Book Review: A Path Towards Love by Cara Lynn James

Katherine Osborne, a young widow, has been running the Osborne orange groves since the death of her husband. Exhausted by the strain of money problems and crop failures, she agrees to return to her family's camp in the Adirondacks for the summer. The return, however, comes with strings. In exchange for a loan from her father to get her through harvest, she agrees to accept her mother's social obligations. Unfortunately, her mother's idea of social obligations is to find her a husband, preferably her best friend's son, Randy. Katherine, however, has other ideas including a relationship with Randy's cousin, Andrew.

On the positive side, this book has a Christian theme of forgiveness and wonderful locations: the central Florida citrus groves, and Racquette Lake in the Adirondacks.  On the negative side, Katherine, Randy and Andrew are stereotypes and rather flat. Andrew spends so much time ruminating about Katherine you wonder how he managed to find time to eat and sleep. It becomes tiresome. It's also hard to imagine Katherine having the strength required to run a  business when she can't seem to stand up to her domineering mother.

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