No Greater Love by Gina Holder Review & Giveaway!

About the Book

Book: No Greater Love




Author: Gina Holder




Genre: Christian Romantic Suspense



Release date: April 30, 2019





He said he’d never risk leaving a widow.

She said she’d never love a man in uniform.



Paige McDonald collects antique literature and works at the largest bookstore in Portland, Oregon. When her grandfather, a firefighter, was killed, she vowed never to fall in love with a first responder. An old Bible leads to an unexpected discovery and disrupts everything she knows about herself, her family, and God. Her desire to know the truth sends her to the town of Whitman directly into the radar of Patrol Officer Hamilton Bryant.

After the loss of his best friend and fellow officer, Hamilton vowed never to marry. He won’t risk leaving a widow. Instead, he reserves his passion for serving his family and the town he’s sworn to protect. When a series of robberies and threats against the mayor correspond with Paige’s sudden appearance in Whitman, their paths intersect.



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About the Author

Gina Holder completed the Long Ridge Writer’s Group “Breaking into Print” course and graduated from Faith Bible Institute. In August 2017, she published her first novel, Whither Shall I Go. She is active on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Goodreads. Her Website and Blog is found at http://storiesbygina.wordpress.com.

She lives in Colorado with her husband and daughter. When she’s not working on her next novel, she enjoys reading, watching movies, singing, and playing the piano and organ.

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Fun Facts about No Greater Love (Don’t worry, spoilers weren’t invited to this party.)

1. I love the smell of coffee, but I don’t like the taste. I asked my coffee-loving friends on social media for their favorite coffee drinks to use in the story.
2. Tyler, Tony, and Timothy Thorne were modeled after three brothers I saw playing on a beach in Hurgadah, Egypt.
3. R. Electronics was based on an actual store my husband and I saw in a mall.
4. When Paige and Hamilton meet, he is looking for a runaway goat. This happened to my husband and me. We were out admiring large mansions, when a police officer pulled up behind us. We thought we were in trouble for loitering. Instead, he asked if we’d seen a goat running around the neighborhood.
5. Hamilton’s deceased best friend is named after my childhood friend, William Donnelly. Will was a U.S. Marine killed in battle in Afghanistan. Like the character in the story, he got married only two months before his death and was killed on Thanksgiving Day. No Greater Love is dedicated in his memory.
6. The character Jessie Faye is named after an elderly woman my husband knew while living in Fossil, Oregon.
7. The diners in the food court scene were written from personal observations at a food court in Colorado Springs.
8. While Whitman is a fictional town, it is modeled after the real town of Enterprise, Oregon, at the foot of the Wallowa Mountains.
9. Several locations in the book are real establishments in Enterprise, including Heavenly’s Restaurant, the Espresso and Car Wash, El Bajios, and the Bowlby stone courthouse.
10. There are several beloved pets in No Greater Love, including a parrot named Gerald, a Persian cat named Delilah, and a labradoodle named Bruce. All the pets have names except for Aunt Hattie’s Dalmatians.
11. Paige McDonald works at Powell’s City of Books in Portland, Oregon when the story opens. Powell’s lays claim to the status of the “largest independent used and new bookstore in the world.”
12. Portland is the fifth city in America with the most coffee shops per capita.
13. The statistics for the Whitman school—100% graduation rate and a 1:13 student-teacher ratio is not fictional. They are the actual statistics of the Enterprise High School.
14. Behind the cash registers at Powell’s, there is a fake dictionary definition—“Smell bound: held as if under the spell by the scent of books.” This is the inspiration behind the opening scene of No Greater Love. The word, Bibliosmia, means the smell of old books.

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Giveaway

To celebrate her tour, Gina is giving away a grand prize of a signed paperback copy of No Greater Love and Whither Shall I Go plus a $50 Amazon gift card!!

Be sure to comment on the blog stops for nine extra entries into the giveaway! Click the link below to enter. https://promosimple.com/ps/e54f/no-greater-love-celebration-tour-giveaway

My Thoughts:

This was a new-to-me-author and as soon as I read the description I knew this book would be right up my alley, and it absolutely was! As soon as I read the first chapter I knew I would love this book! I immediately liked Paige and hated to stop reading because I had to know what would happen next in her story! No Greater Love is an absolutely awesome book, it has suspense, romance, and a soul-stirring faith journey that is a fabulous reminder of God's incredible, unconditional love for each one of us and the truly amazing grace Jesus offers even though none of us deserve it. I know the beautiful faith story in this book will touch your heart as deeply as it did mine! I loved how many layers and surprises there were in this book, it was so exciting every time a new twist was revealed, and I will admit that I actually didn't guess the identity of one of the villains, which rarely happens because I read a ton of suspense books and I love to play armchair detective, so brava Gina Holder for taking me by surprise! 

The suspense in this book was awesome and totally kept me turning pages! I also loved the moments of humor that the author included! 

The characters were quirky and delightful and felt like friends to me. I especially loved our hero Officer Hamilton Bryant, not only was he a total hunk, I loved his strong faith, and I really appreciated that even though he cared for Paige and was definitely attracted to her he knew better than to begin a relationship with her when she was not yet a believer, and chose to pray for her and place any potential relationship in God's hands! Oh, and his grand gesture at the end of the book was super AWESOME, and totally romance movie worthy! 

I absolutely loved No Greater Love and highly recommend it, it most definitely has a spot on my keeper shelf! I see that this is the first book in a new series, and I don't know whether the next book will also be about Paige and Hamilton or if it will be populated by other main characters, but either way I am eagerly anticipating my next visit to Whitman, Oregon! 

(5 Stars!)

I received a copy of this book through the CelebrateLit Team. Which did not influence my review in any way. All thoughts and opinions are one hundred percent my own!