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Character Spotlight ~ Dorothy Love’s Charlotte & Nick

Meet a Southern belle and a widower in

Dorothy Love’s

historical romance

Carolina Gold

Thomas Nelson

The Story

The war is over, but at Fairhaven Plantation, Charlotte’s struggle has just begun.

Following her father’s death, Charlotte Fraser returns to Fairhaven, her family’s rice plantation in the South Carolina Lowcountry. With no one else to rely upon, smart, independent Charlotte is determined to resume cultivating the superior strain of rice called Carolina Gold. But the war has left the plantation in ruins, her father’s former bondsmen are free, and workers and equipment are in short supply.

To make ends meet, Charlotte …

A December Bride by Denise Hunter

Synopsis:~

What started as a whim turned into an accidental—and very public—engagement. Can Layla and Seth keep up the facade in Chapel Springs this holiday season—for the sake of her career . . . and his heart?

Under normal circumstances, Seth Murphy—the best friend of Layla O’Reilly’s ex-fiance—would be the last person she’d marry. But the news of their upcoming (and phony) nuptials convinces a big client that Layla may be high-society enough to work for his agency—a coup that would put her fledgling home-staging business on the map.

Seth has secretly loved Layla for years, even when she was …

When Mockingbirds Sing by Billy Coffey ~ Tracy’s Take

Synopsis

Leah is a child from away, isolated from her peers because of her stutter. But then she begins painting scenes that are epic in scope, brilliant in detail, and suffused with rich, prophetic imagery. When the event foreshadowed in the first painting dramatically comes true, the town of Mattingly takes notice.

Leah attributes her ability to foretell the future to an invisible friend she calls the Rainbow Man. Some of the townsfolk are enchanted with her. Others fear her. But there is one thing they all agree on—there is no such thing as the Rainbow Man.

Her father, the …

Character Spotlight ~ Christa Parrish’s Liesl McNamara

Meet an artisan bread maker in

Christa Parrish’s

contemporary novel

Stones for Bread

Thomas Nelson

The Story

A solitary artisan. A legacy of bread-baking. And one secret that could collapse her entire identity.

Liesl McNamara’s life can be described in one word: bread. From her earliest memory, her mother and grandmother passed down the mystery of baking and the importance of this deceptively simple food. And now, as the owner of Wild Rise bake house, Liesl spends every day up to her elbows in dough, nourishing and perfecting her craft.

But the simple life she has cultivated is becoming quite …

Publishing News ~ Hidden Falls by Olivia Newport

Barbour Publishing Launches 13-Part Digital Serial Series

Uhrichsville, OH – Riding on the tails of the hugely successful Discovery Saga serial novel by Wanda E. Brunstetter, Barbour Publishing is setting its sights on the next big serial success. But this time, the focus will be on a digital-only debut.

Starting December 28, Barbour will be launching a brand-new direct to digital series entitled Hidden Falls from its new digital episode imprint, Shiloh Run Studios. The 13-episode series penned by award-winning author Olivia Newport will be available in e-book and audiobook formats. The serial series will read like a television series …

A literary character has been keeping me quiet…

Sorry to have dropped off the face of the earth for the past week. I’ve been a little preoccupied with an early Christmas present that my husband and I picked up last Thursday and introduced to our girls.

Meet Sherlock, our beautiful black labrador, aged 9 weeks. He has a lovely temperament so far but we’ve had our moments with yapping and whining which I’m hoping the neighbours don’t get too bothered by 😉

And here are the names of some outstanding winners, thanks to random.org:

A Talent for Trouble ~ Pat T

Paige Rewritten ~ Jessica C

Traces of …