This I Promise You by Mary Felkins
Contemporary Christian Romance
Gardenia Press, May 2022, 186 pp
Ebook $2.99
Paperback $12.99
About the Book:
What if finding your heart’s desire means
entrusting it …just once more … to the one who broke it?
It should not have come as a surprise to school Teacher Adelyn Ormond when she
was jilted at the altar,
Promises are meant to be broken.
When her supervisor tasks her with galvanizing support for a local food bank,
she directs her energy toward the underprivileged in her community—some of whom
are her own students. Problem is, the responsibility requires her to involve
celebrity chef, Bryan J. Carlyle, her almost-husband whose participation
assures great results.
For all his success, Bryan hasn’t come up with a recipe for how to be restored
to his family. Doesn’t help that abandoning Adelyn threatens to spoil his
reputation and ruin his career. But when he encounters hungry children
scrounging for food behind his restaurant, he agrees to get behind Adelyn’s
worthy cause. The collaboration with Adelyn might shed light on the
incriminating image he’d discovered minutes before the ceremony—her lip-locked
with another man after the rehearsal dinner.
Can Adelyn trust Bryan to make good on his promise—without risking her heart?
Will the love that led them to the altar be the key ingredient for
reconciliation? Maybe. But his absence on the big day to which he’d committed
might be beyond forgiveness.
My Review:
Loved this sweet and poignant romance of second chances. Two adults with secrets in contemporary New Orleans--he a renowned chef, she a former dancer turned elementary school teacher with a tiger mom heart--have a bitter past of disillusionment based on falsehoods. Thrown together to work a miracle for Second Harvest, they reluctantly explore the issues that caused their devastating left-at-the-altar moment six months earlier.
They both learn that the past can never stay buried, and excavating the childhood pain and trauma of their upbringing is the best way they can heal. But healing their relationship is another question.
I appreciated the author's tale of learning how our past shapes us and leads us to respond to present circumstances in both positive and challenging manners. Those who enjoy light allegory, inspirational pure romance will love This I Promise You.
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