The Warrior’s B & B by Jennie Atkins is this week’s Reader Friday. Here’s the first line: He promised me he’d stay out of harm’s way.
But first the photo and verse. Dottie, one of my blog readers, emailed me this photo earlier this week and gave me permission to use it. I meant to get up at midnight and go outside and try to capture the moon and whichever planet this is, but I never made it so I was thankful to get Dottie’s! And I think the verse is perfect.
The Warrior’s B&B by Jennie Atkins was a fantastic read! Here’s the cover and back copy:
The Warrior’s B & B is the story of Derick Rogers and Sage Johnson. If you read Moonlight Cowboy, you’ll recognize them as Emma Wagner’s lifelong friends and cohorts in crime.
They’d be the perfect couple. He could be on the cover of GQ. She could be a world-class model. They’d been friends since they could walk and secret sweethearts forever.
Only now, life has dealt them a cruel blow.
Sage Johnson decided whom she intended to marry at the ripe old age of eight years old. Too bad, the groom, and her dearest childhood friend, Derick Rogers, didn’t have a clue.
Twenty years later, Derick is halfway around the world fighting for his country and Sage is a physical therapist and the new owner of her grandparent’s bed-and-breakfast—not the life she’d envisioned. Especially when Derick appears at her B & B blinded and bruised by an IED explosion and needing her help. In a panic, she lies about who she is and introduces herself as Abbi Johnson.
She could get away with it, right? What could go wrong?
Everything!
My Take:
This heartwarming story will grab the reader from the first page. When the story opens, Sage, aka Abigail or Abbi, has lost her grandparents. That same week she goes to the hospital to see the man she loves after he was injured by an IED that temporarily blinded him and crushed his legs. Derick tells her he doesn’t love her and to leave.
She leaves and on her way home, blinded by her tears, she has a head-on collision, leaving her face disfigured and her vocal cords damaged. A year later she is running her grandparents’ B&B and has opened a physical therapy clinic in an addition her grandfather had made before he died. It was his dream to help wounded veterans.
When her first patient turns out to be Derick, she’s so shocked she doesn’t correct the doctor when he mistakenly calls her Abigail. Fearing he won’t stay for the rehab if he knows who she was, Sage allows the lie to continue. She pushes Derick relentlessly and he inch by inch he improves.
Woven into the story is a mystery from years ago of buried treasure and an antagonist who wants Sage’s property. It’s a story mystery buffs and romance readers will love!
You can read Warrior’s B & B by Jennie Atkins in KU or purchase it on Amazon.
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Interesting photo, Dottie. Was it taken just before sunup or sundown? I love that Bible verse. Very fitting.
Warrior’s B&B sounds intriguing, Pat. Thanks for the review.
I am currently reading “Cold Silence” by Susan Sleeman. The first line is, “Captain Travis Chapman readily served wherever his country needed him. All Green Berets did. But this?”
Hi Tim! I wish I had more time to read…Susan’s book sound so good and I know it is…one day!
Hello Tim, sorry for the late response! That full moon and star/planet shot was taken at 10:30 pm. The moon was so bright I didn’t need a flashlight taking my dog out to potty. And this extra bright star in the Eastern sky has had me baffled, but I keep star gazing at God’s creations!
A buried treasure and a bad guy who wants Sage’s property–The Warrior’s B&B sounds like a fun read!
It is good, Priscilla. Jennie was at a couple of the writing retreats I did with Susan May Warren back in the early 2010s.
I’ve read this and it’s wonderful. I highly recommend and look forward to the one she’s writing now.
Amen, Delores! Jenny is very talented.
Quite a shot, Dottie…and with the planet! The Scripture is perfect, Pat.
The Warrior’s B&B sounds like an interesting read. I can just imagine the inner turmoil going on. You already have me hooked.
I’m still rereading Jerusha Agen’s Guardians Unleashed series. I’m looking forward to the Suspense Party. Thanks for listing your time slot.
Praying for that writing deadline!!!
We’re going to have fun, Barbara…here’s one clue… Sometimes I feel like a curl…
I think you’d enjoy Jenny’s book.
This book sounds very good, but a little sad at the same time. Thanks for the photo and verse.
It was a beautiful book Judy. I think you would enjoy it!
Exciting time for you, Pat! Congratulations! I am reading Wishing for Mistletoe by Robin Lee Hatcher. The first line is:
November
Ariel Highbridge pulled the hood of her coat tight at her throat as The Haven ferry plowed through the choppy waters of Lake Huron on its way to Sanctuary Island.
Gloria Anderson
That sounds interesting, Gloria. Does the book give any clues just where Sanctuary Island is on Lake Huron? I’m from Bay City, MI which is on Lake Huron’s Saginaw Bay. I know there are some possibilities for the location, which I assume is fictitious. I’m thinking around Alpena. I always enjoy trying to pin down where these locations are from the author’s clues. Coleen Coble had a fictitious town on the U.P.’s Keweenaw Peninsula, that I think I came close to figuring out.
I understand wanting to figure out a place that is near and familiar, Tim. The only description that Robin gives is that it can only be reached by ferry or plane, and the ferry shuts down in the winter because of ice. She mentions another town, Havensport maybe, that is nearby. Very few vehicles on the island so most walk everywhere in the small town. I read Colleen’s books many years ago and the few new ones out within the last year or so. Both are great authors.
Thanks, Gloria! Robin Lee Hatcher’s book sounds great!
Interesting photo and excellent verse.
The book seems to have quite a few twists. I just finished a book after midnight and haven’t started another, so I’ll use the first line from it. It’s the third book in Carole Brown’s Denton and Alex Davies Mystery series: Trouble at the Resort.
“Some people will do anything for attention.” I tossed my words ahead of my body, straight into the hospital room.
Very interesting first line, Edward! And I read to midnight almost every night…and beyond! lol
A high pitched howl split through the shadowed dusk, echoing against the towering pines of the forest.
Hope Like Wildflowers by Pepper Basham.
I love Pepper’s writing, Gail!
Another one to put on my TBR pile!
My first line comes from Never Forgotten by Hannah Linder:
“A terrorized scream rent the air.”
Never Forgotten sounds intriguing, Paula!
just finished Virginia Vaughn’s new book(as a launch team reader)
Virginia (Ginger to me) is such a good writer. I’ll have to get that one, Shelia.
I’ve just started THE SECRET KEEPER by Kate Morton. The first line: Rural England, a farmhouse in the middle of nowhere, a summer’s day at the start of the 1960s
The first line of The Secrets Keeper sounds intriguing, Donna!
It sounds like a really interesting book. Thank you for sharing.
I really enjoyed it, Diana!
This sounds like a really good book.
It is, Patricia!
Karina Hondo strode to the doorway of Aria’s bedroom.
Last One Still Standing by Lisa Phillips.
Love the verse & photo.,
I have got to read that, Lisa! I wish I had more time…maybe after I turn the book in, I’ll celebrate by reading for 7 straight days!
Thanks for the kind words, Pat!
I’m currently reading Daybreak: Last Days of Light by Lisa Heaton. It’s an end-times adventure, straight off the pages of today’s news headlines.
Jennie, I loved your book!
I’m running behind this week Patricia, can’t believe another Friday has almost arrived. Thank you for using my Moon picture and the verse you chose was perfect!
I just finished up what I was reading last week, Love On A Whim by Suzanne Woods. Fisher. A very good light hearted series!
I love that photo, Dottie! And I need to ready Suzanne’s series!