East of the Sun series by Linda Lee Chaikin

(author) Katelyn · Thu Sep 08, 2011 5:22 am

Beautiful series all the way around. Check it out.

(author) Katelyn · Fri Sep 09, 2011 6:06 am

Yes, I quite agree. I just loved it, and I was happy with the whole series. Just didn't like the whole ending of Today's Embrace. But I still love the series and it will be my favorite series for, Probably, forever!

endobenthic · Thu Sep 29, 2011 3:33 pm

Afternoon Katelyn:

What is the storyline of the East of the Sun series?

It's hard to get involved with only the cover art to see, although it is very aluring and well done.

I hope to hear about the books when you get a chance,

endobenthic.

(author) Katelyn · Thu Sep 29, 2011 4:09 pm

Well, it is Christian. It is not preachy, nor judging. It is about a young girl in England. The timeline is early to mid 1800's. It's a romance/mystery though the mystery kicks up in book two. Raised by her aunt and uncle at the rectory in the small English village of Grimston Way, lovely Evy Varley remembers little of her missionary parents and nothing of South Africa, the land where she was orphaned during the Zulu War of 1878. But when Sir Rogan Chantry, the arrogant and handsome son of the local Squire, accuses Evy’s mother of stealing the infamous Kimberly Black Diamond, Evy sets out to prove the rogue wrong and clear her mother’s name.

Secrets abound, however, from the diamond mines of South Africa to the halls of her own beloved rectory. Strangers come to Grimston Way for their own mysterious purposes, a stunned Evy finds that her own aunt and uncle may have concealed disturbing truths about her family, and the dashing Sir Rogan has his own reasons to seek the missing diamond.

Yet despite Rogan’s seemingly rakish ways and the class differences that render a romance between them impossible, Evy finds herself drawn to the man who was once her childhood friend and now holds the keys to her heart. Faced with a dangerous past and an uncertain future, Evy must draw upon her wits and her faith to pursue Tomorrow’s Treasure.

A story of faith, danger and romance, Tomorrow’s Treasure is a masterpiece of historical suspense fiction.

endobenthic · Sun Oct 02, 2011 1:12 pm

Morning Katelyn:

I like historical suspense fiction with faith, danger and romance in them as long as they have depth to them.

There's one type of story that's written lightly with interesting plot lines and has characters that are consistent, but not very deep and you never seem to see their faces or feel that you're inside their place - you don't "see" the movie, so to speak.

But the kind I really like are sweeping sagas where you're drawn in and see, feel, hear and taste the story going on around you and begin to care about the characters as though they're real people (as they've actually become to you, the reader).

How has Linda Lee Chaikin written the story?

(author) Katelyn · Mon Oct 03, 2011 2:58 am

Um, that's hard. I feel like they are real, to me. I'm swept away to another century, another country. I'm there with the characters. Evy is a dear, and you can feel her compassion, and frustration over Rogan, who is very arrogant and determined to convince Evy the she will be his. They do not show his point of veiw in the first book. However, he is the main person in the second. The third, they both are. They are amusing. This is my favorite series, though I can imagine a few better outcomes for it. I was swept away to a completely different world. Where the biggest problem Evy had, was to get Rogan Chantry to leave her alone and make him know she was not going to fawn over him. I was so caught up in the story I couldn't put it down. I even began speaking like them. It's a very good series, and I have been trying to read all of her books.

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