Walking On Air: A Valance Family Novel Author: Catherine Anderson | Language: English | ISBN:
B00DYX9O4I | Format: PDF
Walking On Air: A Valance Family Novel Description
From “incomparable” (Fresh Fiction) author Catherine Anderson comes a novel of lost souls, second chances, and love everlasting.... Random, Colorado, is just another stop on the road for solitary gunslinger Gabriel Valance. Known for his drinking, gambling, and womanizing, he prefers to remain a stranger to anyone who crosses his path. But when an upstart gunslinger catches Gabe off guard and shoots him down, he regrets his empty, lonely life with his dying breath....
Golden-haired beauty Nancy Hoffman settled in Random after fleeing an abusive past. Caring for her younger sister and working in a hat shop help her to forge ahead, though she remains fearful and mistrustful of men—and marriage....
Their paths will cross when Gabe gets a second chance at life and a divine mission: to sweep Nancy off her feet, gain her trust, and convince her to believe in his love. And in doing so, the once-hardened cowboy may save himself....
- File Size: 1198 KB
- Print Length: 433 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0451418336
- Publisher: Signet (February 4, 2014)
- Sold by: Penguin Group (USA) LLC
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00DYX9O4I
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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- Lending: Not Enabled
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,304 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
As a long time fan of Catherine Anderson I was happy to find that her latest novel, Walking on Air was all I hoped it would be. This author has a way of tugging at the heartstrings and creating characters that you love to read about. Our hero Gabe Valance and our heroine Nan Hoffman take a journey of the heart as the time they spend together changes them both for the better and it's a wonderful journey for the reader.
Gabe is a gunslinger and early on Christmas day his luck finally runs out and he finds himself dying on the street from a gun shot wound to the chest. He awakens in the presence of two angels who give him the chance to return to earth for 30 days to make positive changes in the lives of people around him and in the process make himself a little more appealing when he dies again hoping to find himself at the Pearly Gates instead of flames licking at his feet for the rest of eternity! When Gabe finds himself back on earth he is determined to do whatever it takes to save himself and follow all the rules these angels have set out for him, but he soon learns this is easier said than done.
Nan Hoffman is a beautiful but joyless woman raising her younger sister as her daughter and running her hat shop. Afraid of men and determined never to marry due to a horrifying experience at the hands of an unwanted suitor, Nan is ill prepared to receive a gunslinger at her door who strongly suggests that she marry him. Desperate to avoid the circumstances he has laid out for her if she refuses, Nan agrees to marry Gabe with no intention whatsoever of caring for him, but she has no idea how easily this man will sneak past her defenses and make her doubt everything she thought she ever wanted for her life.
Even though I read the blurb, this book still took me by surprise. It was like a cross between 'Touched by an Angel' (old TV show from 80s) and Charles Dickens 'A Christmas Carol' set in the Old West. It was a spicy historical paranormal romance and sweet inspiration romance. And yes, I know that sounds confusing and yet that's what I got when I read this book. I had changing feelings about this book, but for the most part they swung toward gentle pleasure in a heartwarming holiday read. That's the other thing that took me by surprise since I didn't realize it covers the time frame between Thanksgiving and Christmas. So yep, late holiday book review for you. Just think of it as like those people who leave the lights up all year round except in this case its books.
The story opens at the end of a life and begins with the person being offered a second chance to make things right by taking on a difficult, but worthy task. Gabriel Valence grew up hard and learned to be tough and at the end of his life he has no good to balance out the bad that allows him to enter heaven. He never set much store by religion so learning that God and angels exist along with heaven and hell are only some of the surprises in store. He has a chance to make his life count, but its a slim one. He is offered a choice of three lost souls that he'll have one month to save. There is an old disheartened man who lost his wife and daughters to sickness so he wallows in dirt, misery and drink. There is a small homeless boy starving and freezing under the stairs of a brothel waiting for his mother to return for him. And finally, there is a beautiful woman who thinks she's a murderer so is hiding out with her sister pretending they are mother and daughter all the while she won't abide a man in her life ever again.
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