In a story that is both heartbreaking and heartwarming, Love Amidst Shadows: A Mother for Sabrina, by author Carl Turner, is a story that will keep readers turning the pages from the very start. Follow the story of our protagonist, Sabrina, a woman who thought she was getting through life just fine without a mother or any family to speak of. She was a successful scientist, studying what she loved: flowers. But when she starts to have dreams that include much more than she ever imagined, including Paris, the Holocaust, Our Lady Mary, and Notre Dame Cathedral, she isn't sure what to think. She wants to push all of that aside and concentrate on her life with Tim, but if she doesn't figure out the puzzle of her dreams, she might never be able to feel settled.

I very much enjoyed Love Amidst Shadows: A Mother for Sabrina. Author Carl Turner has done a wonderful job in creating characters, especially the lead character, Sabrina, that readers will connect with, relate to and truly come to care about. If that isn't a hallmark of a great author, I'm not sure what is. Any reader who enjoys a work of fiction that will tug at your heartstrings and, yes, even make you cry, should absolutely give Love Amidst Shadows: A Mother for Sabrina a chance. I am pleased to recommend this book for any such reader, and hope that I will be able to read more from author Carl Turner in the very near future!

Love Amidst Shadows: A Mother for Sabrina by author Carl Turner is an emotional page turner that will keep readers turning the pages from the start all the way through to the very end. The story tells the tale of Sabrina, a woman without a family, without a mother. She believes she's fine; she has a life, a fulfilling job as a scientist who studies flowers, and a relationship with Tim. Besides, all family does is leave you or die anyway, right? But when she starts to have confusing dreams that she doesn't understand, dreams that bring up images of the holocaust, Paris, the Virgin Mary and Notre Dame, she begins to wonder if her mind is trying to tell her something, and if there is more to her history and her family than she ever imagined.

Love Amidst Shadows is a lovely book that ultimately leads its readers to contemplate the importance of family, and especially of a mother, in a person's life. The author, Carl Turner, has a gift with words, and his description of the settings and of the characters are top notch. Any readers who enjoy a work of fiction that stays with them long after they have read the final words would love Love Amidst Shadows: A Mother for Sabrina. I can confidently recommend this book most highly, and am certain that once a person reads it, they will add author Carl Turner to their list of must-read authors!