Mystery and Medicine, Interspersed with Love

This novel is a spell-bounding, keep-you-on-the-edge-of-your-seat book. I had never read this author before, but am very impressed. Her writing style is easy to read, captivating and hold the audience. I really didn't want to put it down... but duties call first. I did pick it up to read every chance I got though.

The author Candice Calvert is a former ER nurse and author of Mercy Hospital Series. This book is in a new series called Grace Medical Series. Her medical dramas offer readers a chance to "scrub in" on the exciting world of emergency medicine. She is a wife, mother, grandmother and lives in northern California. You can learn more about her at her website.

Trauma Plan is novel about a former ER nurse -Riley Hale - who is now an ER chaplain due to injuries sustained in an brutal attack on hospital grounds. She is working hard to regain her strength and abilities so she can once again practice ER nursing. She accepts an offer to work as a volunteer at a free medical clinic in a mostly up class neighborhood run by Dr. Jack Travis. Each character in the book has things in their past that affect or hinder their current situations. Things they have run from or would like to forget. Actions they are fighting to redeem. As Riley and Jack begin to "hit it off" tension over the clinic, neighbors are not too happy with its location and the kind of people who seem to be drawn to it, and issues from his past surface threatening to put a glitch in their relationship.

Can Riley trust her heart? Will God hive her back all she feels she has lost? Will her fears subside so she can live again?

I totally enjoyed this book. And the ending was great... I don't want to give it away, but it is amazing to see the way God works in the lives of these characters is also applicable to the way God works in our lives also. He has a plan... We just need to trust Him, and follow what we know is right and what he wants us to do to serve Him. The outcome whether what we think we want or something far better He has planned is always for His glory and our growth.

You can read chapter one HERE

*I received this book from Tyndale Blog Network for the purpose of my review. I am not required to give a positive review.*

If you are interested in downloading a free e-book from Candice's other series (Mercy Hospital), you can download the book Code Triage on Amazon. (I am not sure for how long, so get it soon!)

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WildFlower - Review and Giveaway - Ended

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Night Night Farm by Amy Parker w/ Giveaway - Ended

Congratulations to our Winner - Lynne In Night Night , Farm by Amy Parker, parents and little ones will unwind as sweet farm animals in pj's say goodnight to their farm, their mommies and daddies, and to God. Rhyming verse, calming artwork, and whimsical renditions of favorite farm animals in their cozy beds will make this bedtime book a favorite for years to come. My Thoughts: This book is so adorable. I am already loving that one day I will be able to use it with my grandchildren. It is a hard back padded type cover. The pages are board book style with beautiful illustrations, brightly colored and full of the most adorable farm animals you've ever seen. They will capture your heart, as well as you child's. Each page consists of a different animal going to sleep, written in poetic style with the animal sound and name of the animal at then end of each prose. The last page affirms how God made all these animals and "me too"! The child will learn about ...

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