Happy Friday!
I hope your week has been awesome. If not, my author friends have supplied me with their reads. Book are great pick me ups. Have fun adding to your TBR pile!
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Freebies
Julie Arduini’s Engaged
FREE Friday & Saturday
Snippet of the Blurb: “Trish Maxwell’s back in Speculator Falls with egg on her face and a lot of apologies to make. She left the mountain town for her dream job in New York City, only to come back unemployed. With no prospects, she works at her family’s department store and makes amends as she finds a new passion creating window displays for Adirondack businesses. She works hard and tries to convince the people of Speculator Falls she’s changed for the better.”
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New Releases
Bethany Turner’s The Secret Life of Sarah Hollenbeck
The Blurb: “What happens when a steamy romance writer becomes a Christian? Best-selling novelist Sarah Hollenbeck finds out! Struggling to reconcile her past with her new life in Christ, she’s not sure she can honor her publishing contract or cope with condemnation from church members for writing “scandalous” fiction. Will falling in love with her pastor complicate things?”
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JC Morrows’ A Broken Kingdom
Snippet of the Blurb: “HER MISSION IS COMPLETE – AND HER HEART IS EMPTY. HOW WILL SHE GO ON?
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Jo Huddleston’s Betty’s Blessings
The Blurb: “Sometimes love shows up uninvited.
Betty Campbell catches Donna’s bridal bouquet but has no desire to marry, especially the arrogant Greg Turner. When Greg travels from Alaska to California to be the best man in Tommy’s wedding, he plans to move on as soon as possible. Then Greg meets Betty and he’s drawn to her like ants to spilled sugar. Betty’s Blessing is a sweet romance story of unbidden love, set in 1956.”
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Lindsey P. Brackett’s Still Waters
The Blurb: “When her beloved grandmother requests one last summer at Still Waters, the family cottage on Edisto Beach, Cora Anne returns to a place that haunts her with loss and tempts her with forgiveness.
Peace means reconciling her family and her Edisto memories. But acceptance may mean loving the man determined to preserve a past she’d rather forget.”
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Nike N. Chillemi’s That Special One
The Blurb: “College freshman Ivy Chalmers moved in with her aunt and uncle, running from her substance abusing mother. Ivy longed for a different life than the revolving-door-men in her mom’s life. She vowed not to make a dating commitment unless it was that really ‘special relationship ‘. Corey Jones had been the man in his house since age twelve, when his alcoholic dad abandoned him and his mom. After Ivy is betrayed, he’s there for her during her darkest moments.”
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Toni Shiloh’s Returning Home
Snippet of the Blurb: “Jo Ellen Baker is shocked to find out that the boy who teased her mercilessly throughout high school, has returned to their hometown of Freedom Lake, and he’s missing a leg. When his mother asks her to renovate their carriage house to give him a place to gain his independence back, she wants to say no. But one look at him brings a rush of forgotten feelings.”
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Upcoming Releases
Andrea Boyd’s Heart’s Desire
Pre-order for 99¢! Coming November 1st!
Snippet of the blurb: “A romantic comedy set in the south, Heart’s Desire shows what can happen when God is allowed to take the lead.
When Aiden Weaver allows the Couples Committee to pick his date to the New Year’s Eve ball, he promises himself it will only be a one-time deal. After one failed marriage, he isn’t interested in another long-term commitment. His resolve starts to crumble when he meets his date, Bailey. For whatever reason, his heart keeps pulling him back to her long after the dance is over.”
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Jaime Jo Wright’s The House on Foster Hill
Coming November 1st!
Snippet of the Blurb: “Kaine Prescott is no stranger to death. When her husband died two years ago, her pleas for further investigation into his suspicious death fell on deaf ears. In desperate need of a fresh start, Kaine purchases an old house sight unseen in her grandfather’s Wisconsin hometown. But one look at the eerie, abandoned house immediately leaves her questioning her rash decision. And when the house’s dark history comes back with a vengeance, Kaine is forced to face the terrifying realization she has nowhere left to hide.”
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Sarah Monzon’s The Esther Paradigm
Pre-order for 99¢! Coming November 1st!
The Blurb: “In a society where the line is drawn between us and them, Christianity is outlawed, and foreigners are mistrusted, will the union between a missionary and a Bedouin sheikh heal wounds or inflict a final fatal blow in a dangerous situation?”
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Giveaway
Kelly Irvin’s Upon a Spring Breeze
Author Jo Huddleston is hosting a giveaway here.
The Blurb: “After a devastating winter, a spring breeze promises more than new flowers.… It promises a new chance at love.
Bess Weaver, twenty and expecting her first child, is in the kitchen making stew for her beloved mann, Caleb, one minute, and the next she’s burying him after a tragic accident. Facing life as a young widow, Bess finds comfort only in tending the garden at an Englisch-owned bed and breakfast—even as she doubts that new growth could ever come after such a long winter.”
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Deadly Proof Celebration Tour Giveaway
Celebrate Lit is hosting a giveaway here.
Snippet of the Blurb: “Tapped as lead counsel in a corporate cover-up lawsuit against Mason Pharmaceutical, Kate Sullivan knows this case could make her career. What really drives her, though, is getting justice for the victims whose lives were ruined by the company’s dangerous new drug. But when a whistleblower turns up dead, it paints a target on the back of everyone involved.”
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Celebration Tour Giveaway
Celebrate Lit is hosting a giveaway here.
Snippet of the Blurb: “Smart, strong, and a follower of the Jewish God, Lydia has nonetheless quietly conformed to the expectations of the wealthy Roman society into which she was born. Her father marries her off at age fifteen to a much older man whom she dislikes. Despite an unpleasant wedding and a marriage that doesn’t improve with age, Lydia remains a dutiful and faithful wife. When her husband is killed, years later, Lydia vows to remain single and returns to her father’s house in Thyatira with her twelve-year-old daughter.”
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Almond Street Mission Celebration Tour
Celebrate Lit is hosting a giveaway here.
Snippet of the Blurb: “When Glorilyn Neilson’s nineteen-year-old brother, Tannon, goes missing without a trace, she’s frantic. Prayer and volunteering at the local homeless shelter in El Camino must fill the time until her sibling returns. But her sapphire eyes and auburn hair inadvertently cause a stir among the male population at the center. Her life changes one evening when she’s attacked by a burly vagrant intent on rape in the alley behind the building.”
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