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Love Lifted Me

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"Touching and emotive . . . sizzles with passion . . . a beautiful story of hope tackling betrayal and love manning up to win the game." —USAToday.com

The third and final book in the Songbird series from country music star Sara Evans and New York Times bestseller Rachel Hauck!

Jade and Max share a deep love, though revelations from his past have recently shaken their marriage. And Jade is completely smitten with Max's little son, Asa, whom she is now raising as her own. Their blended family brings her a joy she's never known. But there is one more secret to be uncovered. One that will impact them all.

Max is doing his best to "man-up" and prove himself worthy of Jade's devotion. As well as that of his young son. It seems like life in Whisper Hollow, Tennessee, will pick up where it left off until Max is faced with an unusual opportunity—leave his family's law firm to coach high-school football in Texas.

Realizing a fresh start will bring healing to their marriage, Jade takes the leap of faith and moves with him and baby Asa, bidding good-bye to her beloved Blue Umbrella shop.

The new beginning in quaint Colby, Texas, is soon sullied when Max discovers the high-school program isn't all it seemed. While Max struggles to rebuild a once glorious football team, Jade wrestles with news that could break Max's heart . . . and change their lives forever.

Country singer and songwriter Evans and novelist Hauck (Dining with Joy, 2010) have proven to be a winning team." —Booklist starred review

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    • Kirkus

      November 15, 2011
      The third installment of Evans' Christ-centered drama about a woman who is redeemed through submitting to God and forgiving her husband. As the novel opens Jade and Max Benson's marriage is just about over. Max is in rehab (again) for prescription-drug abuse and Jade is at their home in Tennessee, raising Max's 2-year-old lovechild Asa (right before their wedding, Max had a fling with his ex-fiancé Rice, issuing forth Asa, now with Max since Rice's death in a plane crash a few months prior). Jade has fallen in love with Asa but is wondering if she can ever trust Max again. When he returns, Max is a changed man--clean, committed to Jade and recommitted to living a life in Christ. Just one little thing--he wants to leave Tennessee and the prestigious law practice he's inherited to coach high-school football in small-town Texas. He is asking Jade to leave behind her friends and the successful vintage-clothing store she's built, as well as their home and the comfortable life of a lawyer's wife, but they feel this is what God wants them to do. Why God wants Max to coach high-school ball remains unclear, and it is suspicious that God's will and Max's childhood dream are conveniently aligned. Initially, life in Texas, where those Friday Night lights are a serious concern, is disastrous. Max fires assistant coaches, loses games and infuriates the town, all of which alienates Jade. But that's not all Jade has to worry about--more pressing issues emerge on the way to the resolution. Simplistic, feel-good fare.

      (COPYRIGHT (2011) KIRKUS REVIEWS/NIELSEN BUSINESS MEDIA, INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.)

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      Starred review from December 15, 2011
      Jade Benson feels that she can never trust her husband, Max, again. Not only did he cheat on her with her best friend, Rice, but a baby resulted from the affair. When Rice dies in an airplane accident, Max brings the toddler into their home. Two-year-old Asa is the brightest spot in Jade's life. Despite the boy's beginnings, Jade feels nothing but love for him. But Jade's world is about to crash again. She receives news that Max isn't Asa's dad, and the biological father knows it. Jade has survived infidelity, miscarriage, and major damage to her shop by an out-of-control car, but losing Asa could very well be the thing that destroys her. Country singer and songwriter Evans and novelist Hauck (Dining with Joy, 2010) have proven to be a winning team. This third installment in the story of Jade and Max (The Sweet By and By, 2009; Softly and Tenderly, 2011) carries the same emotional wallop as the first two. Although libraries will want all three volumes, this one also works well as a stand-alone novel.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2011, American Library Association.)

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