A Home for Hannah by Amy Lillard

Book Blurb: Fifteen years. That’s how long it’s been since Hannah McLean set foot in the Amish community where she was raised. Through it all her heart has never forgotten Pontotoc–or Aaron Zook, her first love. Now widowed, and left with little more than her hurting teenager and her prayers, she returns home, even knowing she and her son may be turned away.

When Aaron learns Hannah has returned, he nearly falls to his knees. He’s a strong man, but lately the care of his three motherless children and family land have been more than he can handle. Now providence has delivered the first woman he loved, and with her, the rush of feelings they once shared. But will his simple, removed way of life leave Hannah longing for something more, or can they begin anew, finding a new way forward together?

A Home for Hannah is book one in the the Amish of Pontotoc series by Amy Lillard. What a wonderful start to this new series by Amy Lillard. This is such a touching read that will surly capture your heart. Take an emotional roller coaster ride with Hannah & Aaron as their story unfolds. Be sure to get your copy of the book today. I received a complementary copy of this book. This review is my honest opinion. 4.0 stars!

Excellent! Her Alaskan Cowboy by Belle Calhoune

A rebel cowboy returns a single dad. Can he find redemption in Love, Alaska?

Back in Love, Alaska, Joshua Ransom comes face-to-face with ex-fiancée Honor Prescott. A single dad of an infant daughter, Joshua’s no longer the reckless cowboy who broke Honor’s heart. But discovering he’s selling his late grandfather’s land to developers puts them at odds. With the Diamond R’s fate unclear, so is their future. Will this second chance lead to Joshua being one of Love’s Alaskan Grooms?

Review: Her Alaskan Cowboy is a Love Inspired book by Belle Calhoune. This is the best book that I have read by Belle yet. She sure knows how to write a story that makes you feel like you are part of it. Characters and a story line that you will love. I wish there was going to be more in the series it is that good. I received a complementary copy of this book. This review is my honest opinion. 5 stars!

A Search for Refuge (Haven Manor): A Haven Manor Novella (Pre-Order today $0.00!)

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Wunderbar! The Celebration by Wanda E. Brunstetter

Book Blurb: Return to Holmes County, Ohio, for Amish style cooking class. 

Lyle and Heidi Troyer have taken in a brother and sister, who were orphaned when their parents were killed in a car accident. Hoping to help the children adapt and make friends, Heidi decides to hold a series of cooking classes for kids. But kids are always accompanied by an adult—and that is where the trouble arises.

Miranda Cooper is living the life of a single mom to her two kids while separated from her husband, but Trent is trying to worm his way back into her heart.

Denise McGuire’s life as a wife, mom, and real estate broker is full and spilling over.

Darren Keller, single dad and firefighter, and Ellen Blackburn, single mom and nurse, find a few things in common.

Will hearts be healed over plates of Amish food?

This is the third book in The Amish Cooking Class series.
Book #1:  The Amish Cooking Class – The Seekers
Book #2:  The Amish Cooking Class – The Blessing

Review: The Celebration is book three in the Amish Cooking Class series by Wanda E. Brunstetter. Take a trip back to Holmes County, Ohio in this delightful story. Catch up with Heidi and Lyle Troyer and the happenings in their lives. This story that is filled with love, hope, faith and heartache. Will Heidi’s dream of becoming a mom come true? I know. Be sure to get your copy of the book today. I received a complementary copy of this book. This is my honest review. 4.5 stars!

Can’t Help Falling Close To You Tour & Giveaway!

ABOUT THE BOOKS

Title:  Can’t Help Falling
Author: Kara Isaac

Publisher:  Howard Books

Release Date:  October 11, 2016
Genre: Inspirational Contemporary Fiction 

A funny, heartfelt romance about how an antique shop, a wardrobe, and a mysterious tea cup bring two C.S. Lewis fans together in a snowy and picturesque Oxford, England.

Emelia Mason has spent her career finding the dirt on the rich and famous. But deep down past this fearless tabloid-reporter façade, there’s a nerdy Narnia-obsessed girl who still can’t resist climbing into wardrobes to check for the magical land on the other side. When a story she writes produces tragic results, she flees to Oxford, England—home to C.S. Lewis—to try and make amends for the damage she has caused.

Peter Carlisle was on his way to become one of Great Britain’s best rowers—until he injured his shoulder and lost his chance at glory. He’s determined to fight his way back to the top even if it means risking permanent disability to do so. It’s the only way he can find his way past failing the one person who never stopped believing in his Olympic dream.

When Peter and Emelia cross paths on her first night in Oxford, the attraction is instant and they find common ground in their shared love of Narnia. But can the lessons from a fantasyland be enough to hold them together when secrets of the real world threaten to tear them apart? Cobblestone streets, an aristocratic estate, and an antique shop with a curious wardrobe bring the world of Narnia to life in this inspiring and romantic story about second chances.

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Title:  Close to You

Author: Kara Isaac

Publisher:  Howard Books

Release Date:  June 1, 2016

Genre: Inspirational Contemporary Fiction 

A disgraced scholar running from her past and an entrepreneur chasing his future find themselves thrown together—and fall in love—on a Tolkien tour of New Zealand.

Allison Shire (yes, like where the Hobbits live) is a disgraced academic who is done with love. Her belief in “happily ever after” ended the day she discovered her husband was still married to a wife she knew nothing about. She finally finds a use for her English degree by guiding tours through the famous sites featured in The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit movies. By living life on the road and traveling New Zealand as a luxury tour guide, Allison manages to outrun the pain of her past she can’t face.

Jackson Gregory was on the cusp of making it big. Then suddenly his girlfriend left him—for his biggest business competitor—and took his most guarded commercial secrets with her. To make matters worse, the Iowa farm that has been in his family for generations is facing foreclosure. Determined to save his parents from financial ruin, he’ll do whatever it takes to convince his wealthy great-uncle to invest in his next scheme, which means accompanying him to the bottom of the world to spend three weeks pretending to be a die-hard Lord of the Rings fan, even though he knows nothing about the stories. The one thing that stands between him and his goal is a know-it-all tour guide who can’t stand him and pegged him as a fake the moment he walked off the plane.

When Allison leads the group through the famous sites of the Tolkien movies, she and Jackson start to see each other differently, and as they keep getting thrown together on the tour, they find themselves drawn to each other. Neither expected to fall in love again, but can they find a way beyond their regrets to take a chance on the one thing they’re not looking for? 

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ABOUT KARA

Kara Isaac is an award-winning writer who lives in Wellington, New Zealand, where her career highlights include working in tourism as Private Secretary for the Prime Minister. She loves great books almost as much as she loves her husband and two Hobbit-sized children.

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GIVEAWAY

Kara Isaac is graciously offering (1) winner a choice of either all (3) of her books in ebook format or (1) signed copy of a choice of one of her books in print format, PLUS a bar of New Zealand chocolate. (Opens internationally). 

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Love by the Numbers by Laura V. Hilton (Review & Giveaway)

About the Book

Title: Love by the Numbers

Author: Laura V. Hilton

Genre: Christian Amish fiction

Release Date: February 6, 2018

After her fiancé dies in a buggy accident, Lydia Hershberger is invited to Jamesport to manage her Mennonite aunt’s gift store while her aunt and uncle are on a mission trip. While there, Lydia gets acquainted with her aentie’s best friend, Bethel Bontrager, and her grown son, Caleb. Lydia is surprised to find herself drawn to handsome clockmaker, Caleb Bontrager. But in spite of an instant flame of attraction between them, he doesn’t seem interested. In fact, pesky Caleb treats her like he doesn’t even like her.

Bright and sparkly. That’s Caleb’s first impression of Lydia. He’s always been attracted to sparkly things. In fact, his affinity for those things, and the trouble they can cause, are exactly why he’s determined to change his ways and settle down. With Lydia’s aentie gone, he is handling the books for the gift shop and is forced to spend too much time in her presence.

When God offers Lydia a second chance at love and family, will she take it? Or will the secret Caleb harbors cause her even more heartbreak?

About the Author

Laura V. Hilton is an award-winning, sought-after author with almost twenty Amish, contemporary, and historical romances. When she’s not writing, she reviews books for her blogs, and writes devotionals for blog posts for Seriously Write and Putting on the New.

Laura and her pastor-husband have five children and a hyper dog named Skye. They currently live in Arkansas. One son is in the U.S. Coast Guard. She is a pastor’s wife, and homeschools her two youngest children.

When she’s not writing, Laura enjoys reading, and visiting lighthouses and waterfalls. Her favorite season is winter, her favorite holiday is Christmas.

Guest Post from Laura V. Hilton

Story Behind the Story – Love by the Numbers

 

Caleb was a minor character in couple of my Amish books – I think he first made a by name appearance in Amish Wanderer and Christmas Admirer. A minor character. Lydia was a very minor one-time appearance in those stories, too, a girl who happened to be in the room with Bethany and Susanna at a wedding. (This story is stand alone!) But I knew when Caleb first saw Lydia that they would end up together by the way he reacted to her presence. I wondered what their story was.

March and April is tornado season in Arkansas (and in many other states) and in 2011 we had a bad one. I was out and about that day, driving to the county seat with my five children, and there was something in the air. It was heavy, hard to breathe, and the sky was black off to the west. I’m sure I broke speed limits racing to Melbourne, and then home again so we wouldn’t be out in the storm.

Later that afternoon, tornado sirens went off. One went over our house – even from the basement we could hear the sound of a train roaring overhead. Scary. And still thanking God it didn’t touch down. Highland, Ash Flat, and Evening Shade, Arkansas were hit hard. Buildings completely gone. When we drove out that way later in the week there were pickup trucks in the tops of trees. Other things in odd and unusual places. I always wondered how they got the treetop pickups down. I would’ve stopped to watch if I’d been out there when it was done. I did hear that some of those trucks weren’t damaged at all. Unreal. My two sons and my husband both helped with clean up and my oldest son went with a crew to Joplin, Missouri, to help with clean up there.

There has been other occasions I’ve been out in tornados. Once I was in the Walmart parking lot when a tornado went through a town west of it. We could see the funnel touching down from where we stood. It did hail when we were on our way home, praying our house was still standing. It was.

On a different note, in 2016 my oldest son came home with a kitten. She was the sweetest thing ever, and he named her Rosie. Sadly, I was highly allergic to her. I couldn’t even be around the children after they played with her. They’d have to go change clothes and wash their hands, otherwise I couldn’t breathe. Rosie was full Siamese, blue eyes and all, and she was so adorable. I allowed my son to keep her in the shed. I was about four chapters into the story when Rosie found some poison (I think, not sure) and died. We all cried.

Also about the time I was writing this, a very dear friend of a lot of writers died. I told my street team I was going to name a character after her, and was told a lot of writers would be. I agreed. And a lot of their books were released already. But Aenti Judith in this story is named after Judy Burgi. I still miss her and pray for her family.

One of the verses my daughter had to memorize in Sunday School was 2 Corinthians 4:8-9. ‘We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed.’ Perfect for the faith message in Love by the Numbers! I love how God always provides the perfect verse for my characters’ faith messages. I’m pretty sure this verse is one I never memorized, and I never would of thought of it on my own, but God put it in my daughter’s lessons for Sunday School, so she had to memorize it – and thus I did too since I help my daughters learn their verses every week.

I hope you’ll enjoy the story!

 

Because of Him,

Laura V. Hilton

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Blossoms and Blessings, February 15

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Because I said so — and other adventures in Parenting, February 16

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Giveaway

In honor of the tour, Whitaker House is giving away

Grand Prize Package: Love By the Numbers, Healing Love (Amish of Webster County #1), and The Snow Globe (The Amish of Jamesport #1) by Laura Hilton; “The Angels Cry Holy” scented candle in tin with lid from Abba Jerusalem

1st Place Package: Love By the Numbers, The Snow Globe (The Amish of Jamesport #1) by Laura Hilton, and Whitaker House/Anchor Coloring Book with Colored Pencils

2nd Place Package: Love By the Number by Laura Hilton and Whitaker House/Anchor Coloring Book with Colored Pencils!!!

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Review: Love by the Numbers is novel by Laura V. Hilton. Wow, Laura V. Hilton has outdone herself again. She has written a most wonderful work of Amish fiction. A story that will surly take hold of you right from the start. I didn’t want to put this book down it was so good. Characters and a story line that are so memorizing that I didn’t want the story to end. I received a complementary copy of this book. This review is my honest opinion. 5 stars!

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WHOLE HEART by Passion Music (Review & CD Giveaway) #PassionWholeHeart & #FlyBy

WHOLE HEART by Passion Music

 

About Album 

 

• Info about Passion: http://passionmusic.com/story/ 

• “Rooted out of the Passion movement, we are committed to leading people towards renewed intimacy with God and fresh encounters of worship. Passion is more than music. More than events. Passion is a generation living for His name.”
• WHOLE HEART is the new live album from Passion—captured at Passion Conference 2018 in Atlanta, GA.

 

• Passion Conference 2018 was a beautiful worship experience, and the live album captures each powerful moment, allowing those who were not in attendance to experience it.

 

 

• Featuring Passion Artists: Kristian Stanfill, Melodie Malone, Sean Curran, Matt Redman, Crowder.

 

Buy Link:

• http://capcmg.me/PassionWholeHeart (This will be updated and active on 2/23 when the digital album release

Bio:

Rooted out of the Passion movement, Passion music is committed to leading people towards renewed intimacy with God and fresh encounters of worship. You can listen to Passion music at http://capcmg.me/PassionSpotify

 

01. Whole Heart (feat. Kristian Stanfill)
02. Almighty God (feat. Sean Curran)
03. God, You’re So Good (feat. Kristian Stanfill & Melodie Malone)
04. Reckless Love (feat. Melodie Malone)
05. Heaven (feat. Sean Curran)
06. More Like Jesus (feat. Kristian Stanfill)
07. Hallelujah, Our God Reigns (feat. Brett Younker)
08. Ghost (feat. Crowder)
09. Ever Almighty (feat. Melodie Malone)
10. Great Are You Lord (feat. Matt Redman)
11. All My Hope (feat. Crowder & Tauren Wells)

 

 Review: WHOLE HEART by Passion Music. This is a wonderful uplifting CD. Music that will brighten your day and fill your heart with joy. What a wonderful way to praise our Heavenly Father.  Be sure to order your copy of WHOLE HEART by Passion Music today. It also makes a great gift. 4 stars! #PassionWholeHeart  & #FlyBy 

 

Be sure to leave a comment about what draws you to Christian music with your email address for your chance to win a copy of the CD. Winner will have 48 hours to reply back or a new winner will be chosen. 

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Wunderbar! Lethal Licorice by Amanda Flower

Book Blurb:  Too many sweets spoil the murder . . .

Harvest, Ohio, is a long way from New York City, where Bailey King left a coveted job as a head chocolatier to take over Swissmen Sweets, her Amish grandparents’ candy shop. Now, while caring for her recently widowed grandmother, she plans to honor her grandfather’s memory by entering the annual Amish Confectionery Competition. But between lavender blueberry fudge and chocolate cherry ganache truffles, Bailey may have bitten off more than she can chew when the search for a missing pot-bellied pig turns up a body suffering from sugar overload—the fatal kind . . .

Review:  Lethal Licorice is book two in the Amish Candy Shop Mystery series by Amanda Flower. I so enjoyed reading Lethal Licorice. A nice, refreshing read that keeps you on your toes wondering what is going to happen next. A story that is full of unexpected happens, mystery and so much more. Be sure to get your copy of this book today. I received a complementary copy of this book. This review is my honest opinion. 4.5 stars!

 

 

Pumpkin Pie Mystery by Naomi Miller

Book Blurb:

In the small town of Abbott Creek, mystery is as much a part of daily life as The Sweet Shop’s delicious pies.

It’s the time of year when the residents of Abbott Creek give thanks for their blessings.

But Katie is having difficulty deciding whether she should be thankful. . . or careful of the new relationships she had developed over the previous year…

Review:  Pumpkin Pie Mystery is book four in the Amish Sweet Shop Mystery series by Naomi Miller. I love getting to visit the characters and small town of Abbott Creek. There is always something happening in this small town. Sweet lovable characters that capture you attention. A refreshing read. I received a complementary copy of this book. This review is my honest opinion. 4 stars!

 

A Log Cabin Christmas by Wanda E. Brunstetter

Review: A Log Cabin Christmas Collection. The Christmas Secret by Wanda E. Brunstetter. This story was an excellent read. A refreshing novella that I thoroughly enjoyed. Travel back in time with and enjoy. 4.5 stars!