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Letter Perfect (California Historical Series Book #1)
Letter Perfect (California Historical Series Book #1)
Letter Perfect (California Historical Series Book #1)
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Letter Perfect (California Historical Series Book #1)

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Laugh-Out-Loud Historical Fiction!

Ruth Caldwell has always tried to live up to her mother's expectations of what a lady should be...often with less-than-impressive results. But when she's forced to journey west to meet the father she's never seen, Ruth hopes that this might be the place she'll finally fit in.

But her arrival brings about more mayhem than even Ruth is used to. She soon meets Josh McCain, the son of her father's business partner, but discovers some startling news: Her father passed away years ago. And though Josh urges Ruth to claim her inheritance, he grows suspicious of something more sinister at hand when her "accidents" seem to go beyond Ruth's normal bumbling ways and leave her very life in danger.
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Release dateAug 1, 2006
ISBN9781441202857
Letter Perfect (California Historical Series Book #1)
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Cathy Marie Hake

Cathy Marie Hake is a registered nurse who worked for many years in an oncology unit before shifting her focus to perinatal care. The author of over twenty novels, she lives with her husband and two children in Anaheim, California.

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  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    A delightful story set in the 1850's, that had an ending I wasn't expecting. I thought I had the book figured out right away, but this one took me places I wasn't expecting, which I usually enjoy. I found myself smiling through most of it and laughing out loud at times. The interaction between Ruth and Josh was so precious and Ruth was a joy to "be around", even if she was a little 'accident prone'. Looking forward to reading the other book in the series, "Bittersweet", next.Ruth Caldwell has good intentions, but seems to always get herself into trouble. She finds her mother dying when she is expelled from yet another ladies finishing school. Her mother makes her promise to leave Missouri and travel to her father in California (whom she has never met) and live with him when she dies. So Ruth finds herself at the Broken P Ranch in Folsom, California where her father has also recently died. The family he was partners with on the Ranch take her in as one of their own, until the courts decide if she has part ownership of the ranch.Josh McCain Jr. for the most part runs the ranch with his Dad and sister Laney. He is such a good person and gentleman and although Ruth gets herself in trouble sometimes, he is slowly learning to love her. But Ruth doesn't think very highly of herself and it takes some convincing that she is 'letter perfect' to Josh. There is a lot more going on in this story and it kept me up late at night just enjoying these two and figuring out what was really going on at the ranch.A couple of my favorite quotes from the book:When talking about hardships a family was going through - "None of us knows the dear Lord's plan or timing. 'Tis our place to take His lead and obey. The path is oft rocky, but the view is always best when we get where He's taking us."When a dear person is failing in health: "When God grants us the love of a mate, a child, or a friend, 'tis a blessing. We have no right to tell Him how long to allow us the enjoyment of that blessing, so if He takes that loved one back to His bosom, we're to thank Him for the time He granted us."
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    This was a fair book, but I have read better.
  • Rating: 1 out of 5 stars
    1/5
    First off, I confess I did not know this was a Christian book until after I purchased it at the big warehouse store. And I'm glad I bought it there instead of full price, this was a total waste of a day to get through this. It's disappointing, as the story line could have had great possibilities and I loved the way Ruth was originally portrayed as a bit of a klutz. However, the characters were flat and uninteresting, either black or white with no gray areas between. There are pages and pages of useless conversations and characters that did not develop the story at all (especially Galen's family, I skipped many a chapter on them) and the big surprise of who the villain was (yawn!) was not much of a surprise at all. I mean, who else could it have been? While I understand this is a Christian book, it seeped through virtually ever word of the book and much too preachy and overbearing for my tastes, and virtually no chemistry between Ruth and Josh. This was one of those books that I prayed for the end to come so I could toss it in the charity pile instead of on my bookshelf to be read again and again.

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