September 26, 2022
Schober (After She Falls) delivers a satisfying contemporary romance set in the high-stakes world of reality TV. Nashville couple Lance Broussard and Georgina Havoc live it up as the stars of home design reality TV shows. After Georgina has a miscarriage, Lance decides he needs a break from their relationship, leaving Georgina feeling abandoned by him and unsure of her faith in God. Their TV network asks Lance and Georgina to compete against each other for a spot in the lineup, and the less popular Georgina faces an uphill battle. She teams with her best friend Poppy and travels to Tarragon, Tenn., to fix up a cottage for her pilot episode. While there, she hits it off with Cassidy, a widower and recovering alcoholic, but Georgina isn’t sure if she agrees with his strict Christian fundamentalist outlook and has reservations about his career as a military sniper. Then Lance asks Georgina for another chance and offers her a huge career opportunity, pushing her to decide whether she wants him or Cassidy and what role God should play in her life. Schober excels at depicting Georgina’s growth as a person and how her relationship with Cassidy deepens her connection with God. This pleasing inspirational charms.
October 15, 2022
Hoping to restart her career if not her love life, Georgina Havoc, home-design influencer and cohost of the show Nail Breakers, heads to the little Tennessee town of Tarragon to film a pilot for what could potentially be a new series. Once she arrives, however, she quickly finds that she must not only deal with efforts by Lance Broussard, Georgina's professional design partner (not to mention the man she thought she would marry) to disrupt her life but also some on-site challenges with the house she plans to renovate. Fortunately, Georgina does have one ace up her sleeve, military man turned farm operations manager Cassidy Stokes, who is more than happy to lend his expertise and elbow grease to her cause. Schober's latest offers both a wonderful cast of realistically flawed characters and an entertaining plot that not only makes the most of its reality-television premise but also offers a compelling message about how God's grace can help us put the pieces of our lives back together when things fall apart.
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