Sandpiper Cove

Author: Irene Hannon

Series: Hope Harbor #3

Publisher: Revell

Release Date: April 4, 2017

Rating: 5 Stars

Reviewer: Jessica Higgins

The third book in the Hope Harbor series brings the romance to a whole new level. Romance lovers will not want to miss this one.

Lexi Graham is the Hope Harbor police chief and is being pulled in too many directions at once. She has her son to take care of along with the residents of Hope Harbor, who have been dealing with a string of theft and vandalism.  All of this is more than enough to keep her busy and leave zero time for anything else, romance included.  With being so busy, she is caught completely off guard when she finds herself attracted to one of the victims of vandalism, Adam Stone.  To make matters more complicated, Adam is an ex-con.  He came to town after getting out of prison trying to make a new start.  When Lexi catches one of the vandals, she talks to Adam about trying to be a mentor to the boy who is going through a tough time at home and could use his influence.  Adam isn’t sure he is the right person to help the boy, but feels God leading him to try.   Together Adam and Lexi work to make a difference in the lives of those they can reach and see if there is anything left to make work between the two of them.

This story is one of second chances. Lexi needs a second chance at love and Adam needs a second chance to prove he can be a good person.  He doesn’t come to town looking for love and doesn’t think he deserves it either.  I like the way he doesn’t want feel as if he isn’t good enough for Lexi, (even though deep down that is how he feels.)  He has several people in town looking out for him who tell him that he doesn’t have to be the same person that spent time in prison.  He did his time and now he needs to be willing to move on from that.  I love the message of knowing it is ok to make mistakes as long as we learn from them and move on to do the work God has planned for us to do.  Sometimes we tend to beat ourselves up over things that we need to let go of.  If God can forgive us, then we should be able to forgive ourselves and move on too.  Irene Hannon is one of the top Christian Romance writers and it is for good reason.  She can weave good story with a message and characters we want to see happy. Sandpiper Cove has all of that and more.  It is the third in the series, some of the characters are the same, Charley is back and you can’t help but love him, and some are new.  You don’t have to read all to enjoy each separately, which is nice.  I recommend this to readers that love a good, clean romance story that will put a smile on your face.

I received a complimentary copy of this book from the publisher. The views and opinions expressed within are my own.