Title: Love At Any Cost (The Heart of San Francisco #1)
Author: Julie Lessman
Pages: 406
Year: 2013
Publisher: Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Note: I won a free copy of this book in a giveaway that
Julie Lessman held.
I was sucked into
this story from the very beginning.
Cassidy McClare
is broken-hearted after the man she was engaged to dumps her. She leaves home
to visit her cousins in San Francisco hoping that time and distance will help
her heart to heal.
Jamie McKenna has
worked hard his whole life to better his station in the world. His chief goal
is to give his mother and his crippled sister a safe and secure home and the
surgery that his sister needs.
At their first
meeting Jamie knocks Cassidy off her feet, quite literally, in the Oakland Pier
train station in San Francisco. Cassidy blows up and declares him a “pretty-boy
polecat.”
Their second
meeting is when Cassidy’s family has a dinner to welcome her to town. It is
just for family and a few very close friends. Jamie is one of the close friends
as Cassidy finds out at dinner.
They each feel an
attraction to the other within a very short time. This sets the stage for a
very delightful and comedic story as they try to sort out their feelings for
each other and people they have been in relationship with in the past.
The biggest
problem they face though is that Cassidy has a deep faith in God. Jamie on the
other hand feels that he has no need for God and that God has never done
anything for him, his mother, or his sister.
How do you handle
the word of God when it says that a believer is not to be unequally yoked with
an unbeliever? Especially when the man you love doesn’t share your belief?
Julie has crafted
an incredible story digging deeply into this problem. Her characters are marvelous
and well developed. The characters are all three dimensional and very different
from each other. There are a lot of incredible twists and turns that take place
in the story to help them navigate these treacherous waters.
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