A Time To Love By Barbara Cameron (review)

A Time To Love
Barbara Cameron
Paperback: 320 pages
Publisher: Abingdon Press (October 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1426707630
ISBN-13: 978-1426707636


About the book:
War correspondent Jennie King thinks she’s just a temporary guest in her grandmother’s Amish community while she recuperates from the devastating injuries sustained in a car bomb attack that changed her world. But when she meets Matthew Bontrager, the man she had a crush on as a teenager, she wonders if God has a new plan for her.

My take on this book: A Time To Love isn't your average Amish romance read! Instead the author takes a very current subject, the war overseas and its impact on the most innocent of victims the children, and tells us how Jenny King the main character of the story felt compelled to get those childrens voices heard.

The author starts the story with Jenny being driven to her grandmothers Amish farm in Lancaster Pa. She has just survived a car bombing while reporting overseas and needs a place to heal her wounds both physical and emotional. So when she arrives at her grandmothers she is reaquainted with Matthew, an amish man that she had fallen in love with as a teen.
Matthew and Jenny's story gives us hope for  second chances and shows us that putting our faith in God and casting our fears aside is the only way to find true contentment and love.

I really can't say enough good things about this book, it tugs at your heart strings, but also the author does a great job of throwing some humor into the story so it isn't overly dramatic. The main character is so easy to relate to with her fears and longings and wanting to make a difference for children. The struggles she  faces while recuperating is something that we hear often on the evening news pertaining to wounded soldiers.

This is the first book in a new series titled Quilts of Lancaster Co. If the rest of the books in this series are half as good as this one then its going to be an amazing series.
Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for providing me a copy of this book to review!