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Character Spotlight: Beth Wiseman’s Mallory Hammond

Meet a compassionate woman in

Beth Wiseman’s

contemporary novel

The Promise

Thomas Nelson

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The Story

Mallory’s search for happiness leads her to a faraway place. There she finds heartache, betrayal—and danger.

Mallory Hammond is determined that no one will stand in the way of her goal—to save a life. She had that chance years ago, and she failed to take it, leaving her adrift and in search of the real meaning of her life. Finally, she meets a man online from a volatile corner of the world who offers her the chance to find that purpose. But she …

Bookish Question of the Week

Ever had a brain that decides to go walkabout at just the moment you want it firing? Please say yes!

When it became clear the noggin was on holidays, I did what every woman does when they are stuck ~ sent an SOS to a dear friend. That’s what you get when a friend sends a text at the exact moment I was about to bang my head against a wall hoping to shake loose an inspired thought!

Said friend is the gorgeous Dorothy Adamek, fellow book blogger and fabulous writer. You can visit her lovely blog, Ink Dots, …

Leslie Gould…discover more, with a giveaway

Discover more about

Leslie Gould

and her Amish romance

Becoming Bea

Bethany House

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Who is Leslie?

Leslie Gould is the coauthor, with Mindy Starns Clark, of the #1 CBA bestseller The Amish Midwife, a 2012 Christy Award winner; ECPA bestseller Courting Cate, first in the Courtships of Lancaster County series; and Beyond the Blue, winner of the Romantic Times Reviewers’ Choice for Best Inspirational Novel, 2006. She holds an MFA in creative writing from Portland State University and has taught fiction writing at Multnomah University as an adjunct professor. She and her husband …

Character Spotlight ~ Brandy Vallance’s Bianca & Paul

Meet a linguist & an unlikely adventurer in

Brandy Vallance’s

historical romance

The Covered Deep

Worthy

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The Story

Bianca Marshal is an incurably romantic bookworm from Appalachia who’s holding out for the perfect husband. She doesn’t want much, just that he be (1) a true believer in Jesus Christ (2) devastatingly handsome with a slightly wild look in his eyes (3) brilliant and humorous like Mark Twain (4) a foreigner, possibly a disgruntled duke (5) able to quote Bible verses AND Shakespeare (6) a more than capable kisser, and (7) adore her completely.

Finding a man that meets …

Storm Siren by Mary Weber

Synopsis:~

“I raise my chin as the buyers stare. Yes. Look. You don’t want me. Because, eventually, accidentally, I will destroy you.”

In a world at war, a slave girl’s lethal curse could become one kingdom’s weapon of salvation. If the curse – and the girl – can be controlled.

As a slave in the war-weary kingdom of Faelen, seventeen-year-old Nym isn’t merely devoid of rights, her Elemental kind are only born male and always killed at birth – meaning, she shouldn’t even exist.

Standing on the auction block beneath smoke-drenched mountains, Nym faces her fifteenth sell. But when her …

Diane Noble…discover more, with a giveaway

Discover more about

Diane Noble

and her cozy mystery

The Curious Case of the Missing Figurehead

David C. Cook

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A favourite childhood book?

Little Women by Louisa Mae Alcott

Do you remember the title of the first story you ever wrote? What was it about?

The Littlest Oak Tree, written in my early teens. It was about an oak seedling that grew alone on the edge of a granite precipice. It was smaller and weaker than trees in a nearby forest where good soil was abundant, where rains soaked their roots, and where trees sheltered each …