Resolutions: Remaking Meredith/Never Say Never/Beginnings/Letters to Timothy (Inspirational Romance Collection) [Paperback]

Carol Cox (Author), Yvonne Lehman (Author), Peggy Darty (Author), Pamela Kaye Tracy (Author)

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Publication Date: December 1, 1999

Introducing four brand-new novellas in modern settings that reflect on the anticipation of entering a new year--new calendar, new goals to accomplish, and a new chance at love. Rejoice in the transformation of a young woman in Remaking Meridith by Carol Cox. Throughout Beginnings, Peggy Darty will have you laughing and crying as two lonely adults are laid up in the hospital over the holiday season. Then, discover how setting goals brings together a church singles' class and sparks the flame of love in Never Say Never by Yvonne Lehman. Finally, in Letters to Timothy, see how author Pamela Kaye Tracy unites five needy people with one pen pal letter.

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Book Description

Introducing four brand-new novellas in modern settings that reflect on the anticipation of entering a new year -- new calendar, new goals to accomplish, and a new chance at love.

Product Details

• Paperback: 351 pages
• Publisher: Barbour Publishing, Incorporated (December 1, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1577486390
• ISBN-13: 978-1577486398
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.1 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,497,388 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars A light read, August 30, 2002

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Cecelia Dowdy (Greenbelt, MD United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Resolutions: Remaking Meredith/Never Say Never/Beginnings/Letters to Timothy (Inspirational Romance Collection) (Paperback)

These novellas are light and easy to read. It's a good book to curl up with when you don't want a complicated and adventurous story. The novellas are emotionally driven and the characters are well-developed. The stories are wholesome and there's an inspirational message woven within each story. I'd recommend this book to all who like a light Christian romance story.

3.0 out of 5 stars Fate Brought Them Together in a Strange Place., December 24, 2005

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Betty Burks "Betty Burks" (Knoxville, TN) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Resolutions: Remaking Meredith/Never Say Never/Beginnings/Letters to Timothy (Inspirational Romance Collection) (Paperback)

This book was issued under a different title, HEART'S PROMISE, with the yellow and purple crocuses coming up through the snow and ice. New Year's resolutions need not be punishments of some sort. A New Year's resolution should be one that will enrich your life, inspire your soul, and help live your ultimate dream. as this book will encourage the reader to do. When it comes to choosing a positive resolution, there's no need to limit yourself. Instead, indulge in your greatest fantasy like Erin in the story below. Keep in mind, however, that doing so is often harder than we realize. Finding time for ourselves is often harder than we think. Sometimes, these resolutions take discipline, but can ultimately bring you tremendous reward and change your life as experienced by the couple in Peggy Darty's holiday story.

In "Beginnings," we find Erin far from home during the Christmas holidays and feeling low. Finally fulfilling her dream of attending law school at New York University, she was looking forward to the excitement of New Year's Eve in the big city. Fate stepped in when her little black Honda was hit broadside on the driver's side, and she was in the University hospital with fractured ribs and a large bruise on her left cheek.

She hadn't been in the city long and didn't have friends, but she found a compatible legal investigator with a broken ankle from a skiing accident in Vermont just across the hall from her room. Everything about him fascinated her. Hearing the Christmas carols on the radio made her feel sad. Her New Year's Resolution, she decided, was to try to have more patience.

After learning that they had mutual interests and a growing attraction, they each leave the hospital on New Year's Eve, to apartments not so far from each other near Washington Square. She gets chauffeured to his for a shrimp dinner; the park looked different with the carolers and Santas gone, and the bellringers at the Salvation Army booth had wrapped up for another year.

As they became better acquainted, he learns that she had graduated from the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, applied to law school and received a scholarship. He had a degree in criminal justice after police academy. On New Year's Day, she told her dad on the phone, "I've met someone here ... a police investigator who is just like you ... totally devoted to his job." His resolution was to make a change in his life, he'd told her. "It is going to be the best year ever" for both of them, if everything worked out; and it looked as if they were on the right course.

Peggy Darty started writing articles of inspiration, but when she tried inspirational fiction, "she found it to be a way to share messages of hope and encouragement that she feels are desperately needed in these difficult times." Her newest book is WHEN THE SANDPIPER CALLS, and she has more compilations like this one, FIRESIDE CHRISTMAS and CHRISTMAS JOY, and others.