"Mermaid Moon"

Colleen Coble

Mallory’s mother died fifteen years ago. But her father’s last words on the phone were unmistakable: “Find . . . mother.”
Shame and confusion have kept Mallory Davis from her home for the last fifteen years, but when her dad mysteriously dies on his mail boat route, she doesn’t have any choice but to go back to Mermaid Point.
Mallory believes her father was murdered and childhood sweetheart Kevin O’Connor, game warden in Downeast Maine, confirms her suspicions. But Kevin is wary of helping Mallory in her search. She broke his heart—and left—without a word, years ago.
When Mallory begins receiving threats on her own life—and her beloved teenage daughter, Haylie—their search intensifies. There’s a tangled web within the supposed murder, and it involves much more than what meets the eye.
As answers begin to fall into place, Mallory realizes her search is about more than finding her father’s killer—it is also about finding herself again . . . and possibly about healing what was broken so long ago with Kevin. She just has to stay alive long enough to put all the pieces together.

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"Mermaid Moon" is full of unexpected twists and turns.  A page turner that will keep you up reading at night. This book is filled with suspense and leave you guessing until the very end.  

This is book two in Colleen Coble's 'Sunset Cove' series.   While you won't be lost with the main part of the story, there are some characters from book one that carried over into this book.  Their story line isn't a big part of this book, but I read the first book and had already forgotten their story, so it was difficult to keep up with that part of the book.  I do recommend that you read book one first.

While I enjoyed this suspenseful story, there are some things that I'm still confused about. Mainly the criminal part.  Maybe it's just me.  It was late when I was reading the end.  Also, there seemed to be a lot of loose ends, but they could be concluded in book three.  

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"A Heart's Promise"

Colleen Coble

A rival threatens Emmie's budding romance with Isaac.

At Fort Laramie, soldier Isaac Liddle determines he will court and win Emmie Croftner's hand. Though courting seems improbable for a woman in her condition, Emmie begins to care deeply for Issac and chafes as Jessica Dubois sets her bonnet for him.

When Jessica learns of Emmie's secret pregnancy, she blackmails her. With the Sioux Wars raging outside the safety of Fort Laramie, Emmie knows she cannot lose Isaac. But will he reject her-and her child-if he learns the truth? 

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I have really enjoyed reading these books, but would enjoy them more if they were just compiled into one or two.  But going from one book to another and having to wait in between makes me lose track of what's been going on.  

The Journey of the Heart series are very interesting books that keep your attention.  Can't wait to find out what happens in the last one! 

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"A Heart's Betrayal"

Colleen Coble

Emmie Croftner was only married for three months when she loses her husband in an accident.  She wonders if matters can get any worse.  

Even though she is a widow, she still has their nice home.  Until one day she answers the door to find her husband's first wife and children.  A wife to whom he was still married.  Now, she no longer has a husband or a home because the home legally belongs to the first wife.

Emmie is displaced, powerless and ashamed, so she travels to Fort Laramie, Wyoming, to find her friend Sarah Montgomery and a new beginning.  But when she arrives there, she discovers she is expecting and her new start slips through her fingers.  

She meets Isaac Liddle, a handsome soldier with a kind heart.  But Emmie's afraid of what Isaac will say when he discovers her secret.  

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All of Colleen Coble's books are very well written and grab your attention.  But just when you get into the book, it ends.  This really leaves you hanging and anxious to read the next book. 

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"A Heart's Danger"

Colleen Coble

Sarah is trying to move on wither her life, since her ex-fiance is engaged to Jessica.  She is seeing Issac and knows he will be popping the question soon, but does she love him enough to say yes?

She overhears Jessica & Ben Croftner (her ex-fiance when she thought she was dead) plotting harm to someone, but who?

While out on a picnic outing with Jessica and her mother, Sarah is captured by Indians.  But are they really Indians?  

Will Rand find her in time and discover the truth behind Sarah's abduction?

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This book is very well written and keeps your attention from beginning to end.  My only complaint is the same as before, I wish the didn't chop the book up into mini ones.  

This book is full of suspense and keeps you guessing until the end.  Then you're still guessing until you read the next book!  I read this from cover to cover in one sitting because I was so engrossed in it.

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"The Inn at Ocean's Edge

Colleen Coble 

Claire's visit to a luxury hotel in Maine awakens repressed memories, threatening all she holds dear.

In 1989, Claire Dellamare disappeared from her own fourth birthday party at the Hotel Tourmaline on the island of Folly Shoals, Maine. She showed up a year later at the same hotel, with a note pinned to her dress but no explanation. Nobody knows where Claire spent that year---and until now, Claire didn't even know she had ever been missing.

But when Claire returns to the Hotel Tourmaline for a business meeting with her CEO father, disturbing memories begin to surface . . . despite her parents' best efforts to keep them forgotten.

Luke Rocco lost his mother under equally mysterious circumstances---at the same time Claire disappeared. After a chance encounter reveals the unlikely link between them, Claire and Luke set out together to uncover the truth about what happened that fateful year.

With flashbacks swimming just beneath her consciousness and a murderer threatening her safety, Claire's very life depends on unscrambling her past . . . even if her family refuses to acknowledge it. Someone-maybe everyone-is hiding something from Claire Dellamare, and it will cost her everything to drag the truth out into the light.

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Wow!  I don't know where to begin.  This book was non-stop, action-packed, and filled with unexpected twist and turns.  The story line was so creative and very well written.  Where most books usually get predictable at some point, this one did not.  I thoroughly enjoyed reading "The Inn At Ocean's Edge". 

The characters were very well developed and fit together like a puzzle.  I pretty much liked all of the characters except for the uncle and Kate's mother.  I don't think I've ever disliked a character so much before.  I have no idea how a she could be so callous.  Other than her making me angry and disgusted, the characters were great.  The way that Claire kept trusting God even though she was facing some terrifying obstacles was encouraging.  We all face obstacles in our lives, though I can say mine haven't been like Claire's, but we must continue to trust God.

Since this book takes place on an ocean, I was a bit apprehensive that I wouldn't enjoy it as much, because I'm not a water person.  It was quite the opposite.  Colleen Coble has some way of writing that made me enjoy the ocean and "feel" the ocean.  

Colleen Coble is the Alfred Hitchcock of Christian fiction suspense! 

 I'm anxiously awaiting the next book!  If you enjoy romantic suspense, then you must read this book! 

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"A Heart's Obsession

Colleen Coble

Sarah Montgomery's father passes away. 

 To be with the love of her life, Rand Campbell, she takes her younger brother Joel and goes west to Fort Laramie.  But she is in for a big surprise.  Rand is already engaged to the daughter of the post commander.  Sarah resolves to stay at Fort Laramie & win Rand back.  

 

Trouble arrives in the form of Ben Croftner, who is still determined to marry Sarah.  Does Rand's true feelings for Sarah resurface, especially with Ben around making trouble?  Or did he even love Sarah in the first place? 

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I really enjoy these books and can't wait to read the next one.  I just don't see the point in splitting them up into a mini-series. 

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"A Heart's Disguise"

Colleen Coble

The Civil War is over, but not everyone is coming home.  Sarah Montgomery's fiance didn't make it through the war.  Her ailing father is pushing her to marry and settle down before he leaves this world.  Her brother, Wade, is also pushing her to marry, but for different reasons.  He gains a big profit if Sarah marries Ben Croftner.

So reluctantly, Sarah agrees to marry Ben, but she doesn't really know Ben, who has kept a huge secret.  By lies, deceit and thievery, Ben has kept the fact that Rand Campbell is not dead like everyone thought.  

Then Rand, Sarah's former fiance, comes home to find Sarah engaged to someone else.  When Sarah finds out the truth she breaks off her engagement.  But Ben doesn't take rejection well.  So he kidnaps Sarah.  Rand rescues her and asks him to go to his new post as his wife. But can Sarah leave her dying father?  

Will Rand go to Wyoming by himself?  Is Ben satisfied with Sarah's decision or does he have some more devious planes up his sleeve?

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I enjoyed this book very much, except the fact that it ended too son.  I understand that this series was originally 2 books.  Now it's chopped up into 6 smaller books.  I don't see the purpose in that.  Just when I was really getting into it, the the book just stops.  I am looking forward to reading the other 5!  

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"Seagrass Pier"

Colleen Coble

In a secluded corner of Hope Beach, one woman must decipher a stranger’s memories . . . before they cost her everything.
Elin Summerall was one of the lucky ones. Not only did she get a heart transplant, but the donor was a perfect fit. A miraculously perfect fit.
But when Elin begins having violent flashbacks—and vivid dreams of being strangled—she realizes that she has been the recipient of more than just a new heart . . . Elin is remembering her donor’s murder.
Her strange affliction has attracted some unwanted attention: from the press, from the authorities . . . and from the killer himself. Now, living alone with her young daughter and aging mother, Elin is being stalked—by a man she’s only met in her nightmares.
The police are dubious of her story, but one off-duty FBI agent is eager to help her: Agent Marc Everton, the father of Elin’s daughter.
Of course, he doesn’t know about that. Yet.
Now, in a remote cottage on Hope Island, Elin and Marc must probe the secrets buried in her borrowed heart. And there’s no time to waste. One man is desperate to silence her—before she remembers too much.

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This book will capture your attention from page one!  Such a creative, out-of-the-box storyline.  Filled with heart-pounding suspense "Seagrass Pier" will keep you guessing till the very end.  Romantic suspense fans will love this book.

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