The Transformation: Review

The Transformation :

A Project Restoration Novel

by Terri Kraus

Can a good, hard-working Christian man disregard his cultural and religious admonitions—as well as his mother’s plans for his life—for the love of a woman and an historic church building?

Oliver Barnett is a good contractor, a good Christian, and an obedient son, never in trouble, never one to rock the boat … until real estate developer Samantha Cohen enters his life. Samantha, full of life, vitality, and wit, is unlike any woman he has ever known—in more ways than one. Not only is she planning to transform an historic church near downtown Pittsburgh into a restaurant/nightclub, but she is Jewish and has a less-than-innocent past. Oliver finds himself in a most unsettling dilemma. Does he do what’s right by the nice girl his mother has chosen for him, or does he do what his heart is telling him to do?


From the Back Cover


Oliver Barnett is a good contractor, a good Christian, and an obedient son, never in trouble, never one to rock the boat … until real estate developer Samantha Cohen enters his life. Samantha, full of life, vitality, and wit, is unlike any woman he has ever known—in more ways than one. Not only is she planning to transform an historic church near downtown Pittsburgh into a restaurant/nightclub, she is Jewish and she has a less-than-innocent past. Oliver finds himself in a most unsettling dilemma. Does he do what’s right by the nice girl his mother has chosen for him, or does he do what his heart is telling him to do?


This book is filled with real life people, in fact when reading this I bet you can relate to each character with someone in your real life. Reading this book you have to believe in redemption and hope. This was a great book, and it has made me what to go back and read the books that came before it in a series. I normally try not read books out of order if they are in a series, but this book had no problem standing alone!

5 stars!

Special thanks to B&B Media Group Inc for sending me a copy of this book to review. These opinions are my own, all I recieved for this review was a copy of the book to read.

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