A Place to Heal by Allie Pleiter Review

 Happy Monday Friends :)

I pray today finds you all doing well, and I want to thank you all for joining me for another book review here on The Preppy Book Princess.

I'm always up for diving into a new Love Inspired title, and I've lost count of just how many of these reads I've gobbled up over the years.

One of my personal fave authors within these titles is Allie Pleiter, and I always love the opportunity to read her new releases.

Her upcoming release is going to hit store shelves tomorrow!! I can guarantee you're not going to want to miss this one, and today I'm here to tell you why exactly that is.

Keep reading down below for my full review.

A Place to Heal by Allie Pleiter:

Source: Complimentary Copy Provided by the Author as Part of her Street Team in Exchange for an Honest Review

Publisher: Love Inspired

Publication Date: June 28th, 2022

Genre: Christian Fiction/Contemporary

Series: True North Springs

Synopsis:

She’s found the perfect place for her camp.
But will he agree to her terms?

Opening a camp for children who’ve dealt with tragedy is former police detective Dana Preston’s main goal in life. After wandering the country, she’s finally found the perfect location—Mason Avery’s expansive Arizona mountainside property. Convincing the widowed dad—and the town—to agree might take a little prayer and a lot of hard work. But Dana’s never backed down from a challenge yet…

From Love Inspired: Uplifting stories of faith, forgiveness and hope.

(synopsis from goodreads)

My Review:

Allie Pleiter is one of my all time favorite Love Inspired authors, and I've loved every single one of the stories she's written for this publisher. A Place To Heal ended up being no exception, and I think readers everywhere are going to love this story of hope and healing, and how we can often find it in the most unlikely of places.

When Dana Preston, a a big city police detective, is injured in the line of duty, she decides it's time for her to move on from the force. However, what she's witnessed in her many years working with troubled youth leads her to want to do something to change their circumstances before it gets to the point of needing law enforcement intervention. Her dream is to open a camp for families that have been the victims of violent crimes to find a place to heal together, and move forward to the future, and she knows the perfect place for the camp is on the family land belonging to Mason Avery and his adorable son Charlie. Unfortunately, she has to first convince Mason of it being so, and he has reservations about being involved in such a project, especially since him and his son are one such family that have been impacted by a violent crime in the past.

As Dana and Mason start to work together on making the camp a reality, they're met with both resistance and support from the community they've both come to know and love. Can they move forward in the project together, and trust that even in the hardships they're forced to face, that God still has the perfect plan no matter what?

A story that will tug at the heartstrings, and leave you with a big smile on your face, A Place to Heal is another wonderful faith based romance from Allie Pleiter, and is one that I will highly recommend.

The small town setting was spot on, I loved the many secondary characters (especially the Busketeers), and the way that the romance started out as a beautiful friendship that soon grew into something more.

If you enjoy clean romances that deal with harder hitting topics, then this book will definitely be the one for you. My favorite part ended up being the portion of the plot about the pond, but that's all I'm going to say as I don't want to spoil anything for anyone. Just know that if you do decide to pick up this beautiful story, you're definitely going to want to have some tissues handy!

Final Rating: 4/5.

Thanks so much to Allie Pleiter for allowing me to advance read and review this one!

I voluntarily read a complimentary advance reader copy of this novel from the author in exchange for an honest review. I was not required to give a positive review. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

Thanks so much for reading guys! Have a great rest of your day :)