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Everett Cline will never humiliate himself by seeking a mail-order bride. Not again. He’s already been jilted by three mail-order brides and figures a wife just isn’t in his future. However, a well-meaning neighbor hasn’t given up on seeing him settled, so she goes behind his back to bring yet another woman to town for him.

Julia Lockwood has never been anything more than a pretty pawn for her father or a business acquisition for her former fiance. A mail-order marriage in faraway Kansas is a last resort, but she’ll do anything to leave her life in Massachusetts and …

Character Spotlight ~ Stephanie Reed’s Betsie Troyer

Meet an out of place Amish girl in

Stephanie Reed’s

Amish novel

The Bargain

Kregel

The Story

It’s 1971, and Betsie Troyer’s peaceful and predictable life is about to become anything but.

When their parents flee the Amish, nineteen-year-old Betsie and her seventeen-year-old sister Sadie are distraught. Under the dubious guidance of a doting aunt, the girls struggle to keep the secret, praying their parents will return before anyone learns the truth—a truth that may end all hopes of Betsie’s marriage to Charley Yoder.

Worse still, Betsie must learn a trade while she boards with a dysfunctional Englisher family: Sheila, …

Lauraine Snelling & the Treasures of Norway Sweepstakes

It’s my pleasure to share with you this latest unique giveaway, celebrating the exceptional Lauraine Snelling’s prequel to her Red River of the North series,

An Untamed Heart

Enjoy, enter, and drop by Lauraine’s website for more!

In An Untamed Heart, the latest novel by bestselling author Lauraine Snelling, twenty-year-old Ingeborg Strand is certain she is destined to be an old maid.

When tragedy strikes, and the future looks bleaker than ever, Ingeborg considers leaving Norway to start afresh in America. But how will she accomplish that with little money and no one to accompany her?

Then she meets …

Character Spotlight ~ Melissa Tagg’s Miranda & Matthew

Meet a reality show star & a reporter in

Melissa Tagg’s

contemporary romance

Made to Last

Bethany House

The Story

Miranda Woodruff has it all. At least, that’s how it looks when she’s starring in her homebuilding television show, From the Ground Up. So when her network begins to talk about making cuts, she’ll do anything to boost ratings and save her show–even if it means pretending to be married to a man who’s definitely not the fiance who ran out on her three years ago.

When a handsome reporter starts shadowing Miranda’s every move, all his digging into her …

Author Alert ~ Katherine Reay

I’m delighted to introduce you to

Katherine Reay

and her contemporary novel

Dear Mr Knightley

Thomas Nelson

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Who is Katherine?

I am a writer, a wife, a mom, a runner, a tennis player, a tae kwon do black belt (how random is that?), a wanna be chef, a disorganized housekeeper, but compulsive vacuumist, and a horrific navigator. One of my son’s favorite stories to tell friends is that I tend to argue with the car’s GPS before going my own way — sure that I know better. It’s a gift…

That was from Katherine…now it’s my turn! I …

Character Spotlight ~ Lynn Austin’s Zechariah & Yael

Meet a prophet and an astrologer in

Lynn Austin’s

Biblical fiction

Return to Me

Bethany House

The Story

After years of watching his children and grandchildren wander from their faith, Iddo’s prayers are answered: King Cyrus is allowing God’s chosen people to return to Jerusalem. Jubilant, he joyfully prepares for their departure, only to learn that his family, grown comfortable in the pagan culture of Babylon, wants to remain.

Zechariah, Iddo’s oldest grandson, feels torn between his grandfather’s ancient beliefs and the comfort and success his father enjoys in Babylon. But he soon begins to hear the voice of God, …