Swept Away #bookreview @Litfuse

About Quilts of Love: Quilts tell stories of love and loss, hope and faith, tradition and new beginnings. The Quilts of Love series focuses on the women who quilted all of these things into their family histories. A new book releases each month and features contemporary and historical romances as well as women’s fiction and the occasional light mystery. You will be drawn into the endearing characters of this series and be touched by their stories.

 

About the book:  Swept Away

Sara doesn’t think she wants love. But her grandmother has other plans.

Sara Jane Morgan is trying to balance teaching with caring for her ailing, stubborn grandmother. When school lets out for the summer, the plans are for Grandma to teach Sara Jane to quilt as they finish up the Appalachian Ballad quilt Grandma started as a teenager. But things don’t always go as planned.

Andrew Stevenson is hiding from his past—and his future. He works as a handyman to pay the bills, but his heart is as an artisan, designing homemade brooms. When Sara Jane’s grandmother hires him to renovate her home, sparks fly between Drew and his new employer’s granddaughter.

Still, it doesn’t take Sara Jane long to see Drew isn’t what he seems. Questions arise, and she starts researching him online. What she discovers could change her life—and her heart—forever.

 

Learn more about this book and the series at the Quilts of Love website.

 

Laura V. Hilton is an award-winning author and a professional book reviewer. A stay-at-home mom and home school teacher, Laura lives with her family in Horseshoe Bend, Arkansas. Cindy Loven is active in the church and writes from her home in Conway, Arkansas, where she lives with her husband and their son.

 

My thoughts:  I am in love!  Okay, first I love any book that brings something medical into it.  In this book we meet grandma.  Grandma is suffering from the early stages of Alzheimer’s or dementia.  Either way, life is about to get very interesting for Sara Jane.  Add to that grandma hiring a mountain man of a handy man who doesn’t fit into the nice controlled life that Sara Jane tries to keep.  I feel for Sara Jane.  I once wanted everything to be perfect and had my life all nice and laid out.  And then, life happened.  It was no longer nice and neat and orderly.  I have some OCD tendencies and my life was not lining up correctly.  Then I learned to let go and let God.  It might seem easy, but I’ll be the first to tell you it isn’t.  And now, as a homeschooling mom I’m again facing some of the things that Sara Jane is.  My life is chaotic.  We have no set schedule that runs like clockwork everyday.  But what we do have is happy children, healthy children, and children who are learning and growing.  I think Sara Jane learns by the end of the book that somethings are more important than a nice ordered life.  Sometimes, we don’t need to be in control of everything.