Title: The Wedding Chapel
Author: Rachel Hauck
Pages: 384
Release Date: November 17, 2015
Genre: Historical (1948)/Contemporary Romance
Publisher: Zondervan
Format: eBook (also available in paperback)
Note: I received a free eBook copy of this novel through
NetGalley in exchange for my honest opinion.
About the book:
A lonely wedding
chapel built as a tribute to lost love just might hold the long-awaited secret
to hope and reconciliation.
For sixty years,
the wedding chapel has stood silent and empty. Retired football hall-of-famer
Jimmy “Coach” Westbrook built the chapel by hand, stone by stone, for his
beautiful and beloved Collette Greer, whom he lost so many years ago. The chapel
is a sanctuary for his memories, a monument to true love, and a testament to
his survival of the deepest pain and loss.
Photographer
Taylor Branson left her hometown of Heart’s Bend, Tennessee to make a new life
for herself in New York. Taylor had lots to run away from, not the least of all
a family history of broken promises and broken dreams. Love catches Taylor off
guard when she falls for Jack Forester, a successful advertising executive, and
their whirlwind romance leads to an elopement – and then to second guesses.
Jack, in spite of his very real love for Taylor, is battling his own demons and
struggles to show her his true self and the depths of his love for her.
When Taylor takes
a photography assignment in Heart’s Bend, she is thrown back into her own past
and encounters family secrets buried deep beneath the sands of time. And when
Taylor and Coach’s journeys collide, they each rediscover the heartbeat of
their own dreams as they learn that the love they long to hold is well worth
waiting for.
My review:
An intricately
woven historical/contemporary romance!
The cast of
characters in this wonderful novel are extremely well developed and presented.
There is an amazing variety of past hurts and hang-ups that define their personalities.
Early in the
story I struggled a little trying to keep the different people straight and
understand their relationships. As the tale unfolded and I learned more of the
layers, the pieces started to fit together. By the end of the book I truly
understood what a masterpiece of storytelling had been done by Rachel Hauck.
This novel is a
very moving tale of reconciliation, redemption, and forgiveness. At times it is
heart-wrenching. At other times it is sweet and heart-warming.
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