Cover Reveal: Lori Benton’s Shiloh (Kindred #2)

It’s cover reveal time for Shiloh, the second installment in Lori Benton’s Kindred duology. If you haven’t yet read Mountain Laurel (Kindred #1) be sure to grab a copy before Shiloh releases this autumn (5 October 2021). Shiloh also revisits several key characters from Lori’s debut novel, Burning Sky. If you’ve yet to make their acquaintance, good news! There’s plenty of time to meet the frontier denizens of Shiloh, New York in the pages of Burning Sky before Shiloh’s October release.

Burning Sky is one of my favourite historical novels, a debut novel that was completely …

The Nature of Fragile Things by Susan Meissner

Synopsis:~

April 18, 1906: A massive earthquake rocks San Francisco just before daybreak, igniting a devouring inferno. Lives are lost, lives are shattered, but some rise from the ashes forever changed.

Sophie Whalen is a young Irish immigrant so desperate to get out of a New York tenement that she answers a mail-order bride ad and agrees to marry a man she knows nothing about. San Francisco widower Martin Hocking proves to be as aloof as he is mesmerizingly handsome. Sophie quickly develops deep affection for Kat, Martin’s silent five-year-old daughter, but Martin’s odd behavior leaves her with the uneasy …

The Thief of Blackfriars Lane by Michelle Griep

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There’s Often a Fine Line Between a Criminal and a Saint

Constable Jackson Forge intends to make the world safer, or at least the streets of Victorian London. But that’s Kit Turner’s domain, a swindler who runs a crew that acquires money the old-fashioned way—conning the rich to give to the poor. When a local cab driver goes missing, Jackson is tasked with finding the man, and the only way to do that is by enlisting Kit’s help. If Jackson doesn’t find the cabby, he’ll be fired. If Kit doesn’t help Jackson, he’ll arrest her for thievery. Yet neither …

What Was It Like to Be a Nurse during the Civil War? By Tara Johnson (with giveaway)

Nursing is close to my heart these days. Certainly not because I have any capabilities in that regard! I’m way to queasy for such a job. But my middle daughter is in her final year of her nursing degree at University and excelling and we are excited to see her enter the career she is so passionate about.

But imagine nursing in the Civil War, without the advances in both knowledge and technology we have at our fingertips. Tara Johnson shares some of what it might be like, gathered from her research for All Through the Night, her latest …

Dearest Josephine by Caroline George (with giveaway)

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Love arrives at the most unexpected time . . .

1821: Elias Roch has ghastly luck with women. He met Josephine De Clare once and penned dozens of letters hoping to find her again.

2021: Josie De Clare has questionable taste in boyfriends. The last one nearly ruined her friendship with her best friend.

Now, in the wake of her father’s death, Josie finds Elias’s letters. Suddenly she’s falling in love with a guy who lived two hundred years ago. And star-crossed doesn’t even begin to cover it . . .

Necee’s take:~

“Cadwallader Manor will provide sanctuary …

Help! I’m Becoming My Mother By Robin W. Pearson (with giveaway)

Delighted to welcome the lovely Robin W. Pearson to the blog once again. Celebrating the release of her second novel, ‘Til I Want No More, Robin is sharing about motherhood – her grandmothers, mother, and her own experience as a mum to her beautiful family.

And we have a giveaway! Robin’s publisher, Tyndale House, has provided a copy of ‘Til I Want No More for one fortunate reader. Enjoy this feature post then enter the giveaway.

Over to you, Robin…