Lyn Cote Reviews Winnie Griggs' The Proper Wife

I'm happy to share another special Sweet Romance.

The Proper Wife by Winnie Griggs

 My rating: 4 of 5 stars

 This wasn't my first Winnie Griggs' Love Inspired Historical. Winnie appears to excel with stories where a free-spirited heroine meets an uptight hero or vice versa. This book is a story of the former romance.

Sadie Lassiter is the free-spirited heroine and Eli Reynolds is the uptight hero. Eli wants and thinks he needs to find a proper wife who will be a good step-aunt to the little sister in his care. And Sadie is not even on his long list much less his short list. She's too carefree and too casual and not the least interested in housekeeping.

Then a storm strands them together for a night and the gossips put their heads together. Eli's plans and Sadie's plans go out the window when Eli proposes marriage to avert scandal. However, it seems that this marriage might be in God's plans for both of them.

 A fun read with a delightful heroine who is a match for the very proper Mr. Reynolds!


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  QUESTION: Do you like free-spirited heroines? Why or why not?--Lyn

Lyn Cote Reviews Winnie Griggs' Her Holiday Family

I'm here again to point you toward a Sweet Romance for the Holidays.

 Her Holiday Family by Winnie Griggs

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

 Once again Author Winnie Griggs did not disappoint me. A very sweet holiday romance, set in Texas. This time we have a woman who has lived one decption and then another but a good man and ten orphans land on her doorstep and nothing in her life will ever be the same again! (Children have a way of changing things, don't they?)

 Ellen Pierce is the heroine, a widow who has felt cut off from the town after her husband's death. Simon Tucker is the hero who was merely helping a woman move her orphans to a new house. But the woman falls ill and he has to make some fast decisions and the first one is to ask the local church for help. And Ellen who has never thought of herself as motherly is suddenly mother of ten!

 I've come to depend on a sweet romance from Winnie and this is a good one about love and how it stretches one to do the impossible!

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  QUESTION: What's your favorite Christmas story?--Lyn