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With a big thank you for your patience, and with enduring gratefulness to my dear friend and brilliant designer, Kelli Standish of Pulse Point Design, I’m delighted to say that my American ACFW Adventure is now available to you in images, audio, and video!

What a privilege it was to spend time with wonderful authors and record some of their thoughts about their stories, characters, and more. You can listen to all our audio interviews, view the Mad Minute videos, and scroll through my many photos to see some of the fun that was had.

My appreciation for the authors …

Before the Dawn & Sweet September by Kathleen Bauer ~ Tracy’s Take

Publisher’s Synopsis:

Charlotte and Bob Stevenson’s world is turned upside down by the death of their daughter, Denise. Denise ran away from home as a teenager, and Charlotte has never forgiven herself. Now, Denise’s three children are coming to live on Heather Creek Farm. Sam is sixteen and itching for independence; fourteen-year-old Emily is discovering boys and ten-year-old Christopher needs approval.

While Charlotte helps the grandchildren she barely knows adjust to their new life, she also wrestles with her own grief. But small joys remind her that God gives grace freely, even in trying times. When Emily discovers her mother’s …

Coming soon from Tamara Leigh & C.E. Laureano

My first preview post of the new year and I’m thrilled to introduce you to books by a long time favourite author and a 2013 new discovery!

I first fell in love with Tamara’s books when I read Stealing Adda, a fabulous contemporary romance that I continue to re-read. C.E. Laureano hooked me from the first chapter in her debut contemporary romance novel as Carla Laureano, Five Days in Skye. Both of these talented authors made my Top 10 list of 2013 and I won’t be at all suprised if they make my 2014 list with these upcoming releases!…

The Wedding Game by Amy Matayo

Synopsis:~

Cannon James has a plan: Sign on as a contestant for his father’s new reality show, marry a blonde hand-picked by the producers, and walk away two million dollars richer. It’s all been arranged. Easy. Clean. No regrets. Until Ellie McAllister ruins everything by winning the viewer’s vote. Now he has to convince America that he’s head over heels in love with her. Not easy to do since she’s a walking disaster.

Ellie McAllister has her own problems. She needs money, and she needs it now. Despite her parent’s objections and her belief that marriage is sacred, she signs …

The Kindling by Tamara Leigh with Giveaways

Synopsis:~

“’TIS SAID FAMILY CREATES A MULTITUDE OF SINS.”

Helene of Tippet is not her father or her brother’s keeper. Yet when she is enlisted to use her healing skills to aid a fallen knight, the secret she holds close threatens to visit her family’s sins upon her. Now she is in danger of loving where she should not—a man of the nobility, and one who has cause to despise her if ever he learns of the blood that courses through her veins.

Dare she reveal herself? Dare she trust a warrior so bitter and intent on revenge? Dare she

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Relz Reviewz Top 10 of 2013

It’s the last day of the year again and time for my Top 10 list for 2013.

As always, this is a difficult list to create as I want to fit so many more than 10 but here are a list of my favourite stories from the past year, stories that have challenged, encouraged, entertained, or touched me in a special way. And as for 10….let’s just say I’m number challenged!!

And a hint – I’ve already read a number of 2014 releases that will be making next year’s list, I’m sure, including some stories by authors already on this …