TO BE WHERE YOU ARE by Jan Karon is the fourteenth book in the Mitford Years series and is a Christian contemporary fiction novel.

I have read the Mitford Years series for several years and each book seems to outshine the previous novel. You will fall in love with the people and the town as you read a story about family, love, hardships, faith, hope, and sacrifice.

Karon has created a realistic town with people that are so developed with detailed pasts and lifelike drama or situations. The setting is that of a perfect watercolor painted picture of a small Christian town where everybody knows each other. Dooley and Lace have grown up throughout the series and now have a child of their own. Father Tim and Cynthia are two characters that seem to move around visiting all the other characters from the previous novels. What a wonderful series that is captivated and romantic.

The story starts around the time when the town is getting ready for all the tourists who love looking at the leaves and ends right after Christmas making this a great holiday read. You will fall in love with this small little town and the people who call this place home. As you read one trial after the next that Dooley and Lace's vet practice encounters you will feel a wide range of emotions and some all at once. The kind of trials or hardships where everything that can go wrong does go wrong but throughout it all the couple's faith will help them make the best of things and overcome. A real feel good read and I cannot wait to read the next book in this series.