Family Heirlooms Series, Book 6: Worlds Collide by Karen Wiesner

“ 5.0 out of 5 stars Worlds Collide, Book 6 of the Family Heirlooms Series
I enjoyed Marc and Keiko's story while Marc struggled to be a gentleman with Keiko. As her parents’ customs dictate, she’s been engaged to an older man since she was a child. Her secret feelings for Marc solidify her desire to disobey their wishes and break the engagement that has nothing to do with love. Keiko and Marc have been best friends since the day they met, working at the same missionary hospital in Japan. Marc is also friends with Keiko’s brother. The two siblings have accepted the Lord but aren’t ready to tell their parents. When Marc returns to America, Keiko can’t bear to be separated with him. But can they find a way to be together when they come from such different worlds? I enjoyed watching the couple struggle with their desires, needs, and family traditions as well as the glimpse into a different culture.”

Hotcha, Amazon Reviews ”

Book Six Family Heirloom: Persevering in adversity

Dr. Marcus Samuels is a medical missionary in Japan, and his life has been God's work despite a severe anxiety disorder associated with being far from home. After twelve years of watching his happily married siblings and their children, he can no longer deny the chronic ache inside him and knows he should start his own family life back in the States--though he has serious doubts about his wife-hunting abilities at the age of forty. Spurred into motion by his mother's sudden illness, he's caught off-guard when he realizes just how much he'll miss Keiko Oichi and her brother Haruki, fellow pediatricians at the Children's Christian Mission Hospital. The two have not only been his lifeline while in a foreign, distant place, but have also become family to him.

Keiko and Haruki grew up in the United States as foreign exchange students. It was through their host family that she and her older sibling became Christians. Her conversion to Christ, as well as getting to know Marcus, have radically altered her emotionally-detached acceptance of her traditional Japanese future. When Marcus says he's leaving Japan for good, she feels lost at the prospect of living without her closest friend. Only with Marcus can she be the woman she truly is inside--if she can shed the cocoon of lifelong familial tradition and impossible expectations and be free.

Knowing Keiko has been betrothed since she was a child, Marcus had trained himself not to see her as a potential mate. But learning of her unhappiness and fear of being unequally yoked to an immoral man she can never love opens his eyes to possibilities he hasn't allowed himself to consider. Who better to fall in love with than your very best friend? When Keiko's parents learn of her conversion and feelings for a Christian man, the couple faces a crossroads in love and faith that will change both of their lives irrevocably.

GENRE: Inspirational Romance     ISBN: 978-1-925191-00-4   ISBN PRINT D2D: 9798224471225    ASIN: 1312329017     Word Count: 66, 185

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