Just Between You and Me by Jenny B. Jones is an awesome read!
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The only thing scarier than living on the edge is stepping off it.
Maggie Montgomery lives a life of adventure. Her job as a cinematographer takes her from one exotic locale to the next. When Maggie’s not working, she loves to rappel off cliffs or go skydiving. Nothing frightens her.
Nothing, that is, except Ivy, Texas, where a family emergency pulls her back home to a town full of bad memories, painful secrets, and people Maggie left far behind . . . for a reason.
Forced to stay longer than she intended, Maggie finds her family a complete mess, including the niece her sister has abandoned. Ten-year-old Riley is struggling in school and out of control at home. The only person who can really handle the pint-sized troublemaker is Conner, the local vet and Ivy’s most eligible bachelor. But Conner and Maggie keep butting heads–he’s suspicious of her and, well, she doesn’t rely on anyone but herself.
As Maggie humorously fumbles her way from one mishap to another, she realizes she’s going to need to ask for help from the one person who scares her the most.
To save one little girl–and herself–can Maggie let go of her fears and just trust God?
This is the first Jenny B. Jones novel I’ve ever read and she has a fresh and fun voice in this novel. Just Between You and Me is in first person, which I don’t tend to enjoy. But you don’t even notice first person in this novel! I was so “into” Maggie and her world that the writing blurred and my imaginary world took over. I loved how broken Maggie and all the characters were in this novel. And how everything ties up at the end, but not into a perfect world – because life simply isn’t perfect no matter how much we’d love it to be. This was my first Jenny B. Jones novel, but not my last!