tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-77309151194118994932024-03-27T12:49:35.696-04:00a walk through the pagesUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger684125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7730915119411899493.post-35226921934507894642024-03-20T09:49:00.000-04:002024-03-20T09:49:13.720-04:00The Pursuit<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6Q87fB5pAD7WZzunNeRqnvlUVojiP4ZkEmcv-95nBHZxjMxxOce-KzIKl2B5ITtxIH_wvOo_HeD6BrDOebD67H9JMnwaOUOKrJF9Kd28sSPk6TG6-vzE7DmXFZYXZvbHpZBZ0-M0P8qC9v474LWDLmjAzxqyjG6_W5bysfWdpNJY43gUMIrcadenLSR_X/s293/IMG_0972.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="293" data-original-width="221" height="293" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6Q87fB5pAD7WZzunNeRqnvlUVojiP4ZkEmcv-95nBHZxjMxxOce-KzIKl2B5ITtxIH_wvOo_HeD6BrDOebD67H9JMnwaOUOKrJF9Kd28sSPk6TG6-vzE7DmXFZYXZvbHpZBZ0-M0P8qC9v474LWDLmjAzxqyjG6_W5bysfWdpNJY43gUMIrcadenLSR_X/s1600/IMG_0972.jpeg" width="221" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><b><i>The Pursuit</i></b>, by <b><i>Lori Wick</i></b>, details Edward Steele’s return trip to England after his time in Africa. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>When he accompanies several shipmates, Mr. Osborne and his man, ashore, Edward reveals that he knows Mr. Osborne is actually not a man. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>However, he does not know the reason for this fabrication!</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Edward soon discovers that her name is actually Nicola Battencourt. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>This tale gets rather interesting after Edward learns that Niki has been hiding from her former mother-in-law who is wants to get her hands on Niki’s twin boys!</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">This is definitely a fun storyline to follow!</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><br /><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7730915119411899493.post-81493967936879674232024-03-12T10:08:00.002-04:002024-03-18T16:00:50.337-04:00Never Fall Again<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDJdZeV37Ph4Pjf8e8ZjOXEkHvH3_b6BqUQBN4S6zTV_cChp_4iIVee3-25S7YVMZ9T1NnEC3hqOfGlTNNjkJK_l7GxD1DtwemVOBaB8vWR6fNp4DGB1UXYH5Sxpk0bMXUZeBIv7Yda2XGOtp63TWaVhz1Yq6Axoun2WkGHi8wRUeYBckxsCEOPsN-MX2M/s333/IMG_1154.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="333" data-original-width="212" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDJdZeV37Ph4Pjf8e8ZjOXEkHvH3_b6BqUQBN4S6zTV_cChp_4iIVee3-25S7YVMZ9T1NnEC3hqOfGlTNNjkJK_l7GxD1DtwemVOBaB8vWR6fNp4DGB1UXYH5Sxpk0bMXUZeBIv7Yda2XGOtp63TWaVhz1Yq6Axoun2WkGHi8wRUeYBckxsCEOPsN-MX2M/s320/IMG_1154.jpeg" width="204" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px;"><b><i>Never Fall Again</i></b>, by <b><i>Lynn H. Blackburn</i></b>, opens with Landry Hutton meeting Calum Shaw. </span> <span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px;">A close friend has recommended Cal to help Landry have a new home built for herself and her young daughter. </span> <span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px;">Before they can move ahead on this project, Cal and Landry learn that The Haven, the location of Landry’s current home and workplace, is actually on fire and much of Landry’s pottery is being destroyed in the blaze!</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Landry decides to put her house on hold until the destroyed store can be put back in operation. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>When a second attack takes place at the store, Landry realizes that someone devious is definitely at work!</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">All Landry wants is a safe place to raise her daughter. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Hold tight as you discover what happens next and more importantly who is behind it all!</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><br /><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7730915119411899493.post-46148610345007333022024-03-04T05:28:00.000-05:002024-03-04T05:28:19.439-05:00To Speak His Name<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnGkYE_PuhZYv43CCxsB_xoDeuBwAilw8ZC2wtX0eJR4gjMyQ4tdPRdDF5BbzSQ79RPi5PNsOaUqntDUMZLH02UKVmYxgcW0SkKJK9gjHhyphenhyphen_oUfSNBdsM_vFqnYKqI6UFVaFnnjsQs82A2G6PDQ-VP5EeFSSqTwJAX_x-q1gDEnNdeyWy0zIi16ixkVqnW/s390/IMG_1123.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="390" data-original-width="249" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnGkYE_PuhZYv43CCxsB_xoDeuBwAilw8ZC2wtX0eJR4gjMyQ4tdPRdDF5BbzSQ79RPi5PNsOaUqntDUMZLH02UKVmYxgcW0SkKJK9gjHhyphenhyphen_oUfSNBdsM_vFqnYKqI6UFVaFnnjsQs82A2G6PDQ-VP5EeFSSqTwJAX_x-q1gDEnNdeyWy0zIi16ixkVqnW/s320/IMG_1123.jpeg" width="204" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><b><i>To Speak His Name</i></b>, by <b><i>Tara Johnson</i></b>, tells of Avalina’s days at a plantation in Barbados. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>These early harsh days have left her in a world of silence. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Avalina simply refuses to speak!</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">When Josiah Holland visits the island, you sense that something is bound to change. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Traveling with his father, who himself is a slave owner, Josiah soon sees the ugliness of this world. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>After he meets Avalina, he has no choice but to change the direction of his life!</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">After Josiah helps Avalina escape from the island during a slave uprising, you will see both enter a new world of both freedom and pain. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Soon they marry and they end up at Josiah's family plantation in South Carolina. Avalina must gain acceptance from a new group of people - Josiah’s family!</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Just when she begins to feel safe, Avalina's past reaches out to grab her. </span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"> </span><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">You wonder if Josiah and Avalina will finally realize that only God can provide true freedom!</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><br /><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7730915119411899493.post-53882749633553097962024-03-01T09:17:00.000-05:002024-03-01T09:17:00.807-05:00The Visitor <p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVFh6yQRBYDoLL7iDhh5RZuK95lXe1tsk86Y0gVPoCp6eBy6g37_Mp04WVtYF3MUSdSXLhCm9-TIMPv5zM3-btASraM9HC-Wt1KI6eNnCSN5ENB01XYQEo6L8ALB9XDiTHae0pSHs-le9twt-ri5qkoAkT-GumMMZ7n0rRjOvqSrFOS48LHd8mPR5jRUbF/s294/IMG_0970.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="294" data-original-width="221" height="294" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVFh6yQRBYDoLL7iDhh5RZuK95lXe1tsk86Y0gVPoCp6eBy6g37_Mp04WVtYF3MUSdSXLhCm9-TIMPv5zM3-btASraM9HC-Wt1KI6eNnCSN5ENB01XYQEo6L8ALB9XDiTHae0pSHs-le9twt-ri5qkoAkT-GumMMZ7n0rRjOvqSrFOS48LHd8mPR5jRUbF/s1600/IMG_0970.jpeg" width="221" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><b><i>The Visitor</i></b>, by <b><i>Lori Wick</i></b>, details how God leads the Steele sisters to what <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>He has in store for each of them!</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Elizabeth Steele has set her eyes on her brother’s friend, Thomas Morland; unfortunately, he is half a world away on a trip to Africa. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Liz has no idea when she will ever see him again and more importantly, if he will even want to see her!</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Cassandra Steele has crossed paths with Alexander Tate as she begins reading to him, after a fall from his horse has left him temporarily blind. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>As their relationship seems to be moving towards something serious, Cassie fears that Tate will be disappointed when he is finally able to see clearly and realizes that Cassie has bright red hair!</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">It is fun to see where these sisters land by the final page of this tale!</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7730915119411899493.post-57876119533380262202024-02-22T10:12:00.001-05:002024-02-22T10:20:20.454-05:00The Rescue<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHF13VCpqY3VAtt6e37lVMi-Z9wXIqvrEwcgiFr6qw11DX7cIC707E6yyD8qvlidmu-OF3yuVKBrtJrIuYhr_XQoMN9qP-E5LpEd87Z7IKJI22VW1NQYUmif-UPB0wXoF7hhRteCEfvokRvZbwgZFHEEFd9SebOxYmRLcrSkH1uTHhO5N3UZ1Y6xL2H8wl/s294/IMG_0971.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="294" data-original-width="225" height="294" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHF13VCpqY3VAtt6e37lVMi-Z9wXIqvrEwcgiFr6qw11DX7cIC707E6yyD8qvlidmu-OF3yuVKBrtJrIuYhr_XQoMN9qP-E5LpEd87Z7IKJI22VW1NQYUmif-UPB0wXoF7hhRteCEfvokRvZbwgZFHEEFd9SebOxYmRLcrSkH1uTHhO5N3UZ1Y6xL2H8wl/s1600/IMG_0971.jpeg" width="225" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><b><i>The Rescue</i></b>, by<b><i> Lori Wick</i></b>, again takes place in Collingbourne, England. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>You will see old characters, as well as meet some new, in this second tale of her English Garden series!</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Robert Weston has inherited a property in town and is checking out the area when Anne Gardiner suddenly lands in his arms. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>In an attempt to placate her military father, who is not currently not in a right state of mind, Anne pretends to marry this man who has been caught off guard!</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">When Robert heads back to London to discuss this situation with his mother, he leaves Anne at his new home. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Robert is unaware that she will spend the next week cleaning his house in an attempt to make up for the “marriage” he was exposed to!</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">After gossip about this “marriage” starts circulating throughout Collingbourne, Robert decides to ask Anne to marry him in an effort to protect her. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It is interesting to see what actually comes of this hasty marriage!</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7730915119411899493.post-62859725256055715712024-02-16T12:45:00.001-05:002024-02-16T13:06:38.606-05:00The Proposal<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEu5aF5-rPG6wLBpfy8kB4kvEPM3A3RXaGC4-3O616HV0e6NcU7I1UnGiiSuo4uq3jMMLu-h1Bb4JWhTdoKtr-phyLQBNP4RG4CF0Gy7cLyCXN8fLJ7EF7wxnhDuXwJO9VCL5w_h7WAh-tkzB3xiXjSWHgIhIx54Iap88CNi-pEcqFg9KJ0R2H9ET6s0Lw/s296/IMG_0974.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="296" data-original-width="226" height="296" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEu5aF5-rPG6wLBpfy8kB4kvEPM3A3RXaGC4-3O616HV0e6NcU7I1UnGiiSuo4uq3jMMLu-h1Bb4JWhTdoKtr-phyLQBNP4RG4CF0Gy7cLyCXN8fLJ7EF7wxnhDuXwJO9VCL5w_h7WAh-tkzB3xiXjSWHgIhIx54Iap88CNi-pEcqFg9KJ0R2H9ET6s0Lw/s1600/IMG_0974.jpeg" width="226" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><b><i>The Proposal</i></b>, by <b><i>Lori Wick</i></b>, opens with William Jennings suddenly gaining three young children when his cousin unexpectedly dies. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>His world is definitely about to change. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>William’s first thought is to seek help from his sister; unfortunately, he has not seen her in years!</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Not only does William have three young lives to meld into his world; he also does not know what to make of his sister’s dear friend Marianne Walker. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>She has been trusting God for the man He intends for her to walk through life with; however, William does not seem to fit the mold!</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">This is an interesting tale to follow as you see God at work in both William and Marianne’s lives!</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7730915119411899493.post-70018421671648887362024-02-09T09:01:00.000-05:002024-02-09T09:01:17.981-05:00Fatal Witness<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-9gzWHCbl3KzqlbnGddUKjN4heNDOJe_YMoJ1KeVEsyBwjBQjlrrRFWGeyTKHUdGHiHDCUQSmed16SLxGLQWbqeVUPqQvu-1WLD0mtCzBFY_KP54mot57usGsVHqsjrfDH9A5iGFgwM3tR7eW8Hh4IACeEhEvfUDnKiwzB1Q5q1A50pUaL8hA78OMCoiX/s336/IMG_0920.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="336" data-original-width="217" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-9gzWHCbl3KzqlbnGddUKjN4heNDOJe_YMoJ1KeVEsyBwjBQjlrrRFWGeyTKHUdGHiHDCUQSmed16SLxGLQWbqeVUPqQvu-1WLD0mtCzBFY_KP54mot57usGsVHqsjrfDH9A5iGFgwM3tR7eW8Hh4IACeEhEvfUDnKiwzB1Q5q1A50pUaL8hA78OMCoiX/s320/IMG_0920.jpeg" width="207" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><b><i>Fatal Witness</i></b>, by <b><i>Patricia Bradley</i></b>, begins with Danielle Bennett as a young girl being hidden away so she does not see the brutal killing of her parents. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Now 25 years later, with no memory of her earlier life, she is building her life as a talented artist making beautiful pottery creations. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>When Danielle’s picture is published in a national ceramic magazine, her image is noticed by both friends and foes!</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Dani’s grandmother, Mae Richmond, is also a well-known potter and has been searching for Dani for years. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>When she sees Dani’s image in a pottery magazine, she pulls in K-9 officer, Mark Lassiter, to help make contact with Dani!</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">After Dani meets her grandmother, she is intent on learning more about what happened to her parents all those years ago. When Dani and Mark are targeted by a sniper, you know this tale is about to get very intense. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>All Dani wants to do is find justice for her parents!</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">You will never believe who the mastermind is behind all these killings. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The person does not show up until the final pages of this fast-paced tale!</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7730915119411899493.post-66461060008459556412024-02-01T13:01:00.001-05:002024-02-01T16:29:41.579-05:00Embers in the London Sky<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUuhwTy4qfQtKP3Wzd4jf65D8hlMPqkMc8yjd0LNQeLugLxQ-ONU7hs5gNCYRCmsgeytqbWxWso1J2GP5HgPwOsYnFuWBI16XlycK2L9JZrKkyhTTxJN_1OUJPBAF5jso68GnBev9SpyxpR-BzGQ7Jb2nclZp1hQ44cZo9esjYAif8OT5KaIGusUwAq32e/s332/IMG_0919.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="332" data-original-width="212" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUuhwTy4qfQtKP3Wzd4jf65D8hlMPqkMc8yjd0LNQeLugLxQ-ONU7hs5gNCYRCmsgeytqbWxWso1J2GP5HgPwOsYnFuWBI16XlycK2L9JZrKkyhTTxJN_1OUJPBAF5jso68GnBev9SpyxpR-BzGQ7Jb2nclZp1hQ44cZo9esjYAif8OT5KaIGusUwAq32e/s320/IMG_0919.jpeg" width="204" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><b><i>Embers in the London Sky</i></b>, by <b><i>Sarah Sundin,</i></b> opens with Alesia van der Zee Martens planning to run away from her husband with her young son, Theo, to join her family in England. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>However, before she can make to out the front door, her husband Bas had returned to declare that the Germans had crossed the Netherlands border and he needed to escape to England to have a safe place to run his business. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>So indeed Alesia would be heading to England, but unfortunately it would be in the presence of her abusive husband!</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"> When Bas hands her son over to another family traveling to England, Alesia fears never seeing her boy’s sweet face again. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>When her husband is killed before she learns who has her son, Alesia is certainly at a loss!</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Hugh Collingwood is an Englishman attempting to record some of the events taking place in France. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>In the midst of the fighting, Hugh’s asthma begins to act up. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>He knows this is the last place he should be; however, the reporter in him will not let him stay away. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>When Hugh suddenly crosses paths with his older brother, he is again reminded of the danger this place could bring to his lungs. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Before Hugh is placed on the next ship headed back to England, he watches as his brother’s ship is destroyed!</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">When Alesia and Hugh cross paths in London, they soon team up in an effort to locate her son. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The situation gets quite complicated when they finally find Theo. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Alesia has no papers and this couple has claimed him as their own. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Hold tight to discover if Alesia will ever be reunited with her young son!</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7730915119411899493.post-29743128510340706442024-01-24T11:03:00.000-05:002024-01-24T11:03:31.075-05:00Double Take<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiceHwWYrl7iPmETyHJlVtbBNNWBgL6XwHwuFkpdSCFJrUBFag2Hhkxl5H_EZA6ASFDSQJ2JjpzveaXZKLGtKsL8_H2iLXmOCf7Zn1YmWDgXA6Tgt07GkWinq6SVR4ISnGDsPGeI7xFXLYW2o9a5LrxDLx7UwJrtudtuDC2gEEjD2qNz5gmNdJc9zPMjGqd/s342/IMG_0918.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="342" data-original-width="213" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiceHwWYrl7iPmETyHJlVtbBNNWBgL6XwHwuFkpdSCFJrUBFag2Hhkxl5H_EZA6ASFDSQJ2JjpzveaXZKLGtKsL8_H2iLXmOCf7Zn1YmWDgXA6Tgt07GkWinq6SVR4ISnGDsPGeI7xFXLYW2o9a5LrxDLx7UwJrtudtuDC2gEEjD2qNz5gmNdJc9zPMjGqd/s320/IMG_0918.jpeg" width="199" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><b><i>Double Take</i></b>, by <b><i>Lynette Eason</i></b>, is another tale full of action. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Lainie Jackson is traveling in the hills of North Carolina in the midst of a rainstorm, when someone suddenly runs her off the road. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>This man looks exactly like her dead fiancé, Adam! </span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Detective James Cross is busy handling an angry man who has a gun and is holding his family hostage. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>When James is shot in his efforts to save the child, he ends up in the hospital being cared for by physician assistant, Lainie. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>James and Laine had initially met years ago, so this may prove to be an interesting reunion!</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">When Lainie keeps finding clues that could only be sent by Adam, she fears that he may still be alive. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Watch as James helps her search for answers. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It is interesting when you finally learn the truth about all these strange sightings!</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7730915119411899493.post-86497679390319096072024-01-15T13:36:00.000-05:002024-01-15T13:36:40.266-05:00Committing to the Cowgirl<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKoXwFGT6VZLmreK7xdnuRR51Pgd6IP5IXuXdM9B9CPEZP38l9BleUFcjPpbW1JXyxxa-HRkYURaesD803zZTpuSlyTtfoM2cBgHa8SV44D9ZKa5JFTmJW6qnRx2ToDKmXIzuutIziNLjjC5QCy3QM1bNEN0B0xvNuSCzbKqNxiC5_yK-z91FX70xAFsRJ/s335/IMG_0917.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="335" data-original-width="205" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKoXwFGT6VZLmreK7xdnuRR51Pgd6IP5IXuXdM9B9CPEZP38l9BleUFcjPpbW1JXyxxa-HRkYURaesD803zZTpuSlyTtfoM2cBgHa8SV44D9ZKa5JFTmJW6qnRx2ToDKmXIzuutIziNLjjC5QCy3QM1bNEN0B0xvNuSCzbKqNxiC5_yK-z91FX70xAFsRJ/s320/IMG_0917.jpeg" width="196" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><b><i>Committing to the Cowgirl</i></b>, by <b><i>Jody Hedlund</i></b>, begins her Colorado Cowgirls series. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Astrid Nilsson has arrived back in FairPlay, Colorado. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>As a doctor, she is looking to join an established practice in her hometown. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>However, when she enters the front door of the doctor’s office she is surprised. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Astrid comes face to face with Logan Steele, her first true love!</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Dr. Logan Steele is in a quandary. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>His dying mother wants him to marry while she is still alive. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>He suggests to Astrid that they date on a trial basis and in exchange, Logan will give her a chance to work work alongside him as his partner. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Astrid has absolutely no idea how this situation will ever turn out to her benefit!</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">When Astrid tells an old beau that she and Logan are engaged, this situation becomes even more complicated. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>After Logan’s mother spreads news of their ‘fake’ engagement all over town, they know they are in trouble. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>You will be surprised to see where Astrid and Logan land by the end of this tale!</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7730915119411899493.post-47805802519824562652024-01-08T10:42:00.001-05:002024-01-08T10:50:21.582-05:00Love Unscripted<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVC3GRGkAVo42GqmI7TxxP_9oxhEIPJp36g2XxNwfRgmslk9GuKUcI0Oopjid8y9x1uu9v1cxGoi5ZCqQ5KCYlrsThRxtjYkMdgk4YDgaBP-9nQT8yZRJXmAJ1l3Xmg5kEEpfAcdJUBuGzAoRMktwVWoQdXQfzr4SSD7hK5dpzapatKqx7t5wGo_aVfUWz/s764/IMG_0855.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="764" data-original-width="491" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVC3GRGkAVo42GqmI7TxxP_9oxhEIPJp36g2XxNwfRgmslk9GuKUcI0Oopjid8y9x1uu9v1cxGoi5ZCqQ5KCYlrsThRxtjYkMdgk4YDgaBP-9nQT8yZRJXmAJ1l3Xmg5kEEpfAcdJUBuGzAoRMktwVWoQdXQfzr4SSD7hK5dpzapatKqx7t5wGo_aVfUWz/s320/IMG_0855.jpeg" width="206" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><b><i>Love Unscripted</i></b>, by <b><i>Denise Hunter</i></b>, introduces Chloe Anderson on the opening pages. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Chloe’s debut novel is heading for the big screen. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>She cannot believe it when the actor chosen to portray the leading man in her story is all over the tabloids as a womanizer. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>After a photograph of Chloe and this actor, Liam Hamilton, shows up in the papers, Chloe knows she has a problem on her hands!</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">When Liam’s publicist suggests that they actually start “secretly” dating to temper down the gossip, Chloe cannot believe it when she agrees. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>When they decide to limit the number of people who know about this setup, Liam and Chloe feel like they will be able to keep their secret safe. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>However, it is definitely easier said than done!</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">How will Chloe respond when another secret she has been protecting for years suddenly comes to light? <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Will the fragile relationship between Chloe and Liam survive this madness? <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>This is definitely a tale that will keep your interest until the final page!</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7730915119411899493.post-24914718412283253582024-01-01T09:13:00.001-05:002024-01-01T09:39:08.010-05:00Countdown <p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRlN8XkYult0UbKFnH5MrEvGdKKaegzOBxK02QjbbWy3cH8jpCDxVRHIYlcXTukgrLA4_lXzqS3i5YF9rQIsIgb3bndQ7VwTIAjKL4ZbKssUi2Hlv42muodeW88DuclascQBcYiCubDCbp8M9sW7aExIcDLWDbfAL6WmOHyxQJB9C5PKh_4kQZlF82RQ/s765/IMG_0337.jpeg" style="clear: left; 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font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><b><i>Countdown</i></b>, by<b><i> Lynette Eason</i></b>, brings together paramedic Raina Price and US Marshall Vincent Covelli. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Vincent has been drawn to Raina from the moment they meet. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>She is absolutely beautiful; however, she seems to being holding something back. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Raina does have secrets from her past that could hurt anyone who would draw near to her!</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">When it appears that danger from Raina’s former life has resurfaced, she asks Vincent to assist her <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>with tracking done the man who left her world in shambles years ago. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>He beat Raina so severely that she had to be hospitalized. Afterwards, she had to go into hiding and change everything in her world. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> In current day when someone </span>tries to poison Raina, she and Vincent jump into high gear to identify and stop this person !</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">After their enemy starts trying to take them out with multiple gunshots, you know the game has taken a serious turn. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Hold tight for a high energy conclusion to this fast-paced tale!</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><i style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">I received a copy of this book from Revell in exchange for my review</span></i><span>.</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7730915119411899493.post-60996240425963540672023-12-15T13:17:00.001-05:002023-12-15T13:24:41.529-05:00Meet Me Under the Kissing Bough<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAjJ1AQMuH10hwfvcwy7EXaRLGb-W3svbHzSTmKrLMKBzQX7qQR9WcreWTM2jOd1h4ovatJTiGVL2evw0kgOJpjPJYS0aFJSUxXlLOhiQ9J4qY1X_S8UFlkeMtW9pafwVH8Rzin7zbh195luXW-YlER40HW6zkfTa2yqsAp78XqeV945NoSqmAtrQ5cEAO/s401/IMG_2354.jpeg" style="clear: left; 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font-size: 15px;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 15px;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 15px;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 15px;"><b><i>Meet me under the Kissing Bough</i></b>, by <b><i>Josi S. Kilpack</i></b>, takes place in Bingham, Nottinghamshire, England in the year 1819. </span> <span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 15px;">Deborah Winfrey is preparing to host a Christmas party in her home. </span> <span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 15px;">However, what she does not count on is her own mother getting involved in her personal life. </span> <span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 15px;">Before she knows it, two men are trying to gain her attention!</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><b><i>Healing Hearts for the Holidays</i></b>, by <b><i>Anneka R. Walker</i></b>, Julia Hunt’s sister Ivy has married a man her father cannot accept. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>When Julia and Esmond, Ivy’s brother-in-law, find some hidden letters, they discover the real reason for the conflict between their families. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Hold tight for a Christmas miracle!</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><b><i>A Christmas Correspondence</i></b>, by <b><i>Sarah L. McConkie</i></b>, is a novella that tells a tale similar to A Christmas Carol. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Mr. John Charleston journeys to London to deliver important information to Lady Caroline Morleigh. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Somehow John survives Caroline’s difficult personality </span><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">and finds himself traveling with her to his home. </span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"> </span><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">You wonder if Caroline’s personality will make a turn in a positive direction after spending time with John and his family. </span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"> </span><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Will they all experience a Merry Christmas?</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7730915119411899493.post-10776637698713419392023-12-08T16:48:00.001-05:002023-12-08T16:57:24.047-05:00An Inconvenient Letter<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijxjLJ0LcGez-m9uPqIKr0MFCmA_smhjEYawJ5b0c3gk0baVK-XDsLzZBZRVqKS3h1M5vz8t511LcR7ZjXCxurJ3kSWUsVXJ3aGVRyHzYMvyddfNTRx8eApy2Ytw04_UPc_Pi_sHmVijbx2qixY7N9JakJjHqR3145XxWz1EpSNHHgD8s6YuI8whsLBSsz/s762/IMG_0606.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="762" data-original-width="476" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijxjLJ0LcGez-m9uPqIKr0MFCmA_smhjEYawJ5b0c3gk0baVK-XDsLzZBZRVqKS3h1M5vz8t511LcR7ZjXCxurJ3kSWUsVXJ3aGVRyHzYMvyddfNTRx8eApy2Ytw04_UPc_Pi_sHmVijbx2qixY7N9JakJjHqR3145XxWz1EpSNHHgD8s6YuI8whsLBSsz/s320/IMG_0606.jpeg" width="200" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><b><i>An Inconvenient Letter</i></b>, by <b><i>Julie Wright</i></b>, introduces Marietta Stone on the opening page of this tale. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>This young woman has secretly been in love with Frederick Finch for years and she has poured out her heart on paper. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>However, when these letters are accidentally sent to Frederick’s home, all Marietta can think of is retrieving <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>these items before they end up in the wrong person’s hands!</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Those hands end up being Frederick’s cousin, Gerald Hartwell. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>This gentleman man is looking for a way to financially save his late father’s estate and these letters look like the perfect opportunity. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Gerald hopes to make some kind of bargain with Marietta!</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">You wonder what will happen when Gerald suddenly wants this pretend romance to be something very real. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>This is definitely a tale not to be missed!</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><br /><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7730915119411899493.post-9998651552964051572023-12-01T11:21:00.001-05:002023-12-01T12:31:27.931-05:00Windsong Manor<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSPU-UXG0bHUscIJM-yf5mUvSYvPvKj8ECTOR1zOT_tmN2WKgEfVKBBSSfuteceH2F4MRDZ3YCYAddy9KpY6zu63emwN4ml2zrAFgo-ASzmqfRHEi3-j61CHHEPiZRVOUWLXljBZYONcY8bryp3THka6OoJylEPZ6k1cu_Pvpp9cH_IOmdOYiDcBivEQG0/s751/IMG_0605.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="751" data-original-width="492" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSPU-UXG0bHUscIJM-yf5mUvSYvPvKj8ECTOR1zOT_tmN2WKgEfVKBBSSfuteceH2F4MRDZ3YCYAddy9KpY6zu63emwN4ml2zrAFgo-ASzmqfRHEi3-j61CHHEPiZRVOUWLXljBZYONcY8bryp3THka6OoJylEPZ6k1cu_Pvpp9cH_IOmdOYiDcBivEQG0/s320/IMG_0605.jpeg" width="210" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">In <b><i>Windsong Manor</i></b>, by <b><i>Julie Wright</i></b>, you will meet Eleanor Coventry on the opening page. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Nora, who married a much older gentleman at the age of fifteen, is now twenty-seven. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>As her husband, Lord Coventry, is dying, Nora learns that, besides caring for her own son, she must also raise this man’s illegitimate daughter after his death. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>This situation is almost too much!</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">After her husband’s death, Nora moves her family to Windsong Manor, one of her family’s estates in the countryside. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>She hopes this move will have a positive effect on both of her children. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>When Nora and her family meet Ridley Ellis, one of the stable masters, they have no idea how their lives are about to change! </span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Ridley seems to have a way with both horses and with people. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>You’ll be surprised, when the secret Ridley has been hiding, finally comes to light!</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7730915119411899493.post-53961609584629742242023-11-22T08:36:00.003-05:002023-11-22T10:43:04.746-05:00Lady of Disguise<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2yRqbozcLh981a5nSYQekLR57D9mBYS3CpkAmurBY5sHZDf9HdFlbj0IMaHaVFmSanjjw2AiFIIXJT-6bQjTpH4kwjwffzr_pzEW509x4ZQrZiVI-orPnTYhCkaESywg-qn2ygteK28e4X2cEndyTrUah7AFMrTuV1Ba6Laq5lhZzEjWwl_pwyMpRzWU9/s329/IMG_0521.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="329" data-original-width="216" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2yRqbozcLh981a5nSYQekLR57D9mBYS3CpkAmurBY5sHZDf9HdFlbj0IMaHaVFmSanjjw2AiFIIXJT-6bQjTpH4kwjwffzr_pzEW509x4ZQrZiVI-orPnTYhCkaESywg-qn2ygteK28e4X2cEndyTrUah7AFMrTuV1Ba6Laq5lhZzEjWwl_pwyMpRzWU9/s320/IMG_0521.jpeg" width="210" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 21px;"><b><i>Lady of Disguise</i></b>, by <b><i>Melanie Dickerson</i></b>, introduces Louisa. </span> <span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 21px;">This young girl, living in the year 1388, feels she must protect her younger sister after her father passes away. </span> <span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 21px;">Her greedy uncle has plans to marry both girls off to the highest bidder. </span> <span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 21px;">Soon Louisa disguises herself as a young boy to go in search of a treasure her father had always talked about!</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Sir Charles is a knight, who quickly sees through Louisa’s disguise, when they meet in the woods early one morning. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>As Charles and Louisa journey together, a friendship and maybe something more slowly grows!</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><br /><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">You will be surprised by what Charles and Louisa encounter as they climb the mountain to find the treasure. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>A treasure will appear in a place neither would have imagined!</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7730915119411899493.post-65952514699132721432023-11-15T10:56:00.002-05:002023-11-15T12:53:22.298-05:00Against the Wind<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQ2b1E-qLTU548cYz0vLhylIkEvxArCVHFA5YWXxN9669Y28uQvPdu8LPgQuq84tP3fYWaCIFmc0nWwq0ROgeLG2HMiAm1DgCp9UqmX7n76rU2rhr10Ji7iSKurOOQO81H5BzDqULcg8W9DLDgnXd_b2YTL5pfYdF-dX3ksAUm6rajEIrOksYE4uSNcJxI/s745/IMG_0659.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="745" data-original-width="488" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQ2b1E-qLTU548cYz0vLhylIkEvxArCVHFA5YWXxN9669Y28uQvPdu8LPgQuq84tP3fYWaCIFmc0nWwq0ROgeLG2HMiAm1DgCp9UqmX7n76rU2rhr10Ji7iSKurOOQO81H5BzDqULcg8W9DLDgnXd_b2YTL5pfYdF-dX3ksAUm6rajEIrOksYE4uSNcJxI/s320/IMG_0659.jpeg" width="210" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 21px;"><b><i>Against the Wind</i></b>, by <b><i>Amanda Cabot</i></b>, tells the tale of Louisa Vaughn. </span> <span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 21px;">Louisa had left Sweetwater Crossing to fulfill her dream of becoming a doctor. </span> <span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 21px;">Now she is returning to her hometown, as an escort to the town’s doctor’s widow to attend his funeral. </span> <span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 21px;">However, when she passes an injured man on her way into town, Louisa knows this will not be a quick visit!</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">As Joshua Porter is traveling across the country, his horse suddenly flings him off. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>He lands on the hard ground and ends up with a lump on his head and a broken leg. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>When Louisa comes upon him, she knows she must transport him to Sweetwater Crossing and set his leg. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Josh is disappointed because the situation will cause a delay in his plan to try to inherit his family’s business!</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">After Louisa moves Josh into Finley House, her family home, to recuperate, she realizes much has changed since her departure. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>When the doctor’s widow gives her his old office in town, Louisa must rethink her desire to leave!</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Watch as Louisa tries to find a place for herself in her hometown and you wonder if there will also be a spot for Josh!</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7730915119411899493.post-9636832834375847392023-11-08T10:58:00.002-05:002023-11-08T11:05:45.334-05:00Fragile Designs<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1Ir8x1B8RJtbriMsoaa4UhJki3I5i-URn5NNV1QOcufMyhrlZzGN_VjIayY1wU9na63l98SFaqeYIXHjTmkFZGRBua9H5AeLFBI9TbU3T9U78uhAbidUXCspW5KBsS-FfTYQys0-q6Eb-bC1rrulIc2gptgUTXqi0K6ughIbdC6E1SYjbODl8ABzf6OEu/s561/IMG_0660.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="561" data-original-width="370" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1Ir8x1B8RJtbriMsoaa4UhJki3I5i-URn5NNV1QOcufMyhrlZzGN_VjIayY1wU9na63l98SFaqeYIXHjTmkFZGRBua9H5AeLFBI9TbU3T9U78uhAbidUXCspW5KBsS-FfTYQys0-q6Eb-bC1rrulIc2gptgUTXqi0K6ughIbdC6E1SYjbODl8ABzf6OEu/s320/IMG_0660.jpeg" width="211" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><b><i>Fragile Designs</i></b>, by <b><i>Colleen Coble</i></b>, opens with Carly Harris finding her husband dead on the floor of her shop filled with her great-grandmother’s collectibles. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>She had wanted to share news with him of her pregnancy, now she must focus on setting up a funeral!</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Two months after Carly’s baby is born, she begins looking through paperwork her great-grandmother had left her. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>She discovers evidence indicating that her grandmother was actually adopted. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Carly has no idea how she will <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>respond to this information. The adoption paperwork also indicates that her grandmother actually had a twin sister who was also placed!</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">When Carly discovers a valuable Faberge egg amongst her great-grandmother’s possessions, she knows she must find someone to assist in protecting this amazing find. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Carly turns to Lucas Bennett, a former acquaintance and more importantly, a police officer. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>As these two begin looking for the truth about this egg, you will not believe how the pieces of this tale come together by the final page!</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><br /><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><i style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">I received a copy of this book from Thomas Nelson in exchange for my honest review.</span></i><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><i style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></i></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span></p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7730915119411899493.post-45435583416784397142023-11-01T09:05:00.000-04:002023-11-01T09:05:49.897-04:00Two to Tango<p> </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfUCFKfML9SVbWDDlEp0Hu6GNbpJYzYdIkZ2m6GjcEhe5jF836X8CseVSBUkTcQe11Sw26xq-tdCAxNPocIKoaVQ4p2na3wF3kkLEx3uU2xF5L0o63VZfdQBe1wh3TKCzOI0yTaVHM4AKeDWX92ghvEbGTzTWyDCFLLh-55cyCKvMO_4DUkobhHmNLkQ/s1334/2169E720-A06B-453D-9367-945D328625C5.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1334" data-original-width="750" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfUCFKfML9SVbWDDlEp0Hu6GNbpJYzYdIkZ2m6GjcEhe5jF836X8CseVSBUkTcQe11Sw26xq-tdCAxNPocIKoaVQ4p2na3wF3kkLEx3uU2xF5L0o63VZfdQBe1wh3TKCzOI0yTaVHM4AKeDWX92ghvEbGTzTWyDCFLLh-55cyCKvMO_4DUkobhHmNLkQ/s320/2169E720-A06B-453D-9367-945D328625C5.jpeg" width="180" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">On the opening pages of <b><i>Two to Tango</i></b>, by <b><i>Kathleen Fuller</i></b>, you will meet Olivia Farnsworth. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>When she makes her weekly visit to vintage movie night, she is surprised when Dr. Kingston Bedford, her best friend’s brother, shows up in the row beside her. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Olivia has know Kingston her entire life; however, for some reason, tonight she is caught off-balance by his good looks!</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px; text-align: start; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Kingston is also surprised that he Is drawn to this woman whom he had always thought of as his sister’s little friend. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>After the movie, this duo goes out for coffee. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>This “coffee date” ends in a passionate kiss. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Before Olivia knows it, Kingston is apologizing to her and then asking her out on a date. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>However, they have trouble finding a time with their very busy lives!</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px; text-align: start; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Now, it is eight months later and no date has occurred. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>They are both standing up in his sister’s wedding. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>How will Kingston deal with Olivia’s cold shoulder? <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>After another kiss and a promise of another date, you are suddenly one year later and Olivia is still dateless!</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px; text-align: start; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">The next turn of the events will leave you in shock. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Olivia and Kingston show up in the same dance class!</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px; text-align: start; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px; text-align: start; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><i style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">I received a copy of this book from Thomas Nelson in exchange for my honest review.</span></i></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px; text-align: start; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px; text-align: start; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px; text-align: start; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p></div><br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7730915119411899493.post-72855793247987198702023-10-18T16:43:00.003-04:002023-10-18T16:47:09.874-04:00On Moonberry Lake<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCPBu3bUz7fdiebku4zvGjOMSxuzSUKOzGS4z_GqOqiYo1dNYKQrTQEbcwlqVz9z4ByDr9J-yf6Gm_Rsim216amUX9OoA-ZFFw3UDaMEmQvghlOjcCAI4nXncBxY036WytcDegIHiWCN11FaVYvR-1pnYpsRGUWS2QPpfTU0bGA8FwOiMD85AJajjbLOlq/s556/IMG_0696.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="556" data-original-width="350" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCPBu3bUz7fdiebku4zvGjOMSxuzSUKOzGS4z_GqOqiYo1dNYKQrTQEbcwlqVz9z4ByDr9J-yf6Gm_Rsim216amUX9OoA-ZFFw3UDaMEmQvghlOjcCAI4nXncBxY036WytcDegIHiWCN11FaVYvR-1pnYpsRGUWS2QPpfTU0bGA8FwOiMD85AJajjbLOlq/s320/IMG_0696.jpeg" width="201" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><b><i>On Moonberry Lake</i></b>, by <b><i>Holly Varni</i></b>, begins with Cora Matthews standing alone at her mother’s funeral. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Her passing has left Cora struggling to make one tear fall. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>She has felt abandoned by her family for years. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Her mother’s death was a surprise to Cora; however, her mother knew this day was coming. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>When Vora starts receiving odd stares from the strangers standing around her, she cannot help but stare back. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>What kind of strange world was she in!</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Cora just broke off her engagement and now she is standing in Moonberry Lake, Minnesota all alone. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Cora has not been here for twenty years, not since her mother took her away. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>This is the spot where her mother planned to be buried. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>After the funeral, Cora learns her mother’s final request. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>She has been given Cora the lease to her grandparents lodge, along with the requirement the she live there for one year!</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">As Cora starts looking around the lodge, she wonders how she will ever accomplish all the work that needs to be done. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>When an angry neighbor shows up at the end of her driveway claiming the lodge is actually on his property, Cora knows she has a fight on her hands!</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Hold tight to see how the citizens of Moonberry Lake add to Cora’s life. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>They are definitely an interesting lot of individuals. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>By the end of this fun tale, you will be excited to see how God has shown Cora that she is truly not alone in this world!</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 26px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><i style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">I received a copy of this book from Revell in exchange for my review</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 15px;">.</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7730915119411899493.post-8894857122411648832023-10-17T13:03:00.000-04:002023-10-17T13:03:24.197-04:00Shadows st Dusk<p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtoovI42EiqmCsK9LszfNtUy3Re5jy2I8clE-ycQP3caLbALaUO9fCrL7TITVr08ixXiPPWBSeEk98HzuNGP7jXMVt1qqbD-4nxvFt1Bl1_u3zYunS26OOMGqzHEUyA55gyJnYJL8OTWnEEDAg2Cw9R8ZmuNoAfVE9CvPxy6vrbzM3bAfHokys2lXJqZqU/s767/IMG_0675.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="767" data-original-width="500" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtoovI42EiqmCsK9LszfNtUy3Re5jy2I8clE-ycQP3caLbALaUO9fCrL7TITVr08ixXiPPWBSeEk98HzuNGP7jXMVt1qqbD-4nxvFt1Bl1_u3zYunS26OOMGqzHEUyA55gyJnYJL8OTWnEEDAg2Cw9R8ZmuNoAfVE9CvPxy6vrbzM3bAfHokys2lXJqZqU/s320/IMG_0675.jpeg" width="209" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19px;">Shadows at Dusk, by Elizabeth Goddard, is another tale full of action and suspense that will keep your attention to the very last page!</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Detective Trevor West travels to Alaska to look into a case he has been trying to solve for over a year. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>He is trying to track down his sister Jennifer’s whereabouts. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>After pilot Carrie James is recommended to him, he hopes she can help him track down locations in photos his sister had left behind. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>After Trevor meets Carrie, he is drawn to her for some reason; however, he has to remember finding his sister is the reason he is in Alaska!</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Before you know it, Trevor and Carrie have decided to team up and help each other. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Carrie will help locate info about Trevor’s sister and Trevor will help Carrie discover why her dear friend Isaac was killed. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Isaac had been like a second father to Carrie. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>As they travel the backroads of Alaska, they soon find themselves in the midst of danger. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>From Carrie being held with a knife to her throat to their hotel being set on fire, Carrie and Trevor know these people after them have evil intentions!</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Before you know it, they are standing outside a mining location. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>They have no idea the trouble they are about to walk into. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>This is the spot Trevor’s sister had been investigating. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Trevor and Carrie soon get a glimpse at what caught Jennifer’s attention. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>When a man from Carrie’s past suddenly walks back into her current world, she cannot believe it. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>For the past ten years, Carrie had thought this man was dead. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Will Trevor be able to protect her from this threat? <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">With all the bullets flying around, you wonder if Trevor and Carrie will still be standing by the final page!</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7730915119411899493.post-28604346295164747162023-10-09T10:38:00.003-04:002023-10-09T11:00:18.671-04:00Into The Fire<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5sTSXrG7sVaZRtob2Zyanj3t11USGzjD1Z6hBMxR3qYbIIm53Bc0dQJmkbhSpbLFWz5VxmSmO2E8Gg-vSgNU2zrAmMi4GPpH9tJtvmUKH7PNNO1caHFBMLfKFZAmt2kOgeeM1bSBt0iGtnFa5465ifoaqf_PW9M6Nybz9trJbuKH8UpK4mhILr9NvYzbu/s563/IMG_0694.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; 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font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><b><i>Into the Fire</i></b>, by<b><i> Irene Hannon</i></b>, is a tale about arson investigator Bri Tucker teaming up with ATF special agent Marc Davis to investigate and hopefully solve a fire incident. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>They are looking into a fire at the home of an experienced arson investigator. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>This fire had no witnesses; however, it is not long before connections from previous fires appear!</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">It is interesting to see a story arise from the pieces of the vidence Marc and Bri discover. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>When Bri receives obvious damage to her car, these investigators know she is being targeted. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>In the midst of all the evidence, you will also see the sparks fly between these two investigators!</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Before the end of this tale, you will learn that two individuals have definitely set Bri up as their target. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Both seem intent on ending her life. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>You wonder if either will be successful!</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><i style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">I received a copy of this book from Revell in exchange for my review</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 15px;">.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 15px;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 15px;"><br /></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7730915119411899493.post-33274602564814774062023-10-01T09:34:00.001-04:002023-10-01T09:38:02.017-04:00 Cloak of Scarlet <p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimP_E3Vhvoy_Z0OkfjTsIWGUPVlMSdORI0JVraWO25TGnI4arvBMLg_6QDVyGMXhkCzAWZYy5beOGjSysc6OeLcgFPQQ_womjmhVzGLL10oT0AMzF9RbMI-6Bmc855X38xGMGqZlmsSB7kefSYbso3zD5s95RZ58V6vn1SwWolIrcvD2mViWa5jhOgGg/s772/C43F8D58-4DEB-4C34-88B1-4768663F4D14.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="772" data-original-width="511" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimP_E3Vhvoy_Z0OkfjTsIWGUPVlMSdORI0JVraWO25TGnI4arvBMLg_6QDVyGMXhkCzAWZYy5beOGjSysc6OeLcgFPQQ_womjmhVzGLL10oT0AMzF9RbMI-6Bmc855X38xGMGqZlmsSB7kefSYbso3zD5s95RZ58V6vn1SwWolIrcvD2mViWa5jhOgGg/s320/C43F8D58-4DEB-4C34-88B1-4768663F4D14.jpeg" width="212" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">On the opening pages of <b><i>Cloak of Scarlet</i></b>, <b><i>Melanie Dickerson</i></b> introduces Violet Lambton. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The year is 1386 and Violet is on her way to visit her grandmother. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Along the way, she meets Sir Merek of Dericott. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Violet hopes to encounter this handsome knight again. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>When she learns a wealthy baron’s knights stole from her grandmother, Violet is ready to fight!</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">As Violet journeys home, she crosses paths with Sir Merek again. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>When she learns that he is one of the baron’s knights, she wants nothing to do with him. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Once he speaks to her grandmother, Sir Merek commits to right the wrong. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>After Violet learns that she is actually the daughter of the baron, you will not believe the change of direction this tale will take!</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Violet and Sir Merek are determined to find evidence to give to the King that proves the baron is up to no good. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Hold tight to see what happens when the Baron tries to force Violet to marry a viscount she has absolutely no interest in. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Will Sir Merek come to her rescue again?</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7730915119411899493.post-62069804903968199002023-09-22T09:50:00.001-04:002023-09-26T11:09:09.362-04:00Wildflower Falls<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeijDmoZ3ciKeDuSZeiI1dTeR90y9cDm8JgheIsVjvWZyFkgO23-Xbh_VSnTh8dnhatdNNqOasKB1-uTWg6d5uZmOarYnptFeMFaOnOyGHKpZJY4FSM0ds-IqHyaGr2nhvhNB5iVbMEh_tO380T-3CcOnhEx_H7whJh3xVkHcDlf6dXWxs-9NUDrkLaw/s769/C02463D0-733D-48F8-A149-6F2E82D0F68A.jpeg" style="clear: left; 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font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Wildflower</span><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"> Falls, by Denise Hunter, introduces Charlotte Simpson. </span> <span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">She is living in Riverbend Gap with her mother and younger sister; however, after her mother’s sudden death, Charlotte must find a way to hold onto the family ranch. </span> <span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">This effort is complicated by the fact that she discovers a photo of her birth father in her mother’s paperwork. </span> <span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Now Charlotte must find out where this man is actually living!</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">When her new ranch hand, Gunner Dawson, shows up Charlotte is pleasantly surprised. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Not only is he a great asset about the ranch but he is also a perfect sounding board as she continues to work through thoughts about her birth father. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>After Charlotte learns she has two half-brothers, who are part of a leading family in town, she is not sure how to approach them. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Things get even more complicated when Charlotte learns her brothers have no relationship with their father due to his past alcoholism!</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">When challenging situations crop up in both Charlotte and Gunner’s lives, you wonder how this tale will ever come to a good conclusion by the final page!</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7730915119411899493.post-72735627809192888902023-09-16T10:20:00.000-04:002023-09-16T10:20:28.859-04:00In the Shelter of Hollythorne House<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG9ohUr2ttfcnu2Z9Fn8tWVBzKbzLpF1oPztJ8LpKwejb0ZP9MDGZD7F7HOUAT-Nqh_c0rGJ6UKxE2IHHj6EdPLOHVfHqXinoQgrbOHF4-h2Gp9RLwY7daXbe3M-nhsrDAjrp0h1MmzNdvkKbUJ4SvgmWyQBdxoqXA8jmhQmIIHKz0e-vtoymDsn79Gw/s761/64991357-91F8-4650-B9A2-396C83D48DAF.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="761" data-original-width="503" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG9ohUr2ttfcnu2Z9Fn8tWVBzKbzLpF1oPztJ8LpKwejb0ZP9MDGZD7F7HOUAT-Nqh_c0rGJ6UKxE2IHHj6EdPLOHVfHqXinoQgrbOHF4-h2Gp9RLwY7daXbe3M-nhsrDAjrp0h1MmzNdvkKbUJ4SvgmWyQBdxoqXA8jmhQmIIHKz0e-vtoymDsn79Gw/s320/64991357-91F8-4650-B9A2-396C83D48DAF.jpeg" width="212" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; 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font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><b><i>In </i></b></span><b style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><i>the Shelter of Hollythorne House</i></b><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">, by </span><b style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><i>Sarah Ladd</i></b><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">, tells of Charlotte Grey meeting Anthony Welbourne. </span> <span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">They fall in love; however, could not move past friendship due to their different place in society. </span> <span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Now, it is four years later. </span> <span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Anthony is back from war and Charlotte is married and has a young child. </span> <span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">When she finds her husband dead on the floor of his study, Charlotte can only feel numb after three years of violence. </span> <span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Now her focus is on protecting her young son, Henry from harm!</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">As a watchman on the streets of Leeds in Yorkshire, Anthony is now spending his days chasing down criminals. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>He is taken by surprise when his next assignment involves watching over Mrs. Charlotte Prior and he young son. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Anthony cannot believe he will soon be face to face with the woman he loved as a young man!</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">It is interesting to see what transpires between Anthony and Charlotte as she juggles with the details of beginning a new life. </span><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Hold tight for an ending full of action!</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><i style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: small;">I received a copy of this book from Thomas Nelson in exchange for my honest review.</i></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com