While Love Stirs

Description

At the turn of the 20th century an independent young woman with new ideas must decide between two suitors while in pursuit of her dreams.

From Booklist
Charlotte Gregory is a gifted cook whose headstrong personality brings her success in the kitchen but frustration outside of it. Irritated by the social norms of 1910, Charlotte meets her match when handsome Dr. Joel Brooks refuses to listen to her ideas for the hospital nutrition plan. Charlotte's stubbornness threatens to disarm Dr. Brooks' careful control of the local hospital and his emotions. When the scars of past loves are revealed, Charlotte and Joel must remember how to trust and experience the joy of not settling for less than their wildest dreams. Set in St. Paul, Minnesota, the second historical romance in Seilstad's (When Love Calls, 2013) Gregory Sisters series is an artfully decorated period piece with details that transport readers to an era of street cars and suffragists. As her characters toe the line between pleasing others yet refusing to be manipulated by them, Seilstad expertly charts the balance of control between Charlotte and Joel over the course of exciting and unexpected plot twists. --Kate Campos

From the Back Cover
Take one lovely young woman.
Add two ambitious young men.
Stir . . . and stand back.

As a graduate of Fannie Farmer's School of Cookery, Charlotte Gregory is thrilled to have the opportunity to travel, lecture, and give cooking demonstrations on the very latest kitchen revolution--the gas stove. And she certainly doesn't mind that the gas company has hired the kindhearted Lewis Mathis to entertain at her lectures.

Lewis encourages Charlotte's work, especially her crusade to introduce fresh, appetizing, nutritious food to those convalescing in hospitals. But young hospital superintendent Dr. Joel Brooks is not convinced any changes should be made--especially by this outspoken young woman.

When Charlotte and Joel are coerced into planning a fund-raising gala for the hospital, will this combustible pair explode?

Follow the second Gregory sister as she looks for true love and makes her way in a rapidly changing world in this breezy, lighthearted love triangle that will keep you guessing.

Lorna Seilstad is the author of When Love Calls and the Lake Manawa Summers series. A former high school English and journalism teacher, she has won several online writing contests and is a member of American Christian Fiction Writers. Lorna lives in Iowa with her husband. Learn more at www.lornaseilstad.com.