Awakening Hearts

Angie is an amazing storyteller. Her writing style is unique, fresh and memorable. - Tom Bross, Author

The sensuality between the women is palpable . . . The story is heart-centered, soulful, and real. - Emmy Chahal, Author

I felt a profound healing take place within me as I read, my own wounds being mended alongside the characters’. - Jen Panske

I was lucky enough to be given the opportunity to read this book before its official launch date.

I believe this book will awaken something in each and every person who reads it regardless of your background or situation in life.

I was hooked from the minute I read the prologue.

There are two stories that run simultaneously through the book creating an amazing contrast between the past and present, love and heart-break, tenderness and confusion.

The author has clearly taken time to ensure the characters are real and relatable throughout making you feel a true affinity with them. They are full of colour and jump right off the page to reach you on a level not all authors achieve.

The only good thing about finishing this book is the realisation that there will be another one!

I predict that this book will become an enthralling best seller. (You heard it first here, folks!) if I could give it more than 5 stars I would! This book will stay with me for a very long time. - Emma McLeod

It’s a beautiful love story, so engaging that makes you totally drawn to the book only after a few pages. The richness of details really transport you into the captivating story, making you eager for more each page you read. The characters are very interesting and complex, and as the story unfolds, there are so many lessons on the importance of friendship, gratitude, acceptance, family and kindness. Lovely book that I highly recommend! - Flavia Godoy

I feel connected with each character in the story—I share both their pain and their joy. It’s clear Angie has poured her heart and soul into the creation of this novel. - Isabel K.

The palpable sensuality between the characters opened me up to what is possible—to what I, too, wish to experience. - Johann L.

Awakening Hearts is very well-written. The dialogue is fresh and the scenes very readable. I whizzed through the story! - Victoria Holmes, Author

Contemporary romance isn’t my normal genre, but I was glad I took a chance on Awakening Hearts. Angie K. Love’s time spanning novel about two souls whose love is eternal, is beautifully and sensitively written.

In 1862, Lizzy knows she’s attracted to women in a way her family and church would not condone. But God is love, and Lizzy, growing up in a loving family environment, is comfortable with her choice although she knows she cannot be open about it. She dreams of moving from the family farm to the city one day and living independently, making her own way in an exciting world. Not for her the expected marriage and family.

Then Claudia, a young widow with a tragic but undisclosed past, comes to live at the farm and Lizzy’s heart is captured, forever. Claudia has no idea such love can exist between women, until her heart is awakened. But when other life issues must be taken into account, the future happiness of each woman is very much under threat.

Meanwhile, in the current day, Sage is openly lesbian with supportive friends and family who understand and make no judgement on her life choices. But life proves as difficult for modern day Sage as it does for 19th century Lizzy when Alex comes into her life. Church-going Alex, whose conflict between her ‘unnatural’ urges and her beliefs turn her own and Sage’s life upside down. Poor Sage! I felt for her with every ping of her phone! And could have strangled Alex more than once!

Lizzy’s and Sage’s turmoil takes the reader on an emotional rollercoaster of a journey. The writer tells their stories (or story?) from their points of view, which means we see Claudia and Alex’s heart-wrenching struggles through their eyes. This is a very clever and subtle bit of writing, which sensitively and with some depth, portrays the conflicted characters of Claudia and Alex just as keenly as the struggles of Lizzy and Sage. - Cheryl Burman, Author