http://www.thcreviews.com/ This RSS Feed provides links the latest Hope Chest Book Reviews. http://www.thcreviews.com/cgi-bin/vts/book_review.html?book_review_id=450 <p>When a new adult store opens across the street from where they work, Asia Michaels and her two best friends dare each other to go inside and ask out the first guy they see buying something that relates their fondest fantasy. Asia had a terrible marriage to a man who was incredibly selfish in bed. She's basically been avoiding men while trying to rebuild her confidence and independence, but reluctantly agrees to go first. Imagine her surprise when her handsome co-worker, Cameron O'Reilly is the one to show up buying the item in question.</p><p>Cameron has been half in love with Asia since he started working at the same company two months ago, but every time he tries to get closer to her, she tends to keep him at arms length. Cameron would do anything to get Asia to notice him as something more than just a co-worker, so when he accidentally overhears her planning the dare with her friends at the next table in the break room, he vows to be in the shop when she is. His plan works like a charm until he finds out that what he thought was her sexual fantasy is the last thing she wants.</p> http://www.thcreviews.com/cgi-bin/vts/book_review.html?book_review_id=449 <p><em>A Mother's Wisdom</em> is a collection of thoughts, poems, stories and anecdotes written by mothers and grandmothers of all ages and from various walks of life. In each piece, the author has graciously and lovingly shared their thoughts on motherhood and their children. Some are written in the form of letters to their child(ren), while others are more poetic or simply impart words of wisdom, but all express a mother's undying and unalterable love for her child.</p> http://www.thcreviews.com/cgi-bin/vts/book_review.html?book_review_id=448 <p>Math geek, Luke Holston, has been secretly admiring Cameron Anders, the captain of the school football team from afar. Every Friday night Cameron comes into the diner where Luke works, and Luke makes anonymous song requests for him on the radio program, <em>The Late Show with Rosco</em>e. This particular Friday night Cameron's team lost the game, so Luke requests a song that he thinks will lift Cam's spirits. Luke never really believed there could be anything between him and Cam, but when Cam comes over to talk to him, Luke gets the surprise of his life.</p> http://www.thcreviews.com/cgi-bin/vts/book_review.html?book_review_id=447 <p>Rosalind Rutherford is at the mercy of her cruel stepbrother who abuses her. He only wants Rosalind so that he can sell her hand in marriage to the highest bidder to clear his large gambling debts. Hoping that if she ruins her own reputation her brother will send her back to the family's quiet country estate and leave her in peace, Rosalind sets a daring plan into action. She approaches a man whom the <em>ton</em> deems dangerous because of a dark curse surrounding his family history and asks him to ruin her, but she didn't count on him having a gentlemanly side.</p><p>Armond Wulf has vowed never to marry or fall in love. To do so would be madness. Centuries ago a witch cursed his ancestor to turn into a wolf on the full moon when he fell in love with another. The curse will be passed from generation to generation unless someone figures out how to break it. When the lovely Rosalind offers herself to him, Armond is sorely tempted, but will not allow himself to loose control. Still, the siren song of his beautiful new neighbor calls to him at every turn until he cannot resist visiting her bedroom in secret. Armond is already a suspect in the murder of a prostitute found dead in his stable, and when another body turns up there and his only alibi is Rosalind, he refuses to put her reputation on the line. When the lady comes forward on her own to save him, the gentleman in Armond can do nothing less than marry her, but even though he declares with his lips that he will never love Rosalind, he cannot deny that she calls to his heart in a way no other woman ever has.</p> http://www.thcreviews.com/cgi-bin/vts/book_review.html?book_review_id=446 <p>After Lila Hayes' boyfriend cheated on her and ripped off her tuition money to go on a ski trip, she is left in a precarious position. She needs money to continue her education and pursue her dream of becoming a writer, but now her boss is telling her she's about to be laid off unless she accepts a position in the day-care center on location at one of their resorts. Even though she has little experience with kids, she needs to build up her finances again before she can finish school, so reluctantly agrees to go.</p><p>Jackson Koble was partners with his dad in a successful boat tour business, but with his dad having recently passed away, Jackson is left with some difficult decisions to make about whether to follow his father's dream of expanding. To get away and have time to think, Jackson takes a job at the resort working on their boat tours and water ski show. Half the female staff at the resort are practically throwing themselves at him, but no one catches his eye until Lila shows up. He's immediately smitten with her and almost instantly begins to feel protective toward her, but Lila remains rather aloof. It takes a while, but eventually he convinces her that he's a decent guy. </p><p>Just when Lila is beginning to warm up to Jackson, he mysteriously leaves the resort on short notice at the same time Lila's money and journal disappear. Lila doesn't want to believe it, but all the evidence seems to point to Jackson as having been the culprit. Will she figure out the truth before she looses the chance of a lifetime with the man of her dreams?</p>