Title: Twilight at
Blueberry Barrens (Sunset Cove #3)
Author:Colleen Coble
Pages:327
Year:2016
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
My rating is4 stars.
Kate Mason is a survivor.
She has been cured of aplastic anemia and weathered her mother, uncle
and father all going to prison. However,
she now faces a financial crisis. Her
blueberry crop for this year has failed and she doesn’t know where she will get
the money to live on for the next year.
Raising blueberries is the only job she has ever known and she has
stayed on her mother’s property to take care of them while her mother is in
prison. She has never thought much about
doing any other job. She decides to fix
up a cottage on her property and rent it.
She also has noticed odd things around the house like lights being
turned off, doors unlocked, tools in areas where she didn’t leave them, but she
blames it on “chemo” brain. Plus she is
still fighting off the heeby jeebies from the horrible discovery she and her
sister made while out bird watching.
She unexpectedly finds a tenant for her cottage very quickly
as well as a position as the tenant’s nanny.
The tenants are Drake Newham and his two young nieces who have recently
been orphaned after their father, Drake’s brother, is thought to have killed
his wife and then himself. Drake doesn’t
believe that verdict as he knows his brother would never leave his daughters
alone in the world; he loved them dearly.
Drake is in town to investigate on his own and bring the killer to
justice. He hires Kate to look after his
nieces. What he doesn’t expect is the
attraction he has for Kate. As Kate
helps Drake with his investigation, more strange things happen and more danger
abounds.
If you like to read about mysteries, romance, murders,
faith, stalkers and much more action, then this is the book for you. I would recommend reading the prior two books
in the series first as this is a continuous story. They are titled, The Inn at Ocean’s Edge and Mermaid
Moon, respectively. This story
centers around Kate Mason, the twin of Claire Dellamare whose story is featured
in book one of the series. Kate is
resilient, strong and has a deep faith in God.
I loved how she would talk to Emma and Phoebe about nature or some other
topic, but would always weave God into their conversations. She used her time well as teaching moments
about faith and God. I pray to be more
aware of those teachable moments whether I’m talking with an adult or a child. This series would make a great Christmas
gift!
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