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Liza Jane Merriwether had been quite sure the Lord had called her to teach in Kentucky—until she bumped her way into the dusty street that called itself a town and actually saw her new home. The cabin promised her isn’t ready, the woman who hired her is cold and bossy, and all she hears for days are the stories about the way her future students terrorized the previous teachers. But God led her here, so surely He knows what He’s doing. Ben Broughton is at the end of his rope. He’s having enough difficulty with his farm and raising two girls on his own, he doesn’t know how he’s supposed to find the time to fix up his grandfather’s old cabin for the new schoolmarm. The new, pretty, and tempestuous schoolmarm. From their first meeting, they get under each other’s skin, but Ben doesn’t have time to worry about her. He has his problems enough on his own, and the only solution he can think of is that he find a wife—fast. And the mail-order bride ad he sees seems like the perfect solution. Loving Liza Jane, the first installment in MacLaren’s Little Hickman Creek Series, is a sweet and involving story of two people so determined to do God’s will that they sometimes forget to seek what it might be. The relationships are touching and deep, the characters are believable and inviting, and the town of Little Hickman feels like home. Liza gets herself into scrape after scrape—helped along by a few troublemaking hooligans—but she quickly endears herself to the whole town. Though outspoken, she usually knows when to step back. Especially since her self-appointed guardian angel, Ben, is always there to tug her out of harm’s way. He goes from prickly to tender with her as his feelings shift to and fro, but while he might question his own heart, he doesn’t long question her ability as a teacher or a friend to his six-year-old daughter. I really enjoyed getting to know the residents of this small Kentucky town, and I’m looking forward to reading the ongoing adventures of Liza and Ben’s friends. A few of the twists were predictable, but others took me by surprise and kept the story moving along at a comfortable clip. Loving Liza Jane is a great choice for any lover of romance or historicals. Publisher: Whitaker House
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