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A Perfect Love by Lenora Worth

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Reviewer: Lori Graham
Title: A Perfect Love
Author: Lenora Worth
Publisher: Steeple Hill
ISBN: 0-373-87340-9
Release Date: November 2005
Genre/Sub-genre: Inspirational Romance
Year/Setting: Current/Texas
Overall rating: 4.75
Sexual content rating: Very Subtle
Lenora's Website: lenoraworth.com

Summer Maxwell is at burn out and in need of escape. Her job in New York is as a counselor for abused women and it approached this critical stage when she realizes she has become one of the women she counsels. She has nothing left to give and needs desperately for someone to love her for who she is. God hasn’t been very visible lately with all of the abuse she has seen so she goes to the next best place – home to Memaw and Papaw (her grandparents).

In route, however, her car gives up the ghost and she is left just five miles from her end destination. This is, of course, par for her luck of late. As she contemplates her options which are few and none she likes, her rescuer comes along. Unfortunately, this rescuer soon becomes the destroyer of her escape plan. Mack Riley has the unfortunate duty to explain that her grandparents now live in a retirement complex and he owns their home. Where can she escape to now? (More fuel for her anger at this point.)

Summer’s parents also soon show up to join in the "merriment" much to Summer’s dismay. As a child she was left with her grandparents while they jetted around the U.S. and the world. So now that her childhood home has been sold all of her feelings of abandonment come flowing to a head. Just as she begins to deal with some of her hurts and see that just maybe Mack was one of her rescuers, Mack’s past comes back to haunt him. Now she needs to figure out who her true rescuer is and how He will rescue her daily and always. Can she finally surrender to Him and find her way?

Lenora Worth created a beautiful love story with A Perfect Love, just as the title suggests. It is a simple story that has happened so many times through out history. A dream is chased until we discover that the dream isn’t what we really had hoped and then we return to our roots only to find the dream was already there. The characters were so down to earth that you could truly envision any man or any woman in the lead roles – maybe even yourself.

The scenes she painted were quite real and calming but yet at times quite vibrant. You could almost picture the colors created by the landscapes Mack works on at the retirement complex. I found myself easily envisioning the house Summer grew up in – both in its original splendor and rather run down now as Mack begins to renovate.

I enjoyed this journey towards surrender both to the love of the Lord and to the reality of a dream.

Lori

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