Angry at being rejected for military service, Minister Tyrell Walker accepts the call to serve as a civilian spy within his own country.
Across the river from Cincinnati, Ohio, a spy working for a foreign country is stealing secret plans for newly developed ammunition to be used in the war. According to Tyrell’s FBI cousin, this spy favors pink stationery giving strong indications a woman is involved.
Tyrell’s instructed to obtain a room in the Rayner Boarding House run by the lovely, spunky red-haired Emma Jaine Rayner. Sparks of jealousy and love fly between them immediately even as they battle suspicions that one or the other is not on the up and up.
While Tyrell searches for the murdering spy who reaches even into the boarding home, Emma Jaine struggles with an annoying renter, a worried father (who could be involved in this spy thing), and two younger sisters who are very different but just as strong willed as she is.
Tyrell works to keep his double life a secret and locate the traitor. He refuses to believe that Emma Jaine could be involved even when he sees a red-haired woman in the arms of another man. Could the handsome and svelte banker who’s also determined to win Emma Jaine s hand for marriage, be the dangerous man he’s looking for? Is the trouble-making renter who hassles Emma Jaine serving as a flunky? Worse, is Papa Rayner so worried about his finances and keeping his girls in the style they re used to, that he’ll stoop to espionage?
Will their love survive the danger and personal issues that arise to hinder the path of true love?
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Sexual Content - 1/5
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Violence - 3/5
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Summary
From: Carol Pennington
Book Title: With Music in Their Hearts
Book Author: Carole Brown
What do you like about this book:
This novel is an historical romance and spy book rolled into one neat package. Emma Jaine is the oldest of three sisters. When her mother died, she took on the responsibility of assisting her father in raising the girls. As if that were not enough, she also convinced him to turn their home into a boarding house and she runs it almost single handedly. With her many responsibilities and the war in progress, she hasn’t given a lot of thought to marriage. That changes when Tyrell moves into the boarding house. What Emma Jaine does not know is that he is a spy.
I enjoyed this book. It is clean, has lots of adventure, kept me guessing and has sweet romance. I recommend it for anyone who likes historical romance or mysteries.
Your ratings of the level of sex, violence, language and drug/alcohol use on a scale of 1-5.
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