Entertaining and Enjoyable

are words I’ve often used to described the Love Inspired books, and Winning the Teacher’s Heart is a book that also falls into that category. I’ve read Love Inspired books since I was an older teenager, borrowed from my grandmother, and one of the things that I love about them is that they’re perfect books to read quickly but still find yourself fully absorbed into the story.

Jean Gordon is an author whose books I’d never read before, and this novel is part of a series called The Donnelly Brothers. Jean did an excellent job fleshing her characters–good girl Becca, and bad boy Jared–and the scenes were vivid and realistic. I appreciate when an author can bring together two characters who are opposites in a seamless, fluid manner. Jean pulled that off nicely!

I highly recommend this book. If you enjoy a nice, quick, clean read, this is an author whose books you will appreciate and enjoy.

About the Author

Jean C. Gordon’s writing is a natural extension of her love of reading. From that day in first grade when she realized t-h-e was the word “the,” she’s been reading everything she can put her hands on. A professional financial planner and editor for a financial publisher, Jean is as at home writing retirement- and investment-planning advice as she is writing romance novels, but finds novels a lot more fun.

She and her college-sweetheart husband tried the city life in Los Angeles, but quickly returned home to their native Upstate New York. They share a 170-year-old farmhouse just south of Albany, NY, with their daughter and son-in-law, two grandchildren, and a menagerie of pets. Their son lives nearby. While Jean creates stories, her family grows organic fruits and vegetables and tends the livestock de jour.

Although her day job, writing and family don’t leave her a lot of spare time, Jean likes to give back when she can. She and her husband team-taught a seventh-and-eighth-grade Sunday school class for several years and currently serve on her church’s Evangelism Committee. She also shares her love of books with others by volunteering at the church’s Book Nook.

You can keep in touch with her on Facebook, Twitter and at her website.

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