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She’s a committed Christian. He’s a dedicated father. Will a chance meeting repair their fragile hearts?Tessa Scott can’t help but question God’s will. After the animal surgeon’s long-term boyfriend cut loose, she’s all alone except for the goofy, untrained stray she met outside her clinic. But when a trip to puppy … goofy, untrained stray she met outside her clinic. But when a trip to 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…
A roller-coaster ride of emotions and experiences ensue as Tessa, Ben and Jayden do life together and learn to trust God to meet their every need.
“The True Love and Precious Love Boxset” includes all 7 books from both series, plus “Unchained”, “True Love at Christmas” and “Promises of Love”.
If you like charming characters, faith-filled families, and friendships that become something more, then you’ll love Juliette Duncan’s inspirational second-chance romance set in sunny Queensland, Australia.
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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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
Wonderful boxset of Christian Romance. Love is the center theme with faith and inspiration threading each story. If you like clean faith based stories, you can’t go wrong with this box set. I highly recommend ‘The True Love and Precious Love series’.
These books were wonderfully written. You can tell the b writer took her time to go through each detail with such meaning in it. I greatly enjoyed reading this set and I highly recommend others to read it as well.
I did receive an advanced copy of the books and the review is mine voluntarily.
I absolutely loved having so many books dedicated to the same characters! This is an amazing boxset.
Tender Love:
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.
Tested Love:
A wonderful continuation of Tess and Ben’s story. I love how Duncan is not afraid to showcase the realities of life. Even without a step-son, life as a married couple isn’t a breeze. No matter how much time you spend together prior to marriage, there are somethings you won’t know or be expecting. There are ups and downs, disagreements and fights. How you handle these, how you treat your partner, and how you reach an agreement is what is important.
Tormented Love:
Tormented? Yes, definitely. Tortured, painful, heartbreaking? Yes to all. “No-one gets through life on this side of heaven unscathed.” How true this is and how well documented it is in this book, as well as Christian perspectives on it and various ways of dealing with it. Our same amazing characters from the first two books are here in the storms of life.
Triumphant Love:
Wow. This series has put me through the wringer. I thought the first book was great, but now that I’m at the fourth book and I look at is as a one long story? Wow. It is simply incredible. This book is the rainbow after the storm, though there are still some showers. We were introduced to more characters’ perspectives in this book and I think it really lent well to the story.
True Love at Christmas:
A sweet and short with characters we didn’t know much about but saw around in the True Love series and we were introduced to even more. I’m excited to see what happens to them in Promises of Love.
Promises of Love:
I enjoyed seeing Harrison get his own book. There were great characters, some rough times, and a lot of teachable moments. I’m super excited to head over to the Precious Love series for more of the True Love series characters!
Forever Cherished:
Wow. This was a wonderful blend of Leah’s story with Tess and Ben’s. I loved getting to know Leah and her past and finding out more of what is going on in Tess, Ben, Jayden, and Naomi’s life. I’m super excited to find out what the next book holds!
Forever Faithful:
I was surprised at the time jump to this book as all the others of their story has been pretty much one after the other, however, I had been hoping for more of Jayden and his story. I was not disappointed! This book really was incredible.
Forever His:
The last book in the Precious Love series. I am saddened to see this series end, but so thankful that Unchained will be one last connected bonus book. We’ve been with these people for so long, through so many books, with their trials and joys. I really liked getting to adventure around the world with Jayden and Ange on their backpacking honeymoon. It was exciting to live vicariously through them and experience these places and learn things.
Unchained:
These main characters are ones from Forever His, and periphery characters who have a strong spot in this book are from the True Love – Precious Love series. This was a difficult book to read. The criminal aspect made it pretty unique among Duncan’s books. I put myself in the shoes of Sal and Hol and the clients…wow. We talk about God over all and Him being all we need and about forgiveness and second chances and redemption for everyone. This was a book that I feel would really pay any Christian open and force themselves to examine their inner selves. Really masterfully done.
I received a free copy of this boxset and am voluntarily leaving an honest review.
Great series, I may take a while to make it through but well worth it. Imperfect characters who have faith and seek guidance through their relationship with Goa and prayer. So may life struggles are presented in this series: health issues, divorce, child kidnapping, broken relationship with family, drugs, career choices, embezzlement in the work place and more. I was lifted and inspired as characters faced their conflicts and demons. The scriptures presented also encourage and inspire me in my journey in faith.
Love reading this author. Can always know it will be a great tead
I very much enjoyed reading this series. It was inspiring and helped me with my own faith journey. The characters were interesting and I could empathize with their thoughts and feelings. Since I was raised with religion but it was not vocalized in this manner, I felt that my eyes were opened to a new way of thinking.
I gave this three stars since some of the books deserved two stars and others deserved four stars. Several were very slow moving with little content. What kept me continuing to read the series was wanting to know the futures of each character.
I can’t say enough good things about this set of books! They are all very well written and hold your attention until the end. I highly recommend this set if you are looking for good, clean christian books. I received this set of books from the author and was not required to write a review. This is my honest opinion.
This is a great opportunity to get this series all together in one place. The people in this story have become like family. They live very real and authentic lives. Juliette has a beautiful simplisitc way of writing style that points the reader to the truths of God and His Love.
I enjoyed these books. They were good clean books and Christian books.
These books tell the story of a family over several years. This series is a great clean romance series and I recommend it highly!
I liked when you read these books you experience faith and trust in GOD to get you through the trials. Also I like the families showcased in the books.