In Search Of A Hero by Cheryl Wolverton
Pub. Date: March 2002
Publisher: Harlequin
Format: Mass Market Paperback, 252pp
Series: Steeple Hill Love Inspired Series
ISBN-13: 9780373871735
ISBN: 0373871732
From the back cover:
TO ERR IS HUMAN…
But attorney Rebekkah Hawkley figured it would take nothing short of divine intervention for Andre Watson to learn forgiveness. The stubborn Texan might have come home to save his father’s law firm from a shadowy threat, but he refused to forget an age-old family feud. If only Rebekkah could convince Andre that his dad needed his love — and that she didn’t….
As Andre saw it, unyielding Rebekkah ought to practice what she preached. But her troubled past didn’t concern him nearly as much as her future. He had every intention of showing her that a woman needed more in her life than church and a career. Namely: love, marriage — and him!
I bought this book used a few months ago. I was talking to the author on a writers’ loop and she told me she’d written a Love Inspired with an interracial couple – a black heroine and a white hero. I knew she had to be kidding because I would’ve remembered seeing a Love Inspired with a white hero and black heroine. Cheryl told me the title of the book and I placed my order. Since it’s so old, I could only purchase it used.
One reason I probably didn’t realize the heroine was African American when the book was released is because the only person on the cover is the hero! I wish they’d placed the heroine on the cover too!
It’s a romantic suspense. It appears this book was published before Love Inspired started their romantic suspense line. Andre Watson has returned to his father’s law firm to help them investigate an old case they’ve won. Wondering if the evidence has been tampered, both Andre and Rebekkah, a current lawyer in his father’s practice, work on this case together.
Amidst candlelit dinners and dangerous events the two struggle to come to terms with their deep feelings for each other. Both also try to learn forgiveness and try to make amends with estranged family members.
It was a quick, enjoyable read, so if you can find it used, you should read it.
Anybody know of any other Love Inspireds with minority characters? The only ones that I know of are the book mentioned in this blog post, my own novel, First Mates, Felicia Mason’s Love Inspired novels, and Camy Tang’s Love Inspired suspense.
I’m wishlisting this!!!! I love the older Love Inspired Books! I think my mom may have had this book at one point but I never got to read it! Thanks for sharing!
xoxo~ Renee
I’ve got to look for that one.
Don’t forget Cheryl Wyatt’s Pararescue series which features a Hispanic couple, an Asian jumper, and I think a few other minority supporting characters.
Renee and Patricia, thanks for your comments. Renee, I’ll be giving this book away sometime in 2010! Patricia, I haven’t read Cheryl’s books, but I think I’ll need to check them out!