Because You're Mine

The latest book from Collen Coble, entitled Because You're Mine, will keep you on the edge of your seat.  You will meet Alanna and her husband, Liam, as the celtic band they are both members of is closing up their latest performance.  After the concert ends, Liam heads out with his best friend, Jesse, to check out his new car.  Alanna is left behind to worry about whether her voice will hold up during future concerts.  Suddenly, the unthinkable happens.  The car transporting these two men becomes a ball of fire, after a bomb explodes!

When Alanna learns that Liam has died in the explosion, she immediately accompanies his body back to Ireland for burial.  Not only does she not know which way to turn now that Liam is gone, she encounters new trouble from Liam's parents.  When Alanna shares with them that she is four months pregnant, her father-in-law threatens to take custody of her baby.  Alanna knows she must seek a place of safety and before you know it, she is marrying her band manager, Barry, to ensure custody of her child.  The only thing she does not realize is that the world that Barry will draw her into is scarier than Alanna could ever have imagined!

After Jesse recovers, the band adds him to the group to replace Liam for the remainder of their tour.  As you watch Alanna try to figure out what Barry's intentions are for her, you will also see Alanna try to adjust to Jesse, who for some reason is behaving a lot like Liam.  He seems to know details about her life that she only had shared with Liam.  Hang on until the last page to find out where Alanna ends up and who will be by her side!


I received this book from Thomas Nelson in exchange for my unbiased review.

At Your Request

At Your Request is a prelude to Jen Turano's latest series, Apart from the Crowd.  When you meet Miss Wilhelmina Radcliff you learn that she has been moved to a lower class in society after her father lost his fortune.  As she attempts to find her way in this new place in society, Wilhelmina is suddenly confronted with a face from her past at a society gathering.  She comes face to face with Edgar Wanamaker, the man she turned down years ago!

Edgar has successfully made his way in the world and has returned to New York to discover if all is truly over between himself and Wilhelmina.  Edgar is ready to make a commitment and needs to attain this information!

Watch and see what transpires as Edgar and Wilhelmina test these waters again to discover if this is the place that God has prepared for them!

Hook, Line and Sinker

Hook, Line and Sinker is a novella that is part of Susan May Warren's Deep Haven Series.  When you are introduced to Ross Springer and Abigail Cushman on the opening pages of this tale, you immediately sense that there is some bad history between them. You will soon learn that they lost their friendship the day that his older brother, Scotty, died!

When suddenly Abigail and Ross are competing against each other in a fishing contest, they still seem to be at odds with each other.  You have no idea what will happen to their struggling relationship by the end of this endeavour!

Hold on and to see where Abigail and Ross land by the final pages of this short novella!

Bespoke: a Tiny Christmas Tale

Bespoke: a Tiny Christmas Tale, by Amanda Dykes, is a very short novella that tells a tale of how God can bring something beautiful from a place that has been drastically destroyed!

As a young girl, Aria St. John, the daughter of the famous conductor Giovanni St. John, had been severely damaged in a fire.  When Giovanni and Aria return to the scene of the disaster that took away her ability to make beautiful music, Giovanni has no idea that Aria has plans to have the instruments, that she can no longer play, melted down to use to make a grand entrance at her father's Christmas Eve concert!

Aria works with her childhood friend, James Shaw, who is currently the village blacksmith, to design and build a gleaming bicycle out of her former instruments.  You wonder whether her father will be able to forgive the hardships of the past as you see Aria triumphantly ride toward her father on the final pages of this tale!

The Innkeeper of Ivy Hill

The Innkeeper of Ivy Hill is the latest novel from Julie Klassen. The tale opens in the village of Ivy Hill, England, in the year 1820.  Jane Bell has been a widow for the past year.  Upon her husband, John's death, Jane discovered that he had left his coaching inn for her to manage.  She cannot believe her eyes, when one day she sees her former mother-in-law, Thora Bell, walking uninvited up to her front door!

After a employee contacts her by mail, Thora has decided that she cannot stand by and watch her former inn, The Bell, lose its high standing in her hometown of Ivy Hill.  Upon learning that John had left a large loan unpaid, Jane and Thora discover that The Bell is at risk of being turned over to the bank.  Now Jane and Thora know that they must forgive old grievances and work together to save the inn!

Sit back and watch Jane and Thora work with everything they have to save The Bell and in the process, save their relationship!  This opening novel to Julie Klassen's new series, Tales from Ivy Hill, leaves you looking forward to learning more about these characters, in the books yet to come!


I received this book from Bethany House in exchange for my unbiased review.

Oh, the Weather Outside Is Frightful

Oh, The Weather Outside is Frightful is the latest holiday novella by Susan May Warren.  This tale is part of the Montana Fire series.  You will meet up with CJ St. John and Hannah Butcher as they are training to join a team of smokejumpers and you will see that through hard work, they are soon added to the group.  When the plane, that is transporting the team to fight a fire literally falls from the sky, many of the team are severely injured.  CJ, himself, is left amongst the wreckage, with a broken pelvis and fighting to stay alive!

After Hannah fights with everything she has to keep him warm and to keep the wolves at bay, CJ promises her that, if they are rescued,  they will dance at their friends upcoming wedding!  Once they are rescued, CJ does not know for sure if he has the strength and the willpower to go through a physical recovery again.  He had already had to learn to walk again after he was thrown from a bull and left to recover from a broken tailbone.  After failing at both bullriding and smokejumping, CJ does not know where to turn his focus for his future!

When Hannah turns up, at his family's ranch, to literally force CJ to attend their friends wedding with her, you will not believe the events that await them.  Both Hannah and CJ will have to trust in their God to bring them through a situation that will bring them to the end of their own abilities!

One Enchanted Eve

In Melissa Tagg's latest Christmas novella, One Enchanted Eve, Rylan Jefferson, the instructor at the Denver Culinary Institute, must suddenly call 911. One of her students, Colin Renwycke, has accidentally set the classroom on fire!

Rylan has been looking for an opportunity to kick Colin out of her class; however, after Chef Potts, the owner of the school, seems to approve of Colin's variation to his assignment of "Baked Alaska," Rylan begins to have second thoughts about taking such an action.  Before you know it, Rylan has accepted Colin's offer to help her create an outstanding dish that could open the door for her to run her own kitchen!

Before you know it, Rylan and Colin are heading out to Colin's hometown of Maple Valley, Iowa.  As Rylan and Colin settle in and begin trying to develop a new dish for her, Rylan soon learns that Colin's family relationships are in dire shape.  When Colin's brother Drew suddenly returns from his honeymoon, these two brothers almost instantly get into a fist fight!

The One Enchanted Eve's story line follows Melissa's previous novella, One Enchanted Christmas, which told the story of Colin's brother, Drew.  Hang on to see where Rylan and Colin, as well as his entire family, end up by the final pages of this latest tale!