Review: Smuggled Treasure
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 08 14, 2010
The road home isn't always a straight shot. Sometimes it curves around mountains and dips down into valleys. Often it's rough, full of potholes, and winds through dark, unfamiliar territory.Samantha Warren left her home in Vermont for a bigger, brighter, more successful life in the big city. Seven years later, she returns to visit her grandparents during a winter break. In their attic, she discovers an old smuggler's chest with a fascinating history. In their church, she re-discovers the man she left behind in her quest for "more." In her heart, she discovers God...waiting patiently to be reinstated as first priority in her busy life.When it's time to return to the city, Sammie finds herself torn between the past she left behind and the new life she's built in a different world. Will renewed faith open her eyes to the things that really matter? And will the smuggler's chest hold a future for her, as it did for her ancestors?What a beautiful, heartwarming, soul-stirring little story! JoAnn Carter says more in thirty-seven pages than many authors can produce in an epic novel. It's a thought-provoking picture of a life in transition, a love in the balance, and a God Who never stops caring. Smuggler of the Heart is good stuff. Period.