"My Heart Belongs on Mackinac Island: Maude's Mooring" Book Review


My Heart Belongs on Mackinac Island: Maude's Mooring

by Carrie Fancett Pagels



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Moor your heart on Mackinac Island along with resident sweetheart Maude Welling, an heiress trying to prove her worth by working incognito as a maid at the Grand Hotel. Meet Ben Steffans, a journalist posing as a wealthy industrialist who has come to the island to uncover a story about impoverished men pursuing heiresses at the famed hotel. Will a growing love between Maude and Ben be scuttled when truths are revealed in this Gilded Age romance? 

 MY REVIEW:  Well, Carrie Fancett Pagels has given me the travel bug....I'd never heard of Mackinac Island and now I'm dying to visit there and see the buildings and scenery.  Maude had every right to love the apparently enchanting island and to do everything within her power to keep her family's inn safely within the family and the Mackinac Island community.   It was my desire initially to become a journalist for a newspaper so I read with intrigue of Ben's position as spy to cover a story with such authenticity.  
        I am looking forward to reading the next book in the My Heart Belongs series.  The book is full of such vivid description that I felt as if I were actually walking along with the characters.  I felt such compassion for Ben and Maude.  Both of them seemed to be in positions where they felt they were at risk of losing so much.  Maude feared losing the inn and her home and Ben feared being discovered at the Grand Hotel.   
       I give this book a rating of 5 stars and highly recommend it to readers.
       I received a copy of this book from netgalley and Barbour Books.  All opinions of this review are mine and mine alone.   

 About the Author:
Carrie Fancett Pagels

Carrie Fancett Pagels is an ECPA bestselling and award-winning author of Christian historical romance. Twenty-five years as a psychologist didn't "cure" her overactive imagination! She resides with her family in the Historic Triangle of Virginia, which is perfect for her love of history. Carrie loves to read, bake, bead, and travel – but not all at the same time!

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