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Getting to know Rachel Hauck

Love that the woman who inspired my character spotlights and is responsible for me being on twitter is appearing on my blog again!

Enjoy getting to know the fabulous Rachel Hauck!

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What appeals to you most about writing fiction?

I love stories. I love words. I love making stuff up! In college I majored in Journalism and factual writing just never appealed to me. I loved poetry and writing about life as I “saw” it.

Why Christian fiction?

Jesus is the great, masterful storyteller. Even in fiction, truth must resonate. Truth is what bring the protagonist to their epiphany. …

Character Spotlight ~ Laura Frantz’s Silas & Eden

A marked blacksmith and a temperate red head meet

in Laura Frantz’s

Love’s Reckoning

Revell

The Story

On a bitter December day in 1785, Silas Ballantyne arrives at the door of master blacksmith Liege Lee in York, Pennsylvania. Just months from becoming a master blacksmith himself, Silas is determined to finish his apprenticeship and move west. But Liege soon discovers that Silas is a prodigious worker and craftsman and endeavors to keep him in York.

Silas becomes interested in both of Liege’s daughters, the gentle and faith-filled Eden and the clever and high-spirited Elspeth. When he chooses one, will the …

A Texan’s Choice by Shelley Gray

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Texas, 1874. Long ago, Scout Proffitt gave up on ever being a man of honor like his Civil War hero brother Clayton. But when Scout steps foot on the rundown remnants of the Circle C ranch, he wonders if maybe-just maybe-the Lord has something different intended for him.

Rosemarie has lived most of her life doubting her worth and shouldering the blame for her brother’s death. But when a stranger rides onto her ranch, claiming he owns it, she suddenly is given a choice: either keep looking at the dark side of life . . . or dare to …

Unending Devotion by Jody Hedlund

Sheer desperation leads Lily Young to “apprentice” herself as a photographer’s assistant which gives her the excuse to search the untamed logging camps for her younger sister whose troubled past has led her to make a perilous decision to pursue a life no upstanding woman would consider. Heedless to the danger, Lily helps other girls escape the brutal life brought about by the isolation and boredom experienced by the men logging the pristine forests of Michigan, with funds in hand and little moral guidance.

Connell McCormick is in charge of three of his father’s logging camps and his focus on …

Coming soon from Julie Lessman

Julie Lessman’s prequel to her Daughters of Boston series, A Light in the Window, is now available for preorder as an e-book and will be releasing this November.

Like many authors, Julie is venturing into self publishing to share Marci’s love story whom readers will recognise from Julie’s popular historical romance novels.

One Woman. Two Men.

One stirs her pulse and the other her faith.

But who will win her heart?

Marceline Murphy is a gentle beauty with a well-founded aversion to rogues. But when two of Boston’s most notorious pursue her, she encounters a tug-of-war of the heart …

Character Spotlight ~ Annie Wald’s Peter & Celeste with giveaway

Meet married couple, Peter & Celeste,

in Annie Wald’s

Walk with Me

River North

The Story

Peter and Celeste choose to travel as one on the lifelong journey to the King’s City. They are blissfully in love and bound to each other by the Cords of Commitment. Shortly after visiting the Moon of Honey they discover that the journey proves much more difficult than they expected. When they find themselves laboring through the Swamp of Selfishness, crossing the dismal Plains of Distance, and nearly becoming separated by the River of Unfaithfulness, their love for each other and for the King …