Trinity: Military War Dog by Ronie Kendig with giveaways The Unveiling by Tamara Leigh Getting to know Todd Johnson Character Spotlight ~ Nikki Arana’s Zaki ben Hassan

Talon: Combat Tracking Team by Ronie Kendig with giveaways

TalonSynopsis:~

She’s on a mission to find her missing brother. Only his combat tracking dog knows where to look. . . .

Air Force veteran Aspen Courtland just wants her brother back—dead or alive. The US Marine Corps declared him dead, but Aspen is unwilling to let him die without a fight. Aspen adopts her brother’s combat tracking team dog, Talon, hoping to come closer to finding peace about Austin. But after the brutal attack that separated dog and handler, Talon is afraid of his own shadow.

Military Intelligence Operative Dane Markoski has run from the truth most of his life. Now, it’s the only thing that can save him—and his mission—if he dares to face the past. Talon is the key to achieving his objective…but the only way to Talon is through his new owner. But Dane swore he’d never work a woman.

Teamed up in Djibouti, Dane and Aspen battle the elements and extremists. Survival

Character Spotlight ~ Murray Pura’s Christian & Becky

Whispers of A New DawnMeet two young and daring pilots in

Murray Pura’s

Amish historical romance

Whispers of a New Dawn

Harvest House

The Story

In the third book in his Snapshots of History series, Murray brings back Jude and Lyyndaya Whetstone, the beloved lead characters in The Wings of Morning.

The year is 1941 and Jude and Lyyndy, with their adult daughter, Rebecca, are summoned to far-off, exotic Honolulu where Rebecca, a flyer like her father, meets a likeable young pilot. The two enjoy a friendship that seems to be turning into something more serious…..until Sunday, December 7, 1941 dawns on the Hawaiian Islands.

Enjoy meeting Christian & Becky

Brief physical description 

Christian Raven is Cherokee on his mother’s side but white on his father’s side – blond hair & blue eyes from his dadChris H

Becky Whetstone has the blond hair and green eyes of her mother

Resembles…

Christian ~ Chris Hemsworth

Becky ~ …

Pop Quiz ~ Jody Hedlund

jody-hedlundWife, homeschooling mum to 5, laundry queen!
Historical Romance Writer
The Preacher’s Bride, The Doctor’s Lady, Unending Devotion

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What did you do on/for your 13th birthday?

Celebrated with family. My mom always made a special meal and my grandparents always brought me a giant cookie from Mrs. Fields.

What 3 adjectives would your friends/family use to describe your personality?

Hard working, bold, understanding (these 3 are straight from my teenage daughters’ mouths!)

Where did your penchant for writing historical romances begin?

When I started homeschooling my kids and teaching them world history

Describe A Noble Groom in 5 adjectivesA Noble Groom

Sweet, noble, intriguing, dangerous, poignant

What creepy crawly or critter do you most fear?

Leeches (I certainly wouldn’t have done well with the leeching method they used in the past to help cure illnesses!)

If you could bring one character to life from your own books, who would it be

Character Spotlight ~ Cynthia Ruchti’s Anna, Ivy, and Becky with Giveaway

When the Morning Glory BloomsMeet three women born decades apart in

Cynthia Ruchti’s

women’s fiction novel

When the Morning Glory Blooms

Abingdon Press

The Story

Becky rocks a baby that rocked her world.

Sixty years earlier, with her fiancé Drew in the middle of the Korean Conflict, Ivy throws herself into her work at a nursing home to keep her sanity and provide for the child Drew doesn’t know is coming. Ivy cares for Anna, an elderly patient who taxes Ivy’s listening ear until the day she suspects Anna’s tall tales are not the ramblings of dementia. They’re fragments of Anna’s disjointed memories of a remarkable life. Finding a faint thread of hope she can’t resist tugging, Ivy records Anna’s memoir, scribbling furiously after hours to keep up with the woman’s emotion-packed, grace-hemmed stories.

Is Ivy’s answer buried in Anna’s past? Becky, Ivy, Anna–three women fight a tangled vine of deception in search of

Rescue Team by Candace Calvert

Rescue TeamSynopsis:~

Tired of running from her past, nurse Kate Callison intends to become Austin Grace Hospital’s permanent ER director and make Texas her home. Despite staff friction, she’s moving ahead. Then unthinkable tragedy wraps the ER in crime tape, bringing swarms of media, legal chaos—and a search-and-rescue hero who seems determined to meddle in her life. 

For Wes Tanner, nothing beats finding someone who’s lost; he’s known that helpless terror firsthand. So he’ll expand his team’s lifeline of hope: K9 tracking, swift water rescue, even horse-mounted searches. He’s ready for anything—except Austin Grace’s prickly and dismissive ER director. 

As Kate and Wes discover more about each other, new respect becomes something deeper. Kate wonders if her heart might have finally found a home. Then an unsolved missing persons case—and a startling new one—become catalysts that threaten the loss of all she and Wes have found.

My take:~

Candace Calvert makes …

The INSPY Awards ~ 2013 Short Lists Announced

inspyrs2Well, after months of furious reading, and deliberating in earnest with my fellow Advisory Board members, the INPSY Award 2013 Short Lists have been announced. The responsibility for determining which of the five books in each category garners the 2013 award now rests with our amazing judges.

Selecting the short listed books is not for the faint hearted – it is a responsibility that the Board does not take lightly, especially when there are fabulous books that have to miss out. We hope that this process introduces readers to the range of books that are available, written from a faith perspective, and that they fall in love with some of the amazing stories.

Be sure to check out the lists here and get reading yourselves ~ these books are great quality reading!…