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Twice Blessed (Steeple Hill Women's Fiction #10)

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For my first Gillenwater novel, I am blown away. I have already re-read it more that twice! The sweet and cute love story Gillenwater brings to me is adorable. Nothing like seeing two people who are God-fearing and in love.

Ty McKinnon is the town mayor. When along comes Camille Dupree to deal cards at the local saloon. Realizing that the women of the town would look down on her, Ty persuades her not to become a card dealer. She transforms into a respectable businesswoman. Until her past comes back to find her. You can't change your history. They are falling in love until Camille's ex-boyfriend comes back with claims of adultery. Ty disappears and leaves Camille to face the music alone. When he realizes that he loved Camille Dupree, not the old sinful one.

Best love story I've read in months! Keep on Writing, Ms. Gillenwater, Keep On Writing!

Camille Dupree is a cardsharp. She's known at poker tables as the Angel, but she leaves her card-playing days behind her when she moves to Willow Grove, Texas, and meets Tyler McKinnon, the town's mayor. She soon finds a decent job that doesn't involve setting foot inside a saloon and joins the local church. The overall theme of the book is forgiveness: we know God can forgive Camille's sinful past, but can Tyler? Can the town accept her with her flaws? It's funny reading how scandalized the town became after it's revealed that Camille lived with her boyfriend without benefit of marriage (back then, it was considered living in sin), compared to today when marriage is seen as nothing more than a piece of paper.