Loving Promises

by Gail Gaymer Martin

Book Overview

Loving Promises by Gail Gaymer Martin released on Feb 22, 2005 is available now for purchase. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0373873018
• ISBN13: 9780373873012
• Release Date: February 2005
• Publisher: Love Inspired
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 4.2" x 6.6"

Customer Reviews

Another Romance from Loving, Michigan

Meet Bev Miller, struggling to raise two young kids after the motorcycle death of her husband three years ago. We find her finishing up a grocery shopping trip when seven-year-old Michael, asked to push the empty cart to the return form-what boy can resist doing a wheelie with a shopping cart?-suddenly crashes into the rear bumper of a moving car. Enter Dale Levin: single, never married, thirty-something - driver of that car - and boy, do the sparks fly! Not from the crash - no harm done. Not for the potential injury to the boy - he's fine. But it seems Dale doesn't like kids. And when he accuses Bev of not having control over her children, well, of course we have the ingredients of a first-class, um, potential romance. Dale was afraid to love - afraid of commitment. All his life he had witnessed the perfect marriage of his parents - true soul-mates. Yet this perfect marriage is threatened when his mother is stricken with a debilitating disease and he sees her life ebbing away. Dale doesn't believe that kind of love will ever happen to him, and he's not sure he wanted it anyway. Love brings pain. So, he determined he will never be a husband much less a father. Kids make him -- uncomfortable. Bev, too, is afraid to love again. Her life is moving along quite well, thank you very much. She is doing just fine raising Michael and four-year-old Kristin alone. She doesn't need anyone else interfering with things and messing up her life. It is clear that Dale has no interest in kids, but he can't seem to keep from disciplining them, and this makes Bev hot. He has no right to butt in. Yet she and Dale are thrown together through a series of coincidences, when Bev's mother comes to live with her. It turns out that Bev's mother and Dale's father are old buddies - friends from years ago. Bev's mom is a nurse. Dale wants someone to come in and help take care of his mom to give some relief to his dad. Bev and Dale travel a rocky road to romance in LOVING PROMISES. The differences between them create a chasm that only widens with each day. Both are afraid of love and commitment. The author has managed to throw obstacle after obstacle in their path and the reader is left to wonder if this romance was ever meant to be. Each must grow in their faith and trust in God, letting go of the control they keep snatching back from His hands. LOVING PROMISES is the fifth book Gail Gaymer Martin has set in her lovely fictional town of Loving, Michigan. Each book stands alone, yet you will meet those that shone in the previous books - briefly - or not. But you don't have to have read any of the others to thoroughly enjoy any of them. If you like contemporary Inspirational Romance, you love LOVING. Peggy Phifer ©2005