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Character Spotlight ~ Terri BLackstock’s Holly Cramer

Meet a moonlighting PI in

Terri Blackstock’s

suspense

Distortion

Zondervan

The Story

Juliet Cole’s life has been dismantled by the murder of her husband. She doesn’t know who—or what—to trust when everything she has believed to be true about her marriage has been a lie.When Juliet Cole’s husband of fifteen years is gunned down in a dark parking lot before her eyes, she thinks it was a random shooting. Devastated and traumatized, she answers hours of questioning. When she’s finally allowed to return home to break the news to her boys, she hears a voicemail that takes the situation from …

Born of Persuasion by Jessica Dotta ~ Tracy’s Take

Publisher’s Synopsis:

The year is 1838, and seventeen-year-old Julia Elliston’s position has never been more fragile. Orphaned and unmarried in a time when women are legal property of their fathers, husbands, and guardians, she finds herself at the mercy of an anonymous guardian who plans to establish her as a servant in far-off Scotland.

With two months to devise a better plan, Julia’s first choice to marry her childhood sweetheart is denied. But when a titled dowager offers to introduce Julia into society, a realm of possibilities opens. However, treachery and deception are as much a part of Victorian society …

Coming in late 2014 from Thomas Nelson

Here’s a batch of covers I’m quite excited about from the good folk at Thomas Nelson. Why, you may well ask? Let me tell you the ways….

I love that Thomas Nelson are doing some covers that do not follow the usual Christian “rules” with Katherine Reay’s, Zachary Bartels, Billy Coffey’s, Lynne Hinton’s, and Lisa Samson’s (can we say adore?!). None of them scream Christian fiction, they are intriguing and eye-catching. Sarah Ladd’s,while more traditional,is gorgeous and continues the lovely themes of the previous stories she has written which, as you know, is a particular preference of mine.

While …

Pop Quiz ~ Julianna Deering with a giveaway

Discover more about

Julianna Deering

and her 1930s murder mystery

Death by the Book

Bethany House

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What was a favourite childhood book of yours?

I loved the Little House books in particular, though my favourite story was “The Three Billy Goats Gruff.” I made my dad read it to me over and over again, even when I was well able to read for myself.

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

I don’t at all remember the title. I’m not even sure this was the first story I ever wrote, …

Character Spotlight ~ Meet Billy Coffey’s Jake and Taylor

Meet a sheriff and a hermit in

Billy Coffey’s

Southern tale

The Devil Walks in Mattingly

Thomas Nelson

The Story

For the three people tortured by their secret complicity in a young man’s untimely death, redemption is what they most long for . . . and the last thing they expect to receive.

It has been twenty years since Philip McBride’s body was found along the riverbank in the dark woods known as Happy Hollow. His death was ruled a suicide. But three people have carried the truth ever since—Philip didn’t kill himself that day. He was murdered.

Each of …