Loving Promises (Loving Series #5) (Love Inspired #291) [Mass Market Paperback]

Gail Gaymer Martin (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1, 2005

Heartfelt Vows
Widow Bev Miller promised to keep her chin up and trust in God after her husband's untimely death. She had her boisterous children to nurture through this transitional time. When she encountered handsome businessman Dale Levin, she began to wonder about the possibilities. Could love strike her a second time?

While caring for his aging parents, Dale witnessed a true marriage and didn't feel such a powerful force could ever exist for him. Love was an old-fashioned romantic notion that faded over time. But then Bev and her kids crept into his routine. . .and into his heart. Would God prove his long-held beliefs wrong and grant him the happy ending he craved?

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Steeple Hill (March 1, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0373873018
• ISBN-13: 978-0373873012
• Product Dimensions: 6.5 x 4.1 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,682,982 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Award-winning author, Gail Gaymer Martin writes romantic suspense, romance and women's fiction for Steeple Hill and Barbour Publishing and has over 3 million books in print. Her books have received numerous national awards including: Romantic Times Reviewers Choice for Best Love Inspired 2002 and the American Christian Romance Writers Carol for her romantic suspense, A Love for Safekeeping. Her books have also won two Holt Medallions, two Booksellers Best, National Readers Choice Award,and the Winter Rose Award. Gail's novel The Christmas Kite, a Holt Medallion finalist, was optioned by Greystoke Entertainment for a Hallmark television movie. She was awarded 2009 Heartsong Presents Author of the Year. Gail is a cofounder of American Christian Fictoin Writers and is a popular keynote speaker. She grew up in a Detroit suburb and continues to live in Oakland County. She has a Bachelor and Masters degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Before writing, she was a high school guidance counselor and previously a high school English and public speaking teacher. She also worked as an adjunct instructor of English and public speaking at Davenport University. Gail's web site has been visited by many new writers where she provides numerous articles, workshop logs, and frequently asked questions about writing and getting published. Visit her web site at www.gailmartin.com You can also visit her blog at www.gailmartin.blogspot.com and her WritingFictionRight blog at www.writingright-martin.blogspot.com

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5.0 out of 5 stars Another Romance from Loving, Michigan, September 25, 2005

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Peggy Blann Phifer "Peg" (Las Vegas, NV USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Loving Promises (Loving Series #5) (Love Inspired #291) (Mass Market Paperback)

Meet Bev Miller, struggling to raise two young kids after the motorcycle death of her husband three years ago. We find her finishing up a grocery shopping trip when seven-year-old Michael, asked to push the empty cart to the return form-what boy can resist doing a wheelie with a shopping cart?-suddenly crashes into the rear bumper of a moving car.

Enter Dale Levin: single, never married, thirty-something - driver of that car - and boy, do the sparks fly! Not from the crash - no harm done. Not for the potential injury to the boy - he's fine. But it seems Dale doesn't like kids. And when he accuses Bev of not having control over her children, well, of course we have the ingredients of a first-class, um, potential romance.

Dale was afraid to love - afraid of commitment. All his life he had witnessed the perfect marriage of his parents - true soul-mates. Yet this perfect marriage is threatened when his mother is stricken with a debilitating disease and he sees her life ebbing away. Dale doesn't believe that kind of love will ever happen to him, and he's not sure he wanted it anyway. Love brings pain. So, he determined he will never be a husband much less a father. Kids make him -- uncomfortable.

Bev, too, is afraid to love again. Her life is moving along quite well, thank you very much. She is doing just fine raising Michael and four-year-old Kristin alone. She doesn't need anyone else interfering with things and messing up her life. It is clear that Dale has no interest in kids, but he can't seem to keep from disciplining them, and this makes Bev hot. He has no right to butt in.

Yet she and Dale are thrown together through a series of coincidences, when Bev's mother comes to live with her. It turns out that Bev's mother and Dale's father are old buddies - friends from years ago. Bev's mom is a nurse. Dale wants someone to come in and help take care of his mom to give some relief to his dad.

Bev and Dale travel a rocky road to romance in LOVING PROMISES. The differences between them create a chasm that only widens with each day. Both are afraid of love and commitment. The author has managed to throw obstacle after obstacle in their path and the reader is left to wonder if this romance was ever meant to be. Each must grow in their faith and trust in God, letting go of the control they keep snatching back from His hands.

LOVING PROMISES is the fifth book Gail Gaymer Martin has set in her lovely fictional town of Loving, Michigan. Each book stands alone, yet you will meet those that shone in the previous books - briefly - or not. But you don't have to have read any of the others to thoroughly enjoy any of them. If you like contemporary Inspirational Romance, you love LOVING.

Peggy Phifer ©2005