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First Line Friday: Melissa Tagg’s Now and Then and Always

Fridays come around quickly and accordingly, First Line Fridays, hosted by Hoarding Books. Today I’m delighted to feature Melissa Tagg’s soon to be released Maple Valley romance, Now and The and Always. If you have read any of Melissa’s books you will know that Maple Valley is a place we all want to visit and stay for a while. A long while if there is an abundance of Logans and Becketts and Bears wandering the streets 😉 Now and Then and Always begins a new series – Maple Valley series – a spin off from her Walker Family series …

When He Found Me by Victoria Bylin

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Love Discovered . . . Hope Renewed

Once a strong Christian, third baseman Shane Riley lost his faith the night he injured his knee in a freak car accident. Determined to return to professional baseball and to find the sister he treated badly, Shane retreats to Refuge, Wyoming. There he meets Melissa June “MJ” Townsend, a single mom battling the virus that causes cervical cancer.

MJ wants nothing to do with the handsome athlete—no doubt a womanizer considering the stories in the news. But when a mistake results in Shane renting her garage apartment, they become friends. That friendship …

Bookchat with Patti Callahan

I’m thrilled to be chatting to the lovely Patti Callahan and sharing the cover of the UK/Australian edition of her wonderful novel, Becoming Mrs Lewis. This edition is only available outside of the US and Canada and has been edited with an Anglicised lens, which is wonderful news to those of us who get a little agitated by little things that often communicate an American has written a novel set in Britain or Australia. You can even tell that from the cover! Anyone know what hints that this has been tailored to English/Australian readers?

My book club will be …

First Line Friday: Morgan L. Busse’s Flight of the Raven (with giveaway)

Morgan Busse’s second Ravenwood Saga novel, Flight of the Raven, has fantasy readers rushing to read the ongoing story of Selene Ravenwood as she adjusts to her new life as the wife of Lord Damien Maris while in exile. World building and unique characters are Morgan’s speciality so be sure to get your hands on this series, beginning with Mark of the Raven. I’m so glad to feature Flight of the Raven for my First Line Friday (hosted by Hoarding Books) as there aren’t a lot of fantasy novels in the CBA, and Morgan is one of …

Wooing Cadie McCaffrey by Bethany Turner

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After four years with her boyfriend, Cadie McCaffrey is thinking of ending things. Convinced Will doesn’t love her in the “forever” way she loves him, Cadie believes it’s time for her to let him go before life passes her by. When a misunderstanding leads to a mistake, leaving her hurt, disappointed, and full of regret, she finally sends him packing.

But for Will, the end of their relationship is only the beginning of his quest to figure out how to be the man Cadie wanted him to be. With the dubious guidance of his former pro-athlete work friends and …

Top Ten Tuesday: Movies That Didn’t Ruin the Books

Back with another Top Ten Tuesday, hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. This week is a page to screen freebie topic, so I chose movies/mini-series that didn’t ruin the book for me! It goes without saying that movies can’t do a novel justice. You simply can’t squeeze in hundreds of pages of story, characterisation, nuanced storytelling, and subtext into a couple of hours. That said, here are ten movies/mini-series that did well telling the story and developing the characters in the limited time they had that I enjoyed for what they were and with the proviso mentioned, didn’t ruin …