Return of the Song (The Rockwater Suite)

This is a review for the novel Return of the Song ( The Rockwater Suite) which I received in exchange for this review. The thoughts inside this review are my own.

I love finding new books about subjects I hadn’t read in the past including music and the loss of a loved one. Which makes me feel loser to the characters and my own my own daughter who was killed in a freak accident.

For me it’s hard to sit down and make the commitment to read a series of books because something always comes up. I never have time to read each book. But that wasn’t the case with Return of the Song because once I started reading this novel I didn’t want to put these novels down.

I couldn’t wait to get the next two novels in this series. As well as check out what other books Phyllis Clark Nichols had published that would capture my attention.

Charlie and I discussed how the main character Caroline in Return of the Song had lost her fiance. Charlie and I discussed how she dealt with the loss. As well as ways Charlie could handle losing my dad his grandfather through music.

Return of the Song lead us to Piano Lesson for our homeschooling Music class. When we finished reading Return of the Song I lent the novel to my mother in law who liked the story line as much as I did.

Caroline Carlyle’s dreams were crushed when her fiancé died six weeks before their wedding. For years she wrestled with aching loss and shattered faith, struggling to find the inspiration that once came so easily. Abandoning her half-finished piano compositions, Caroline trades her old ambitions for the comfort and familiarity of life as the town’s piano teacher.

But Caroline’s world turns upside down when a mysterious stranger enters her life. Filled with courage and fresh purpose, Caroline embarks on a quest to track down the beloved, rare piano she played as a child. Her search leads her to Rockwater, the Kentucky estate of a wealthy gentleman, where Caroline finds her heart may be composing a surprising new song.

Phyllis Clark Nichols

Phyllis Clark Nichols believes everyone could use a little more hope and light. Her character-driven Southern fiction explores profound human questions from within the simple lives of small town communities you just know you’ve visited before.

With a love for nature, art, music, faith and ordinary people, she tells redemptive tales of loss and recovery, estrangement and connection, longing and fulfillment, often through surprisingly serendipitous events.

Phyllis was raised in the deep shade of magnolia trees in Cairo, Georgia. Now she lives in the Texas Hill Country with her portrait-artist husband, where red birds and axis deer are her ever-ravenous neighbors.

She is an English major, concert artist and co-founder of a national cable network for people with disabilities. For over a decade she has worked in the orphanages of Guatemala and currently serves on several non-profit boards where she works with others who are equally passionate about bringing hope and light to those who need it most.

Phyllis Clark Nichols is the author of THE CHRISTMAS PORTRAIT and CHRISTMAS AT GREY SAGE.

Don’t forget to check out Freedom of the Song (The Rockwater Suite Book 2) and Ransom for a Song (The Rockwater Suite Book 3). Then check out the rest of her novels.

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Thank you,

Glenda, Charlie and David Cates