This author participates in the Readers' Favorite Free Book Program, which is open to all readers and is completely free. The author will provide you with a free copy of their book in exchange for an honest review. You and the author will discuss what sites you will post your review to and what kind of copy of the book you would like to receive (eBook, PDF, Word, paperback, etc.). To begin, click the purple email icon to send this author a private email.
This author participates in the Readers' Favorite Book Review Exchange Program, which is open to all authors and is completely free. Simply put, you agree to provide an honest review an author's book in exchange for the author doing the same for you. What sites your reviews are posted on (B&N, Amazon, etc.) and whether you send digital (eBook, PDF, Word, etc.) or hard copies of your books to each other for review is up to you. To begin, click the purple email icon to send this author a private email, and be sure to describe your book or include a link to your Readers' Favorite review page or Amazon page.
This author participates in the Readers' Favorite Book Donation Program, which was created to help nonprofit and charitable organizations (schools, libraries, convalescent homes, soldier donation programs, etc.) by providing them with free books and to help authors garner more exposure for their work. This author is willing to donate free copies of their book in exchange for reviews (if circumstances allow) and the knowledge that their book is being read and enjoyed. To begin, click the purple email icon to send this author a private email. Be sure to tell the author who you are, what organization you are with, how many books you need, how they will be used, and the number of reviews, if any, you would be able to provide.
Reviewed by Brenda Casto for Readers' Favorite
Life in Lemon Creek by Kathryn Welch shares the story of Lucy Rye and the many characters of Lemon Creek. Lucy fell in love with a married man and dated him for years, holding onto the promise that someday he would leave his wife. When she winds up pregnant, she decides that it's time to leave her job and just disappear. She finds herself in the tiny town of Lemon Creek, a place where everyone knows everyone else's business and strangers don't remain strangers for long. Lucy finds herself embraced by the people of the town, making new friends and even a new love interest, James Lee Colton, who just happens to be several years younger than she is. Her new-found happiness is short lived, though, when the baby’s father shows up wanting to be a part of the child's life. Will Lucy be able to hold on to her new found happiness?
The small town feel of this story drew me in immediately. Kathryn Welch's descriptions of Lemon Creek and its residents allowed me to feel as if I had stepped right into the town, meeting the people she met, making the friends she made. Lucy was a well fleshed character, very realistic and so easy to relate to. Becoming pregnant was the catalyst she needed to make a change and, honestly, Lemon Creek was the perfect place to land! James Lee was a dreamboat of a lead man, and the romance that develops between he and Lucy was so sweet; truthfully, she was the only one struggling with the age issue. Several secondary characters and a couple of additional romances woven into the story kept the plot moving at a brisk pace. I found the historical information about the town to be quite interesting and the letters that were discovered in New York left me wishing that the author might explore Claudia's story further in another book. Life in Lemon Creek is a story of relationships and romance, a true gem of a story that provides a wonderful small town setting with characters that became near and dear to my heart. I only hope that Life in Lemon Creek is the first in a series because I would love to reconnect with the characters and the town!
