Teresa Mathews Reviews A Love Surrendered

A Love Surrendered

A Love Surrendered

By Julie Lessman

(Revell, October 2012)

Reviewed by Teresa Mathews

Five Stars*****

Once again the magnificent Julie Lessman has brought to us a masterpiece of love, telling the story of the last O’Connor sons, Steven. Words cannot express the wonder of this story, as always when you open one of Julie’s books you are swept away to a magical land where dreams do come true. You may think you know what’s going to happen but the path to that conclusion is never straight forward and that’s the fun of reading her books.

Susannah Grace Kennedy has always been the sweet obedient daughter of a minister. But since her mom and then her dad passed away she is having a few anger issues with God. Susannah and her younger sister Glory have had to move in with their Mom’s sister, Eleanor who is dealing with hurts of her own.  Susannah wants a new start so she changes her name to Annie at the urging of one of her new friends. Will Annie come to realize before it’s too late these girls are not her friends?

Annie’s Aunt Eleanor doesn’t want her going out at night but Annie doesn’t see the harm in it. So when she is sure she won’t be caught, out the window she goes, walking straight into trouble with a capital T. Thankfully she is rescued by none other than Steven O’Connor, prohibition agent. She thinks he the most handsome, thought consuming man she has ever met, he thinks she is just a kid. When Annie decides to prove to Steven she is not a kid by kissing him after he has seen her safely home, Steven seemingly turns it around on her to teach her a lesson, but who really learned the lesson?

Steven has been a changed man since the night he feels he caused his father’s almost fatal heart attack. After that night he broke up with the beautiful, irresistible Maggie Kennedy who seemed to be the root of the problem with his family. Steven thought he would never be able to get over Maggie until he rescues a sweet, innocent young girl by the name of Annie. Will Steven ever truly be free from his past to love someone like Annie? What happens when his past comes back to haunt him?

I loved catching up with the O’Connor family, Faith and Colin, Charity and Mitch, Elizabeth and Brady, Katie and Luke, Sean and Emma, and of course Marceline and Patrick, without them there would be no O’Connor’s! Julie has little tidbits of the lives of each of the children and now their children, woven in with Annie and Steven’s story. There are a lot of surprises that will have you shocked and gasping for a breath! I promise you will not want to put it down; you will be frantically flipping those pages until you can breath easy once again. If you have read all of Julie’s books so far, I want you to know this one is better than ever. I know you are probably thinking how can Julie get any better when her work is perfection? Let me put it this way; it has more SIZZLE than ever. 

Julie thank you for a most enjoyable read and I am waiting with bated breath for the story of Marceline and Patrick to come out!

This book was read via a download from NetGalley, as shared by Revell, in return for my honest opinion.

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