✅ Christian Historical Romance
✅ 1800s in Cincinnati, Ohio - Gilded Age
✅ A surprising amount of mystery and intrigue!
✅ Honest faith struggle.

The Gilded Age is one of my absolute favorite periods to read! Author Crystal Caudill does an excellent job of drawing you into the characters, the period, and the dangerously good story. I found myself quickly flipping pages, wanting to know what would happen next. As a reader, a romance novel needs to have more to it than just the romance itself. The romance can be the focus but I need more substance going on to enjoy the story. Counterfeit Love is so perfectly done! The Secret Service angle was delightful and fun to read. The characters were well developed, especially our main female character - Theresa Plane! You won’t relate to every character in every book you read but I feel like you could feel her struggles as you read along. Her storyline was artfully and skillfully written.

The romance in this novel was rather swoony! I don’t want to write too much about this in fear of giving away spoilers but the romance was well written and had you drawn in. Broderick Cosgrove is exactly the kind of man you want by your side in good and bad - but especially in the bad! His strong morals and self-sacrificing personality make him extremely endearing (and sometimes frustrating) to read. I enjoyed the plot twists in this book and found myself devouring the entire story quickly!

I would give this story 4.5 stars out of 5. Excellent read - worth picking up and reading!