My Heart Belongs in the Blue Ridge

"My Heart Belongs in the Blue Ridge" by Pepper Basham

  I have to say that this the first book in the "My Heart Belongs" series that I've the privilege to read and I loved this book.  It reminded me of growing up in Southeast Oklahoma.  My childhood was spent living in the middle of nowhere with no electricity for 6 months.  We even survived with no telephone, which was unheard of in the 1970"s.

     This is just a great book! It starts out with Jonathan Taylor, whom is from Britain, he decided to follow his uncle to the Blue Ridge mountains to teach. Jonathans desire wasn't to teach but to one day be a doctor.  He was just trying to get out from under his fathers controlling hands.

      Jonathan had never been in a place like this,  He was born into a family of wealth and prestige and now he was living in North Carolina living in a one room house where everyday was a adventure and  the winters are very rough. Teaching where anything out of the ordinary was frowned upon.

     The first day there he meets a girl named Laurel McAdams.  She is a girl with big dreams of going to college and returning to help her community by teaching.  Leaving the mountain life, wasn't something that people did in the hills. Laurel had a big family and there was also a family problem that she tried to keep from Jonathon.

     Jonathon was the first one to realize how special Laurel was and how he would like to start a relationship with her, but he was unwilling to come between her and her dreams for the future.

     I love this book and would recommend it to others that love a great Christian book.

     I received a compliment copy of this book from Barbour Publishing and was under no obligation to publish a review.