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Eternity: A Sweet Romance Novel (The Friendship Series, Book 1) Kindle Edition
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Aaron Foster thought he had the perfect life until his fiancee walked out of their apartment and then back in again with his new roommate. In desperation Aaron and his best friend, Harmony Jordan, devise The Plan to save Drew's heart from getting shattered, but when The Plan succeeds beyond their wildest expectation, it could spell heartache for them all.
Harmony Jordan has loved Aaron Foster since the first minute he rescued her from a literal computer crash. The only problem is, Aaron only sees her as a friend. Trying to be content to be the person Aaron goes to when life crashes around him, Harmony puts her heart on the line for him to help him rescue his in-for-real-trouble new roommate. However, she never expected the roommate to fall for her, or for her to fall for him. Now what?
“Eternity,” a gem among Contemporary Romance novels, proves romances can be melded with inspirational books to produce something truly amazing and unexpected. Delving into and through the subject most contemporary romance books are predicated upon—free and easy sex, “Eternity” shows that romance novels don’t have to have characters hopping into bed to be romantic, fun, and entertaining. Further, it seeks to dispel the myth that all romantic relationships must start and end in the bedroom. As romance books go, it has all the romance in a clean, inspirational read that any lover of romance novels will appreciate.
*~ Excerpt ~*
Aaron was trapped. When he turned and leaned on the door, his gaze fell to the phone. In a flash he had it in his hand, and in less than a second the other end was ringing.
“Hello?” Harmony's voice drifted over the lines.
“It’s her,” he said in utter desperation.
“Aaron?”
“They’re downstairs.”
“Right now?”
“On my couch. They are making out on my couch!”
“Oh, no.”
“Could you give me something a little more than oh, no?”
“Crud.”
“Yeah, that’s closer. Oh, man. What am I going to do?”
“Are you sure it’s her?”
“Harmony.”
“Okay. Of course you’re sure. Okay. Okay. Let me think. Where are you?”
“In my room.”
“Do they know you’re home?”
“No. I don’t know. I don’t think so.”
Her side went silent for a moment. “The fire escape’s on your window isn’t it?”
He looked at the window in trepidation. “Yeah, but it’s only for emergencies.”
“Hello!”
The plan was looking better and better all the time. “But where am I supposed to go? It’s 12:30 in the morning!”
Without more than a second’s pause, her voice softened. “You could come over here.”
That stopped him. In all the time he had known her, he had never been to her place, not even once. “Your place? Are you sure?”
“You’re in trouble,” she said as if stating the case for a jury. “When a friend’s in trouble, you do whatever you have to to help them out.”
“Even this?”
She didn’t say anything for a long moment. “I think I’ll live.” Quickly she gave him the directions.
He smiled, momentarily forgetting the disaster downstairs as he wrote them down. “I’ll be there in ten minutes.”
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateJuly 5, 2013
- File size3058 KB
- The Easy Way Out: A Contemporary Christian Romance Novel (The Friendship Series, Book 2)2Kindle Edition$3.99$3.99
Product details
- ASIN : B00BC1UNOO
- Publisher : Spirit Light Publishing (July 5, 2013)
- Publication date : July 5, 2013
- Language : English
- File size : 3058 KB
- Simultaneous device usage : Unlimited
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 277 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #963,677 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #4,817 in Contemporary Christian Romance
- #5,797 in Christian Romance (Kindle Store)
- #11,725 in Religious Romance (Kindle Store)
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About the author
USA Today Best Selling Author, Staci Stallings is a stay-at-home mom with a husband, three kids and a writing addiction on the side. She has numerous titles for readers to choose from. Not content to stay in one genre and write it to death, Staci’s stories run the gamut from young adult to adult, from motivational and inspirational to full-out Christian and back again. Every title is a new adventure! That’s what keeps Staci writing and you reading. So, sit back, grab your Kindle & something to drink, and settle in for some of the BEST stories in all of Christian Romance...
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I also like how Harmony's view point is told, she does date much, partially because she she doesn't believe in getting into the physical part of a relationship until there is some commitment. Not a popular POVin today's world. But this is a clean Christian romance. Harmony is not preachy about it but some who disagree may want to avoid this book. I have seen many reviews where the reader takes offence.
Aaron Foster thought his life was picture perfect until his fiancee walked out of their apartment and out of his life. He was left brokenhearted and devastated. Unfortunately she walked right back in again but this time it was with his new roommate, Drew, who knew nothing of Aaron's past involvement with her.
Harmony Jordan has been Aaron's best friend for four years. Neither of them want to see Drew's heart shattered like Aaron's was so they devise a plan to split the two up for Drew's protection. Well, the plan succeeds much better than Aaron ever anticipated and it backfires right in his face, devastating him once again.
I adored this story. The only reason I did not think it was 5-star worthy is my personal dislike of weak female characters, or at least the ones who appear weak to me. Harmony had many hangups and I am not sure she really put forth the effort to overcome them or work through them. She spent too much time with a 'poor me' attitude and a good dose of self-pity. She put herself down throughout the book and that was troublesome to me and I think she made herself appear very insecure in front of others. She was always down on herself, her looks, her clothing, her shoes, her hair, her everything and that, to me, is unappealing, especially to a man. She was her own worst enemy. The thing is no one saw her as she saw herself but she refused to believe what they saw even when she was complimented and praised. I know that happens in real life, as well, but she did not wear this well. After hearing this for most of the book it left me feeling that she did not deserve the guy/guys although I wanted them to have their HEA. If the female had been a bit stronger with a small amount of self confidence, it would have been a five.
This book was not morally offensive in that all of the sleeping around was done behind the scenes, but still it was done. The one girl who does say that she wants to "wait" was doing it more because of what happened to her sister as opposed to her personal convictions and faith which was never really portrayed other than the occasional "we need to pray...."
Story was pretty bland--several times you wanted to take the characters and shake them and say "Grow up!" (spoiler alert) and as for the whole episode of being fired from a govt. office because you are not allowed to date others within that office, well let's just say that that doesn't make sense at all.
Sorry--wish I could recommend it more.
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What exactly is inspirational about the romance? Is it that the main character doesn't drink or have sex? Sure it's nice to have a heroine that does not conform to society's expectations and may be more acceptable in more conservative circles, but it's not like has an inspirational reason for it - she's more driven by fear and guilt.
I downloaded the book looking forward to being inspired but was met with a bog-standard romance.
On the plus side I did like the characters, even if they didn't always act in a way that made emotional sense.
Perhaps it was a mismatch of expectations. It was a perfectly nice story even if it did stretch my credulity at times, but I hoped for so much more!