Follow The Heart by Kaye Dacus (CFBA Tour)

This week, the

Christian Fiction Blog Alliance

is introducing

Follow the Heart

B&H Books (May 1, 2013)


by

Kaye Dacus




ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Humor, Hope, and Happily Ever Afters! Kaye Dacus is the author of humorous, hope-filled contemporary and historical romances with Barbour Publishing, Harvest House Publishers, and B&H Publishing. She holds a Master of Arts in Writing Popular Fiction from Seton Hill University, is a former Vice President of American Christian Fiction Writers, and currently serves as President of Middle Tennessee Christian Writers. Kaye lives in Nashville, Tennessee, where she is a full-time academic advisor and part-time college composition instructor for Bethel University.




Kaye Dacus (KAY DAY-cuss) is an author and educator who has been writing fiction for more than twenty years. A former Vice President of American Christian Fiction Writers, Kaye enjoys being an active ACFW member and the fellowship and community of hundreds of other writers from across the country and around the world that she finds there. She currently serves as President of Middle Tennessee Christian Writers, which she co-founded in 2003 with three other writers. Each month, she teaches a two-hour workshop on an aspect of the craft of writing at the MTCW monthly meeting. Kaye lives in Nashville, Tennessee, where she is an academic advisor and English Composition instructor for Bethel University.




ABOUT THE BOOK

Set during the Industrial Revolution and the Great Exhibition of 1851, Follow the Heart is a “sitting-room romance” with the feel of a Regency-era novel but the fashions and technological advances of the mid-Victorian age.




Kate and Christopher Dearing’s lives turn upside down when their father loses everything in a railroad land speculation. The siblings are shipped off to their mother’s brother in England with one edict: marry money.




At twenty-seven years old, Kate has the stigma of being passed over by eligible men many times—and that was before she had no dowry. Christopher would like nothing better than to make his own way in the world; and with a law degree and expertise in the burgeoning railroad industry, he was primed to do just that—in America.




Though their uncle tries to ensure Kate and Christopher find matrimonial prospects only among the highest echelon of British society, their attentions stray to a gardener and a governess.




While Christopher has options that would enable him to lay his affections where he chooses, he cannot let the burden of their family’s finances crush his sister. Trying to push her feelings for the handsome—but not wealthy— gardener aside, Kate’s prospects brighten when a wealthy viscount shows interest in her. But is marrying for the financial security of her family the right thing to do, when her heart is telling her she’s making a mistake?




Mandates . . . money . . . matrimony. Who will follow the heart?



If you would like to read the first chapter of >Follow the Heart, go HERE






Link To Buy The Book


My Review:

This is the first book by this author that I have read. I am not generally drawn to books with this type of storyline, but something about the description of this one intrigued me, I was not disappointed! I am not sure that I have ever read a book set in 1850s England, I found the setting and the fact that the Great Exhibition was a very big part of this story to be absolutely fascinating! I loved all the characters except Edith (But I think that you are probably intended to not like her very much!) This book held my interest throughout, it was never boring! Christopher is one of my all time favorite characters, he is just so awesome! :)
One thing I loved about this authors writing style is that while she does have her main characters notice their love interest's physical features, they don't for example, constantly think about the other's gorgeous eyes or attractive profile, I really don't like it when authors go a bit overboard with that, but such is not the case with this book, the author did it perfectly!
This book is definitely a keeper, I definitely anticipate re reading it in the future! I highly recommend it, and I look forward to the next book in this series as well as reading some of the authors other books in the near future! :)



I recieved a complimentary copy of this book from the publisher via CFBA in exchange for an honest review. The above is my honest opinion. All thoughts and opinions are one hundred percent my own.