Let There Be Light (Mail Order Bride Series #10) [Paperback]

Joanna Lacy (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 8, 2002

What better opportunity to put a bullet in Dan Tyler's heart than being his trusted wife? Murder is Jenny Linden's motive in answering the former prison guard's ad for a mail order bride. She's ready to avenge her father's death in a Confederate prison camp. Packing her purse with a revolver -- and a Bible, to convey a false identity -- she sets out to Winslow, Arizona, to marry him, kill him, sell his ranch, and return a rich woman. Can the light of love break into the darkness of Jenny's schemes?

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About the Author

Al Lacy

Al Lacy has written more than ninety novels, including the Angel of Mercy, Battles of Destiny, and Journeys of the Stranger series. He and his wife, JoAnna Lacy, are coauthors of the Mail Order Bride, Hannah of Fort Bridger, and Shadow of Liberty series. The Lacys make their home in the Colorado Rockies.

JoAnna Lacy

Al Lacy has written more than ninety novels, including the Angel of Mercy, Battles of Destiny, and Journeys of the Stranger series. He and his wife, JoAnna Lacy, are coauthors of the Mail Order Bride, Hannah of Fort Bridger, and Shadow of Liberty series. The Lacys make their home in the Colorado Rockies.

Product Details

• Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: Multnomah Books (October 8, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1590520424
• ISBN-13: 978-1590520420
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.3 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,362,215 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Al Lacy has written more than ninety novels, including the Angel of Mercy, Battles of Destiny, and Journeys of the Stranger series. He and his wife, JoAnna Lacy, are coauthors of the Mail Order Bride, Hannah of Fort Bridger, and Shadow of Liberty series. The Lacys make their home in the Colorado Rockies.

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars DOESN'T DELIVER, April 8, 2003

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"lovemush" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Let There Be Light (Mail Order Bride Series #10) (Paperback)

Let me start by saying that I love Christian fiction and am a voracious reader. However, this is only the second book I've read written by Al & Joanna Lacy. Since I do read so much, I have read my share of very good books (Dee Henderson, Lori Wick) and have read some not so good books. Unfortunately, this book falls in the latter category. My biggest disappointment with this book is that the two main characters don't meet until 11 pages before the end of the book. They don't even correspond until right before that. She doesn't even know he exists and vice versa until the very end of the book. Most of the book centers around Jenny and her mother. Her mother is manic depressive and Jenny is taking care of her while her father (the mother's husband) is away in the War. Jenny has a violent temper (which is never explained in the book and borders on psychotic) and centers all her hopes on her father's return. She also has an imagined love affair with a man named Nate who is also away in the War. There are several instances of her violent behavior including bludgeoning a man with an ax handle, battering a man and his wife on the street, ransacking their home, and battering a man in an alley. She then leaves her home to murder a man. Supposedly this 19-year old woman was brought up in a very loving home (albeit she is not saved). There is no explanation given as to why she has such a violent temper. There is a lot of crying for the first 3/4 of the book and then a lot of anger. By the end of the book, I didn't care what happened to Jenny and wanted to warn Dan to run quickly in the opposite direction. There is no surprise in the ending, however, and there is a VERY quick declaration of love. This book did not deliver a good story line, nor a believable one. The other book I read was Mail Order Book 9 "So Little Time" and it was good. Perhaps, the Lacys should have ended this series without a Book 10. I will try another book written by this duo, but I would definitely recommend avoiding this one.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not a very good book..., July 27, 2004

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J. Garinger - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Let There Be Light (Mail Order Bride Series #10) (Paperback)

When I first saw what this book was about, I was anxious to read it. After I got about 50 pages into the book, I started wondering when Dan and Jenny were going to meet and the real story of their relationship would get underway. I started to get bored, so I thumbed through the pages to see when Jenny and her mother would find out that their husband/father had been killed. Imagine my surprise to see that over 200 pages of the way into the book is when they find out he died. I was even more disappointed to see that Dan and Jenny don't meet until 11 pages from the end of the book!!! The writers needed to focus more on developing Dan and Jenny's relationship rather than Jenny and her mother. Once they met, the story ended way too quickly. I don't doubt that someone's heart can change that quickly, however, the story would have been a much better one if Jenny's heart transformation would have been a longer process. She and Dan should have met sooner so that the story would have been focused on them. I got bored of the story being so much about Jenny and her mother. It was basically the same thing every time they were mentioned. Her mother with the far off looks...Jenny working at the store...reading the newspaper...her mother panicing about her husband not coming back... There was so much of this and I started to loose interest. The story needed to mainly focus on Jenny and Dan.

5.0 out of 5 stars Let There Be Light (Mail Order Bride), March 17, 2006

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Etta B. Mccollum "book lover" (Greensboro, NC USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Let There Be Light (Mail Order Bride Series #10) (Paperback)

I enjoyed the book and received excellant service from Amazon.
Received the book sooner than I expected.