tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69395956266812784952024-03-04T22:34:47.590-08:00City girl moves to the Country!"Country girl"http://www.blogger.com/profile/05503425854350618277noreply@blogger.comBlogger656125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6939595626681278495.post-265530768761601162024-02-08T16:40:00.000-08:002024-02-08T16:41:41.998-08:00Book Review: A Royal Christmas<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivkk8A5eK_29PWzdw8XFEbXzH-VrXxmLLWgff7LJJ_WCJEOZVgDZo4lwCIv5pKCdyTiAflrIienysQMUl4qiRvtHLTIO8sNfeAg0MyYcEmMleJSxId1j6aNAc11bgMRd5HqfEvshoBN8QI-wREbhxwzKVejsVxibiiy_I92rw_zVFgXQlxFTvuEMGyAqg/s440/A%20royal%20christmas.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="440" data-original-width="286" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivkk8A5eK_29PWzdw8XFEbXzH-VrXxmLLWgff7LJJ_WCJEOZVgDZo4lwCIv5pKCdyTiAflrIienysQMUl4qiRvtHLTIO8sNfeAg0MyYcEmMleJSxId1j6aNAc11bgMRd5HqfEvshoBN8QI-wREbhxwzKVejsVxibiiy_I92rw_zVFgXQlxFTvuEMGyAqg/s320/A%20royal%20christmas.jpg" width="208" /></a></div><p></p><h2 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Ampersand, "Adobe Garamond Pro", Garamond, "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 1.625rem; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.25; margin: 0.83em 0px;">From the Back:</h2><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Adelaide Smith is too busy for fairy tales.</b> She's been working hard to put herself through law school, and she's determined to stay focused on her goals. Then she receives a letter notifying her that she is a direct descendant of King Maximillian Konig V, the ruler of a small European principality called Montovia.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />What? No. That's the stuff of cheesy made-for-TV movies, not real life.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Still, curiosity gets the best of her, leading to a Christmas break trip chock-full of surprises, including a charming village, an opulent palace, family mysteries, royal jealousies, a handsome young member of Parliament, and the chance at a real-life fairy tale romance.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b>My Reflections:</b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b>Melody Carolson's Christmas novel was a lovely twist. Who doesn't love a modern fairytale, for grown-ups? This novel is reminiscent of Princess Diaries and Knotting Hill or a Hallmark movie, and well I love those. This one was tantalizingly sweet with humour and wit thrown in for good measure, a perfect combination for an epic Christmas read. </b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b>A struggling college girl meets royalty, a fantasy come true! </b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b>This is a quick read, very Christmassy and a perfect combination paired with hot cocoa and a warm crackling fire.</b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b>If you are looking for a fun, warm and fuzzy book for the Christmas season look no further!</b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 0.875rem; text-wrap: nowrap;"><b style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face=""Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212121; font-weight: 400;">This b</span><b><b><span style="font-weight: 400; text-align: center;">ook has been provided courtesy of Baker Publishing Group and Graf-Martin</span></b></b></b></b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 0.875rem; text-wrap: nowrap;"><b style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b><b><span style="font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"> Communications, Inc.</span></b></b></b></b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgz_ZmelTK9z65WkM1PBGFRxSRx2ooD3iTHxxeINrIZ_rLt1tAGzCeGAJSyNj2lP6S2-9z_SB9v16KPSu7g8VUW7GwdRf5HHpbomBRj-pgpA7aUG7SjKEQGkxQbEgF7JTLPqfib8Du_b0Co4L0Xz7-kMupizn15CFoxKiw58UNfBdCRYLBjNssuyZ0ueew/s181/Melody%20Carlson.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="181" data-original-width="145" height="181" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgz_ZmelTK9z65WkM1PBGFRxSRx2ooD3iTHxxeINrIZ_rLt1tAGzCeGAJSyNj2lP6S2-9z_SB9v16KPSu7g8VUW7GwdRf5HHpbomBRj-pgpA7aUG7SjKEQGkxQbEgF7JTLPqfib8Du_b0Co4L0Xz7-kMupizn15CFoxKiw58UNfBdCRYLBjNssuyZ0ueew/s1600/Melody%20Carlson.jpg" width="145" /></a></div><p></p><h3 class="author" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: Ampersand, "Adobe Garamond Pro", Garamond, "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 1.375rem; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.25; margin: 0.5rem 0px;">Melody Carlson</h3><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: lighter; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Melody Carlson</b> is the award-winning author of more than 250 books with sales of more than 7.5 million, including many bestselling Christmas novellas, young adult titles, and contemporary romances. She received a <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Romantic Times</i> Career Achievement...</p><p class="continue" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">Continue reading <a href="http://bakerpublishinggroup.com/authors/melody-carlson/487" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0083bf; transition: all 333ms ease 0s;">about Melody Carlson</a></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></b><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p>"Country girl"http://www.blogger.com/profile/05503425854350618277noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6939595626681278495.post-66564967821282168122024-02-08T16:24:00.000-08:002024-02-08T16:24:19.217-08:00Book Review: Into The Fire<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOI-bAB6Jdg0V6t3DcPH6xuYKCLVbtcqa6rxdyifW6dkL_8tYqi8j1Ddp1FyDj-_1T30Rmz-ojTZfwOZopkavubt72MGoR0P5NPmWfQR_mCXDhCJudr9d7vSEza6KFMmKHca2fmRPiFdDtCSLSpSAZlnWGyvf0YgQ-qwNaP4e9WmJ90N-TRMxEqHaaGFA/s440/Into%20the%20fire.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="440" data-original-width="285" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOI-bAB6Jdg0V6t3DcPH6xuYKCLVbtcqa6rxdyifW6dkL_8tYqi8j1Ddp1FyDj-_1T30Rmz-ojTZfwOZopkavubt72MGoR0P5NPmWfQR_mCXDhCJudr9d7vSEza6KFMmKHca2fmRPiFdDtCSLSpSAZlnWGyvf0YgQ-qwNaP4e9WmJ90N-TRMxEqHaaGFA/s320/Into%20the%20fire.jpg" width="207" /></a></div><p></p><h2 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Ampersand, "Adobe Garamond Pro", Garamond, "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 1.625rem; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.25; margin: 0.83em 0px;">From the Back:</h2><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Instinct only takes you so far. After that, you need proof.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />But cunning killers hide their tracks.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></b><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />As a former smokejumper, arson investigator Bri Tucker knows her way around fires. But after a mysterious blaze takes the life of a former colleague, Bri inherits a curious puzzle from him that raises questions about several fiery deaths. Someone, however, doesn't want her picking up where he left off in search of answers.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />When she teams up with ATF Special Agent Marc Davis to solve the puzzle, the case heats up--as does the attraction between them. Sparks fly as the danger escalates, but will they manage to track down the person behind the mysterious deaths before their budding romance--and maybe even their lives--go up in flames?<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />In this pulse-pounding new series from the bestselling and award-winning queen of romantic suspense, you'll be swept up in a whirlwind of danger, mystery, and romance. Get ready to burn through the pages as Bri and Marc race to solve the puzzle and uncover the truth.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b>My Reflections:</b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b>Irene Hannon always delivers. Her novels are action-packed with both suspense and romance. Who doesn't love that! As always Hannon's characters are easy to relate to and written with depth.</b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b>On this novel, I really enjoyed how it was written. I loved getting the opportunity to get into the minds of every character, even the bad guys and... girls!</b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b>I enjoyed the sparks between Bri and Marc. Their relationship developed at a nice pace. I like that, some novels are way too quick at "Ohh you are cute, now let's get married" Marc was such a sweet character, his grandma taught his right on how to treat a lady. </b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b>Both Bri and Marc had instances where their vulnerability really shone. It was refreshing to see how well Hannon was able to bring the reader to these places, and how they were able to reach a degree of healing and redemption.</b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b>If you are a lover of romance mingled with suspense don't walk run to get this one!</b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face=""Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212121; font-weight: 400;">This b</span><b><b><span style="font-weight: 400; text-align: center;">ook has been provided courtesy of Baker Publishing Group and Graf-Martin Communications, Inc.</span></b></b></b></b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRRRre5ZFubWOtm7GOSqnjaR_N8uMxuQ2dHe4PSW9He4_Dym0jRx7UPBBqPxA06KT0Ml0prT5uhwbQ3k21RgrtkCQ6xpIrJyB7Krzt7y3fVx3ubRlpBEo0iwJ9FI4hdJcFALzUujRcpHIF-xW3FP2vdABeAcGNuT9570ygUL2i0uh-_uvnEDgRy-5Mtpo/s218/Irene%20Hannon.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="218" data-original-width="145" height="218" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRRRre5ZFubWOtm7GOSqnjaR_N8uMxuQ2dHe4PSW9He4_Dym0jRx7UPBBqPxA06KT0Ml0prT5uhwbQ3k21RgrtkCQ6xpIrJyB7Krzt7y3fVx3ubRlpBEo0iwJ9FI4hdJcFALzUujRcpHIF-xW3FP2vdABeAcGNuT9570ygUL2i0uh-_uvnEDgRy-5Mtpo/s1600/Irene%20Hannon.jpg" width="145" /></a></div><p></p><h3 class="author" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: Ampersand, "Adobe Garamond Pro", Garamond, "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 1.375rem; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.25; margin: 0.5rem 0px;">Irene Hannon</h3><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: lighter; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Irene Hannon</b> is the bestselling and award-winning author of more than 60 contemporary romance and romantic suspense novels. In addition to her many other honors, she is a three-time winner of the prestigious RITA Award from Romance Writers of America. She is...</p><p class="continue" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">Continue reading <a href="http://bakerpublishinggroup.com/authors/irene-hannon/1195" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0083bf; transition: all 333ms ease 0s;">about Irene Hannon</a></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b><br /></b></p>"Country girl"http://www.blogger.com/profile/05503425854350618277noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6939595626681278495.post-20842395673829311472023-11-25T17:51:00.000-08:002024-02-08T16:23:26.329-08:00Book Review: The Lost Boys of Barlow Theater<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLLWl9uEPrTTbKsANIMJZcnUO3htk_nYGVLx7I04A30zVn8E9HHFAvMZaMqh-_tYpEz9-tNoYggbyt8l03RVJAaXjJxJU4hzzjRP5HvdfXvByaYAYy0alad2lcbTWKHTC-aYu_AgdG-PhYEPH-XsbLDWi_EmhI1-qKM09ESnGgmjPkQfBksMlw6Vva6lk/s440/The%20lost%20boys%20of%20barlow%20theater.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="440" data-original-width="285" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLLWl9uEPrTTbKsANIMJZcnUO3htk_nYGVLx7I04A30zVn8E9HHFAvMZaMqh-_tYpEz9-tNoYggbyt8l03RVJAaXjJxJU4hzzjRP5HvdfXvByaYAYy0alad2lcbTWKHTC-aYu_AgdG-PhYEPH-XsbLDWi_EmhI1-qKM09ESnGgmjPkQfBksMlw6Vva6lk/s320/The%20lost%20boys%20of%20barlow%20theater.jpg" width="207" /></a></div> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Ampersand, "Adobe Garamond Pro", Garamond, "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.625rem;">From the back:</span><p></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">It promises beauty but steals life instead. Will the ghosts of Barlowe Theater entomb them all?<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></b>Barlowe Theater stole the life of Greta Mercy's eldest brother during its construction. Now in 1915, the completed theater appears every bit as deadly. When Greta's younger brother goes missing after breaking into the building, Greta engages the assistance of a local police officer to help her unveil the already ghostly secrets of the theater. But when help comes from an unlikely source, Greta decides that to save her family she must uncover the evil that haunts the theater and put its threat to rest.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Decades later, Kit Boyd's best friend vanishes during a ghost walk at the Barlowe Theater, and old stories of mysterious disappearances and ghoulish happenings are revived. Then television ghost-hunting host and skeptic Evan Fisher joins Kit in the quest to identify the truth behind the theater's history. Kit reluctantly agrees to work with him in hopes of finding her missing friend. As the theater's curse unravels Kit's life, she is determined to put an end to the evil that has marked the theater and their hometown for the last century.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b>From the back:</b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b>Jamie Jo Wright never does me wrong. </b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b>Are you up for a good ghost story? Do you love Ghost Busters, Scooby-Do? If so this book is for you my friends! The fist couple of chapters I kind of thought, "ugh, what have I got myself into?" the dark paranormal aspects I have to admit creeped me out at first. I was not sure where the story was going, but by then I was all in, there was no turning back!</b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b style="color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;">This dual timeline was executed with perfection, it moved seamlessly between </b><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212121;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>present</b></span></span><b style="color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;"> day and 1915.</b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b style="color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;">(1915) Greta </b><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212121;"><b style="font-size: 14px;">Mercy's story drew me in instantly. Her struggle to keep her brother and herself out of the poor house had my heart strings pulled taunt. When Greta </b><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>witnesses</b></span><b style="font-size: 14px;"> a lady in white throw a baby from the balcony of the</b><b style="font-size: 14px;"> Barlow theater things start to really get twisted. Thing is no one else actually saw a baby fall other than Greta. Then comes the </b><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>disappearance</b></span><b style="font-size: 14px;"> of her brother and two other local boys who went into the theater, but never came out. </b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212121;"><b style="font-size: 14px;">(present-day) Kit </b><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>Boyd's</b></span><b style="font-size: 14px;"> best friend </b><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>disappeared</b></span><b style="font-size: 14px;"> in the very same theater decades later while taping a show called the psychic and the Skeptic. They have just scratched the </b><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>surface</b></span><b style="font-size: 14px;"> of the theatre past, the lost boys the woman in White. What is behind this </b><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>disappearance</b></span><b style="font-size: 14px;"> an ages-old curse or a perfectly sane explanation?</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212121;"><b style="font-size: 14px;">Delving into the </b><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>injustices</b></span><b style="font-size: 14px;"> of the 1915 period really had me thinking. The struggles of the less fortunate the stigma of mental illness, and the disparity of the classes made me ponder about how nothing has actually changed in all those years. It's sad really. Anyway, I </b><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>digress</b></span><b style="font-size: 14px;">.</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212121;"><b style="font-size: 14px;">It's funny how during the whole novel I was sure there would be a non paranormal explanation for all of the sightings and </b><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>disappearances</b></span><b style="font-size: 14px;"> but as I read, I seriously could not figure out the clues! This is such a fun story, abet a little creepy. I always find that when I get to the last page of a novel penned by Jamie Jo Wright, I feel a little bit let down. Not because I didn't love the story, but because I came to the end of the book and would have to wait for her next </b><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>addition</b></span><b style="font-size: 14px;">!</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212121;"><b style="font-size: 14px;"><b style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face=""Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212121; font-weight: 400;">This b</span><b><b><span style="font-weight: 400; text-align: center;">ook has been provided courtesy of Baker Publishing Group and Graf-Martin Communications, Inc.</span></b></b></b></b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b><br /></b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b><br /></b></p><h3 class="author" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: Ampersand, "Adobe Garamond Pro", Garamond, "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 1.375rem; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.25; margin: 0.5rem 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvmsgXg5Hc0tcSGC-hG0cGH2jXYnT-ZVawED0TM_i6-baaEYGYcyIJI32Ud_Yzob3oh7Uj9nKnhQmSydF0IMrkywPs04FWMNDNNTvuYccTUNEdZSHIl_yU5eWgfpI01ffM_YL9ZfTh8B7GmkISVpUPaEJXv1VdB0Dv9AZ8Qy0w1X8V6EOb92abdOt0vLQ/s218/Jamie%20Jo%20Wright.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="218" data-original-width="145" height="218" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvmsgXg5Hc0tcSGC-hG0cGH2jXYnT-ZVawED0TM_i6-baaEYGYcyIJI32Ud_Yzob3oh7Uj9nKnhQmSydF0IMrkywPs04FWMNDNNTvuYccTUNEdZSHIl_yU5eWgfpI01ffM_YL9ZfTh8B7GmkISVpUPaEJXv1VdB0Dv9AZ8Qy0w1X8V6EOb92abdOt0vLQ/s1600/Jamie%20Jo%20Wright.jpg" width="145" /></a></div>Jaime Jo Wright</h3><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: lighter; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Jaime Jo Wright</b> (JaimeWrightBooks.com) is the author of ten novels, including Christy Award and Daphne du Maurier Award-winner <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">The House on Foster Hill </i>and Carol Award winner <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Reckoning at Gossamer Pond</i>. She's also a two-time...</p><p class="continue" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">Continue reading <a href="http://bakerpublishinggroup.com/authors/jaime-jo-wright/2687" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0083bf; transition: all 333ms ease 0s;">about Jaime Jo Wright</a></p>"Country girl"http://www.blogger.com/profile/05503425854350618277noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6939595626681278495.post-60628448038289348552023-08-17T17:37:00.001-07:002023-08-17T17:38:45.679-07:00Book Review: Cold Pursuit<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;"><img border="0" data-original-height="440" data-original-width="285" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA2fE2KkXua7JH2NWqdi9kNA52ercWYO1AmIczcPzyQOqZZfygmhLh_u2anoJXLq3_Cqn2KRTJJxRm-5yp0zunHq4ObDtydBSRg0LC_U5DdfaK--aGa0qSnzvle2LDQJa7SLVAi_o-cit1vWaMPj4yQ4KtorC7mND6hwfvlo3vS3AUbRbGSKuECkm5l6g/s320/Cold%20persuit.jpg" style="text-align: center;" width="207" /> </div></div></span></blockquote><h2 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ca0002; font-family: Ampersand, "Adobe Garamond Pro", Garamond, "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 1.625rem; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.25; margin: 0.83em 0px;">From the Back:</h2><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Ex-FBI profiler River Ryland still suffers from PTSD after a case went horribly wrong. Needing a fresh start, she moves to St. Louis to be near her ailing mother and opens a private investigation firm with her friend and former FBI partner, Tony St. Clair. They're soon approached by a grieving mother who wants them to find out what happened to her teenaged son, who disappeared four years ago. River knows there's almost no hope the boy is still alive, but his mother needs closure, and River and Tony need a case, no matter how cold it might be.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />But as they follow the boy's trail, which gets more complicated at every turn, they find themselves in the path of a murderer determined to punish anyone who gets in his way. As River and Tony race to stop him before he kills again, an even more dangerous threat emerges, stirring up the past that haunts River and plotting an end to her future.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">My Reflections:</span></b></p><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Ahh, Nancy Mehl has done it again!</span></span><div><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></b><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"></blockquote><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Book One in the Ryland + St. Clair series is the newest novel by Mehl. I can't wait to read the next edition, as I never tire of Mehl's writing style. Her no-nonsense approach to getting right to the plot gets me every time!</span><br /></span><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><b><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div></span></b></blockquote><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: arial;">In this novel, we follow River Ryland and Tony St. Clair as they search for answers in a cold case involving the disappearance of a young teenager. Their journey leads them to unexpectedly dark places.</span></span></div><div><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></b><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"></blockquote><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">The duo, who both experienced serious trauma, worked together using their strengths to crack the case. The troubled and twisted villain with synesthesia fascinated me, leading me down a rabbit hole of investigation. </span><br /></span><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><b><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div></span></b></blockquote><b><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">This book's unexpected plot twists kept me glued to the pages. If you are a fan of Nancy Mehl, you certainly will not be disappointed with this one!</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212121;"><b><span face=""Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212121; font-weight: 400;">This b</span><b><b><span style="font-weight: 400; text-align: center;">ook has been provided courtesy of Baker Publishing Group and Graf-Martin Communications, Inc.</span></b></b></b></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212121;"><b><b><b></b></b></b></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212121;"><b><b><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNB9d6bpURrZXPjSvwTwnia0mZ2uCyxugriiEGO-klnn6_k0oQh2YlHzwDqFks9WFktrB4nJ7KTIxIzZDO1Cdk6iAdqkqJl-xLo7Oki_ZQopFdtTD76-12x2a4CIWXJdjt66So2F2oHdUOfYljfmTo5Omixn4v4vxR3DTwzuwFrmJHGSoYExiCvSV9UM8/s218/Nancy%20Mehl.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="218" data-original-width="145" height="218" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNB9d6bpURrZXPjSvwTwnia0mZ2uCyxugriiEGO-klnn6_k0oQh2YlHzwDqFks9WFktrB4nJ7KTIxIzZDO1Cdk6iAdqkqJl-xLo7Oki_ZQopFdtTD76-12x2a4CIWXJdjt66So2F2oHdUOfYljfmTo5Omixn4v4vxR3DTwzuwFrmJHGSoYExiCvSV9UM8/s1600/Nancy%20Mehl.jpg" width="145" /></a></b></b></b></span></span></div><p></p><h3 class="author" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: Ampersand, "Adobe Garamond Pro", Garamond, "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 1.375rem; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.25; margin: 0.5rem 0px;">Nancy Mehl</h3><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: lighter; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Nancy Mehl </b>(nancymehl.com) is the author of more than fifty books, a Parable bestseller, and the winner of an ACFW Book of the Year Award, a Carol Award, and the Daphne du Maurier Award. She has also been a finalist for two Carol Awards and the Christy Award....</p><p class="continue" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">Continue reading <a href="http://bakerpublishinggroup.com/authors/nancy-mehl/1518" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0083bf; transition: all 333ms ease 0s;">about Nancy Mehl</a></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212121;"><b><b><b><span style="font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><br /></span></b></b></b></span></span></p><div><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212121;"><b style="font-size: 14px;"><b><b style="font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><br /></span></b></b></b></span></span></div></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div></span></b><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"></blockquote></div>"Country girl"http://www.blogger.com/profile/05503425854350618277noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6939595626681278495.post-91270799790741423102023-05-01T17:22:00.002-07:002023-08-17T17:34:32.583-07:00Book Review: Remember Me<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><br /></blockquote><p> </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigeRRG38yDewi-yX5YeUoba-jyQNGCj6rKWvbFsdkWlwGkKzwsakswq_U1cvEsGFms0A19navS5L-3Z_NLbyw8HJ7YnvsWO3nUoT2xBMkWb3LNeP5x5-YtAi2MtI1iLvJJV34raXgK0dPX2F46dPJOnSzxAAUASWmdqnyKDthqjHe-urQd5mvXsE0f/s440/Remember%20me.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="440" data-original-width="285" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigeRRG38yDewi-yX5YeUoba-jyQNGCj6rKWvbFsdkWlwGkKzwsakswq_U1cvEsGFms0A19navS5L-3Z_NLbyw8HJ7YnvsWO3nUoT2xBMkWb3LNeP5x5-YtAi2MtI1iLvJJV34raXgK0dPX2F46dPJOnSzxAAUASWmdqnyKDthqjHe-urQd5mvXsE0f/s320/Remember%20me.jpg" width="207" /></a><span style="font-size: large;">From the Back:</span></div><p></p></blockquote><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">From the Yukon to Seattle, the hope of a new beginning waits just around the corner.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></b>Addie Bryant is haunted by her past of heartbreak and betrayal. After her beau, Isaac Hanson, left the Yukon, she made a vow to wait for him. When she's sold to a brothel owner after the death of her father, Addie manages to escape with the hope that she can forever hide her past and the belief that she will never have the future she's always dreamed of.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Years later, Addie has found peace in her new life as a photographer, training Camera Girls to operate and sell the Brownie camera. During the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Expo in Seattle, Addie is reunited with Isaac, but after the path her life has taken, she's afraid to expose the ugliness of her former life and to move toward the future they had pledged to each other.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />When her past catches up with her, Addie must decide whether to run or to stay and face her wounds in order to embrace her life, her future, and her hope in God.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b style="font-size: 0.875rem;">My Reflections:</b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b style="color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;">Tracie </b><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212121;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>Peterson's</b></span></span><b style="color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;"> newest book "</b><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212121;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>Remember</b></span></span><b style="color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;"> Me" is book one of her new series Pictures of the Heart.</b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b style="color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;">In this novel, we are introduced to Addie Bryant, a remarkably </b><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212121;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>resilient</b></span></span><b style="color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;"> lady who has lived her share of </b><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212121;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>heartache</b></span></span><b style="color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;"> and </b><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212121;"><b style="font-size: 14px;">betrayal. </b><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>After</b></span><b style="font-size: 14px;"> the mistreatment from the men in her life, Addie pledges to herself that she will make it on her own, without the </b><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>confinement</b></span><b style="font-size: 14px;"> of any man. </b></span><b style="color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Addie settles into a quiet life with her landlords Otis and Pearl Fisher. With Addies help they set off on an ambitious business venture to sell Brownie cameras at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Expo. </b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212121;"><b style="font-size: 14px;">Trouble is brewing on the </b><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>horizon</b></span><b style="font-size: 14px;"> as her no-good brothers Shep and Hiram are released from jail. They are released early in return for working on the </b><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>maintenance</b></span><b style="font-size: 14px;"> crew at the Expo. Shep and his not-so-bright brother Hiram are on the hunt for an easy life. They hope to find their sister who they </b><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>believe</b></span><b style="font-size: 14px;"> is the ticket to the good life. </b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212121;"><b style="font-size: 14px;">Addie is always looking over her shoulder the last thing she wants is to become a pawn in the grips of her brother's dark </b><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>schemes.</b></span><b style="font-size: 14px;"> Having </b><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>escaped</b></span><b style="font-size: 14px;"> their dominion </b></span><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212121;"><b style="font-size: 14px;">once she is not willing to risk them keeping her hostage and selling her to the highest bidder again. </b><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>Unfortunately</b></span><b style="font-size: 14px;"> by a twist of fate, their paths cross </b><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>again. Will</b></span><b style="font-size: 14px;"> Addie find herself at the mercy of her brothers once </b><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>again</b></span><b style="font-size: 14px;">?</b></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212121;"><b style="font-size: 14px;">Isaac Hanson has dreamed of Addie Bryant since he left the Yukon as a young man. Having pledged himself to her he intends to keep his </b><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>promise</b></span><b style="font-size: 14px;"> even after all these years. When he </b><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>stumbles</b></span><b style="font-size: 14px;"> across her one day at the Expo, he is determined to keep his decade-old promise. </b></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212121;"><b style="font-size: 14px;">Addie however is not so sure about where their relationship could go</b><b style="font-size: 14px;">, she is not the same girl he left many years ago. Her life has taken her down some dark paths, and she </b><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>doesn't</b></span><b style="font-size: 14px;"> feel worthy of his pledge any longer.</b></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212121;"><b style="font-size: 14px;">Will Isaac be able to </b><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>convince</b></span><b style="font-size: 14px;"> Addie of her worth? Could they have a future after all these years? Can she overcome her past hurts and shame? Will Addie's brothers finally get the money they want, once again using her to their own advantage?</b></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212121;"><b style="font-size: 14px;">If you are looking for a novel that </b><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>weaves</b></span><b style="font-size: 14px;"> family drama, faith, love and history together in a neat and tidy 295-page novel this may just be the book for you. I quite enjoyed the storyline the flow and the </b><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>characters</b></span><b style="font-size: 14px;">. I can't wait to see what book two brings!</b></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212121;"><b style="font-size: 14px;"><span face=""Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212121; font-size: 0.875rem; font-weight: 400;">This b</span><b><b style="font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 400; text-align: center;">ook has been provided courtesy of Baker Publishing Group and Graf-Martin Communications, Inc.</span></b></b></b></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212121;"><b style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></b></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6e5IqDsA1a9PdI-XBOhj7BuikiiYlAUk6COA4IacyiA_pTUi-OvdSo-NA78-fpMaJMRydFiX7aXVtu-Jp3napGciyxoNP1RGRi0Oy2QELrIOqv_ekTZ40XvSKxeCwLorABNi8-3CKsOew5OTYpdHafTB-Qx4Yfv62v2FbdOtxTRVi5P3QOOGaJMJZ/s193/Peterson_Tracie1.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="193" data-original-width="145" height="193" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6e5IqDsA1a9PdI-XBOhj7BuikiiYlAUk6COA4IacyiA_pTUi-OvdSo-NA78-fpMaJMRydFiX7aXVtu-Jp3napGciyxoNP1RGRi0Oy2QELrIOqv_ekTZ40XvSKxeCwLorABNi8-3CKsOew5OTYpdHafTB-Qx4Yfv62v2FbdOtxTRVi5P3QOOGaJMJZ/s1600/Peterson_Tracie1.jpg" width="145" /></a></div><p></p><h3 class="author" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: Ampersand, "Adobe Garamond Pro", Garamond, "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.375rem; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.25; margin: 0.5rem 0px;">Tracie Peterson</h3><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: lighter; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Tracie Peterson</b> (www.traciepeterson.com) is the bestselling author of more than 100 novels, both historical and contemporary, with nearly 6 million copies sold. She has won the ACFW Lifetime Achievement Award and the Romantic Times Career Achievement Award....</p><p class="continue" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">Continue reading <a href="http://bakerpublishinggroup.com/authors/tracie-peterson/688" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0083bf; transition: all 333ms ease 0s;">about Tracie Peterson</a></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b><br /></b></p>"Country girl"http://www.blogger.com/profile/05503425854350618277noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6939595626681278495.post-36912055165122924512023-02-15T16:40:00.003-08:002023-02-15T16:40:44.230-08:00Book Review: What Happens Next<p><br /> </p><h2 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Ampersand, "Adobe Garamond Pro", Garamond, "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.625rem; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.25; margin: 0.83em 0px;">From the back:</h2><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcrnqhttKRa7MSut3tzcBx94L5v5pkOFn6KDBoMyuYdQNFhe-WIBYGLWxYSe4dQlOovY1qOlZI71V2r5nj89crtImIlI0JBwSLq-oPcX6bh4CjpVYNKTT23xih1M9geUAi4X_ZP11MIkFI2c4tKfKrw2c3a5jQc4DdcgN9rPXITh0f7-1ar_q-27HR/s440/What%20happens%20next.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="440" data-original-width="285" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcrnqhttKRa7MSut3tzcBx94L5v5pkOFn6KDBoMyuYdQNFhe-WIBYGLWxYSe4dQlOovY1qOlZI71V2r5nj89crtImIlI0JBwSLq-oPcX6bh4CjpVYNKTT23xih1M9geUAi4X_ZP11MIkFI2c4tKfKrw2c3a5jQc4DdcgN9rPXITh0f7-1ar_q-27HR/s320/What%20happens%20next.jpg" width="207" /></a></div><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">"An uplifting story of faith, hope, and healing."--</b><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Booklist<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></i></b><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></b><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">"Everyone has a story, and maybe everyone needs a little help toward healing."</b><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Popular podcaster and ex-reporter Faith Byrne made a name for herself telling stories of greatness after tragedy--but her real life does not mirror the stories she tells. While her daughters spend the summer in Hawaii with her ex-husband and his new wife, she must manage life on her own. All of that changes when she's asked to spotlight her childhood best friend's missing person case on her podcast.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Dora Crane has never accepted that her younger daughter could be dead, keeping her home looking the same as when her daughter disappeared. But when her husband leaves her and her older daughter intervenes, she agrees to counseling and to pack up her missing daughter's belongings under one condition: Faith Byrne comes to Deep Valley and sheds light on the cold case.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />As the long-abandoned investigation moves forward, old wounds and long-buried secrets are exposed. Will these two women, whose lives have never been the same, finally get the answers they need to reconcile the past and the future?<p></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b>My Reflections:</b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b>Christina Nelson pens another profoundly moving novel with her newest book titled </b><b style="font-size: 0.875rem;">"What Happens Next" This author never disappoints. She writes about issues that matter, digs deeper into the complexities of life, teasing out truth and the courage of the human heart.</b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b style="font-size: 0.875rem;">Faith a former investigator turned podcaster is recently divorced and at odds with what to do with herself as her daughters spend the summer with their dad and his new wife. When she is asked out of the blue to shed light on the disappearance of her childhood friend she is shaken. Having been left in the dark about her friend Heather's disappearance gives Faith the determination to find out what truly happened that summer 36 years ago.</b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b style="font-size: 0.875rem;">This novel also delves into the lives of Dora, Heather's mother. Dora has held onto the belief that Heather will return, so much so that it has ripped at the very fabric of her remaining family. </b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b>Lastly, the book shares the life of young Heather at the age of 10, the summer before her disappearance. We get a glimpse into this sweet funny and outspoken girl full of life and promise. Faith and Heather become fast friends that summer and share many adventures and memories together. </b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b>I enjoyed all aspects of this gripping story. It made me take a sobering look at those around me and the consequences of our actions.</b><b style="font-size: 0.875rem;"> Healing is messy business, with many ups and downs, it is fraught with emotions and choices. I am slowly learning (I must be really slow because it's taken a while) that I need to stop, take a breath, step back, assess the mess then lean into it and trust in the journey God has set before me. </b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b>Nelson is a master writer her ability to pen characters with depth and substance makes her novels stand out. I am always drawn into the lives of her characters and feel a special connection which leaves me wanting more when the last page has been turned. </b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;">This b</span><b style="color: #212121; font-size: 14px;"><b style="font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 400; text-align: center;">ook has been provided courtesy of Baker Publishing Group and Graf-Martin Communications, Inc.</span></b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivKjRus07i1kzaVIJ4b0OJI51Iu1bwm_XEGa4JUU2fGAahsE3RaLixEY0esHmk94mT_ahXszT4H7LQQRne3n-QfY3PRRtln7eM2KIRNvNXaQR8JBJoUREVBOlmGjOU_u4NDam66wCb3A9ats6SlbGJDWAi7dsPVsUzeT3xVWhlQ6hA_IsBkbPBE5Fl/s146/Christina%20Suzann%20Nelson.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="146" data-original-width="145" height="146" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivKjRus07i1kzaVIJ4b0OJI51Iu1bwm_XEGa4JUU2fGAahsE3RaLixEY0esHmk94mT_ahXszT4H7LQQRne3n-QfY3PRRtln7eM2KIRNvNXaQR8JBJoUREVBOlmGjOU_u4NDam66wCb3A9ats6SlbGJDWAi7dsPVsUzeT3xVWhlQ6hA_IsBkbPBE5Fl/s1600/Christina%20Suzann%20Nelson.jpg" width="145" /></a></div><h3 class="author" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: Ampersand, "Adobe Garamond Pro", Garamond, "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.375rem; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.25; margin: 0.5rem 0px;">Christina Suzann Nelson</h3><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: lighter; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Christina Suzann Nelson </b>(www.christinasuzannnelson.com) is an inspirational speaker and Christy award-winning author. Her first novel, <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">If We Make It Home</i>, was honored as one of <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Library Journal</i>'s top five inspirational novels of 2017, and her 2021...</p><p class="continue" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">Continue reading <a href="http://bakerpublishinggroup.com/authors/christina-suzann-nelson/3252" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0083bf; transition: all 333ms ease 0s;">about Christina Suzann Nelson</a></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><br /></p>"Country girl"http://www.blogger.com/profile/05503425854350618277noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6939595626681278495.post-39061954993296370612023-02-15T15:29:00.000-08:002023-02-15T15:29:19.288-08:00Book Review Yesterday's Tides<p> </p><h2 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Ampersand, "Adobe Garamond Pro", Garamond, "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.625rem; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.25; margin: 0.83em 0px;">From the Back:</h2><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3WJHZD9y9AJ4vssevnOftfzeX3HXEY2URdBLW4do_SysiTIzjV-tO4OuT_s-Vzq9z4o0ojtCPp027h3X3PFabE66CXSNnKoLHWPWnu7gyEcYI4dtB34TcITcEnmHStN0Qmhyr0eutfkpGbzsafK34KtmF22xfde4tk9tixNWPoVcmkyjAklEVeMir/s440/Yesterdays%20Tides.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="440" data-original-width="284" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3WJHZD9y9AJ4vssevnOftfzeX3HXEY2URdBLW4do_SysiTIzjV-tO4OuT_s-Vzq9z4o0ojtCPp027h3X3PFabE66CXSNnKoLHWPWnu7gyEcYI4dtB34TcITcEnmHStN0Qmhyr0eutfkpGbzsafK34KtmF22xfde4tk9tixNWPoVcmkyjAklEVeMir/s320/Yesterdays%20Tides.jpg" width="207" /></a></div><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">In two world wars, intelligence and counterintelligence, prejudice, and self-sacrifice collide across two generations<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></b><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></i></b>In 1942, Evie Farrow is used to life on Ocracoke Island, where every day is the same--until the German U-boats haunting their waters begin to wreak havoc. And when special agent Sterling Bertrand is washed ashore at Evie's inn, her life is turned upside down. While Sterling's injuries keep him inn-bound for weeks, making him even more anxious about the SS officer he's tracking, he becomes increasingly intrigued by Evie, who seems to be hiding secrets of her own.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Decades earlier, in 1914, Englishman Remington Culbreth arrives at the Ocracoke Inn for the summer, never expecting to fall in love with Louisa Adair, the innkeeper's daughter. But when war breaks out in Europe, their relationship is put in jeopardy and may not survive what lies ahead for them.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />As the ripples from the Great War rock Evie and Sterling's lives in World War II, it seems yesterday's tides may sweep them all into danger again today.<p></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b>My reflections:</b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b>"Yesterday's Tides" is a slow savoury read. White takes her readers on a journey along duel timelines one set in 1914 and the other in 1942. Both are on the same American island of Ocracoke. </b><b style="font-size: 0.875rem;">This idyllic small island is home to a small number of locals who are close-knit and deeply woven together. </b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b style="font-size: 0.875rem;"><br /></b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b style="font-size: 0.875rem;">1914 we become acquainted with Louisa, a down-to-earth kinda soul. She was inventive and able to do the work suited for a man in that era. I was pretty impressed at her get-it-done attitude. Louisa being the innkeeper's daughter usually doesn't pay too much attention to the guests at the inn, that is until a very handsome well-to-do guest comes to stay on the island for the entirety of the summer. </b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b style="font-size: 0.875rem;">Remmington never expected to fall in love with a commoner, but that he did. Knowing that their relationship would not bode well in his world due to her ancestry and social standing, Remington tries to talk himself into keeping their relationship friendly, but his heart has other plans. </b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b style="font-size: 0.875rem;"><br /></b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b style="font-size: 0.875rem;">1942, Evie is a wickedly smart woman with a grieving heart. She plods along each day with purpose and determination. She however leads a secret life helping the British crack enemy codes with the means of the telegraph as her way of communication. When Sterling, a British spy washes up on her shores, burnt and battered Evie finds herself strangely drawn to him as she nurses him back to health. Within his delirious mumbling, she learns tidbits of his true identity. </b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b style="font-size: 0.875rem;">Sterling has a mission and it doesn't include Evie. Still weak and unable to complete his assignment he must lean on Evie to regain his strength and track down a certain German spy. Can he trust Evie? Who is she really, and why does he find himself falling deeper and deeper for her?</b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b style="font-size: 0.875rem;">I found myself thoroughly invested in both stories, I do however have to admit it got a little confusing at times, as there are so many characters to keep track of. </b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b style="font-size: 0.875rem;">Both stories offered well-paced plots with relatable characters. If you are looking for something with a little more substance this would be a good choice to sink your teeth into.</b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><span style="color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;"> This b</span><b style="color: #212121; font-size: 14px;"><b style="font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 400; text-align: center;">ook has been provided courtesy of Baker Publishing Group and Graf-Martin Communications, Inc.</span></b></b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b style="color: #212121; font-size: 14px;"><b style="font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><br /></span></b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDOFDHTbnqdGQCX2BwDVx4ykEry2C_4EbC_j_T-yqepAy8Jv-u4NyHeVwSrWix-b3EQCf-PyWUEtL1vtDHhDdib-iK6sTzJYIREONgHbixKfAsCmzOcreHtFdCkSZc4_QV2__z5N58-lPOygFFP5PiWbOKk0EGEuV6suETUZgS1Y6QDqWXpOuB_wuo/s200/Roseanna%20White.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="145" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDOFDHTbnqdGQCX2BwDVx4ykEry2C_4EbC_j_T-yqepAy8Jv-u4NyHeVwSrWix-b3EQCf-PyWUEtL1vtDHhDdib-iK6sTzJYIREONgHbixKfAsCmzOcreHtFdCkSZc4_QV2__z5N58-lPOygFFP5PiWbOKk0EGEuV6suETUZgS1Y6QDqWXpOuB_wuo/s1600/Roseanna%20White.jpg" width="145" /></a></div><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: lighter; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Roseanna M. White</b> (www.roseannamwhite.com) is a bestselling, Christy Award-nominated author who has long claimed that words are the air she breathes. She pens her novels beneath her Betsy Ross flag, with her Jane Austen action figure watching over her. When...</p><p class="continue" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">Continue reading <a href="http://bakerpublishinggroup.com/authors/roseanna-m-white/2351" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0083bf; transition: all 333ms ease 0s;">about Roseanna M. White</a></p><p><br /></p>"Country girl"http://www.blogger.com/profile/05503425854350618277noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6939595626681278495.post-82789645066365056962022-12-20T20:27:00.002-08:002022-12-20T20:31:25.270-08:00Book Review: The Lost Melody<p></p><br /> <p></p><h2 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #005a84; font-family: Ampersand, "Adobe Garamond Pro", Garamond, "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.625rem; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.25; margin: 0.83em 0px;">From The Back:</h2><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1V-6q1hcF2-Lw_mjoN0KvKPRUy1Az_C4VdmE9PM_GS5STqB8gzqGH-_jyt_jt6R8casLu3eAuxT3qokF0nt6mkaQbdSfRIbL7Mklufx11I_ZNKxPzQBEkS5R5qGeevGY0srw7pp2IinGFeg7GjRaAIUt7NEJjPoCTABVUKNB8NrELdWAzR-MJG3b7/s440/The%20lost%20melody.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="440" data-original-width="285" height="319" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1V-6q1hcF2-Lw_mjoN0KvKPRUy1Az_C4VdmE9PM_GS5STqB8gzqGH-_jyt_jt6R8casLu3eAuxT3qokF0nt6mkaQbdSfRIbL7Mklufx11I_ZNKxPzQBEkS5R5qGeevGY0srw7pp2IinGFeg7GjRaAIUt7NEJjPoCTABVUKNB8NrELdWAzR-MJG3b7/w207-h319/The%20lost%20melody.jpg" width="207" /></a></div><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">"Haunting. Riveting. Filled with hope."</b>--<b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Michelle Griep</b>, author of <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Lost in Darkness</i><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />When concert pianist Vivienne Mourdant's father dies, he leaves to her the care of a patient at Hurstwell Asylum. Vivienne had no idea the woman existed, and yet her portrait is shockingly familiar. When the asylum claims she was never a patient there, Vivienne is compelled to discover what happened to the figure she remembers from childhood dreams.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />The longer she lingers in the deep shadows and forgotten towers at Hurstwell, the fuzzier the line between sanity and madness becomes. She hears music no one else does, receives strange missives with rose petals between the pages, and untangles far more than is safe for her to know.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />But can she uncover the truth about the mysterious woman she seeks? And is there anyone at Hurstwell she can trust with her suspicions?<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Joanna Davidson Politano casts a delightful spell with this lyrical look into the nature of women's independence and artistic expression during the Victorian era--and now.<p></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b>My Reflections:</b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b style="color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;">Where do I start? I have never in my long history of reading come across a book quite like this. It touched my soul and moved me in ways that I can't even flesh out. I feel like it would do the book an injustice if I revealed the inner contents, for this reason I will keep my review subjective and let you enjoy the </b><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212121;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>unfettered</b></span></span><b style="color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;"> essence within.</b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b style="color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;">England 1886 sits Hurstwell </b><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212121;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>Lunatic asylum</b></span></span><b style="color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;"> a place filled with </b><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212121;"><b style="font-size: 14px;">shadows, deep darkness and </b><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>immense</b></span><b style="font-size: 14px;"> pain.</b></span><b style="color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;"> We are able to take a </b><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212121;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>glimpse</b></span></span><b style="color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;"> into the Victorian era of the misunderstood. The fine line between sanity and madness. </b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b style="color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;">The </b><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212121;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>characters</b></span></span><b style="color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;"> were so well developed that the story came alive for me. I was moved from emotion to emotion harmoniously flowing with the melody of the story. </b><b style="color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;">Ah... I never wanted it to end, I was left crying at the </b><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212121;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>injustices</b></span></span><b style="color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;"> while rooting for the truth to be had. Politano weaves faith gently </b><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212121;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>throughout</b></span></span><b style="color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;"> the entirety of the book adding depth and humanity. We are reminded that in the darkness there is light and hope. We can touch others lives even mired in the darkness, we just have to reach out, even when all seems lost.</b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b style="color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;">The romance is heart </b><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212121;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>achingly</b></span></span><b style="color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;"> </b><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212121;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>beautiful</b></span></span><b style="color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;">, tender and moving. It almost seemed out of place at the start, but as the story progressed it really added an element of humanity. </b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212121;"><b style="font-size: 14px;">I am </b><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>completely</b></span><b style="font-size: 14px;"> amazed at the Politano's exceptional ability to take a story and craft it into a work of art. This book just took writing to a whole new level.</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b style="color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;"> </b><b style="color: #212121; font-size: 14px;"><b style="font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 400; text-align: center;">Book has been provided courtesy of Baker Publishing Group and Graf-Martin Communications, Inc.</span></b></b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"></p><p></p><h3 class="author" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: Ampersand, "Adobe Garamond Pro", Garamond, "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.375rem; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.25; margin: 0.5rem 0px;">Joanna Davidson Politano</h3><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: lighter; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsV_LgXujdd6_CJT_dXyzuwx7S6SPPFfE1xidFEscECAY0LsC7z17T4hXRUZDro1wI6cc6V2j5fradT6-ynU-NZzwV3bJDdQKnvWKIUfuoXlG1j-MZF_lCyuPpbVxCBacuamA-8upuDW9WaL8A6f-7JjFf80jnskxntbzx9EghG2JhLVNWos1ClPym/s220/Joanna%20Davidson%20Politano.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="220" data-original-width="143" height="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsV_LgXujdd6_CJT_dXyzuwx7S6SPPFfE1xidFEscECAY0LsC7z17T4hXRUZDro1wI6cc6V2j5fradT6-ynU-NZzwV3bJDdQKnvWKIUfuoXlG1j-MZF_lCyuPpbVxCBacuamA-8upuDW9WaL8A6f-7JjFf80jnskxntbzx9EghG2JhLVNWos1ClPym/s1600/Joanna%20Davidson%20Politano.jpg" width="143" /></a></b></div><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Joanna Davidson Politano</b> is the award-winning author of <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Lady Jayne Disappears</i>, <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">A Rumored Fortune</i>, <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Finding Lady Enderly</i>, <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Love Note</i>, and <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">A Midnight Dance</i>. She loves tales that capture the colorful, exquisite details in...<p></p><p class="continue" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">Continue reading <a href="http://bakerpublishinggroup.com/authors/joanna-davidson-politano/2679" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0083bf; transition: all 333ms ease 0s;">about Joanna Davidson Politano</a></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b><br /></b></p>"Country girl"http://www.blogger.com/profile/05503425854350618277noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6939595626681278495.post-42465863977728705342022-12-20T19:31:00.004-08:002022-12-20T20:30:24.454-08:00Book Review: Targeted<p> </p><p></p><h2 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #005a84; font-family: Ampersand, "Adobe Garamond Pro", Garamond, "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.625rem; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.25; margin: 0.83em 0px;">From the Back:</h2><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVFXHRxyPoM10iYVUxdq4rzutDqGFJyEVknFI7PDTcHIkR_dKISN2E54EtZHMwQ6oEmLUEHozJ_pbrRJfUvguKxnmICgX_OrpPLZGr6nWQiu3SmlnCxFhh3KtXn6qF6K5hxzDhYV6XlAWtrjQF377qFGkduhExUWHkrihBfuKfMHHYXLBA03tZfwgV/s440/Targeted.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="440" data-original-width="285" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVFXHRxyPoM10iYVUxdq4rzutDqGFJyEVknFI7PDTcHIkR_dKISN2E54EtZHMwQ6oEmLUEHozJ_pbrRJfUvguKxnmICgX_OrpPLZGr6nWQiu3SmlnCxFhh3KtXn6qF6K5hxzDhYV6XlAWtrjQF377qFGkduhExUWHkrihBfuKfMHHYXLBA03tZfwgV/s320/Targeted.jpg" width="207" /></a></div><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Three women. Three men. Three unsuspecting targets.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></b>Get ready for triple the thrills with three heart-stopping stories from your favorite romantic suspense authors!<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />In <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">On the Run</i>, IT Specialist Daria Nevsky is a highly skilled FBI agent with the ability to hack any computer. She must go on the run to find out who wants her dead--and Dr. Ryker Donahue refuses to let her do it alone.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />In <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Deadly Objective</i>, physical therapist Emily Dixon and Secret Service Agent Liam Harper are committed to keeping their relationship professional. But when the vice president's son enters the crosshairs of a killer, some lines will have to be crossed in order to keep him safe.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />In <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Caught in the Crosshairs</i>, there is no love lost between former Army PSYOPS officer Ari Blackman and CIA officer Claudia Gallegos after Claudia is implicated in the murder of a Saudi prince. But to prevent a coup that would put America at risk, they'll have to learn to trust each other--before it's too late.<p></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b>My Reflections:</b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b style="color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;">Though I love to sink my teeth into a gool full </b><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212121;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>length</b></span></span><b style="color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;"> novel, once and awhile it is nice to dip your feet in a melody of short stories. </b><b style="color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;">What is better than a novella with three of my favorite </b><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212121;"><b style="font-size: 14px;">authors. Lynette Easton, Lynn H. Blackburn and Natalie Walters all had well developed </b><b style="font-size: 14px;">characters, a perfectly thought out plot with </b><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>faith</b></span><b style="font-size: 14px;"> based threads. Some how they packed all of this into a short 120 ish page feast for the </b><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>senses</b></span><b style="font-size: 14px;">. If asked I couldn't pick a </b><b style="font-size: 14px;">favorite, each were wildly </b><b style="font-size: 14px;">different yet had the same thrilling </b><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>elements</b></span><b style="font-size: 14px;"> that you would expect form these </b><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>authors</b></span><b style="font-size: 14px;">.</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b style="color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;">It was delightful how the </b><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212121;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>authors</b></span></span><b style="color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;"> weaved previous stories into their collections. In the depths of the pages you will find stories that are packed with heart warming romance and spine tingling suspense. The </b><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212121;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>characters</b></span></span><b style="color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;"> are well fleshed out and the story lines were full </b><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212121;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>bodied</b></span></span><b style="color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;"> and satisfying. I feel </b><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212121;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>these</b></span></span><b style="color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;"> short stories could be read as a stand alone. It actually would be a perfect introduction to each </b><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212121;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>authors</b></span></span><b style="color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;"> </b><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212121;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>unique</b></span></span><b style="color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;"> penmanship.</b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b style="color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;">I highly </b><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212121;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>recommend</b></span></span><b style="color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;"> this novella, especially for those cold winter nights.</b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b style="color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;">A perfect read for the holidays!</b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212121;"><b style="font-size: 14px;"><b style="font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 400; text-align: center;">Book has been provided courtesy of Baker Publishing Group and Graf-Martin Communications, Inc.</span></b></b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b style="color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;"></b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #212121; font-family: Ampersand, "Adobe Garamond Pro", Garamond, "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.375rem;">Lynette Eason</span></p><ol class="authors" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; list-style: none; margin: 1em 0px 0px; padding: 0px; width: 593.594px;"><li class="cell_1" id="author-1271" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="bio" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; float: left; margin-right: 0px; width: 405.609px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.875rem; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: lighter; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Lynette Eason</b> is the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">USA Today</i> bestselling author of <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Life Flight</i>,<i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> Crossfire</i>, and <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Critical Threat</i>, as well as<i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </i>the Danger Never Sleeps, Blue Justice, Women of Justice, Deadly Reunions, Hidden Identity, and Elite...</p><p class="continue" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.875rem; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">Continue reading <a href="http://bakerpublishinggroup.com/authors/lynette-eason/1271" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0083bf; transition: all 333ms ease 0s;">about Lynette Eas</a></p></div></li><li class="cell_2" id="author-2746" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-top: 1rem;"><div class="bio" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; float: left; margin-right: 0px; width: 405.609px;"><h3 class="author" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Ampersand, "Adobe Garamond Pro", Garamond, "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.375rem; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.25; margin: 0.5rem 0px;">Lynn H. Blackburn</h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.875rem; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: lighter; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Lynn H. Blackburn</b> is the award-winning author of <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Unknown Threat </i>and <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Malicious Intent</i>, as well as the Dive Team Investigations series. She believes in the power of stories, especially those that remind us that true love exists, a gift...</p><p class="continue" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.875rem; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">Continue reading <a href="http://bakerpublishinggroup.com/authors/lynn-h-blackburn/2746" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0083bf; transition: all 333ms ease 0s;">about Lynn H. Blackbur</a></p></div></li><li class="cell_3" id="author-3112" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-top: 1rem;"><div class="bio" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; float: left; margin-right: 0px; width: 405.609px;"><h3 class="author" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Ampersand, "Adobe Garamond Pro", Garamond, "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.375rem; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.25; margin: 0.5rem 0px;">Natalie Walters</h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.875rem; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: lighter; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Natalie Walters</b> is the author of <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Lights Out </i>and <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Fatal Code</i>, as well as the Harbored Secrets series. A military wife, she currently resides in Texas with her soldier husband and is the proud mom of three. She loves traveling, spending time with...</p><p class="continue" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.875rem; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">Continue reading <a href="http://bakerpublishinggroup.com/authors/natalie-walters/3112" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0083bf; transition: all 333ms ease 0s;">about Natalie Walters</a></p></div></li></ol>"Country girl"http://www.blogger.com/profile/05503425854350618277noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6939595626681278495.post-66733039141440234082022-10-09T19:35:00.010-07:002022-10-09T19:42:33.370-07:00Book Review: To Win A Prince<p> </p><p></p><h2 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #005a84; font-family: Ampersand, "Adobe Garamond Pro", Garamond, "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.625rem; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.25; margin: 0.83em 0px;">From the Back:</h2><h2 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #005a84; font-family: Ampersand, "Adobe Garamond Pro", Garamond, "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.625rem; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.25; margin: 0.83em 0px;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;">Can she stop herself from falling before she's too far gone?</b></h2><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8ng6pU9q10J7_XJSeT1O2Y46xwHJdrP_72Irmd3DOV2_LvzrS43vOOy7WAw3u2MuMa5b5h-xlhZwMbLzu_Fdj7oxBQVEjBx_RyoHasj0BEeCVzWKir-dHWoWZHnQb-vYC2HV1cgOvDyHmqwRQaDllYjidVPPN92j9i7rLGYlZqFt_i5F7BGTZFAOq/s440/To%20Win%20a%20prince.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="440" data-original-width="285" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8ng6pU9q10J7_XJSeT1O2Y46xwHJdrP_72Irmd3DOV2_LvzrS43vOOy7WAw3u2MuMa5b5h-xlhZwMbLzu_Fdj7oxBQVEjBx_RyoHasj0BEeCVzWKir-dHWoWZHnQb-vYC2HV1cgOvDyHmqwRQaDllYjidVPPN92j9i7rLGYlZqFt_i5F7BGTZFAOq/s320/To%20Win%20a%20prince.jpg" width="207" /></a></div><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></b>As a fashion aficionado and best friend of the queen of the African island country Ọlọrọ Ilé, Iris Blakely dreams of using her talent to start a sustainable clothing line to help citizens in impoverished areas and honor the country's resources. But when she discovers that Ekon Diallo--the man who betrayed her best friend--will be her business consultant, the battle between her desires and reality begins.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Ekon Diallo has lost everything: his princely title, his material possessions, his friends, and the respect of his fellow Ọlọrans. To pay for his actions against Ọlọrọ Ilé, he's forced to assist the charismatic Iris Blakely--but he can't allow his heart to distract him from regaining his status.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Though they come from vastly different worlds, Iris and Ekon are both determined to reach their goals, and the only way to do that is to work together--if they can just keep their hearts from getting in the way . . .<p></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b>My Reflections:</b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b>This is Shiloh's sequel to her first book "In Search of A Prince." I absolutely loved that book and was excited to see what was in store for Iris Blakey, the bff to Brielle who is the Queen of Oloro Ile.</b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b style="color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;">Iris, is an </b><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212121;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>exuberant</b></span></span><b style="color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;"> lively </b><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212121;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>character</b></span></span><b style="color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;"> full of </b><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212121;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>emotions</b></span></span><b style="color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;"> and love for people. Having just started up her new </b><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212121;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>fashion</b></span></span><b style="color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;"> business. Her plan is not only to create a sustainable clothing line but also to give back to Oloro Ile and it's people. Filled with </b><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212121;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>excitement</b></span></span><b style="color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;"> and dreams Iris launches full steam ahead into making those </b><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212121;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>dreams a</b></span></span><b style="color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;"> reality.</b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b style="color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;">It is not easy sailing however, the </b><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212121;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>business</b></span></span><b style="color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;"> sustains all kinds of road blocks that keep Iris on her toes. One thing that is </b><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212121;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>forefront</b></span></span><b style="color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;"> in her mind is the matter of her new Business consultant, Ekon.</b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b style="color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;">Ekon is not your typical Business consultant he is actually the fallen prince who </b><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212121;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>tried</b></span></span><b style="color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;"> to betray Queen Brielle's title. As punishment he is ordered by the council to do community service along with helping Iris as she launches her new career</b><b style="color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;">. Thing is Pampered Ekon is holding onto so much resentment and bitterness for his punishment he can't see past his own nose to care about anything other than restoring the good graces with his father and the </b><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212121;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>upper-class</b></span></span><b style="color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;"> </b><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212121;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>citizens</b></span></span><b style="color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;"> of Oloro Ile. </b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212121;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>Iris and Ekon come to an understanding from the start, this is just a business deal and a way to complete Ekon's sentence and community service hours. It all seems so simple..</b></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212121;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>Ah, not so. As Ekon grows and matures and with the help of Iris his heart starts to soften. The blinds are slowly peeled back layer by layer until he is reduced to face his past and the person he was. Does it come too late? (I loved the fantastic plot twist, it really added depth to the story.)</b></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212121;"><b style="font-size: 14px;">Iris tries to keep focused on the tasks at hand, but her heart has other ideas. Torn with what she knows is right and what her heart is telling her she must lean on God to find out his true plan for her life. This is no easy task for a dreamer. Is there any hope for Ekon? Can he turn around his life? What about his heart, is he brave enough to be </b><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>vulnerable</b></span><b style="font-size: 14px;">?</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212121;"><b style="font-size: 14px;">I loved the depth this story had, it comes off as a fluffy dreamy type novel but in truth it is filled with the struggles of </b><b style="font-size: 14px;">character, the call to faith and the courage to rise above and follow a path less traveled. There are quite a few surprises to be had in this story! I was entertained by the </b><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>musings</b></span><b style="font-size: 14px;"> of both </b><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>characters</b></span><b style="font-size: 14px;"> and their crazy </b><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>antics</b></span><b style="font-size: 14px;">. And yes, I fell in love with the Suck up Ekon, he won my heart by the end of the novel. If you love </b><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>fairytales</b></span><b style="font-size: 14px;"> and </b><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>happily</b></span><b style="font-size: 14px;"> ever after you will love Shiloh's newest novel, but do </b><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>your</b></span><b style="font-size: 14px;"> self a </b><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>favor</b></span><b style="font-size: 14px;"> and read book one!</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212121;"><b style="font-size: 14px;">Well done Toni Shiloh, I can't wait for what you have in store for us in your next!</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212121;"><b style="font-size: 14px;"><b style="font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 400; text-align: center;">Book has been provided courtesy of Baker Publishing Group and Graf-Martin Communications, Inc.</span></b></b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><br /></p><p></p><h3 class="author" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: Ampersand, "Adobe Garamond Pro", Garamond, "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.375rem; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.25; margin: 0.5rem 0px;">Toni Shiloh</h3><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: lighter; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZ_vgqlIZJGShwdTffz8YWVTo35W_h6htJ_ufuSJTugFCAU3UEXAwbUlXNAk9k-PBXp6vmIaZY__6CkQC7OwHCQ34wp3sgAl3FkD7uDrYHS3WZcRMEgw6mvUFOBxja9Mo5KH8fhiAGXNPQBwPF6zpxxxBx2XJ61RYcoWUwM6GUqUkgl9O4YFUBYzn4/s218/Toni%20Shiloh.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="218" data-original-width="145" height="218" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZ_vgqlIZJGShwdTffz8YWVTo35W_h6htJ_ufuSJTugFCAU3UEXAwbUlXNAk9k-PBXp6vmIaZY__6CkQC7OwHCQ34wp3sgAl3FkD7uDrYHS3WZcRMEgw6mvUFOBxja9Mo5KH8fhiAGXNPQBwPF6zpxxxBx2XJ61RYcoWUwM6GUqUkgl9O4YFUBYzn4/s1600/Toni%20Shiloh.jpg" width="145" /></a></div><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Toni Shiloh</b> (www.tonishiloh.com) is a wife, mom, and multi-published Christian contemporary romance author. Her novel <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">In Search of a Prince</i> has been praised by OprahDaily.com, Popsugar, <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Library Journal</i>, and <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Booklist</i>, and is a Parable...<p></p><p class="continue" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">Continue reading <a href="http://bakerpublishinggroup.com/authors/toni-shiloh/3538" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0083bf; transition: all 333ms ease 0s;">about Toni Shiloh</a></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b><br /></b></p>"Country girl"http://www.blogger.com/profile/05503425854350618277noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6939595626681278495.post-63878481776737827212022-10-09T19:35:00.007-07:002022-10-09T19:40:45.856-07:00Book Review: Dangerous Beauty<p></p><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #005a84; font-family: Ampersand, "Adobe Garamond Pro", Garamond, "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.625rem;">From the Back:</span><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU4ZaQN9yFyxD8F9t6Lfv7qVO9O5-a9H4dqrVvCF08AJkEpWolwMgaCywYRSH-fGVSKFX0QNfn9u4J90cfwztkFfzQhOSiLTEtS0CypbaS8WT25EXjVm-DY-VAgQqM1q-swy4qEQ6Y0LWARTkqwRjAEkQvtmPOMMoEJVM_e_VDl8Xap-GeNwq3yZIv/s440/Dangerous%20Beauty.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="440" data-original-width="285" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU4ZaQN9yFyxD8F9t6Lfv7qVO9O5-a9H4dqrVvCF08AJkEpWolwMgaCywYRSH-fGVSKFX0QNfn9u4J90cfwztkFfzQhOSiLTEtS0CypbaS8WT25EXjVm-DY-VAgQqM1q-swy4qEQ6Y0LWARTkqwRjAEkQvtmPOMMoEJVM_e_VDl8Xap-GeNwq3yZIv/s320/Dangerous%20Beauty.jpg" width="207" /></a></div><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">What is the price of freedom?<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></b><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Liliana Vela hates the term <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">victim</i>. She's not a victim, she's a fighter. Stubborn and strong with a quiet elegance, she's determined to take back her life after escaping the clutches of human traffickers. But she can't stay safely in America--unless the man who aided in her rescue is serious about his unconventional proposal to marry her.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Meric Toledan was just stopping at a service station for a bottle of water. Instead, he becomes the key to Liliana's rescue. If he can keep his secrets hidden, his wealth and position afford him many resources to help her. But the mysterious buyer who funded her capture will not sit idly by while his prize is stolen from him.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><p></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b>My Reflections:</b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b>"Dangerous Beauty" is a poignant and raw novel about the travesty of human trafficking. Melissa Koslin has written a moving yet powerful story, filled grit and honesty. She tackles the subject with tact, giving readers just enough detail to become engaged and embroiled in the story, without becoming traumatized by the sensitive subject matter. </b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b>Taken by the Cartel and sold Liliana finds herself in a new country fraught with dangers. She manages a harrowing escape and is mercifully helped by a complete stranger. Liliana must trust this man as she finds he is the only way out to safety. Meric her rescuer is a man of secrets, he is stoic in his interactions, and Liliana is not sure where she stands. Struggling to learn a new language, and gently testing the boundaries around her she grapples to find her way and navigate the dangers and beauty of this new country.</b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><span style="font-size: 0.875rem;"><b>In a blink of an eye, Meric has turned his world upside down. In his rash attempt to help Liliana he has opened up wounds he has been trying to bury for as long as he can remember. Afraid that he will lose control of his tightly held secrets he tries his best to close himself off and keep Liliana at a distance. It is impossible however to ignore the pain this woman has experienced and he finds himself trying his best to help her deal with her trauma and heal.</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><span style="font-size: 0.875rem;"><b>Their relationship is tenuous at best and they make quite an odd couple. Having both seen a dark side of life that few have, they must both work hard to find a way to healing and happiness.</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><span style="font-size: 0.875rem;"><b>Melissa Koslin is a master storyteller. She addresses human trafficking head on painting an accurate picture of the ugliness of the situation, yet showing us the strength of the human heart when we let God's love and grace unravel the pain.</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b><span style="font-weight: 400; text-align: center;">Book has been provided courtesy of Baker Publishing Group and Graf-Martin Communications, Inc.</span></b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"></p><p></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><span style="font-family: Ampersand, "Adobe Garamond Pro", Garamond, "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.375rem;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1_XQJ1JzIrzgN064v_pFKP1cxLlseqFV144PCQ7oZ6hnRaFPac93x6kNrtZk815kBbt-9QlL62816H3rQfogJxWG-AAPAoJOLH4SWfEhF4vMEwvpOw-rBvnJeGEkF6bDzypZtbCZNnT57tG98NWzfOgvqm_Pmsv50ynY-Vd9XAx1h2iWl2MIqgRh0/s181/Melissa%20Koslin.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="181" data-original-width="145" height="181" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1_XQJ1JzIrzgN064v_pFKP1cxLlseqFV144PCQ7oZ6hnRaFPac93x6kNrtZk815kBbt-9QlL62816H3rQfogJxWG-AAPAoJOLH4SWfEhF4vMEwvpOw-rBvnJeGEkF6bDzypZtbCZNnT57tG98NWzfOgvqm_Pmsv50ynY-Vd9XAx1h2iWl2MIqgRh0/s1600/Melissa%20Koslin.jpg" width="145" /></a></div>Melissa Koslin<p></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: lighter; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Melissa Koslin</b> is a fourth-degree black belt in and certified instructor of Songahm Taekwondo. In her day job as a commercial property manager, she secretly notes personal quirks and funny situations, ready to tweak them into colorful additions for her books....</p><p class="continue" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">Continue reading <a href="http://bakerpublishinggroup.com/authors/melissa-koslin/3439" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0083bf; transition: all 333ms ease 0s;">about Melissa Koslin</a></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b><br /></b></p>"Country girl"http://www.blogger.com/profile/05503425854350618277noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6939595626681278495.post-32001451387003801602022-08-01T09:35:00.000-07:002022-08-01T09:35:09.113-07:00Book Review: Free Fall<p><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgViH15x0TBdhKoJQwsjP1RsjPi2as_26SUuyCCCBhOLWaYwZMRPpuCVTNefBVXtVDEqtGPx-1nQEh8Ajs5RV0dTXdAMuAXz4Qr5zf8lv5gPwK5w5_gzHcY7BJnVpfJGAm88PXpZsW2esWAQmiKNVNE6WRtgMqj6eCNXl6auVuXxd91OcLAAZZ-L7DY/s440/Free%20fall.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="440" data-original-width="285" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgViH15x0TBdhKoJQwsjP1RsjPi2as_26SUuyCCCBhOLWaYwZMRPpuCVTNefBVXtVDEqtGPx-1nQEh8Ajs5RV0dTXdAMuAXz4Qr5zf8lv5gPwK5w5_gzHcY7BJnVpfJGAm88PXpZsW2esWAQmiKNVNE6WRtgMqj6eCNXl6auVuXxd91OcLAAZZ-L7DY/s320/Free%20fall.jpg" width="207" /></a></div><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>From The Back</b></span></p><b>The closer she comes to the truth, the deadlier her chase gets.</b></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></b>FBI behavioral analyst Alex Donovan and her colleague Logan Hart have been called upon to write a profile for a missing woman, but a little digging quickly turns up more disappearances in Virginia with the same physical description.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Alex is in a race against the clock to rescue the missing victims, so when the UNSUB makes demands of her in exchange for information, Alex takes the bait. But when her life is put in jeopardy, Logan must do whatever it takes to track them down before time runs out.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Alex works to think one step ahead of the suspect, but the more Logan and the BAU learn about the serial kidnapper, the more they fear Alex may not make it out alive.<p></p><p></p><p><b>My Reflections:</b></p><p><b>Nancy Mehl has done it again. She weaves a chilling, intense story that has her readers on the edge with a sense of foreboding and fear. </b><b>This novel is one of a series from the Quantico files. Her third book contains just as much drama and spine-tingling suspense as her other two novels. Though this is a series and would be better suited to be read together this novel could be read as a stand-alone.</b></p><p><b>Special analysts Alex Donavan and Logan Harris race against time to try to stop a serial killer who has targeted several women who oddly resemble Alex. This case is a complex puzzle as they try to create a profile to his ever-changing patterns.</b></p><p><b>As Logan battles a personal health crisis, he finds himself struggling to keep in the loop and stay involved in catching the unsub. </b></p><p><b>Alex also has her own demons. Struggling with PTSD from her last mission, she must push through her emotions and focus on her present case to save as many lives as she can. </b><b>Will she be able to get herself out of another dangerous situation?</b></p><p><b>Buckle up and ride the waves of this ever-changing roller coaster of emotions. I loved this series so much and can't wait for Nancy Mehl's new series to be released! </b></p><p><b>If you are looking for a novel with real-to-life characters, thrilling suspense mixed with a sweet love story peppered amongst the ruins of a dangerous mind, look no further my friends This book is just for you!</b></p><p><b style="color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-weight: 400; text-align: center;">Book has been provided courtesy of Baker Publishing Group and Graf-Martin Communications, Inc.</span></b></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: Ampersand, "Adobe Garamond Pro", Garamond, "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.375rem;">Nancy Mehl</span></p><h3 class="author" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: Ampersand, "Adobe Garamond Pro", Garamond, "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.375rem; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.25; margin: 0.5rem 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMEFUdceE1gaflk_iHwJBTEbBSZaxfcvNxHRCUElXSoTxkRcLSxepqjBPS9qLfg5Wc8OUF2cJrajaqzoi0ilGPITcwJ6PGYafGDT1ndG4bXYQmP-SfhkQZ_R5EawgolqrK5l1LR4HaNh2TFtPwViOUekrKW-U9yc3-YUw6jt9HCuk8k_0HB06sCEUc/s218/Nancy%20Mehl.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="218" data-original-width="145" height="218" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMEFUdceE1gaflk_iHwJBTEbBSZaxfcvNxHRCUElXSoTxkRcLSxepqjBPS9qLfg5Wc8OUF2cJrajaqzoi0ilGPITcwJ6PGYafGDT1ndG4bXYQmP-SfhkQZ_R5EawgolqrK5l1LR4HaNh2TFtPwViOUekrKW-U9yc3-YUw6jt9HCuk8k_0HB06sCEUc/s1600/Nancy%20Mehl.jpg" width="145" /></a></div></h3><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: lighter; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Nancy Mehl </b>(www.nancymehl.com) is the author of more than forty books and a Christy Award finalist, as well as a Carol Award winner, the winner of an ACFW Book of the Year Award, and the winner of the Daphne Du Maurier Award for Excellence in Mystery/Suspense...</p><p class="continue" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">Continue reading <a href="http://bakerpublishinggroup.com/authors/nancy-mehl/1518" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0083bf; transition: all 333ms ease 0s;">about Nancy Mehl</a></p>"Country girl"http://www.blogger.com/profile/05503425854350618277noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6939595626681278495.post-82600383924380658632022-06-19T17:29:00.009-07:002022-06-19T17:59:01.891-07:00Book Review: To Tame a Cowboy<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlpTl28DtMXhDOxJC4yc6__wfYi_yjamfIBQeabx_-cirlyYs9QbH9QSwuDVtWN3l6SLNW0cvnCrSDr0ysMn2Usjcpe3rPh7x_Wds3oSF4XaHg0eFsCAOlTrPewFoDFwyTgkzj4uw4LtCtC6ngd0maihNOJd6XikT6W6is9aLFV8JhizYVDnoZN4O_/s440/To%20tame%20a%20cowboy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="440" data-original-width="285" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlpTl28DtMXhDOxJC4yc6__wfYi_yjamfIBQeabx_-cirlyYs9QbH9QSwuDVtWN3l6SLNW0cvnCrSDr0ysMn2Usjcpe3rPh7x_Wds3oSF4XaHg0eFsCAOlTrPewFoDFwyTgkzj4uw4LtCtC6ngd0maihNOJd6XikT6W6is9aLFV8JhizYVDnoZN4O_/s320/To%20tame%20a%20cowboy.jpg" width="207" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">They share a passion to heal what is broken, but it's their own hearts that need to be made whole.</b> <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Brody McQuaid is a broken man, and he knows it. While his body survived the war, his soul did not. Besides loving his little niece, his only sense of purpose comes from saving the wild horses that roam South Park. Ranchers in the area have taken to killing the horses, which are competing with their cattle to feed on the open grass.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Savannah Marshall is a veterinarian on her family's Colorado ranch. She longs to keep her father happy following the tragic death of her older brother, including marrying a man of his choosing. But days before her wedding, she gets cold feet and disappears to South Park. As she learns more about the destruction of the horses, she joins Brody in an attempt to save the wild creatures. But when Savannah's family and the resentments of the area cattlemen catch up with them both, Brody and Savannah will have to tame their fears if they've any hope to let love run free.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b>My Reflections:</b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b>What a fantastic sequel to the Colorado Cowboys series. If you haven't read books one and two I would highly recommend it, however, this could easily be read as a stand-alone.</b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b>Brody suffers from PTSD from his time as a Union soldier during the war. He struggles with frequent anger, depression, terror-filled dreams, and feelings of unworthiness. </b><b style="font-size: 0.875rem;">Savannah seems to be a balm to Brody's soul.</b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b style="font-size: 0.875rem;">Savannah the ultimate tender soul is fleeing from a loveless union. She wants to please her family but must put some distance between them so that she can figure out her own heart. </b><b style="font-size: 0.875rem;">Having trained to be a veterinarian, she flees to the hills to fulfill that dream. </b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b style="font-size: 0.875rem;">Brody and Savannah find a common passion in saving the wild horses, will this relationship be just what Brody needs to calm his wild heart? Will Savannah find the courage to stand up for what she wants? </b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b style="font-size: 0.875rem;">Overall this is an enjoyable series set in the rustic Colorado mountains. If you are a horse lover this story will likely be a hit!</b><b style="font-size: 0.875rem;"> I am excited to see what happens next with Ivy and Dylan, there has to be a squeal for them! </b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b><span style="font-weight: 400; text-align: center;">Book has been provided courtesy of Baker Publishing Group and Graf-Martin Communications, Inc.</span></b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><span style="font-family: Ampersand, "Adobe Garamond Pro", Garamond, "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.375rem;">Jody Hedlund</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: lighter; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Jody Hedlund</b> (www.jodyhedlund.com) is the bestselling author of over 30 historical novels for both adults and teens and is the winner of numerous awards, including the Christy, Carol, and Christian Book Awards. Jody lives in Michigan with her husband,...</p><p class="continue" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">Continue reading <a href="http://bakerpublishinggroup.com/authors/jody-hedlund/1431" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0083bf; transition: all 333ms ease 0s;">about Jody Hedlund</a></p>"Country girl"http://www.blogger.com/profile/05503425854350618277noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6939595626681278495.post-44146026092156214052022-06-19T17:01:00.002-07:002022-07-18T10:15:29.462-07:00Book Review: When The Meadow Blooms<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbs_XfVgsc_MSFbJzl_9SE1KOmvzH4gwUvrtL5Pr030zl3fCanff7Zjx-mk8l4Fs2UGp1bjV5NblwAypHqIZoTdQm1zJ1ZZGlxJFhT_GquThmHg1dLmvliYRtJfBTywY03QVtmzFMWHp0NsJovMFRf2vBalfyci_-B1vvyuCF3a5_EBBq-sXCOj_I-/s440/When%20the%20meadow%20blooms.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="440" data-original-width="285" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbs_XfVgsc_MSFbJzl_9SE1KOmvzH4gwUvrtL5Pr030zl3fCanff7Zjx-mk8l4Fs2UGp1bjV5NblwAypHqIZoTdQm1zJ1ZZGlxJFhT_GquThmHg1dLmvliYRtJfBTywY03QVtmzFMWHp0NsJovMFRf2vBalfyci_-B1vvyuCF3a5_EBBq-sXCOj_I-/s320/When%20the%20meadow%20blooms.jpg" width="207" /></a></div><br /> <span face="Open Sans, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212121;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;"><b>From the back:</b></span></span><p></p><p><span face=""Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-size: 14px;">If any place on God's earth was designed to help one heal, it is Meadowland. Surely here, at her brother-in-law's Kentucky farm, Rose and her daughters can recover from the events of the recent past--the loss of her husband during the 1918 influenza epidemic, her struggle with tuberculosis that required a stay at a sanatorium, and her girls' experience in an orphanage during her illness. At Meadowland, past troubles become rich soil in which faith can grow.</span></p><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span face=""Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-size: 14px;">Dirk Meadows may have opened his home to his late brother's widow and her girls, but he keeps his heart tightly closed. The roots of his pain run deep, and the evidence of it is written across his face. Badly scarred by a fire and abandoned by the woman he loved, Dirk fiercely guards his heart from being hurt again.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span face=""Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-size: 14px;">But it may be that his visitors will bring light back into his world and unlock the secret to true healing.</span><div><span face=""Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></div><div><span face=""Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-size: 14px;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span face=""Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-size: 14px;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span face=""Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-size: 14px;"><b>My Reflections: </b></span></div><div><span face=""Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-size: 14px;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span face=""Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-size: 14px;"><b>When the Meadow Blooms is set in Kentucky in 1925. </b></span></div><div><span face=""Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-size: 14px;"><b>This is a touching story of hardship and sorrow and the will to overcome it.</b></span></div><div><span face=""Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-size: 14px;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="color: #212121;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;"><b>Rose fights to become strong enough to overcome her battle with tuberculosis. The only thing she can think of is her two children Calla and Sienna, who are being cared for at an orphanage.</b></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #212121;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;"><b>Having lost her husband she must face her battle alone, that is until she becomes desperate enough to ask her brother-in-law for help.</b></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #212121;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #212121;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;"><b>Dirk has his own history and must work through his troubled past to help his kin who are near strangers.</b></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #212121;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;"><b>Living as a recluse is he ready to unchain his heart and move into a new life.</b></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #212121;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #212121;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;"><b>I think my favorite character if I had to pick one would be little Sienna, her keen observations and sweet nature stole my heart. She is a sensitive child who often sees the little details most of us are oblivious to. </b></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #212121;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #212121;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;"><b>This is a poignant story that highlights God's redeeming love, no matter our past. I so enjoyed traveling with Rose, Calla, Sienna, and Dirk throughout this novel. The story ends neat and tidy making me wish for a sequel. </b></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #212121;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;"><b>I cried I rejoiced and I smiled. This will be a keeper on my library shelves.</b></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #212121;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><br /></span></b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: 400; text-align: center;">Book has been provided courtesy of Baker Publishing Group and Graf-Martin Communications, Inc.</span></b></p><div><b style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><br /></span></b></div></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: Ampersand, "Adobe Garamond Pro", Garamond, "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.375rem;">Ann H. Gabhart</span></div><div><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: lighter; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Ann H. Gabhart</b> is the bestselling author of <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Along a Storied Trai</i>l, <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">An Appalachian Summer</i>, <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">River to Redemption</i>, <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">These Healing Hills</i>, and A<i style="box-sizing: border-box;">ngel Sister</i>, along with several Shaker novels--<i style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Refuge</i>, <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Outsider</i>,...</p><p class="continue" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">Continue reading <a href="http://bakerpublishinggroup.com/authors/ann-h-gabhart/855" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0083bf; transition: all 333ms ease 0s;">about Ann H. Gabhart</a></p></div>"Country girl"http://www.blogger.com/profile/05503425854350618277noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6939595626681278495.post-52603164755698282652022-06-01T14:10:00.002-07:002022-06-19T16:59:30.883-07:00Book Review: Sea Glass Cottage<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPb2frI1FdLeJoSnQHuM1kuBpA4s20joWSKi4fRX1GKSE1mephq_EuxTVZKJCphH-0zcQRyHgrQgdiizTNUci7g80Ed7tndv0IftR8WGAgBf3Xfhwjdc0kXGo0qnI8J1I40ahqiQwuKswCGSVx4STfbUmWno1am6kdmwIH8D7RlRPSSKhdsCd-Mb0n/s440/Sea%20Glass%20Cottage.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="440" data-original-width="285" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPb2frI1FdLeJoSnQHuM1kuBpA4s20joWSKi4fRX1GKSE1mephq_EuxTVZKJCphH-0zcQRyHgrQgdiizTNUci7g80Ed7tndv0IftR8WGAgBf3Xfhwjdc0kXGo0qnI8J1I40ahqiQwuKswCGSVx4STfbUmWno1am6kdmwIH8D7RlRPSSKhdsCd-Mb0n/s320/Sea%20Glass%20Cottage.jpg" width="207" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b>From the Back:</b></div><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">When painful pasts collide, can love overcome heartache--and triumph despite the odds?<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></b><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Christi Reece is desperate. The one-time golden girl's life has tarnished, and a cascade of setbacks has left her reeling. She needs help, and she's certain Jack Colby is in a position to provide it.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />When she shows up in Hope Harbor, however, Jack wants nothing to do with the woman who betrayed him. He's built a new life on the Oregon coast--and there's no room in it for Christi, even after she takes refuge in a charming but mysterious cottage nearby. Yet it soon becomes apparent his opinion of her may need revising . . . especially when he ends up needing <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">her</i> help.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Can these two hurting souls open their hearts to a new beginning?</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b>My Reflections:</b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b style="color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;">This sweet story about </b><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212121;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>forgiveness</b></span></span><b style="color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;"> and </b><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212121;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>reconciliation</b></span></span><b style="color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;"> hit all the right spots. set in the quaint little town of Hope </b><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212121;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>Harbor</b></span></span><b style="color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;">, Oregon the inhabitants are </b><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212121;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>quirky</b></span></span><b style="color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;"> and genuine.</b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b style="color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;">Christi is </b><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212121;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>treading</b></span></span><b style="color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;"> on thin ice. After a failed </b><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212121;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>marriage</b></span></span><b style="color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;"> and losing her inheritance she does the only thing she can think of. Asking for a loan from a long ago summer fling is </b><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212121;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>desperation</b></span></span><b style="color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;"> even she couldn't have fathomed. Growing up in a </b><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212121;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>privileged</b></span></span><b style="color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;"> upper class society Christi has learned some hard lessons, now she just has to prove the hard won change to Jack the person she hurt all those long years ago. Hope </b><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212121;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>Harbor</b></span></span><b style="color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;"> draws </b><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212121;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>Christi</b></span></span><b style="color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;"> in with a series of blessings, which encourages her to stay awhile and </b><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212121;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>explore</b></span></span><b style="color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;"> the path God has for her life.</b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b style="color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;">Jack finds his oasis in Hope </b><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212121;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>Harbor</b></span></span><b style="color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;"> living a </b><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212121;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>peaceful</b></span></span><b style="color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;"> life as a police officer and writer. His world is upended in two major ways when Christi walks back into his life. Not only is she fanning the past </b><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212121;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>hurt</b></span></span><b style="color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;"> in his life but she is also fanning feelings he thought were long dead. </b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b style="color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;">A cast of </b><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212121;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>characters</b></span></span><b style="color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;"> adds life to this story. You have Charley the artist and taco stand owner who seems God inspired with his spot-on </b><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212121;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>wisdom</b></span></span><b style="color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;"> and nuggets of truth. Father Murphy and </b><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212121;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>reverend</b></span></span><b style="color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;"> Baker who love to banter back and forth, Gladys and Floyd and let's not forget those crazy seagulls!</b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b style="font-size: 0.875rem;">This is a second-chance love story you won't want to miss. If you are looking for a story that is an easy-to-read fun getaway from life's demands this just very well is what you are after!</b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: 400; text-align: center;">Book has been provided courtesy of Baker Publishing Group and Graf-Martin Communications, Inc.</span></b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b><br /></b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaNQTQO_4s86CYj7k4Bk8kAD7r9fFNcRtKftL4dRnydHxEXj8Ix02BMybpgMn2GNwGH-TPZfN71hye3nIYU7EHFFZ18NbZONSbEStvwLLH0T7yWOE0gelF-CIhyNdT63pseU2_64KiaUlAHMtMRYqcdggCE3pxR0KhAXbL2JhlkISPeXqNFO1Wy1BJ/s218/Irene%20Hannon.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="218" data-original-width="145" height="218" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaNQTQO_4s86CYj7k4Bk8kAD7r9fFNcRtKftL4dRnydHxEXj8Ix02BMybpgMn2GNwGH-TPZfN71hye3nIYU7EHFFZ18NbZONSbEStvwLLH0T7yWOE0gelF-CIhyNdT63pseU2_64KiaUlAHMtMRYqcdggCE3pxR0KhAXbL2JhlkISPeXqNFO1Wy1BJ/s1600/Irene%20Hannon.jpg" width="145" /></a></div><p></p><h3 class="author" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: Ampersand, "Adobe Garamond Pro", Garamond, "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.375rem; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.25; margin: 0.5rem 0px;">Irene Hannon</h3><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: lighter; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Irene Hannon</b> is the bestselling and award-winning author of more than 60 contemporary romance and romantic suspense novels. In addition to her many other honors, she is a three-time winner of the prestigious RITA Award from Romance Writers of America. She is...</p><p class="continue" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">Continue reading <a href="http://bakerpublishinggroup.com/authors/irene-hannon/1195" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0083bf; transition: all 333ms ease 0s;">about Irene Hannon</a></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b><br /></b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b><br /></b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b><br /></b></p><br />"Country girl"http://www.blogger.com/profile/05503425854350618277noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6939595626681278495.post-40391180359537885332022-04-23T14:18:00.001-07:002022-04-23T14:20:42.714-07:00Book Review The Element of Love<p> </p><p></p><h2 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Ampersand, "Adobe Garamond Pro", Garamond, "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.625rem; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.25; margin: 0.83em 0px;"><span style="color: #444444;"><br /></span></h2><h2 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Ampersand, "Adobe Garamond Pro", Garamond, "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.625rem; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.25; margin: 0.83em 0px;"><span style="color: #444444;">From the Back</span></h2><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEipWZOT9RbBM-Y29J7miQXPeeD6SB5b0BCPVLU_MV6GEgilm3lnZ2IZE0PJj0cwIQmCB8No_9qy_rxp3JW5fnhKczD5aC_wn4mz4e3ucUMx16exGeGRTcS1vMXURnlfyIa2Vp0nEd59xDN1iKFTQuQgct3j4U7xUy4fBIVAS7lRNCcr6m5Rkv6MfSQ-=s440" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="440" data-original-width="285" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEipWZOT9RbBM-Y29J7miQXPeeD6SB5b0BCPVLU_MV6GEgilm3lnZ2IZE0PJj0cwIQmCB8No_9qy_rxp3JW5fnhKczD5aC_wn4mz4e3ucUMx16exGeGRTcS1vMXURnlfyIa2Vp0nEd59xDN1iKFTQuQgct3j4U7xUy4fBIVAS7lRNCcr6m5Rkv6MfSQ-=s320" width="207" /></a></div><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">She mixed danger, desperation, and deception together. Love was not the expected outcome.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></b><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />With their sharp engineering minds, Laura Stiles and her two sisters have been able to deal with their mother's unfortunate choice in husband until they discovered his plans to marry each of them off to his lecherous friends. Now they must run away--far and fast--to find better matches to legally claim their portion of their father's lumber dynasty and seize control from their stepfather.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />During their escape, Laura befriends a mission group heading to serve the poor in California. She quickly volunteers herself and her sisters to join their efforts. Despite the settlement being in miserable condition, the sisters are excited by the opportunity to put their skills to good use. Laura also sees potential in Caleb, the mission's parson, to help with gaining her inheritance. But when secrets buried in Caleb's past and in the land around them come to light, it'll take all the smarts the sisters have to keep trouble at bay.<p></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b>My Reflections: Who doesn't love a novel filled with spunky characters and a daring escape?</b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b>These sisters are smart and they know it. Running from their stepfather Edgar's mistreating, these girls risk their lives to get out and get help for their battered mother who is left in the hands of this despicable man. </b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b style="color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;">This book centers around Laura Stiles and her relationship with Caleb the minister she meets after her harrowing escape</b><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212121;"><b style="font-size: 14px;">. Laura is a firecracker... </b><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>literally</b></span><b style="font-size: 14px;">. She knows how to use explosives well, her father </b><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>trained</b></span><b style="font-size: 14px;"> all his girls to take over the lumber </b><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>business</b></span><b style="font-size: 14px;"> before he died an early death. I enjoyed </b><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>Laura's</b></span><b style="font-size: 14px;"> antics and bold ways. </b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212121;"><b style="font-size: 14px;">Laura</b></span><b style="color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;"> pretty near throws herself at the </b><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212121;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>unsuspecting</b></span></span><b style="color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;"> Preacher. The thing is the lumber dynasty can only be </b><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212121;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>transferred</b></span></span><b style="color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;"> to the girls and out of the hands of their </b><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212121;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>stepfather</b></span></span><b style="color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;"> if they marry. So marry she must and fast! Will Caleb take her up on her offer? </b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b style="color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;">Caleb signs on to be the preacher of a small ragtag group of </b><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212121;"><b style="font-size: 14px;">missionaries. As he stumbles along and does his best to minister to those around him Laura shows up and turns his world upside down. As things start to </b><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>develop</b></span><b style="font-size: 14px;"> into a relationship with Laura his past is the only thing holding him back.</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212121;"><b style="font-size: 14px;">I cannot wait for the next two books of this series. The story ends quickly leaving us in suspense as to what happens to the other sisters, Michelle and Jilly. If you are after a new Mary Connealy book this one is sure to please!</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b style="color: #212121;"><span style="font-weight: 400; text-align: center;">Book has been provided courtesy of Baker Publishing Group and Graf-Martin Communications, Inc.</span></b><span face=""Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212121; font-size: 0.875rem;"> </span></p><h3 class="author" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: Ampersand, "Adobe Garamond Pro", Garamond, "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.375rem; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.25; margin: 0.5rem 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiRAEptITmKNf1JNb84N1cqiOsT4jtaQEVfa360IrVLZQXxtX4025y-fso6jTEQSzBZyDNqzBYsPgz-YTifLN6U7kEigOSb4sxnzh_BCG-R49OJemTNsWgSNGDUl21auVapBDKLVfqrv4BENDqAQ7AUvcsCnYoTuPwyr73vwX2_fZsfYU9Nn6dBCI8t=s184" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="184" data-original-width="145" height="184" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiRAEptITmKNf1JNb84N1cqiOsT4jtaQEVfa360IrVLZQXxtX4025y-fso6jTEQSzBZyDNqzBYsPgz-YTifLN6U7kEigOSb4sxnzh_BCG-R49OJemTNsWgSNGDUl21auVapBDKLVfqrv4BENDqAQ7AUvcsCnYoTuPwyr73vwX2_fZsfYU9Nn6dBCI8t" width="145" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiRAEptITmKNf1JNb84N1cqiOsT4jtaQEVfa360IrVLZQXxtX4025y-fso6jTEQSzBZyDNqzBYsPgz-YTifLN6U7kEigOSb4sxnzh_BCG-R49OJemTNsWgSNGDUl21auVapBDKLVfqrv4BENDqAQ7AUvcsCnYoTuPwyr73vwX2_fZsfYU9Nn6dBCI8t=s184" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /></a></div></h3><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: lighter; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br /></b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: lighter; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Mary Connealy </b>(www.maryconnealy.com) writes "romantic comedies with cowboys" and is celebrated for her fun, zany, action-packed style. She has sold more than half a million books. She is the author of the popular series Brothers in Arms, Brides of...</p><p class="continue" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">Continue reading <a href="http://bakerpublishinggroup.com/authors/mary-connealy/1478" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0083bf; transition: all 333ms ease 0s;">about Mary Connealy</a></p><div><br /></div>"Country girl"http://www.blogger.com/profile/05503425854350618277noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6939595626681278495.post-42100306814795822532022-03-28T20:42:00.004-07:002022-03-29T18:28:05.484-07:00Book Review: Along the Rio Grande <p> </p><p></p><h2 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Ampersand, "Adobe Garamond Pro", Garamond, "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.625rem; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.25; margin: 0.83em 0px;"><br /></h2><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiOWsfGuyDQ68fQOvRy7Yqb5O-gosuZl2QVIms_PYZgEAMcQZipsGZMJrYkpUE_KPoGGBg4eyk9LBjPVKtT3H8I5Hr5aJTKHdq-Qi5vqliqOeEZrqAh4c9cD4gaJX__3sXPAjiQeZNDXAeGPy6nxoDc7pvrLF_U4aMpd5nt37y0LOpM9T_5br2NUAwK=s440" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="440" data-original-width="285" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiOWsfGuyDQ68fQOvRy7Yqb5O-gosuZl2QVIms_PYZgEAMcQZipsGZMJrYkpUE_KPoGGBg4eyk9LBjPVKtT3H8I5Hr5aJTKHdq-Qi5vqliqOeEZrqAh4c9cD4gaJX__3sXPAjiQeZNDXAeGPy6nxoDc7pvrLF_U4aMpd5nt37y0LOpM9T_5br2NUAwK=s320" width="207" /></a></div><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Is her compassion doing more harm than good?<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></b><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Recently widowed Susanna Jenkins has decided to follow her family to the booming town of San Marcial, New Mexico, for a fresh start and to aid in her family's sudden change in fortune. They are tasked with managing her uncle's new Grand Hotel, and it takes all her patience to try to help her parents see the good of their circumstances and relinquish their sense of entitlement.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />She's hopeful when her brother becomes determined to get a job and make his own way, and she feels drawn to his kind boss, Owen Turner, who works as a boilermaker for the Santa Fe's train shops in town. But the hard work only seems to fuel her brother's anger, and his rough new friends give her pause.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />When misguided choices put Susanna's family in an even more precarious situation, she worries her help has only made things worse. Leaving her family to fend for themselves seems like the best option, but how can she walk away from the true friendships--and love--that she's found?<p></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b>My Reflections:</b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b>Tracy Peterson remains one of my favorite authors, and for good reason. Her newest book took me away to another time and place. I could not put this book down, the characters jumped off the pages and I became one with their world for a short time. Set in 1899 in New Mexico this story begins with Susanna's plight of trying to contend with not only becoming newly widowed but also trying to help her family where she can. <span style="font-size: 0.875rem;">I had a hard time with her father, brother, and mother's attitudes, whew I wanted to jump into the pages and set some boundaries!</span></b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><span style="font-size: 0.875rem;"><b> Susanna is a hardworking kind-hearted character. She is truly invested in her family and the world around her. It is hard to believe she was raised by her parents as they are polar opposite! Many times I found myself wanting to have a good heart to heart with this character, coming from a co-dependent family I could have told her a thing or two!</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><span style="font-size: 0.875rem;"><b>Owen was one of my favorites as well. He tries to live a life pleasing to God and live by his values. Susanna and Owen are a wonderful match as they both want the same things in life. But Owen must face his own skeletons before he can truly help Susanna and her family.</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><span style="font-size: 0.875rem;"><b>This is a fantastic read. I enjoyed how the details about the job, setting, and people brought the details to life and breathed a cohesive story into the making.</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><span><b style="color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;">If you are looking for your next Traci Peterson fix here you have it, my friends. A whole new series to </b><span style="color: #212121; font-family: Open Sans, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>binge</b></span></span><b style="color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;"> read on! Now we just have to wait for her next installment..</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><span><b style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-weight: 400; text-align: center;">Book has been provided courtesy of Baker Publishing Group and Graf-Martin Communications, Inc.</span></b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.875rem;"></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.875rem;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjOWRzaCBhCIhk9IwwregXSyxARmCrReWCEivSaQbk90mIki_8kWcOBVHlvaNTRPtzkb61prDPWjM97JY3EpMgstBAeQ5fepm1A2sy2IeHXe_h9dg3rAPEpkiU6BJQbOuQkj-R3cSPvcSP8BFprWfD3u-wEan8Fmph2Jq5Q8TNgpVtiyx-RuICgRNpK=s193" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="193" data-original-width="145" height="193" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjOWRzaCBhCIhk9IwwregXSyxARmCrReWCEivSaQbk90mIki_8kWcOBVHlvaNTRPtzkb61prDPWjM97JY3EpMgstBAeQ5fepm1A2sy2IeHXe_h9dg3rAPEpkiU6BJQbOuQkj-R3cSPvcSP8BFprWfD3u-wEan8Fmph2Jq5Q8TNgpVtiyx-RuICgRNpK" width="145" /></a></b></div><b style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.875rem;"><br />Tracie Peterson</b><span style="font-size: 0.875rem; font-weight: lighter;"> (www.traciepeterson.com) is the award-winning author of over 100 novels, both historical and contemporary. Her avid research resonates in her many bestselling series. Tracie and her family make their home in Montana. Visit...</span><p></p><div class="bio" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; display: inline; float: left; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-right: 0px; width: 405.609px;"><p class="continue" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.875rem; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">Continue reading <a href="http://bakerpublishinggroup.com/authors/tracie-peterson/688" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0083bf; transition: all 333ms ease 0s;">about Tracie Peterson</a></p></div>"Country girl"http://www.blogger.com/profile/05503425854350618277noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6939595626681278495.post-40651542061732344412022-03-11T21:35:00.001-08:002022-03-28T20:43:21.572-07:00Book Review: In Search Of A Prince <p> </p><h3 style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiSw0CCrqeokKRJhSLAJwAvSbEa3l5PCO1V7KppDSus-SDzBMwLP-MosrPGSSqeAoZLayz39eiaT0yCkRcttwUD7wDovxJFiHq80ht4uuYvhLZrT9bs2_PTODRC3ORew-zCo-ghYJxmycJs0eZCR4BfWU6uv67eAPEv7XYlpO_qcfSe6yrPjeJLjDyA=s440" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="440" data-original-width="285" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiSw0CCrqeokKRJhSLAJwAvSbEa3l5PCO1V7KppDSus-SDzBMwLP-MosrPGSSqeAoZLayz39eiaT0yCkRcttwUD7wDovxJFiHq80ht4uuYvhLZrT9bs2_PTODRC3ORew-zCo-ghYJxmycJs0eZCR4BfWU6uv67eAPEv7XYlpO_qcfSe6yrPjeJLjDyA=s320" width="207" /></a><span style="font-family: Ampersand, Adobe Garamond Pro, Garamond, Hoefler Text, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 26px;"><b>From The Back:</b></span></span></h3><p></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">It seems like a dream come true . . . until it forces her to question everything.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></b>Brielle Adebayo is fully content teaching at a New York City public school and taking annual summer vacations with her mother to Martha's Vineyard. But everything changes when her mom drops a bombshell--Brielle is really a princess in the island kingdom of Ọlọrọ Ilé, off the coast of Africa, and she must immediately assume her royal position, since the health of her grandfather, the king, is failing.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Distraught by all the secrets her mother kept, Brielle is further left spinning when the Ọlọrọ Ilé Royal Council brings up an old edict that states she must marry before her coronation, or the crown will pass to another. Brielle is uncertain if she even wants the throne, and with her world totally shaken, where will she find the courage to take a chance on love and brave the perils a wrong decision may bring?<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">My Reflections:</span></b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b style="color: #212121; font-size: 0.875rem;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In Search of a Prince weaves the classic fairy tale into a realistic modern-day version. This is the modern princess we have all been waiting for. </span></b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="color: #212121; font-size: 0.875rem;">I </b><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212121;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>blissfully</b></span></span><b style="color: #212121; font-size: 0.875rem;"> enjoyed every page of this book, it hit all the right places. Faith, romance (yet be it slow and simmering) </b><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212121;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>strength</b></span></span><b style="color: #212121; font-size: 0.875rem;"> of spirit, and a touch of surprise. This story feels fluffy on the outside but it delves much deeper into the core beliefs we all must tease out in life. I enjoyed the beautiful setting, the storyline, and the adorable </b><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212121;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>characters</b></span></span><b style="color: #212121; font-size: 0.875rem;">.</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="color: #212121; font-size: 0.875rem;">I so appreciated the </b><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212121;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>character</b></span></span><b style="color: #212121; font-size: 0.875rem;"> and </b><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212121;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>strength</b></span></span><b style="color: #212121; font-size: 0.875rem;"> Brielle exhibited. Such a </b><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212121;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>hefty</b></span></span><b style="color: #212121; font-size: 0.875rem;"> role to have thrust </b><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212121;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>upon</b></span></span><b style="color: #212121; font-size: 0.875rem;"> you, yet Brielle masterfully pulls it off making this a </b><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212121;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>believable</b></span></span><b style="color: #212121; font-size: 0.875rem;"> story in an otherwise </b><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212121;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>unbelievable</b></span></span><b style="color: #212121; font-size: 0.875rem;"> storyline. </b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b style="color: #212121; font-size: 0.875rem;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This is a rare jewel, it made me laugh, cry, and anxiously await the next page. If you are looking for a new romance that is modern yet picturesque of your fairy tale days this is the book for you, my friends!</span></b></p><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: left;"><b style="color: #212121;"><span style="font-weight: 400; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Book has been provided courtesy of Baker Publishing Group and Graf-Martin Communications, Inc.</span></span></b></div><h3 class="author" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: Ampersand, "Adobe Garamond Pro", Garamond, "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.375rem; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.25; margin: 0.5rem 0px;"><br /></h3><h3 class="author" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: Ampersand, "Adobe Garamond Pro", Garamond, "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.375rem; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.25; margin: 0.5rem 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjvYC4kpDbgE_KVRvBbcAf78d13bNoi82wGUe0C1-YX7YtGIOz7fTxE7N2sd84jANIwf5RzODio4XTAcx8HZhlBXkV0Snfb1B1HuZg2aKRYlQzPyLM27Ykul643OL735XZQcIDr0d1ejLLHo1uNqEojQZ7_lYrlO1G4iNtZ_IXDUnYHM3GPplwDwvsW=s218" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="218" data-original-width="145" height="218" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjvYC4kpDbgE_KVRvBbcAf78d13bNoi82wGUe0C1-YX7YtGIOz7fTxE7N2sd84jANIwf5RzODio4XTAcx8HZhlBXkV0Snfb1B1HuZg2aKRYlQzPyLM27Ykul643OL735XZQcIDr0d1ejLLHo1uNqEojQZ7_lYrlO1G4iNtZ_IXDUnYHM3GPplwDwvsW" width="145" /></a></div><br />Toni Shiloh</h3><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: lighter; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Toni Shiloh</b> (www.tonishiloh.com) is a wife, mom, and multi-published Christian contemporary romance author. Her novel <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Grace Restored</i> was a 2019 Holt Medallion finalist, and <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Risking Love</i> was a 2020 Selah Award finalist. As a member of the American...</p><p class="continue" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">Continue reading <a href="http://bakerpublishinggroup.com/authors/toni-shiloh/3538" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0083bf; transition: all 333ms ease 0s;">about Toni Shiloh</a></p><p><br /></p>"Country girl"http://www.blogger.com/profile/05503425854350618277noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6939595626681278495.post-83956571776715785422022-03-11T20:36:00.000-08:002022-03-11T20:36:40.354-08:00Book Review: Life Flight<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg1uU09gTpUcFFdEB-Tx9Ey0qiRJt5BTt9k5EvR76z_ne7sJfEU09O37CL96YbqJlgwws_GtsZVSvxt12qONuhwdLQUIutlT_9XxEhBQwNBOAQX0JjHrl2AA2Xgu6uUhQAhfomLgC2vdKowB77omiokjgqQz9n8NFAKIK-MRZT4PzwtJII4syj4JBye=s440" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="440" data-original-width="285" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg1uU09gTpUcFFdEB-Tx9Ey0qiRJt5BTt9k5EvR76z_ne7sJfEU09O37CL96YbqJlgwws_GtsZVSvxt12qONuhwdLQUIutlT_9XxEhBQwNBOAQX0JjHrl2AA2Xgu6uUhQAhfomLgC2vdKowB77omiokjgqQz9n8NFAKIK-MRZT4PzwtJII4syj4JBye=s320" width="207" /></a></div><p></p><h3 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #005a84; font-family: Ampersand, "Adobe Garamond Pro", Garamond, "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.625rem; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.25; margin: 0.83em 0px; text-align: left;">From the back:</h3><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">EMS helicopter pilot Penny Carlton is used to high-stress situations, but being forced to land on a mountain in a raging storm with a critical patient--and a serial killer on the loose--tests her skills and her nerve to the limit. She survives with FBI Special Agent Holt Satterfield's help. But she's not out of the woods yet.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />In the ensuing days, Penny finds herself under attack. And when news reaches Holt that he may not have gotten his man after all, it will take all he and Penny have to catch a killer--before the killer catches one of them.<br /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b><br /></b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b>My Reflections:</b></p><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><span face=""Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212121; font-size: 0.875rem;">This is the first book in Lynette Eason's newest book "</span><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212121;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Extreme</span></span><span face=""Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212121; font-size: 0.875rem;"> Measures"</span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212121;"><span style="font-size: 0.875rem;">If you are looking for a book that boasts extreme Action danger and psychological terror this is the book for you. The bad guy is truly chilling, and the twists and turns keep the reader </span><span style="font-size: 14px;">entranced</span><span style="font-size: 0.875rem;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14px;">through</span><span style="font-size: 0.875rem;"> the whole book.</span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212121;"><span style="font-size: 0.875rem;">Penny Carlton is a spunky fighter, her actions to </span><span style="font-size: 14px;">thwart</span><span style="font-size: 0.875rem;"> the killer are nothing more than amazing. I don't think I would hold up to the stress this </span><span style="font-size: 14px;">character</span><span style="font-size: 0.875rem;"> boasts. She is always on her toes and is willing to do what it takes to catch the suspect, even if it puts her life on the line.</span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212121;"><span style="font-size: 0.875rem;">Holt is the a likeable </span><span style="font-size: 14px;">character</span><span style="font-size: 0.875rem;"> his ability to dodge danger is however lacking as Penny is often the one to save him. He is adorable with Penny, and </span><span style="font-size: 14px;">they</span><span style="font-size: 0.875rem;"> make a sweet couple. Throughout the book I felt like he should hurry up and just reveal his past and get on with things. Their relationship is slow moving but the </span><span style="font-size: 14px;">unfurling</span><span style="font-size: 0.875rem;"> is worth the wait.</span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212121;"><span style="font-size: 0.875rem;">The </span><span style="font-size: 14px;">villain's</span><span style="font-size: 0.875rem;"> in this novel are creepy and some scenes are pretty dark. I was sure glad I was hiding behind pages instead of living this drama.</span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212121;"><span style="font-size: 0.875rem;">All in all I rate this book five stars. Lynette Eason has never </span><span style="font-size: 14px;">disappointed</span><span style="font-size: 0.875rem;"> me. Her books are always filled with </span><span style="font-size: 14px;">sustenance</span><span style="font-size: 0.875rem;"> and life. You won't regret opening this book, but beware it is quite the ride!</span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><span face="Open Sans, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212121;"><span style="font-size: 0.875rem;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="text-align: center;">Book has been provided courtesy of Baker Publishing Group and Graf-Martin Communications, Inc.</span></span></span></span></span></div><figure style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; clear: left; color: #212121; display: inline; float: left; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 17.9844px; width: 158.734px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh5rRaaM9h2IQGLXjX32hVsMmTMF4qEo63uxjdY3ZMdC3p1VyJNJDJApcDSxL19GZZkSjbnFR3mLDgqekTACcJznFp-jNCjb2a__47KCq4dcK0H7aqQM6vEp7xJN818HLzxs6rd2soNWcc_P4tWAOyg7YCmRFWbyaxFYXKMOQs8IEcxfUi-fcRGQ-yF=s145" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="118" data-original-width="145" height="118" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh5rRaaM9h2IQGLXjX32hVsMmTMF4qEo63uxjdY3ZMdC3p1VyJNJDJApcDSxL19GZZkSjbnFR3mLDgqekTACcJznFp-jNCjb2a__47KCq4dcK0H7aqQM6vEp7xJN818HLzxs6rd2soNWcc_P4tWAOyg7YCmRFWbyaxFYXKMOQs8IEcxfUi-fcRGQ-yF" width="145" /></a></div><br /><figcaption style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #595959; font-family: Ampersand, "Adobe Garamond Pro", Garamond, "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.2; text-align: center;"><br /></figcaption></figure><div class="bio" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; display: inline; float: left; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-right: 0px; width: 405.609px;"><h3 class="author" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Ampersand, "Adobe Garamond Pro", Garamond, "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.375rem; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.25; margin: 0.5rem 0px;">Lynette Eason</h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.875rem; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: lighter; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Lynette Eason</b> is the bestselling author of <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Life Flight </i>and the Danger Never Sleeps, Blue Justice, Women of Justice, Deadly Reunions, Hidden Identity, and Elite Guardians series. She is the winner of three ACFW Carol Awards, the Selah Award,...</p><p class="continue" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.875rem; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">Continue reading <a href="http://bakerpublishinggroup.com/authors/lynette-eason/1271" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0083bf; transition: all 333ms ease 0s;">about Lynette Eason</a></p></div>"Country girl"http://www.blogger.com/profile/05503425854350618277noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6939595626681278495.post-23278203788151163352021-10-07T17:18:00.001-07:002021-10-07T17:18:45.866-07:00Book Review: The Nature of Small Birds<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiwLxX-EjdsDhBFLzHqi6OvHiREah9LrJ9i2ppooXqVtPWJwEgBO2qbazzQ7ftWAacMKDQaessCmtgSqxj17LNt6yeLAYMEpQj3rbgQzyhyphenhyphenvfazs3jgwY3dNpolx7Srb8pZic4aKq1Vok/s440/The+nature+of+small+birds.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="440" data-original-width="285" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiwLxX-EjdsDhBFLzHqi6OvHiREah9LrJ9i2ppooXqVtPWJwEgBO2qbazzQ7ftWAacMKDQaessCmtgSqxj17LNt6yeLAYMEpQj3rbgQzyhyphenhyphenvfazs3jgwY3dNpolx7Srb8pZic4aKq1Vok/s320/The+nature+of+small+birds.jpg" width="207" /></a></div><p></p><h2 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #005a84; font-family: Ampersand, "Adobe Garamond Pro", Garamond, "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.625rem; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.25; margin: 0.83em 0px;">From the back:</h2><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">In 1975, three thousand children were airlifted out of Saigon to be adopted into Western homes. When one of those children announces her plans to return to Vietnam to find her birth mother, her loving adopted family is suddenly thrown back to the events surrounding her unconventional arrival in their lives.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Mindy's father grapples with the tension between holding on tightly and letting his daughter spread her wings. Her mother undergoes the emotional roller coaster inherent in the adoption of a child from a war-torn country, discovering the joy hidden amid the difficulties. And Mindy and her sister struggle to find the strength to accept each other as they both discover who they truly are.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b>My Reflections:</b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b>If you know me you know that I am a bird lover, so when I saw the beautiful cover of "The Nature of small birds" I just knew I needed to read it.</b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b>The cover which lead me to the pages did not disappoint. Within I found a beautifully soft, gently flowing narrative with amazing quotes and a compelling storyline. </b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b>Told in three timelines, beginning in 1975 (Mom Linda)</b><b style="font-size: 0.875rem;">, 1998 (Sister Sonny), and then skipping to 2013 (Dad Bruce.) These are all told in the voices of Linda, Sonny, and Bruce. I adored this format, you can tell the author did her research! </b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b>Susie Finkbeiner has extreme talent in bringing this book together in a cohesive manner. She hits it just right and the reader gets to experience the culture of each era and the feel of the character. A heartwarming story following the love, acceptance, and complexities of a family knit together by God's design. A must-read!</b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><b><b style="text-align: center;">Book has been provided courtesy of Baker Publishing Group and Graf-Martin Communications, Inc.</b></b></b></b></b></p><h3 class="author" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: Ampersand, "Adobe Garamond Pro", Garamond, "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.375rem; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.25; margin: 0.5rem 0px;">Susie Finkbeiner</h3><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: lighter; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Susie Finkbeiner</b> is the CBA bestselling author of <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">All Manner of Things</i>, which was selected as a 2020 Michigan Notable Book, and <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Stories That Bind Us</i>,<i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </i>as well as <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">A Cup of Dust</i>, <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">A Trail of Crumbs</i>, and <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">A Song of Home</i>. She...</p><p class="continue" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">Continue reading <a href="http://www.bakerpublishinggroup.com/authors/susie-finkbeiner/3122" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0083bf; transition: all 333ms ease 0s;">about Susie Finkbeiner</a></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b><br /></b></p>"Country girl"http://www.blogger.com/profile/05503425854350618277noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6939595626681278495.post-62770690037345719502021-10-06T12:49:00.001-07:002021-10-06T12:49:34.521-07:00Book Review: A Warrior's Heart<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEhHUIL6jhuXW9xgqbzmIZaIgfbf1t6EEHWmf_LErAuqmvGedqBQh4ddf_ptgiLnNeL1DnP8ICKzrdau7Lnzafm-B4L42qm3kt7JoJmW5HRYM8ExOGdDRxB01Dji9M1YmUFE2EOnNp2mY/s440/A+warrior%2527s+heart.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="440" data-original-width="285" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEhHUIL6jhuXW9xgqbzmIZaIgfbf1t6EEHWmf_LErAuqmvGedqBQh4ddf_ptgiLnNeL1DnP8ICKzrdau7Lnzafm-B4L42qm3kt7JoJmW5HRYM8ExOGdDRxB01Dji9M1YmUFE2EOnNp2mY/s320/A+warrior%2527s+heart.jpg" width="207" /></a></div><p></p><h2 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #005a84; font-family: Ampersand, "Adobe Garamond Pro", Garamond, "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.625rem; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.25; margin: 0.83em 0px;">From the Back:</h2><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Her heart longs for peace, but peace won't keep them safe.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></b><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Brielle Durand is still haunted by the massacre that killed her mother a dozen years before. Vowing to never let it happen again, she's risen to be the key defender for her people's peace-loving French settlement living in hidden caves in the Canadian Rockies. When a foreigner wanders too near to their secret home, she has no choice but to disarm and capture him. But now, what to do with this man who insists he can be trusted?<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Hoping to escape past regrets, Evan MacManus ventured into the unknown, assigned to discover if the northern mountains contain an explosive mineral that might help America win the War of 1812. Despite being taken prisoner, Evan is determined to complete his mission. But when that assignment becomes at odds with his growing appreciation of the villagers and Brielle, does he follow through on his promise to his government or take a risk on where his heart is leading him? Either choice will cause harm to someone.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></b>Brielle and Evan must reconcile the warring in their hearts to have any hope of finding peace for their peoples.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">My Reflections:</span></b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Misty Beller's newest series titled "Brides of Laurent" is an inspiring, heartwarming tale of second chances, strength, faith, and integrity. Readers will be transported back to the 19th Century, a land of beauty and unrest.</span></b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Brielle Durand is fiercely protective of her people. Having lived through a heartwrenching tragedy that took the lives of many of her people including her own mother Brielle's heart is continuously on the lookout for danger. When she tracks an interloper set to discover her encampment she is quick to act. </span></b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Evan MacManus is oblivious to the fact that he is being hunted. sent on a mission by James Madison, he is set on finding the sought-after explosive material presumedly found in the Canadian Rockies. </span></b><b style="font-size: 0.875rem;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">He never expected to cross paths with a reclusive community hidden in the caves, nor did he expect to be taken, hostage!</span></b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Both Brielle and Evan have secrets, will they be able to overcome their haunted pasts in order to work together for a better future?</span></b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">If you are looking for a stirring, memorable story look no further. Beller has penned the perfect start to her new series, I can't wait for book two!</span></b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b style="font-size: medium;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b><b><b style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Book has been provided courtesy of Baker Publishing Group and Graf-Martin Communications, Inc.</span></b></b></b></b></b></p><h3 class="author" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-size: 1.375rem; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.25; margin: 0.5rem 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Misty M. Beller</span></h3><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: lighter; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">USA Today</i> bestselling author <b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Misty M. Beller</b> (www.mistymbeller.com) writes romantic mountain stories set on the 1800s frontier and woven with the truth of God's love. Her Southern roots run deep, and she lives in South Carolina with her husband and...</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"></b></span></b></p><p class="continue" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Continue reading <a href="http://www.bakerpublishinggroup.com/authors/misty-m-beller/3182" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0083bf; transition: all 333ms ease 0s;">about Misty M. Beller</a></span></p>"Country girl"http://www.blogger.com/profile/05503425854350618277noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6939595626681278495.post-56429543994890226322021-08-04T12:01:00.001-07:002021-08-04T12:01:48.901-07:00Book Review: Come Back to Me<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgkPFKxnHFqFDUTOHlok2cTBTjoU8bB7HDqUtIbOp5xQE9fKTvFu7ymi3Hx48gmsJeG2F-1TE0mOGLLMEjVWsFZ8Gmjvz-G2_XMw7Q5GA44otrQK7vOv-IKmvJpBfSbfM3oWAKwcTiJ5U/s440/Come+Back+to+Me.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="440" data-original-width="285" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgkPFKxnHFqFDUTOHlok2cTBTjoU8bB7HDqUtIbOp5xQE9fKTvFu7ymi3Hx48gmsJeG2F-1TE0mOGLLMEjVWsFZ8Gmjvz-G2_XMw7Q5GA44otrQK7vOv-IKmvJpBfSbfM3oWAKwcTiJ5U/s320/Come+Back+to+Me.jpg" /></a></div><p></p><h2 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #005a84; font-family: Ampersand, "Adobe Garamond Pro", Garamond, "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.625rem; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.25; margin: 0.83em 0px;">From the Back:</h2><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">The ultimate cure that could heal any disease? Crazy.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></b><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />That's exactly what research scientist Marian Creighton has always believed about her father's quest, even if it does stem from a desire to save her sister from the genetic disease that stole their mother from them. But when her father falls into a coma after drinking a vial of holy water believed to contain traces of residue from the Tree of Life, Marian must question all of her assumptions. He's left behind tantalizing clues that suggest he's crossed back in time. Insane. Until Marian tests his theories and finds herself in the Middle Ages during a dangerous peasant uprising.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />William Durham, a valiant knight, comes to Marian's rescue and offers her protection . . . as his wife. The longer Marian stays in the past, the more she cares about William. Can she ever find her father and make it back to the present to heal her sister? And when the time comes to leave, will she want to?<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b>My Reflections: </b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b>I am usually not the time travel type, but I adore Jody Hedlund's work so much that I went for the leap. I was pleasantly surprised at how this book transformed my previous assumptions. Her spin on time travel was unique and certainly nothing like what I have read before. <span style="font-size: 0.875rem;"> </span></b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b><span style="font-size: 0.875rem;">"Come Back to Me" revolves around the medieval time period of 1381, England and the present time. Will Derham a handsome and chivalrous knight, rescues Marian Creighton from an upcoming beating. In return for his protection, he offers her his hand in marriage. </span><span style="font-size: 0.875rem;">The thing is Marian needs to locate the vial of holy water in order to heal her father who is in a coma and save her sister who suffers from a genetic condition. Then there is the small fact that she is travelling in a different time period. Marian must act quickly as her father's and sister's very lives depend on her. Confused by her growing attraction to Will and her quest for the holy water, Marian must make some hard decisions.</span></b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><span style="font-size: 0.875rem;"><b>Hedlund has certainly done her research for this novel. Moving seamlessly from present time to 1381 is no small feat I'm sure! The Historical details made the book jump to life and her characters were spot on for both time periods. This was such a fun book to read. Even though I normally don't go for this type of genre Hedlund masterfully weaves an unforgettable tale sure to please.</b></span></p>"Country girl"http://www.blogger.com/profile/05503425854350618277noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6939595626681278495.post-32320533238746245782021-08-04T11:20:00.006-07:002021-08-04T11:20:34.724-07:00Book Review: A Man With A Past<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcL-516FewK4Lu7MlBE7es873VpOwSbusL6FL6gqPZdOHq_y3GGnXxh4X7LowmjFkD1fmOul3kBa9R4LIzGqS86f_Oyaoq2MJWF64bfmRduz6wfjewaUfN527s8yaaEi1E6s0v5DYRE5c/s440/A+man+with+a+Past.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="440" data-original-width="284" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcL-516FewK4Lu7MlBE7es873VpOwSbusL6FL6gqPZdOHq_y3GGnXxh4X7LowmjFkD1fmOul3kBa9R4LIzGqS86f_Oyaoq2MJWF64bfmRduz6wfjewaUfN527s8yaaEi1E6s0v5DYRE5c/s320/A+man+with+a+Past.jpg" /></a></div><p></p><h2 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #005a84; font-family: Ampersand, "Adobe Garamond Pro", Garamond, "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.625rem; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.25; margin: 0.83em 0px;">From the back:</h2><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">He must piece together his past if he's to have any chance at a future.</b><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></b>Falcon Hunt traveled west, compelled to start a new life by a surprise telegram that promised him an inheritance and a family in Wyoming. But shortly after arriving, he wakes in a river, completely unaware of who or where he is. As he tries to regain his memory, he meets two men who claim to be his half brothers and the prettiest woman in the area, Cheyenne Brewster. Only trouble is, a few flashes of memory make Falcon wonder if he's already married.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Falcon immediately draws Cheyenne's ire as he so closely resembles her no-good stepfather who swindled her out of inheriting her mother's property. But despite her resentments, she has to admit these newcomers' presence has some appeal, especially after Falcon steals a kiss.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />When shootings start happening on the ranch, it's clear someone is gunning for the Hunt brothers. Falcon and Cheyenne set out to find who is behind the attacks, but it'll take all their savvy and skill to deal with their enemies and the potentially forbidden love growing between them.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b>My Reflections:</b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b>In Mary Connealy's second book "The Brothers in Arms" series, you will expect to be entertained for many solid hours. I have to admit this author consistently has me reading well into the wee hours of the night, I simply must keep reading! </b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b>This book is no exception, in this series the plot builds onto the first book "Braced For Love." Readers can expect a good recap, for this reason, I would suggest this not be read as a standalone, read them in order to get the full benefits of the story!</b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b>A Man With A Past continues with the story of the Hunt Brothers. <span style="font-size: 0.875rem;">Falcon Hunt seems to have lost his memory putting him in a rather awkward situation. He can't recall the two men who claim to be his brothers, but he sure wants to get to know the beautiful lady named Cheyenne. When flashes of his past life come to light Falcon struggles with his building interest in this beautiful lady. Being the honourable man he is, he tries to live by his deep-rooted values hoping to remember enough of his past in order to build a future.</span></b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><span style="font-size: 0.875rem;"><b>Cheyenne is the half-sister to Wyatt Hunt she is a firecracker of a woman who holds her resentment close after being cut off from the ranch she was raised on. When more confusion comes her way in the form of a handsome cowboy with no memory, things get really interesting!</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b>I love that Mary Connealy weaves other characters into her novels interconnecting stories to add to her future series. I can't wait for book three! If you are looking for a novel packed with handsome cowboys, adventure and a sprinkle of humour this just might be the book you are searching for!</b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><br /></p>"Country girl"http://www.blogger.com/profile/05503425854350618277noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6939595626681278495.post-12681476606579508862021-07-19T20:39:00.000-07:002021-07-19T20:39:18.157-07:00Book Review: The Heart's Charge<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVim5ovv3L6hsq8X6GcSrtLr4Seko2Q_0VZLuKTrky55EQ529zxjirOzGJjbzx9oLCHIp-Ye31Z8ZvKoN6So0gpCBdd4BGSpDRVX2gA61vkW8o6kaa5XzbMmBa2WShnZ8cImvujdT4PVs/s440/The+Heart%2527s+Charge.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="440" data-original-width="285" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVim5ovv3L6hsq8X6GcSrtLr4Seko2Q_0VZLuKTrky55EQ529zxjirOzGJjbzx9oLCHIp-Ye31Z8ZvKoN6So0gpCBdd4BGSpDRVX2gA61vkW8o6kaa5XzbMmBa2WShnZ8cImvujdT4PVs/s320/The+Heart%2527s+Charge.jpg" /></a></div><h2 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #005a84; font-family: Ampersand, "Adobe Garamond Pro", Garamond, "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.625rem; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.25; margin: 0.83em 0px;"><span style="font-size: 1.625rem;">From the Back:</span></h2><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">For Years They've Been Nomads for Justice, but a Final Mission May Just Lead Their Hearts Home.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></b>Members of the legendary Hanger's Horsemen, Mark Wallace and Jonah Brooks arrive in Llano County, Texas, to deliver a steed, never expecting they'd help deliver a baby as well. Left with an infant to care for, they head to a nearby foundling home, where Mark encounters the woman he nearly married a decade ago.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />After failing at love, Katherine Palmer has dedicated her life to caring for children, teaming up with Eliza Southerland to start Harmony House. Eliza understands the pain of not fitting society's mold, being illegitimate and of mixed ancestry. Yet those are the very attributes that lead her to minister to outcast children. The taciturn Jonah intrigues her by defying all her stereotypes of men, but there are secrets behind his eyes--ghosts from wars past and others still being waged.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />When the Horsemen hear rumors of missing children, they stay to investigate, sticking close to Harmony House and its beautiful owners. As they work together to uncover the truth, love and danger grow hand in hand until a final sinister scheme threatens to destroy them all.</p><div>My Reflections:</div><div><br /></div><div>I adore Karen Witemeyer's ability to take a novel and turn a story into a masterpiece!</div><div>From start to finish I was captivated. </div><div><br /></div><div>In this fast-paced novel, there are mini-stories within the main plot. I loved all the characters from big to small, the children at Harmony House were so charming, they each have their story to tell. Mark and Jonah, they made me laugh out loud at their bumbling ways and inner thoughts. That</div><div>is what I enjoyed about this story you get inside the character's heads and really understand their perspective.</div><div><br /></div><div>Katherine's dedication to the children at Harmony House and her tender heart make her truly a remarkable yet fragile character. Eliza was another story she was not going to let any man hurt anyone she loved especially her...until she started to get soft with Jonah that is. </div><div><br /></div><div>Kindness, love, and a smidgen of suspense make this a well-rounded read. If you are looking for the perfect summer read I would highly recommend "The Heart's Charge" </div><div><br /></div><div><p><b style="color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "open sans", "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><b><b style="text-align: center;">Book has been provided courtesy of Baker Publishing Group and Graf-Martin Communications, Inc.</b></b></b></b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1jfXVZfAPO0RERXmU-UVupL7d3bFFSdUuICQ7vaDtykjCj0bpvhdv1y5dE4TVC5u08d0MngIDKvnmYfgngCwg68rN7TS5kOKUVHxvFqzKZRTz8V-wiVukJ-4nQR1cOmZNt3AckZCncAk/s197/Karen+Witemeyer.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="197" data-original-width="145" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1jfXVZfAPO0RERXmU-UVupL7d3bFFSdUuICQ7vaDtykjCj0bpvhdv1y5dE4TVC5u08d0MngIDKvnmYfgngCwg68rN7TS5kOKUVHxvFqzKZRTz8V-wiVukJ-4nQR1cOmZNt3AckZCncAk/s0/Karen+Witemeyer.jpg" /></a></div><h3 class="author" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: Ampersand, "Adobe Garamond Pro", Garamond, "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.375rem; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.25; margin: 0.5rem 0px;">Karen Witemeyer</h3><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: lighter; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">Voted #1 Reader's Favorite Christian Romance Author of 2019 by <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Family Fiction Magazine</i>, bestselling author <b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Karen Witemeyer</b> (www.karenwitemeyer.com) offers warmhearted historical romance with a flair for humor, feisty heroines, and swoon-worthy Texas...</p><p class="continue" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">Continue reading <a href="http://bakerpublishinggroup.com/authors/karen-witemeyer/1388" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0083bf; transition: all 333ms ease 0s;">about Karen Witemeyer</a></p><p><br /></p></div><div><b style="color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "open sans", "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><b><b style="text-align: center;"><br /></b></b></b></b></b></div>"Country girl"http://www.blogger.com/profile/05503425854350618277noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6939595626681278495.post-87028468342791406872021-06-16T21:31:00.003-07:002021-06-16T21:31:18.685-07:00Book Review: Night Fall<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiADmsE-zph3mQ0UIHBI9z6pohSMIn1-etADsWX-9WIgIKKJ6ChjnIKbFvUIzJXWrwLU4NuiWZ_EzFVA4VYeuSVJowqUhEU_8Vims3rbXUHPPc5TDGprMpfRT5O3kycFOHlYKrAAZXYd1E/s440/9780764237638.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="440" data-original-width="285" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiADmsE-zph3mQ0UIHBI9z6pohSMIn1-etADsWX-9WIgIKKJ6ChjnIKbFvUIzJXWrwLU4NuiWZ_EzFVA4VYeuSVJowqUhEU_8Vims3rbXUHPPc5TDGprMpfRT5O3kycFOHlYKrAAZXYd1E/s320/9780764237638.jpg" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><h2 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ca0002; font-family: Ampersand, "Adobe Garamond Pro", Garamond, "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.625rem; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.25; margin: 0.83em 0px;">From The Back:</h2><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">For any little boy or girl who hears the Train Man speak,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Who feels his rancid breath caress their pretty cheek,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Must close their eyes, pretend to sleep, and very softly pray,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Or else the evil Train Man may carry them away.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></i><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></b>Finally free of her troubled upbringing, Alex Donovan is able to live out her childhood dream of working for the FBI. But soon after she becomes a member of the FBI's elite Behavioral Analysis Unit, authorities in Missouri contact them about bodies found on freight trains--all killed in the same way.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Alex never expected to be forced to confront her past in this new job, but she immediately recognizes the graffiti messages the killer is leaving on the train cars. When the BAU sends her to gather information about the messages from her aunt in Wichita, Kansas, Alex is haunted by the struggles she thought she'd left behind forever.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b>My reflections: Nancy Mehl is one of my favorite authors. Her books are always filled with non-stop action, suspense, and well-rounded characters. Her newest series is not much different, in this book you know right off who the perpetrator is. <span style="font-size: 0.875rem;">Now I do love good surprise but I was able to glean more information about this sinister character so this wasn't a deal-breaker. </span></b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><span style="font-size: 0.875rem;"><b>This could be a triggering book for those who suffer from PTSD and have experienced similar upbringings. I say this because of the dark ambiance, coupled with the mention of cults and abuse may be too close to home for some.</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><span style="font-size: 0.875rem;"><b>F.B.I. behavioral analyst Alex Donavan had my attention straight away, she is spunky and unbelievably strong. Not sure if she can face her bygone past she puts on a brave face and dose her job, but will all the stress of her past be too much for her to catch the "Destroyer?" Can she use her knoledge about "The Book" and its followers to save the lives of more innocent people? </b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><span style="font-size: 0.875rem;"><b>I adored Logan Heart, his gentle demaner and caring heart work into Alexe's resolve. His faith is stong and when Alex struggles with her fears he is there to provide compfort and kindness, it dosn't count that he finds her attractive!</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b>I can't wait until the next book comes out, I'm sure Alex has more bad guys to catch. </b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6Cy0ZGjMHuCkq2PnJu2lMeRkw8hlFRbNPj9Bp3vZVKGr_OLL43Q5-9aQxHe3W-4LMuE-mq5JeGL4aaDXJHd1qZ1cHEC_b9M98NuVayiKClc0_VpG8qaZCMqjFzXJ20mOkeIjeQok34Y0/s218/15383.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="218" data-original-width="145" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6Cy0ZGjMHuCkq2PnJu2lMeRkw8hlFRbNPj9Bp3vZVKGr_OLL43Q5-9aQxHe3W-4LMuE-mq5JeGL4aaDXJHd1qZ1cHEC_b9M98NuVayiKClc0_VpG8qaZCMqjFzXJ20mOkeIjeQok34Y0/s0/15383.jpg" /></a></div><figure style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; clear: left; color: #212121; display: inline; float: left; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 17.9844px 0px 0px; width: 158.734px;"><br /></figure><div class="bio" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; display: inline; float: left; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-right: 0px; width: 405.609px;"><h3 class="author" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Ampersand, "Adobe Garamond Pro", Garamond, "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 1.375rem; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.25; margin: 0.5rem 0px;">Nancy Mehl</h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.875rem; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: lighter; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Nancy Mehl </b>(www.nancymehl.com) is the author of more than 40 books and a Christy Award and Carol Award finalist as well as the winner of an ACFW Book of the Year award. Her short story, <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Chasing Shadows</i>, was in the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">USA Today</i> bestselling <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Summer...</i></p><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p class="continue" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.875rem; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1em;">Continue reading <a href="http://bakerpublishinggroup.com/authors/nancy-mehl/1518" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0083bf; transition: all 333ms ease 0s;">about Nancy Meh</a>l</p></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.71429; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><br /></p>"Country girl"http://www.blogger.com/profile/05503425854350618277noreply@blogger.com1