Hallie's Heart

by Shelly Beach

Book Overview

Mona VanderMolen, an antique dealer in a small Michigan town, is trying to keep her business alive. As Mona faces the uncertainties of her own future, Hallie, Mona's fifteen-year-old niece, suddenly arrives on her doorstep. Guilt-ridden over her sister's drowning several years earlier, Hallie has run off to her aunt's cottage. As the two women work through their problems and learn to forgive, will an unfortunate accident tear them apart once again?...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0825424364
• ISBN13: 9780825424366
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Kregel Publications
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

What's Not to Love about Hallie's Heart

In a moving and tender but topical and fresh manner, Shelly Beach's novel, Hallie's Heart, is first and foremost an inspiring story. With real and lovable characters and contemporary situations, you'll laugh as well as cry as Mona and her teenage niece, Hallie, confront the past and strengthen the bonds of family relationships. Sideline characters will win your heart too. Not just for teens, this is today's Christian fiction with a message for everyone. Strongly recommended for women of any age.

Great new author!

This is a very good book. I love the humor that is interspersed in Shelly Beach's writing about everyday life. She delves into pain and God's healing in a gentle and loving way through her characters. I am eager to read a sequel. I highly recommend Hallie's Heart!

Hallies Heart

It was fun to read of places where I am from in the central Michigan area. I would recomend this book to anyone as a refreshing break. I enjoyed it and feel that she did a great job writing it.

Teenage Forgiveness

Hallie's Heart is a refreshing story of a troubled teenager and a loving Aunt who reaches out to help Hallie in life's situations. Written with suspense and beautiful verbal articulation; a novel which depicts God's forgiveness and love. Hallie's Heart calls for another episode!

fresh fiction

This first novel by Beach is filled with fresh characters and events and details. Beach tells a serious tale with a winsome touch of humor. When I finished the book, I hugged my oldest son who just happened to be walking through the room. The good and courageous relationships in this book left me wanting more of that in my own life. And Beach better start writing--I believe there's more of Mona and Hallie's story to be told. I'm left ready to read it!