Into the Fire

Kristen Heitzmann is one of my favorite authors, but I must admit I would've never guessed her to be the author of Told You So until the final few chapters when her familiar voice finally showed up. And until that time Told You So read like a sweet little romance with a southern twang displaced in New York City. The sweet tea and the drama queen novelist Grace Evangeline (Pratt) literally made a splash when seeking out literary playwright Devin Bressard to convert one of her novels into a piece for Broadway. She's the tick to his tock, the yes to his no, and the sass to his blasé. 

With a devoted following of fans for her stories of happily-ending romances featuring faith and purity in relationships, Devin Bressard finds the very thought of her books something less than skilled writing with more than enough hilarious melodrama even though he's never read one and has no plans to do so. Through an attempted "research project" on the man, she establishes herself as trouble but manages to entice a friend of his to coerce a collaboration between Devin and Grace for an off-Broadway script. Dressing in their full-on stubborn ways, they attempt to do this favor and be done with each other. Of course that would be too easy.

Told You So is a full-blown romance novel with some effective sidetracks along the way. An angry successful hero with a grudge against anything "faith" opposite a sassy southern belle with a successful career that doesn't afford her a lot of time for the kind of romance she writes  spar and travail to create together. What takes place surprises them both and leads to a place they never intended to go.

With interesting characters and a couple of twists for Devin he could never imagine, Told You So keeps to the romance formula with more novels on the way in the Told You Series featuring minor characters from this first novel.

Lord, please continue to supply the stories you have for Kristen. Bless all she does to honor you. In the Name of Jesus, Amen.