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“How could she hope to find her place in a world where she knew she didn’t belong?”

Lilly Joy Hoyt Stewart longs for the Montana prairie but reluctantly finds herself in Paris, a place of beauty and culture that holds no appeal to her. Feeling hemmed in by her mother and step father’s wishes, Lilly meets pilot Rennie Dupree who introduces her to the freedom of flying the skies.

“Rosie longed for the energy, the joie de vivre of Paris to sweep her up, to carry her down the Champs-Elysees, and into a different life.”

Unlike her cousin Lilly, Rosie …

Character Spotlight ~ Andrew Klavan’s Sam Hopkins from Crazy Dangerous

Meet Sam Hopkins from Andrew Klavan’s latest YA novel, Crazy Dangerous, available from Thomas Nelson

Synopsis

Sam Hopkins is a good kid who has fallen in with the wrong crowd. Hanging around with car thieves and thugs, Sam knows it’s only a matter of time before he makes one bad decision too many and gets into real trouble.

But one day, Sam sees these thugs harassing an eccentric schoolmate named Jennifer. Finding the courage to face the bullies down, Sam loses a bad set of friends and acquires a very strange new one.

Because Jennifer is not just eccentric. …

Author Alert ~ Jordyn Redwood

It’s my pleasure to introduce you to debut author Jordyn Redwood ~ Jordyn’s first medical suspense releases next month. Think Candace Calvert and Richard Mabry!

Here’s a bit more about Jordyn:

Jordyn Redwood is a pediatric ER nurse by day, suspense novelist by night. Her love of all things medical led to the creation of Redwood’s Medical Edge— a blog devoted to helping historical and contemporary novelists write medically accurate fiction. Jordyn loves to weave medical mystery into her suspense and see how her characters handle the chaos. Proof, her debut novel, will release June 1, 2012. It is …

Character Spotlight ~ Dineen Miller’s Lexie & Hugh from The Soul Saver

Meet Lexie & Hugh Baltimore from Dineen Miller’s debut novel, The Soul Saver, available from Barbour Publishing.

Synopsis

Meet Lexie Baltimore, who is in the supernatural battle of her life. In obedience to God’s calling, Lexie uses her art and dreams to help others. But will she have enough courage to help herself when she becomes torn between her atheist husband and a godly man?

A widower and a father, Pastor Nate Winslow is drowning in darkness. Will he resist his treacherous assignment to win Lexie’s heart, or give in to the attraction between them?

As events unfold, Lexie becomes …

The Widow of Saunders Creek by Tracey Bateman

Synopsis:~

Corrie Saunders grew up in a life of privilege. But she gave it all up for Jarrod, her Army husband, a man she knew was a hero when she vowed to spend her life with him. She just didn’t expect her hero to sacrifice his life taking on an Iraqi suicide bomber.

Six months after Jarrod’s death, Corrie retreats to the family home her husband inherited deep in the Missouri Ozarks. She doesn’t know how to live without Jarrod—she doesn’t want to. By moving to Saunders Creek and living in a house beloved by him, she hopes that somehow …

Getting to know Cheryl McKay

Relz Reviewz is all about fiction but very occasionally there is a non-fiction book that I want to share with my readers. Cheryl McKay’s Finally the Bride: Finding Hope While Waiting is one of them!

Cheryl wrote a screenplay which she then turned into a novel, Never the Bride, with Rene Gutteridge. Her latest book is her own story of Never the Bride becoming Finally the Bride!

What appeals to you most about writing?

For me, writing can redeem anything difficult or painful I’ve been through, because I can then share about it help others. This can be in …