Buy Tender Love and get Tested Love for free… puppy school reveals a dashing single father, Tessa wonders if becoming a wife and a mother may be part of her path…
Ben Williams kept most of his feelings inside when his wife left him. Absorbed with his work and raising his son, he’s surprised by his therapist’s prescription to get a new dog to care for. The captivating woman he meets at training class stirs something inside him, but can he move past his painful divorce to open his heart all over again?
As their friendship grows deeper, the challenge with Ben’s rebellious son rises to a whole new level. If Tessa can overcome her doubts and Ben can embrace his future, then they may just find God’s peace after all…
Tender Love is the first standalone book in The True Love Series, a set of contemporary Christian romance novels set in Queensland, Australia. If you like charming characters, faith-filled families, and friendships that become something more, then you’ll love Juliette Duncan’s inspirational second-chance tale.
Buy Tender Love and get Tested Love as a bonus!
Books by Juliette Duncan
Contemporary Christian Romance
The Shadows Series
Lingering Shadows
Facing the Shadows
Beyond the Shadows
Secrets and Sacrifice
A Highland Christmas
The True Love Series
Tender Love
Tested Love
Tormented Love
Triumphant Love
True Love at Christmas
Promises of Love
Precious Love Series
Forever Cherished
Forever Faithful
Forever His
The Potter’s House Books Series
The Homecoming
Unchained
Blessings of Love
A Time for Everything Series
A Time to Treasure
A Time to Care
A Time to Abide
A Time to Rejoice
Billionaires with Heart Christian Romance Series
Her Kind-Hearted Billionaire
Her Generous Billionaire
Her Disgraced Billionaire
Transformed by Love
Because We Loved
Because We Forgave
Because We Dreamed
Middle Grade Christian Fiction
The Madeleine Richards Series
Rebellion in Riversleigh
Problems in Paradise
Trouble in Town
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Tessa is sad after the breakup from a long term boyfriend. She meets Ben a single father who’s wife has left him and his son for another man. Both are religious and wonder if God is bringing them together or not.
This is the 1st book I read by Juliette Duncan. I liked Christian theme in this story. I liked the puppy in this story, I thought he was cute. The storyline & characters could have been better.
4 stars
I have purchased the 10 book Australian based clean boxset titled The True Love and Precious Love Series Boxset: A Christian Romance by Juliette Duncan and this review was given freely.
The 10 part saga of the Williams family touches on many serious topics that challenge ones faith and health but also provides a picture of the growth, love and comfort that can be found when walking with God. Vivid descriptions are interwoven between heartfelt prayers, family drama and portions of scripture. Includes the titles Tender Love,Tested Love,Tormented Love,Triumphant Love, Forever Cherished,Forever Faithful,Forever His,Unchained,True Love at Christmas,Promises of Love, and A Time to Treasure: Prologue
**Tender Love:
A little ironic. By a twist of fate, Tessa’s counselor roommate Stephanie and two puppies bring veterinarian Tessa Scott and recently divorced single father and accountant Ben Williams together. Contains the serious topics of depression, substance abuse, breaching patient confidentiality and abandonment which are tempered by a strong faith in God.
**Tested Love:
The continued saga of the Williams family is a tense one filled with the sad undercurrents of jealousy,miscarriage, suicide, injuries and Jayden’s secret relationship with his mother Kathryn in Florida, USA.
Newly weds Tessa and Ben Williams struggle with adjusting to each, a new home,a new church family, a new job and mercurial 14 year old Jayden who is testing the waters to learn his place in the new family while struggling with the loss of his old schedule and security.
**Tormented Love:
This installment of the Williams family saga is transcontinental and features a “the grass is not always greener”undertone complicated by peer pressure and both drug and physical abuse but ending on a hopeful note.
Tessa and Ben join her brother Elliot on a mission trip to Ecuador in hopes of reconnecting in both Faith and love while distracting themselves concerning Jayden’s cutting all contact and going to live with his needy and superficial mother Katryn in the USA.
**Triumphant Love:
This final prayer filled complex sequel of the Williams saga features the serious topics of the trials of an unplanned single teen pregnancy, Tessa’s pregnancy scare, substance abuse, murder, the threat of Jayden’s deportation and touches on elder memory loss but is balanced by a renewal of Faith, the loving aide of two wonderful Christian families and a happy Williams family reunion.
After being gone for a year, Montana resident Jayden finds both his Faith in God and love for Angie Morgan deepening, his homesickness for his father and Tessa growing, and his sense of obligation to his abused mother lessening.
**Forever Cherished:
A touch of irony with a fair amount of drama. This prayer filled sequel features the trials and rewards of a new baby, the beginnings of the Williams family’s Misty Morn Christian retreat where Tessa helps her first lodger, depression and suicide troubled Leah Maloney, find Leah’s first love and child, relates Tessa’s father’s progressing dementia and provides an event filled father-son camping trip for Ben and Jayden.
**Forever Faithful:
A second chance at love story where bad things happen to good people but ultimately ends happily with a wedding for the Williams family.
After college veterinary student and Christian youth group leader Jayden is assaulted and receives a life threatening injury from 19 year old Troy Barrett whose drink was spiked, Angie flies to Australia to be by his side only to be followed by her controlling and jealous boyfriend Cole.
**Forever His:
A prayer filled sequel with a nice recap and the story of newlyweds Jayden and Angie Williams’s adjustment to each other as they travel and witness. Contains picturesque descriptions of the places and the people Jayden and Angie see during their year long honeymoon trip around the world but also contains Ben and Angie struggles over how to take care of her aging parents and how Ben’s boss Brad being investigated for embezzlement will affect them.
**Unchained:
A poignant companion novel to the Williams family saga starting the day well to do stay at home mom Sally Richardson finds out she is penniless because of her accountant husband Brad’s gambling addiction and embezzling. This is a prayer filled novella depicting a family’s struggle with addiction, communication and self image as they build a closer relationship with both God and each other.
Can be read as a standalone but best if read in sequence.
**True Love at Christmas:
Taking place around the time Tessa and Ben go on their first mission trip, this is a Christmas companion novel to the Williams family saga featuring the true meaning of Christmas, a reaffirmation of Faith, veterinarian Harrison Smith’s romance with Zoe Taylor and, the Christmas surprise he and his siblings give their parents.
**Promises of Love:
An emotion packed continuation of True Love at Christmas laced heavily with the theme of loss but ends happily. Promises of Love finds the newly engaged Zoe Taylor and Harrison Smith spending Christmas day with Zoe’s extended family and her financially struggling parents, Harrison hoping for a short engagement while Zoe is torn trying to figure out how to make everyone happy while dealing with doubts concerning her relationship with the no-Christian Harrison, her grandmother’s sudden illness and with the sudden return of her high school boyfriend Spencer.
**A Time to Treasure: Prologue: Not read
Oh! HIPPA is there for a reason and this part of the story pained me! You can see where the conflict will occur and cringe waiting for it! An amazing story with wonderful characters. I really liked how we got more perspectives than just Tess and Ben’s. It made for a more intricate and well rounded story. I truly enjoyed it and am excited for the next book in this series.
I received a free copy of this book and am voluntarily leaving an honest review.
I enjoyed this book very much
This was not a romantic story at all. At the most I would call this a chic lit story. The personal issues out shine anything else.
This book is part of a series and even though it has a stopping point. The author leaves you with a small tease to want to get the next book and continue reading. I enjoyed the story line and characters.
I loved this book and the others in this series. I loved all the scripture passages that fit right into the story. The book helped me see where my faith has faltered and gave me hope in God that He will also see me and my family through heartache and tough times.
I just couldn’t get in to this book.
I enjoyed this book which kept me wanting to keep reading to find out what was coming next. There was enough unexpected twists to the storyline that it did not seem totally predictable. It made me want to read the sequel.
I read this book all in one day as I couldn’t put it down. It was a wonderful read. Love the author!
I enjoyed reading it. Hopeful, real struggles with dealing with thought, feeling for a Christian
A great Christian read. I really liked the book. I read within 2 days. Even bought the next book to see what will happen next.