By Your Side by Candace Calvert

By Your Side by Candace Calvert ISBN-13: 9781414390321 Paperback: 384 pages Publisher: Tyndale House Released: March 1st 2015

Source: Rented through Amazon Unlimited.

Book Description from Goodreads:
ER nurse Macy Wynn learned essential, gritty lessons in the California foster care system: land on your feet and trust no one. She’s finally located the fellow foster child she loves like a sister, but the girl’s in deep trouble. Macy’s determined to help, no matter what it takes. Her motto is to “make it happen” in any situation life throws at her—even when she butts heads with an idealistic cop.

Deputy Fletcher Holt believes in a higher plan, the fair outcome—and his ability to handle that by himself if necessary. Now he’s been yanked from Houston, his mother is battling cancer, and he’s attracted to a strong-willed nurse who could be the target of a brutal sniper.

When everything goes wrong, where do they put their trust?


My Review:
By Your Side is a Christian romantic suspense novel. While this book can be read as a stand-alone novel, Fletcher is a main character in "Life Support." You can understand what's going on without reading that book, though.

All of the character were complex and acted in realistic ways. Macy grew up in the foster care system and has learned to trust no one to look out for her but herself. However, she secretly longs for security and a loving family, so she's determined to help out one of her foster care "sisters" who's in trouble. Fletcher is determined to somehow save his mother, who is struggling with cancer – yet again. Both Macy and Fletcher like saving others and feeling in control. They quickly came to admire each other as they kept encountering each other under stressful circumstances. A sniper is randomly firing at people. Or is he? Macy and Fletcher are usually on the scene.

I liked the story, but I was surprised by how easily Fletcher believed a jerk that he knew was trying to keep him away from Macy and wasn't really willing to listen to her side. The Christian element was Macy coming to trust that God loves and cares for her and Fletcher releasing his expectations of how God will fix certain circumstances. There was no sex or bad language. There was an attempted rape scene, but it was only briefly and not very graphically described. Overall, I'd recommend this enjoyable novel.


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