Kennedy Blaine is a California city girl but when she inherited the Circle Cross Ranch it was time for a trip to Valentine, Nebraska.  All her life she had been told of the feud between her parent’s families: the Blaines and Morgans.  Kennedy’s parents not wanting to raise her in a harsh setting moved to California before they had her.  They never took her to visit Valentine or her relatives there and only her father’s family the Blaines had ever come to visit so her mother’s family was a mystery to her.  When Kennedy arrives at the Circle Cross Ranch unannounced she has a confrontation with Derek Sterling who assumes she’s lying when she says she is the owner.  They quickly resolve things and before long Kennedy decides before she can sell off the huge ranch she wants to spend the summer there.   

Before long Kennedy is suddenly the target of harassment by someone who doesn’t want her to stay in Valentine.  But being the stubborn sort she decides she will rely on God for her safety and starts to investigate who’s behind her troubles.  Her probe leads her to answers she’s not sure she can face. 

This book started kind of slow for me but I kept reading and soon got pulled into the story.  The characters are well written and realistic.  You see a spiritual growth in the characters as the story progresses. The story wasn’t predictable as I first thought.  Everyone should go start reading this new Love Finds You line and you can’t go wrong starting with Valentine, Nebraska.    

October 31, 2008