Sister’s Choice by Judith Pella (Review)

I was looking for a light, sweet romance to read while sick and still slightly feverish, so I went to my stacks for the #Backlistbooks2023 challenge over on Instagram and picked out my only Judith Pella book, which appears to be her last published work, after a career of several decades in which she published …

Spotlight+Review: Hearts of Steel by Elizabeth Camden

Hearts of Steel by Elizabeth Camden Publication Date: January 17, 2023 Bethany House Publishers Genre: Historical Romance/Christian Series: The Blackstone Legacy, Book #3 His steel empire has catapulted him to the top of the world, but loving her could cost him everything. Maggie Molinaro survived a hardscrabble childhood in the downtrodden streets of Manhattan to …

Heart of Gold by Robin Lee Hatcher (review)

Robin Lee Hatcher’s Heart of Gold is a pleasing Historical Romance with a strong faith element. As southern belle and preacher’s daughter Shannon Adair adjusts to life in Idaho, caring for a dying woman whose husband died fighting for the north, she slowly falls in love with the brother of her new friend while also …

The Rose and the Thistle by Laura Frantz (launch team review)

Set during the time of Jacobite Risings that saw Catholic subjects rebelling against a protestant ruler, the daughter of an English Duke finds herself secreted in a Scottish Laird’s tower in Laura Frantz’s The Rose and The Thistle. As Lady Blythe anxiously awaits word from her father, as he evades capture for his Jacobite leanings, …

Love’s New Beginnings by Penny Zeller (novella review)

Solomon Eliason is having difficulty finding acceptance as the new pastor and an even harder time making an apology to the new schoolteacher, Lydie Beauchamp. She’s shy and soft spoken, and so much prettier than he expected. But as the year moves forward toward Christmas, a friendship of sorts begins to grow and soon the …

Her Christmas Redemption by Toni Shiloh (review)

Vivian Dupre no sooner meets the handsome general store owner, Michael Wood, who is also the landlord of her tiny home rental, than she finds herself recruited to run a church giving project - with him. And that is just the start to this delightful second chance, small town Christmas friendship to romance story. With …

Review/Spotlight: A Christmas Bargain by Mindy Obenhaus

Welcome to my stop on the Blog + Review Blitz for A Christmas Bargain by Mindy Obenhaus, hosted by JustRead Publicity Tours! MY THOUGHTS Mindy Obenhaus has quickly become a favorite Love Inspired author of Contemporary Christian Romance, and I am loving her Hope Crossing series in particular. A Christmas Bargain returns to the Texas setting …

Fragments of Light by Michele Phoenix (review)

So this, it turns out, is not the book to read when you have a head cold and you’ve recently lost an elderly loved one. Just as Ceelie completes all of the treatment for her breast cancer, her elderly friend Darlene has a recurrence. Darlene’s new desire to know what happened to the father who …

The Heart of a Hero by Susan May Warren (review)

With their fledgling attraction ending in awkwardness in the first book of Susan May Warren's Global Search and Rescue series, Dr. Aria Sinclair ran back to her work as a pediatric heart surgeon and former Navy SEAL Jake Silver went back home, but can't get Aria out of his head. So when Aria is stranded …

Excerpt: Matters of the Heart by Heidi Gray McGill

Welcome to my stop on the Blog + Review Blitz for Matters of the Heart by Heidi Gray McGill, hosted by JustRead Publicity Tours! We have a fun excerpt today - a "telling" conversation between Hans and his brother. EXCERPT “So, you’re settling in Shumard Oak Bend?” He hadn’t considered it until now, but the …