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Character Spotlight ~ Lisa Takeuchi Cullen’s Ruthie, Candace, and Ginger

Meet three very different women in

Lisa Takeuchi Cullen’s

women’s fiction

Pastors’ Wives

Plume

The Story

Ruthie follows her Wall Street husband from New York to Magnolia, a fictional suburb of Atlanta, when he hears a calling to serve at a megachurch called Greenleaf. Reeling from the death of her mother, Ruthie suffers a crisis of faith—in God, in her marriage, and in herself.

Candace is Greenleaf’s “First Lady,” a force of nature who’ll stop at nothing to protect her church and her superstar husband.

Ginger, married to Candace’s son, struggles to play dutiful wife and mother while burying her …

Winners, heroes, and covers ~ oh my!

Apologies for my absence over the last week ~ I had an impromptu holiday in one of our northern states, the usually sunny Queensland which was something other than sunny! We had a lovely time away regardless but it means I have a bit to catch up on now I’m back!

So here’s some things to catch up on

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Winners

A Heartbeat Away ~ Janet E

Talon ~ Amber S

Kendig Bundle ~ Dianne D

When the Morning Glory Blooms ~ Diane W

A Healing Heart ~ Nancee M

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Cover Reveal

My dear friend CJ Darlington, who …

Character Spotlight ~ Becky Wade’s Meg & Bo

Meet a cowboy and an heiress in

Becky Wade’s

contemporary romance

Undeniably Yours

Bethany House

The Story

When Meg Cole’s father dies unexpectedly, she becomes the majority shareholder of his oil company and the single inheritor of his fortune. Though Meg is soft-spoken and tenderhearted–more interested in art than in oil–she’s forced to return home to Texas and to Whispering Creek Ranch to take up the reins of her father’s empire.

The last thing she has the patience or the sanity to deal with? Her father’s thoroughbred racehorse farm. She gives its manager, Bo Porter, six months to close the …

When A Secret Kills by Lynette Eason

Synopsis:~

Investigative reporter Jillian Carter knows it’s time to put the past to rest. She’s tired of looking over her shoulder, letting a killer go free. She’s no longer the scared kid who changed her name and disappeared. Now, no matter what the cost, Jillian must do what she is trained to do-find the truth and expose it. And the truth is that Senator Frank Hoffman committed murder ten years ago-and Jillian watched it happen.

Didn’t she?

Get ready for the spine-tingling, nail-biting conclusion to this explosive series.

My take:~

The third and final instalment in Lynette Eason’s Deadly Reunions …

Grave Consequences by Lisa T Bergren

Having escaped an attack on their lives at the end of Glamorous Illusions, the Kensington family determines to continue their Grand Tour and discover the beauty and elegance of the French countryside, Switzerland, Austria, and finally, romantic Italy. As they travel, secrets are shared, love is pursued and lost, and danger continues to nip at their heels. Cora struggles again as her feelings for her tour guide, Will McCabe, grow while the rich Frenchman, Pierre Richelieu, pursues her with determined passion that draws her in.

New friends are made and intriguing sights and sounds experienced at Cora and her …

Character Spotlight ~ S. Dionne Moore’s Elizabeth Bumgartner with giveaway

Meet a Civil War nurse in

S. Dionne Moore’s

Historical Romance

A Heartbeat Away

Abingdon Press

The Story

When a band of runaway slaves brings Union-loyal Beth Bumgartner a wounded Confederate soldier named Joe, it is the catalyst that pushes her to defy her pacifist parents and become a nurse during the Battle of Antietam.

Her mother’s mysterious goodbye gift is filled with quilt blocks that bring comfort to Beth during the hard days and lonely nights, but as she sews each block, she realizes there is a hidden message of faith within the pattern that encourages and sustains her. …