Remember the Lilies
February 11th, 2015. Filed under: Tuesday's Tempting Reads.Remember the Lilies
By Liz Tolsma
Be swept away to exotic places in Liz Tolsma’s Remember the Lilies! Filled with mystery, romance, and a race to find a family before it’s too late, you’ll want to keep the pages turning.
Irene and Rand come from very different walks of life. Will they find common ground in their fight to survive?
Irene has grown up in the jungle as a missionary with her Aunt Anita, but now she and countless others are imprisoned by Japanese soldiers at the Santo Tomas Internment Camp in the Philippines. Irene and her aunt are safe there, and she keeps busy with her duty of delivering censored messages to the camp’s prisoners, but like everyone else, she prays for the war to end and for her freedom.
Rand is a wealthy, womanizing American, whose attempted escape from the internment camp has put himself and others in danger. When Rand and Irene’s Aunt Anita meet one another in the hospital, Irene learns more of his story and her heart is determined to save his family.
But the danger outside the walls of the hospital worsens every day, and life in this exotic place is anything but luxurious. Can Irene find Rand’s family before they disappear forever? And can a humble missionary woman and an arrogant man find common ground in the face of their biggest fears?
ISLAND BREEZES
Rand and Irene come from very different backgrounds, but both end up in an internment camp as prisoners of war. Life becomes a desperate struggle for survival. Many don’t live to leave the Santo Tomas Internment Camp.
As always, Ms Tolsma has done a masterful job of sucking me into her story. I learn so much from her historical novels, and it is such an enjoyable way to learn. There were so many things I didn’t know about WWII before reading her novels.
I’m looking forward to more of Ms Tolsma’s history lessons.
***A special thank you to litfuse for providing a review copy.***
New York Times best-selling author Liz Tolsma is the author of Daisies are Forever, Snow on the Tulips, and the contributing author of A Log Cabin Christmas. When not busy putting words to paper, Liz enjoys reading, walking, working in her large perennial garden, kayaking, and camping. She lives in Wisconsin with her husband and children, all adopted internationally.