Fetching Sweetness by Dana Mentink

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About the Book:  
Fetching Sweetness (Harvest House, July 2016)

Standing between Stephanie and her dream is one hundred pounds of lovable trouble.

It should have been so simple for Stephanie Pink: Meet up with Agnes Wharton in a small town in California, retrieve the reclusive author’s valuable new manuscript, and be promoted to a full-fledged literary agent.

But Agnes’s canine companion, Sweetness, decides to make a break for it before Stephanie can claim her prize. Until Agnes has Sweetness safely back at home in Eagle Cliff, Washington, Stephanie will never set eyes on the manuscript she needs to make her dreams come true.

When Stephanie tracks the runaway mutt to a campground, she meets Rhett Hastings—a man also on the run from a different life and a costly mistake. Rhett agrees to help Stephanie search for the missing dog . . . thus launching a surprising string of adventures and misadventures.

Once Sweetness gets added to the mix, it’s a recipe for love and loss, merriment and mayhem, fun and faith in the backwoods of the Pacific Northwest.

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About the Author: Dana Mentink lives in California, where the weather is golden and the cheese is divine. Dana is an American Christian Fiction Writers Book of the Year finalist for romantic suspense and an award winner in the Pacific Northwest Writers Literary Contest. Her suspense novel, Betrayal in the Badlands, earned a Romantic Times Reviewer's Choice Award. Besides writing, she busies herself teaching third and fourth grade. Mostly, she loves to be home with her husband, two daughters, a dog with social anxiety problems, a chubby box turtle, and a feisty parakeet.

Margie’s Comments:  I had a hard time putting down this book. And that’s not a comment I make about a book very often. I do like Dana’s books, so I was glad when I received her latest, Fetching Sweetness, from the publisher in exchange for an honest review. I hadn’t read one of her romances, though, so I wasn’t sure what to expect. What I got was a good, solidly written story, with plenty of fun and adventure—like the author’s romantic suspense and mystery books. The characters are well developed, from the very first sentence (“Stephanie regretted driving over the wedding cake.”) to the last. And the theme of discovering God’s perfect plan from Jeremiah 29:11 really caught my attention since I’m at a crossroads right now. I highly recommend this book.