as happens in all of Robin Hatcher's and answer to a prayer.

As a reader of Christian Fiction I found this book to have immoral, sexual content. I had stop reading it.

IN HIS ARMS is a wonderful book.....as always, Ms. Hatcher delivers a great story and characters!