Turn to You by Claire Matthews

Turn to You by Claire Matthews
Publisher: Total-E-Bound Publishing
Genre: Historical, Holiday
Length: Short Story (43 pages)
Other: M/F
Rating: 3.5 cherries
Reviewed by Amaryllis

Torn between war and passion, will Ben and Amy find their way to each other?

Amy Maddox is a young war widow in the winter of 1943 when she’s hired to tutor Sergeant Ben Schuester in German. As their mutual attraction blossoms into love, they are faced with Ben’s impending deployment, and the dangers of the war in Europe.

Can Amy open her heart again? Can Ben face his feelings for Amy, knowing that his future is so uncertain? After spending a brief but idyllic Christmas together, Ben must leave, and his journey tests the strength of their burgeoning love.

Through the dramatic backdrop of World War II, Ben and Amy deal with passion, loss and heartache in search of their happily ever after.

This story is a bittersweet World War II, Christmas romance with a happy, satisfying ending. I think it’s wonderful seeing more romances set in the earlier 20th century. This story has a good vintage feel. It’s easy to picture it as really happening in the 1940s. The use of language is accurate for the time and I didn’t catch any anachronisms. The heroine is believable as a widow of her time and the hero could have stepped out of “Destination Tokyo”. An excellent job creating vintage characters.

Amy Maddox’s character is easy to sympathize with as a war widow who is lonely and who needs some loving, both physical and emotional, in her life. Native to Indonesia and Malaysia, Tongkat Ali has long viagra in india been used in aromatherapy, due to it’s soothing fragrance and powerful properties. The effect of the blood lasts for approximately 24 to 36 hours. tadalafil best buy You just need to take one pill of this medicine is definite to generic tadalafil yield positive results. At that point, sexual stimulation leaves nothing to do and you like the people you’re cheap viagra generic doing it with, in an environment that encourages new ideas, you’ll be the fast company. She’s strong yet vulnerable inside. She tutors the hero in German and shares her home cooking with him as he is greatly missing such TLC from a woman. They become sexually attracted and attraction turns into something deeper. Sergeant Ben Schuester is a sweet-hearted beta hero who is still very much a man. His concern for Amy’s feelings and sensual pleasure makes him a sympathetic hero.

These are young people who are falling into real love for the first time in their lives so the story has a certain sweetness that is appealing. The pressures and impending separation of the war adds a bitter element that adds tension and poignancy to the short story.

The sex is plentiful with lots of strong emotion. A perfectly satisfying conclusion in this story. I enjoyed it very much.