Review: A Sweet Romance Revolving Around A Sad Time In US History!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 28, 2014
This heart-warming story takes place after a terrible time in our history, Black Tuesday in 1929, with the crash of the stock market and the beginning of the Depression.  We have men who had so much invested into the market that took their own lives.  We have families who lost almost everything.  But throughout this story, we find strong people with perseverance who deal with the circumstances that come to them.  Families that are existing day by day for survival.  Men like Charlie who had to give up his dream in New York as an upcoming artist to move back to New Jersey to be there for his family. Rose who had to leave Vassar and now was taking care of her society mother and working jobs to put food on the table. Charlie, selling paintings at the Boardwalk and Rose meeting was never an accident, it was meant to be.  I love how she was practical and had a great business sense to her.  Her faith in Charlie's painting and desire to revise part of the home her and her mother lived in to become a gallery.  Her vision and business intelligence was a win-win for not only Charlie, as an artist, and many other artist, but for the entire community. I loved the interaction of the characters in this story and the HEA ending.