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Coming soon from Ronie Kendig ~ Talon: Combat Tracking Team

Newly crowned Christy Award winner, Ronie Kendig, has another exciting military suspense series coming our way this year, A BREED APART with the first in the series, Trinity: Military War Dog, releasing this September.

I’m excited to share the cover of the second fabulous instalment with you today! We had Labradors growing up so I know my sister is especially going to love this cover ~ hi Jen xo xo

Look for Talon: Combat Tracking Team in May, 2013 from Barbour.

She’s on a mission to find her missing brother. Only his combat tracking dog knows where to look. …

Getting to know Katie Cushman

Kathryn “Katie” Cushman writes inspiring contemporary women’s fiction and has just released her sixth novel, Almost Amish, a very different take on the Amish lifestyle.

Enjoy getting to know Katie a little more at Relz Reviewz

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What appeals to you most about writing fiction?

I like to be able to tell the truth, but to do it through an interesting story.

Why Christian fiction?

About 15 years ago, I read a Christian novel that made God more real to me than He had ever been before—in spite of the fact that I’d grown up in church and had studied …

Character Spotlight ~ Keli Gwyn’s Elenora & Miles

Keli Gwyn takes readers back to the frontier in her debut novel

A Bride Opens Shop in El Dorado, California

Barbour

The Story

An ever-resourceful widow, Elenora Watkins arrives in El Dorado ready to go into partnership with Miles Rutledge. When he refuses, Elenora becomes the competition across the street. Is this town big enough for the two of them?

Miles can’t help but stick his well-polished boot in his mouth whenever he comes face-to-face with Elenora. Can he find a way to win her heart while destroying her business?

Miles’s mother, Maude, is bent on Elenora becoming her new …

The Messenger by Siri Mitchell

Synopsis:~

Hannah Sunderland felt content in her embrace of the Quaker faith until her twin brother ran off and joined the army and ended up captured and in jail. Suddenly Hannah’s world turns on end. She longs to bring her brother some measure of comfort in the squalid, frigid prison where he remains. But the Quakers believe they are not to take sides, not to take up arms. Can she sit by and do nothing while he suffers?

Jeremiah Jones has an enormous task before him. Responsibility for a spy ring is now his, and he desperately needs access to …

Christy Award Winners, 2012

Contemporary Romance

Wolfsbane by Ronie Kendig (Barbour Publishing)

Contemporary Series

The Amish Midwife by Mindy Starns Clark and Leslie Gould (Harvest House Publishers)

Contemporary Standalone

Promises to Keep by Ann Tatlock (Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group)

First Novel

Words by Ginny Yttrup (B&H Publishing Group)

Historical

Wonderland Creek by Lynn Austin (Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group)

Historical Romance

The Maid of Fairbourne Hall by Julie Klassen (Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group)

Suspense

The Queen by Steven James (Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group)

Visionary

Veiled Rose by Anne Elisabeth Stengl …

Character Spotlight ~ Amanda Flower’s Chloe Humphrey

Academic librarian, Amanda Flower combines cozy mystery with the Amish lifestyle

A Plain Death

B&H Fiction

The Story

Welcome to Appleseed Creek, the heart of Ohio’s Amish Country, where life is not as serene as it seems.

While her Cleveland friends relocated to Southern California and Italy, 24-year-old computer whiz Chloe Humphrey moves with some uncertainty to Appleseed Creek to direct technology services at a nearby college. Her first acquaintance is Becky, an ex-Amish teenager looking for a new home.

While driving Chloe’s car, Becky collides with a buggy, killing an Amish elder. But what looks like an accident is …