Five women met, fell in love with and married men who aided the arrest and subsequent imprisonment of Sheldon Humsler. Even though the events that disrupted their lives, did not necessarily involve Humsler, they certainly invoked the conviction that one day Humsler would find a way to enact his revenge. All of these women and the men they married are in some way closely connected to Humsler’s arch enemies, Benton Cromwell, T.J. Harvester and Thad Hunt. Because of Humsler, Benton Cromwell’s life and livelihood have become so precarious he now lives as an invalid on borrowed time. However, his friends, T.J. Harvester and Thad Hunt continue to grow in family and in deed. Both are well loved by many. The time is near when a final confrontation with Humsler must occur. Humsler has an accomplice…someone closely connected to Hunt. Who could that possibly be?
He was her knight in shining armor. She was his lost love—the one girl with whom life might have been worth sharing—if another had not told lies deliberately intended to separate them. Now her life is in serious danger. Can he save her? Is their lost love worth the blood and tears it will take to salvage not only themselves but their families and their businesses─ and rekindle the love they lost?
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It was bad enough that her best friend/employer took off on an extended honeymoon leaving Jani to oversee the building of their new business alone. But in strolls this tall, dark, handsome contractor who makes it clear he intends to become the center of Jani's attention. Is Rick too good to be true? Why is he the one who continually finds long stemmed roses on her car or at her door? What kind of admirer leaves expensive roses to freeze on windshields or be trampled on the floor? Some girls have all the luck- or maybe that's no luck at all. How often does a girl have two stalkers after her at the same time?
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Susie Wrener’s life became front page news when her abusive husband put her in the hospital and sent himself to jail. Three years later, life has returned to mundane, while Susie struggles to maintain a peaceful loving home for her two children as a single mom. Then she meets Ted Harvester and wins the lottery in the same week… Ted Harvester leaps at the chance to become Hunt R&C’s in-house attorney; thus, rebuilding the business and relationships Sheldon Humsler destroyed. Ted is on a mission to see Humsler incarcerated for life, but his priorities change when he falls in love with Susie Wrener and her children. They embark on life together in a house with an intriguing past all its own.
Life is constant change, sometimes planned, sometimes instant and devastating. For Stephanie Harvester-Garrett, life takes an abrupt curve when her husband is killed in a car accident. Determined to secure a stable home for her three children, Stephanie returns to Missouri to be closer to family and to accept employment in her brother’s law office. A whole new world opens for Stephanie and her three children when they move into a log house owned by Hunt R&C employee, Todd Sellers. However, the dream of living a peaceful country life is interrupted by unexpected ghosts of the past, and hatred spawned in the name of love.
Sylvia Pentherst is the fifth woman to marry into the Hunt-Harvester-Cromwell group. A widow in her mid-fifties, she survived years of hardship caring for her invalid husband and raising her three sons. Her now-seemingly-settled life takes a turn toward unpredictable when she leaves the comfort of managing County Hospital Housekeeping for the chaos of opening and maintaining two novelty shops along with Lisa, Jani, Susie and Stephanie. Is it really possible to find that second chance at love with Thad Hunt?
She was his best friend’s daughter, nearly ten years his junior. Was he too old for her? Would she accept, or understand his carefree, bad boy ways? Would details of his wayward past really matter? Did she have a past? Certainly nothing such as his rough and tangled scars, visible edges of his demeanor. She was pure and innocent…wasn’t she? Or, was that sweet persona just a cover for harsh reality no one else knew she experienced?
5.0 out of 5 stars Another Winner!
Reviewed in the United States on December 2, 2023
I have been following the Birds in Peril series from the very first volume, Pigeon In a Snare. From the very beginning I’ve been impressed that these romances feature a quality you NEVER find in the Harlequins or other romance novels, and that quality is realism.
Real romances rarely take place in a New York City penthouse or a billionaire’s yacht (and if they do, chances are the male love interest is probably a Harvey Weinstein or Jeffrey Epstein). Instead, real romance happens in small towns, country cottages, and farms across Middle America. Girls don’t typically find their dream guy in private jets and Parisian discos, but in coffee shops, pickup trucks, or Friday night football games.
Mary Elizabeth Fricke’s novels stand out because, instead of wistful pie-in-the-sky dreams that are almost as realistic as Cinderella, they are stories about real people, working people, American people. These are stories real women can relate to, identify with, and enjoy on a cold winter’s eve.
Let’s face it, ladies—those billionaire dreamboats in the popular novels largely don’t exist, and if they do, they probably made their money trafficking girls like you, so give yourselves a break and read a REAL romance novel, one written by M.E. Fricke. When you do, you will find characters who remind you of people you know. Heck, you might even find yourself, and the stories will thrill you.
The Birds In Peril series is too complex to describe here, but suffice to say that Bluebird of Happiness continues the story in the finest tradition of those that preceded it. Real people with real problems, finding real love in real America. Romance doesn’t get any better than this.
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