Searching for Stardust [Kindle Edition]

Lorena McCourtney (Author)

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Product Description

Jan Hilliard is on an isolated forest trail in the middle of nowhere for one reason only, to learn the truth about her son's death. Suicide, accident - or murder? The last person she expects - or wants - to encounter is the ex-husband whose fierce ambition and betrayal destroyed their marriage.

Jan wants nothing to do with Mark. Even as she realizes he's still interested in her, and, worse, realizes she still feels an unwanted tug of attraction for him, she's skeptical of his new Christian faith. Skeptical about God as well. But she realizes she needs his help and expertise to learn the truth about their son and reluctantly joins forces with him.

Their search takes a new twist when a name leaps out of their son's journal. Stardust! Stardust, of the lupine-blue eyes, mysterious as the journal itself. Who is she? Where is she? What does she know about their son's death? And can she be carrying Jan's only hope for a grandchild?

Yet when Stardust does burst into their lives, she brings fear as well as hope, and as many questions as answers. Questions about faith and love, the past and the future - and the realization that Stardust has a dangerous constrol over Jan and Mark's future.

About the Author

Lorena McCourtney is the author of twenty-eight romance novels, including the Palisades releases Betrayed, Escape, Dear Silver, Forgotten, and Canyon. Lorena and her husband, Jim, live in southern Oregon and enjoy spending time on the Oregon coast and Baja peninsula of Mexico. They have a son, Bill, and a granddaughter, Sabrina.

Product Details

• Format: Kindle Edition
• File Size: 1385 KB
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
• Language: English
• ASIN: B004OA6FF6
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• Lending: Enabled
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #26,961 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

More About the Author

Lorena McCourtney is a long-time resident of Southern Oregon and enjoys using Oregon settings in her books. She wrote numerous short stories for children before moving on to romances and now to mysteries, often with a bit of humor. She won the American Christian Fiction Writer's Mystery "Book of the Year" and twice won the Daphne Du Maurier Award of Excellence.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A wonderful balance of intrigue, romance, hope and faith, September 9, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Searching for Stardust (Palisades Pure Romance) (Paperback)

Lorena McCourtney just gets better and better! This latest romance had it all. I read the last 50 or so pages very slowly because I didn't want the book to end. The main characters, Jan and Mark, were so real to me that I seemed to meld into the pages as I turned them. The clues left in their dead son's journal send them on a search for a girl named Stardust that is possibly pregnant with their only chance at having a Grandchild. The search, the personal enlightenment, the finding of lost love and faith took me on a wonderful journey that I will remember for a long long time. Please...READ THIS BOOK! You will LOVE IT!

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Heartwarming, May 16, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Searching for Stardust (Palisades Pure Romance) (Paperback)

A heartwarming romance, tenderly told, SEARCHING FOR STARDUST is a story of hope in the midst of heartache and disappointment. Ms. McCourtney has given readers another novel to treasure.

--Robin Lee Hatcher, author of THE FORGIVING HOUR and WHISPERS FROM YESTERDAY

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Would make excellent movie material, February 20, 2011

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This review is from: Searching for Stardust (Palisades Pure Romance) (Paperback)

This was a very quick read and realistically covered a lot of today's issues that people struggle with in their lives, such as suicide, abortion, materialism and unconditional love. Ms. McCourtney suceeds to engage her audience from start to finish. She especially enables male readers to see the complex issues of romance from a woman's perspective, without denigrating the male ego, but giving him a well deserved slap upside the head.

She also shows us how immature and selfish we can all be when we allow the quest for material things be our driving force and how low many people will go to acquire "things"...yet Ms. McCourtney does not point the finger or condemn those who fail in that part of life. In fact Searching For Stardust is full of life and would be an excellent story to be brought to the "big screen."