LOVE'S EMERGING FAITH by Sharon Hughson

Title:  LOVE'S EMERGING FAITH

Series:  First Street Church #20, Texas Homecoming #3

Author:  Sharon Hughson

Publisher:  Sweet Promise Press

Publish Date:   06.14.2019

Category /Genre:  Christian Romance

Recommended for:  14+ due to romantic content

Grammar/editing:  received as an unedited ARC / errors excused

Received from:  Sweet Promise Press

Goodreads link: Love’s Emerging Faith

Date completed: 06.12.2019

Description from the publisher:

Jazlyn Rolle feels the weight of the world on her shoulders after finding a runaway foster child in Sweet Grove, Texas.  She wasn’t looking forward to returning to Austin and her paralegal job, but too many children need her help.  Children who remind her of her boyfriend, Bailey Travers.

Bailey Travers spent his childhood being a victim of his abusive father.  When he learns the man is out on parole, and after his sister at their ranch, he steps in to protect her from the nightmares of their past.  As he and Jaz reach out for help, will they realize it has been with them from the start?

If you enjoy stories of couples who overcome the odds, then you’ll love the final leg of Jaz and Bailey’s path to happily ever after.

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LOVE'S EMERGING FAITH is the twentieth release in the multi-author First Street Church series.  Each story will stand on its own and they can be read in any order, but you will definitely want to read this one after reading LOVE’S LINGERING DOUBTS (#9) and  LOVE’S RETURNING HOPE (#15).  I wish I had known that.

Overcoming obstacles is easier when love is the driving force.  I could end my review with that one line.  I know it sums it up, but I don’t think it conveys they meaning to you who has come to get an idea of whether you want to pick it up.

I did not read the first two books in this series.  I wish I had, just because I want to know more about these two amazing people and the friends, family, and neighbors who support and love them. 

Though this story isn’t about them coming together, it is about them working together to create something greater than themselves that will benefit their community.  It is also about their Happily Ever After that those who have read the first two books have been waiting to see happen.  This story is a smile-fest.  That doesn’t mean that there aren’t problems and difficulties, but they are quickly resolved with prayer and reliance on friends and each other.  I think that was one of my favorite things about this book; They were quick to turn to one another with an apology when needed, an idea, or a hug.

Note:  While I received this book as a gifted ARC, my opinions are my own and are given freely.

First Street Church Series:

1.      Love’s Light (Raine English)

2.      Love’s Witness (Ava Mallory)

3.      Love’s Champion (Nan O’Berry)

4.      Love’s Song (Penny Harmon)

5.      Love’s Choice (Liwen Y. Ho)

6.      Love’s Highway (Maddie Evans)

7.      Love’s Rules of the Road (Maddie Evans)

8.      Love’s Late Arrival (Sharon Hughson)

9.      Love’s Lingering Doubts (Sharon Hughson)

10.  Love’s Little Secrets (Sharon Hughson)

11.  Love’s Atonement (Victoria Barbour)

12.  Love’s Accord (Sarah Farabee)

13.  Love’s Odds (Elissa Strati)

14.  Love’s Courage (Jasmine Bryner)

15.  Love’s Returning Hope (Sharon Hughson)

16.  Love’s Lucky Star (Nan O’Berry)

17.  Love’s Healing Home (Claire Colby)

18.  Love’s Healing Heart (Claire Colby)

19.  Love’s Silver Lining (Becky Muth)

20.  Love’s Emerging Faith (Sharon Hughson)

Also from Sharon Hughson:

·         Finding Focus:  Through the Lens of God’s Word

·         Hearts of Valor

·         In the Beginning:  Dark Retellings of Biblical Tales

·         One Savory Summer

·         One Sultry Day

·         Reflections from a Pondering Heart

Texas Homecoming Series:

1.      Love’s Lingering Doubts

2.      Love’s Returning Hope

3.      Love’s Emerging Faith

Virtual Match Series:

1.      Reality Meets Its Match

2.      Reality Bites

3.      Reality Ever After

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