Secrets

by Robin Jones Gunn

Book Overview

Trying to build a new life as an English teacher in a peaceful Oregon town, Jessica tries to conceal her identity from the community, including the paramedic who wants to protect her and the woman who... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 157673420X
• ISBN13: 9781576734209
• Release Date: June 1999
• Publisher: Multnomah Books
• Length: 263 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.1" x 7.8"

Customer Reviews

Amazing Beginning of the Series

After a spontanious idea of picking up this random book at the library, I sat in my mother's car heading to an out-of-city thanksgiving dinner. Stationed in the back of the car, the overhead light provided the ability to read on this adventure. At 5 o'clock, I picked up this book called Secrets. I began the cutest love story. Meet Jessica, a single, stranger to the town of Glenbrooke, Oregon. She ends up in a wreck right outside the town. She is rescued by handsome volunteer fire-fighter Kyle Buchanan. After series of events, she finds herself wrapped up in her new school as a High School English Teacher. When Kyle comes to falling head over heels with her, she turns him away and is criticized of her assumed relationship with him by a jealous principal, Charlotte. They end up on a mission trip together in Mexico and she finds her way back to Christ. After her truck breaking down, she is robbed without the robbers knowing she's in the car, hiding in the floorboard. When Kyle finds her, all her emotions let loose and she ends up spilling almost the whole story that has been hidden since she left California to Glennbrooke. All she had been hiding, gone in a matter of minutes. They fall in love, and of course, almost every novel ends with: The promise of an upcoming wedding. But, don't worry, the ending will either have you in tears, or reliving your own love story. So, five stars Mrs. Gunn! Your masterpiece is a keeper.

A Quiet Place Where Souls are Refreshed...

I stumbled upon this series while I was looking for another good book or series at my local Christian store. This first book, Secrets, got me in to it in the 1st chapters and after that I was hooked. I would recommend this series to anyone who loves to read Christian romance and like the back of the book says, "Welcome to Glennbrooke, a Quiet Place Where Souls are Refreshed" these sweet books will refresh your soul and leave you feeling good inside! :)Here are some other books that I would HIGHLY recommend!I Would also recommend:By Robin Jones Gunn: The Whole Glennbrooke series & for teens The Christy Miller and Sierra Jensen Series.By Dee Henderson: The O'Malley Series (with its amazing prequel "Danger in the Shadows")By Tim Lahaye and Jerry B. Jenkins: The Left Behind Series.

If only there really WAS a Glenbrooke...

I love this book! I've read the Christy Miller (and most of the Sierra Jensen) books, and heard Ms. Gunn had written some adult novels. I picked this one up, started it, and absolutly could not put it down! This is a great Christian romance novel, not just about the love between Jessica & Kyle, but the romance between a woman and God. Robin Gunn has written some great alternatives to the trashy romance novels that seem to be so popular today. I reccomend this (and the rest of the series) to anyone...mothers, daughters, any woman in the mood for a good love story without all the filth. I loved "Secrets", shared it with my Mom, and now we both wish there really was a Glenbrooke. Read this, and I know you'll find yourself wishing the same thing.

Secrets was awesome!

I'm an almost-14-year-old girl who loves reading Christian romances, especially by Robin Jones Gunn. This book (and the rest of the Glenbrooke series) is great. I especially like Kyle. He's the ideal & perfect guy. I love how this and the rest of the Glenbrooke books are linked in certain ways to each other and the other books in the Glenbrooke series. It's cool because Christy Miller is mentioned, and you keep seeing people like Kyle and Jessica in the later books.

Excellent Read! Great Christian Romance!

This book was very entertaining and intriguing. I read it in less than a day. Robin Jones Gunn does a terrific job of creating interesting and fun characters. I especially appreciate the way the subject of God and becoming a born-again Christian is written into this story. This Christian Romance was a pleasant change from the usual nothing-but-sex romances you find in regular bookstores. Keep it up, Ms. Gunn!