This is a compilation of three novels that all meet together on Route 66, and each novel includes a reunion of former loves. First in the book is Facing Tessa's Past, where Tessa takes her three sons on a trip along Route 66 from Amarillo, Texas, to the route's beginning in Chicago. On the way, she stops in Oklahoma City and takes her sons to Pizza Playground where she runs into Blake, her youngest son's father. Of all the people to encounter, Blake is last on Tessa's list. Tessa is a different person than when Blake knew her, especially due to the fact that she has surrendered her life to Jesus Christ. When she returns to Amarillo, she finds that Blake is moving back to Amarillo to put in another Pizza Playground. He inserts himself into Tessa's family and makes her fall in love with him all over again. The only problem is that Blake doesn't have a relationship with Christ.
The second story in this book is Redeeming Sarah's Present. Sarah and Kevin have an eighteen year old son, Trey, whom they gave up for adoption. Trey's parents have made sure to send Sarah and Kevin a letter and picture every year around his birthday. For Trey's eighteenth birthday, they arrange for Trey to meet Sarah and Kevin, but Sarah hasn't seen Kevin for the last eighteen years and running into him after meeting Trey is not the cap to such an occasion. As Kevin and Sarah reacquaint themselves, Sarah is also being pursued by one of the doctors she works with. She likes the doctor, but she doesn't love him, not like she loves Kevin. Still there are roadblocks in the course of true love.
Building Amanda's Future sees Amanda returning to Litchfield, Illinois, after her husband and her daughter were killed in a car accident. She has finished school and is set to begin teaching kindergarten in the fall. Right before she arrives, a tornado had ripped through the area and taken one of her friends leaving behind her former boyfriend and his niece. Amanda and Chad had been in love since high school and into college until Susan set up a series of events that split them up. Amanda moved to California where she met Ken, married him, and had Charity. When Charity was ten months old, Ken and Charity were killed, pushing Amanda to finish her degree and then find a job. Because of the tornado that had taken Chad's sister, Jessica, and Jessica's husband, and leaving their daughter behind needing her Uncle Chad in a most serious way, and Chad needing Amanda.
Mildred Colvin has written three very entertaining stories with a typical romance novel formula--boy meets girl, boy gets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl back. While the formula fits this series of novellas, it doesn't detract from the entertainment value of the stories, and the way Mildred has tied all three of them together makes a cohesive book, great for afternoon reading.
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