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Cover Reveal ~ Ronie Kendig’s Raptor 6

There’s nothing like seeing cover art for the first time and this is one of my all time favourite reveals for a couple of reasons!

Firstly, it’s for my supremely talented dear friend, Ronie Kendig, secondly, I know it’s the cover she’s dreamed of for a long time, and thirdly, I think it is brilliant!

One of Ronie’s heartfelt goals with her military fiction is to honour the men and women who serve in this way. She has long wanted to have a veteran on the cover as another way of honouring these fabulous people. I’m thrilled for Ronie as the model for Dean “Watterboy” Watters is a Special Forces veteran and he is a fantastic representation of Watterboy, I can assure you ~ you are going to really love this character

So, enough from me. Check out the cover and then head to Ronie’s blog for more details on this great cover and to …

Character Spotlight ~ Deborah Raney’s Mitch & Shelley

Meet a husband, wife, and friend in

Deborah Raney’s

contemporary romance

The Face of the Earth

Howard

The Story

What if she never came home . . . ?

When Mitchell Brannon’s beloved wife sets off for home after a conference, he has no idea that his life is about to change forever. Mitch returns from work early that evening, surprised that Jill’s car isn’t in the garage. But her voice on the answering machine makes him smile. “Hey, babe, I’m just now checking out of the hotel, but I’ll stop and pick up something for dinner. Love you.” Hours later, Jill still hasn’t returned, and Mitch’s irritation turns to dread.

When the police come up empty, Mitch enlists the help of their next-door neighbor, Jill’s best friend, Shelley, to help search. As hours turn into days and days into weeks, Mitch and Shelley’s friendship grows ever closer—and decidedly more complicated. Every …

The Redeeming by Tamara Leigh with giveaways

Synopsis:~

IN THE EYES OF THE CHURCH AND MEN, HERS IS NO SMALL SIN

Lady Gaenor Wulfrith is a woman scorned. And King Henry’s pawn. After three broken betrothals, she is ordered to wed her family’s enemy, a man she has never met and has good reason to fear. Faced with the prospect of an abusive marriage that will surely turn worse for her when her sin is revealed, she flees her family’s home with the aid of a knight—a man who could prove her ruin.

Christian Lavonne, the only remaining heir to the barony of Abingdale, has thrown off his monk’s robes—and God—to minister his lands. Determined to end the devastation wrought by his family’s feud with the Wulfriths, he agrees to marry his enemy’s sister, a woman no man seems to want. When he learns she has fled with a knight who has broken fealty with the Wulfriths, he pursues her, …

Wife, mother, journalist, script writer

Author of women’s fiction

Remember Me

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What appeals to you most about writing fiction?

I was a journalist for nearly 20 years, delivering just the facts, ma’am. Now I get to make stuff up! It sounds fun—but to tell you the truth, making stuff up is way, way harder. I’m so new at it that I wind up relying on my reporter resources, which is to say I research the heck out of everything. Only then do I feel like I can take artistic license with a place, person or event.

Why Christian fiction?

It’s true I’m not your typical author of Christian fiction. I was raised Catholic (by an ex-priest, no less!). I only learned about pastors’ wives and megachurches when I began writing about them for Time magazine, where I was a longtime staff writer. But then my parents died, and I suffered a …

Character Spotlight ~ Rachel Hauck’s Nathaniel & Susanna

Meet a commoner and a prince in

Rachel Hauck’s

contemporary romance

Once Upon A Prince

Zondervan

The Story

Susanna Truitt never dreamed of a great romance or being treated like a princess—just to marry the man she has loved for twelve years. But life isn’t going according to plan. When her high-school-sweetheart-turned-Marine-officer breaks up instead of proposing, Susanna scrambles to rebuild her life.

The last thing Prince Nathaniel expects to find on his American holiday to St. Simons Island is the queen of his heart. A prince has duties, and his family’s tense political situation has chosen his bride for him. When Prince Nathaniel comes to Susanna’s aid under the fabled Lover’s Oak, he is blindsided by love. Their lives are worlds apart. He’s a royal prince. She’s an ordinary girl. But everything changes when Susanna receives an invitation to Nathaniel’s coronation.

It’s the ultimate choice: His kingdom or her …

The Remedy by Serena Chase

Synopsis:~

PURPOSED by birth. DESTINED by prophecy. REVEALED by Truth.

Now, her time has come.

Having come to terms with her long-hidden identity, Princess Rynnaia E’veri is ready to take her rightful place. But before she can join her father at Castle Rynwyk, she must endeavor to fulfill a 200-year-old prophecy and defeat the Kingdom’s ancient enemy, the Cobelds. Joined by her faithful knight, Sir Julien de Gladiel, and a gifted group of friends, Rynnaia must trek a dangerous path through canyons, forests, and into the very depths of a mountain where, if the prophetic scrolls prove correct, she will face an unknown foe, alone. Treacheries will be discovered, sacrifices will be made, friends will be lost, and love will be tested, but if even one line of the riddled prophecy is misinterpreted, Rynnaia will fail . . . and the Kingdom will fall.

Beginning at the point THE RYN …