Great story!

Carolina Grace by Regina Rudd Merrick is a great story. It’s the third book in her Carolina series and takes place five years after the second book, but it’s a stand-alone, and you don’t have to read the others to know what’s going on. But I figure once you read this one, you’ll go back and read the other two.

I read it in two nights and stayed up past midnight to finish it. I loved the way grace kept showing up and the way Regina used the song, Amazing Grace in the story. Charly is dealing with the age-old question of why bad things happen to good people. She struggles with resentment that God allowed her dad to die and her mom to go blind.  When she meets Rance Butler, she falls hard for him even though he isn’t a believer and she knows they are unequally yoked.

As for Rance, when he learns his family’s secret, it throws him for a loop, totally disrupting his very put-together life. I enjoyed watching the dynamics of their relationship work out as well as a couple of other relationships in the story. This is a great story that shows what grace is all about. While it’s not romantic suspense, it’s a book I think my readers will enjoy. And the setting is gorgeous! I could hear the waves lapping on the shore.