A Piece of My Heart (Blessings, Georgia Series #4)

by Sharon Sala

Overview

A USA Today Bestseller!

"Sharon Sala is a consummate storyteller. Her skills shine in her Blessings, Georgia series. If you can stop reading then you're a better woman than me." —DEBBIE MACOMBER, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author

Welcome to Blessings, Georgia, the best small town in the South!

Growing up in a troubled foster home, Mercy Dane knew she could never rely on anyone but herself. She's used to giving her all to people who don't give her a second glance, so when she lands in Blessings, Georgia, she's flabbergasted when the town opens its arms to her. She never dreamed she'd ever find family or friends—or a man who looks at her as if she hung the stars.

Police Chief Lon Pittman is getting restless living in sleepy little Blessings. But the day Mercy Dane roars into his life on the back of a motorcycle, practically daring him to pull her over, he's lost. There's something about Mercy's tough-yet-vulnerable spirit that calls to Lon, and he will do anything in his power to make her realize that home isn't just where the heart is—home is where their heart is.

Blessings, Georgia Series:

You and Only You (Book 1)

I'll Stand by You (Book 2)

Saving Jake (Book 3)

A Piece of My Heart (Book 4)

The Color of Love (Book 5)

Come Back to Me (Book 6)

Forever My Hero (Book 7)

A Rainbow Above Us (Book 8)

What People Are Saying about Sharon Sala's Small Town Romance:

"[Sala] is a master of the romance genre." —RT Book Reviews

"Sala [brings] a serious undertone to an appealing and warm small-town romance, a second chance love story in the mode of Debbie Macomber." —Booklist for Saving Jake

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781492646020
Publisher:	Sourcebooks
Publication date:	05/02/2017
Series:	Blessings, Georgia Series , #4
Pages:	320
Sales rank:	92,389
Product dimensions:	4.10(w) x 6.80(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Sharon Sala has 135+ books in print, published in six different genres—romance, young adult, Western, general fiction, women’s fiction and non-fiction. First published in 1991, her industry awards include the Janet Dailey Award, five-time Career Achievement winner, five-time winner of the National Readers’ Choice Award, five-time winner of the Colorado Romance Writers’ Award of Excellence, the Heart of Excellence award, the Booksellers Best Award, the Nora Roberts Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Centennial Award in recognition of her 100th published novel. She lives in Oklahoma, the state where she was born. Visit her at www.sharonsalaauthor.com and www.facebook.com/sharonsala.

Editorial Reviews

04/03/2017
Sala’s clunky fourth Blessings, Georgia series (after Saving Jake) combines second chances and homespun sweetness in a pithy story. Mercy Dane has spent the majority of her life alone, bouncing from one foster home to another while learning how to bake tasty treats and rely on herself. A Christmas good deed catapults her from the big city of Savannah, Ga., to the small town of Blessing, where she finds much more than holiday cheer. Police chief Lon Pittman never forgot the anonymous young woman he met seven years ago on the worst night of her life. Imagine his surprise when the leather-clad, motorcycle-riding woman who blows into town to donate her rare-type blood and save the life of one of the local nurses turns out to be the one woman who was never far from his thoughts. The story is rife with clichés. The essence of small-town life and the joys of chosen family shine through, and glimpses into the thoughts and lives of the secondary characters give the plot some depth and a sense of continuity, but this still feels like Sala phoned it in. Agent: Meredith Bernstein, Meredith Bernstein Literary. (May)

Publishers Weekly

"There are not many authors who can write a story with such depth and emotion, but Sala excels and shines. The emotions are tugged in all different directions: love, lust, fear and so many others. Sala is magical!" — RT Book Reviews

"Fans of Susan Mallery may also enjoy this warm small-town-romance series." — Booklist

"Sala’s fans will enjoy returning to a picture-perfect Southern town with wholesome American values" — Kirkus Reviews

"I have loved this series from the first book and I look forward to more from Blessings, Georgia." — Harlequin Junkie

From the Publisher

2017-03-21
A very traditional, chaste, contemporary romance with an emphasis on faith, family, and community.The fourth novel in Sala's (Saving Jake, 2016, etc.) Blessings, Georgia series offers an original meet-cute when the heroine's motorcycle is pulled over by the police chief as she races from Savannah to small-town Blessings to donate her rare blood to a car accident victim. Mercy Dane was raised by the foster care system in near poverty, making her self-reliant and resilient. When she learns that the recipient of her donated blood is her long-lost older sister, Mercy can't refuse the offer to move to Blessings to explore her newly discovered relations. Descriptions of Mercy as tough and resistant to relationships don't mesh with her tendency to sob when insulted or her willingness to pull up her roots and move an hour away to live in a stranger's house. Lon is a more consistent, if bland, character: faithful and honorable, he reassures the skittish Mercy, "If you don't quit me, I can promise I'll never quit you." Blessings is populated by the usual stock characters, including a trio of petty, jealous women, a lonely salon owner who lives for gossip, and a stern judge. While small-town romance is an inherently nostalgic subgenre, Sala pushes the plausibility envelope. A place where Italian-Americans are called "foreigners" and where black leather and a bike helmet mark a woman as an outsider may seem more bizarre and unsettling than attractive to many readers. Sala's fans will enjoy returning to a picture-perfect Southern town with wholesome American values and a few bad apples, but others may be put off by its predictable geography.

Kirkus Reviews