Loving Helen by Michele Paige Holmes

February 18, 2015 | 3 Comments
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Loving Helen by Michele Paige HolmesLoving Helen
Author: Michele Paige Holmes
Series: Hearthfire Romance #2
Genres: Historical Romance
Format: eBook, Print
Pages: 264
Date: February 14, 2015
Publisher: Mirror Press

Eighteen-year-old Helen Thatcher grew up under the protection of her older siblings, Grace and Christopher. Living in their shadows and keeping to herself suited Helen just fine—until she met widower Samuel Preston. Watching Mr. Preston care for his young daughter and seeing his concern extend to her own family, Helen felt her reserve slipping away, as she learned first to trust him and then realized she had fallen in love with him. But instead of returning—or even noticing her affection—Mr. Preston developed his own tender, and unrequited feelings, for Grace.

In the midst of each silently nursing their broken hearts, Helen and Samuel are faced with a daunting task—reuniting Grace with her fiancé, Nicholas Sutherland. Now it is Helen who must look out for her sister and sacrifice her own fragile heart, as she and Samuel pretend to be engaged. Helen finds the role surprisingly easy to play, allowing herself to imagine that Samuel’s loving remarks are sincere. As the time for their charade to end draws near Helen must summon her courage and tell Samuel the truth of her feelings, or risk losing him forever.

Revisit the characters from Saving Grace in this story of Grace’s shy, younger sister.

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About Michele Paige Holmes

Michele Paige Holmes

Michele has been a member of the same critique group for over fifteen years and feels that joining a critique group is the single best thing an author can to do help improve his or her writing. She has been a member of RWA and URWA, LDStorymakers, and The League of Utah Writers. Michele enjoys both attending and teaching at conferences. When not reading or writing romance, Michele is busy with her full time job as a wife and mother.


3 responses to “Loving Helen by Michele Paige Holmes

  1. Gayle Humpherys

    This is a companion novel to “Saving Grace” (which I loved) — it takes place pretty much at the same time as the first book, only it shows you a different perspective. At times, I felt like I already knew what was going to happen from the first story, but then there were a few twists thrown in that changed the way I looked at things. A very sweet story – looking forward to the next story about the brother (loved his character)!

  2. This book is a companion novel to Saving Grace and I would definitely recommend you read that one first! The first part of Loving Helen is from Helen’s limited point of view on significant events from Saving Grace- it would be hard to grasp the importance without reading the first book previously.

    That being said, Loving Helen surprised me with some twists and turns that kept the pace of the book moving swiftly even though some events are being relived from Saving Grace. Since Helen’s experience with men has been manipulative and abusive, she naturally is drawn to the kind Samuel with his gentle humor and loving parenting methods for his young daughter. I found Samuel’s shifting affections annoying since it made him seem wishy-washy, but once he focuses completely on Helen they have some wonderfully romantic moments 🙂

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