Books I’ve Loved – Part 6 @LBroday @RZanetti_Author @virgilante @sgc58 @stacitroilo

Book Reviews Catching Up
This post will finally get me caught up on sharing reviews for books I've read. After this, I will return to a monthly review post. But in the meantime, enjoy some fabulous books!! First up! PURCHASE LINK MY REVIEW: This wonderful story is a big departure from Ms. Broday's normal genre and I have to …

The Knotted Ring #NewRelease #BookReview @lonestarlit @MyraHMcIlvain #Giveaway

THE KNOTTED RING
BY MYRA HARGRAVE MCILVAIN
Historical Fiction / Family Saga / Historical Romance
Publisher: Next Chapter
Page Count: 412
Publication Date: December 7, 2023
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Susannah Mobley, expecting a baby by her lover, a slave owned by her family, submits to an arranged marriage to Hezekiah James who is headed to Texas to claim a Spanish land grant. Caught in a series of lies about the origin of a beautiful ring woven from her red hair and the circumstances of her pregnancy, Susannah embarks on the harsh trip to Texas, grieving for her lost love and determined to control her destiny.
On the wagon train journey, Hezekiah is tested by his beliefs and strengths with his slaves and Native Americans, as well as a strange Mad Stone. His determination to build a plantation as fine as Susannah’s home place and to make the best decisions for Susannah fails. Susannah will have to decide if she can live with the consequences of her lies and open herself to this man who shows every form of contrition or if she will allow longing for what she cannot have to destroy her life.
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The Knotted Ring is currently a semi-finalist status
in the Laramie Awards for Western and Americana Fiction.
“An often engrossing and well-handled story of the 19th century.”
Kirkus Reviews
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Myra Hargrave McIlvain, a sixth-generation Texan, is a storyteller who has written Texas historical markers (yes, real people write those things lining Texas highways), articles for newspapers and magazines such as Texas Highways, and six nonfiction books about famous and infamous Texas characters and places.
McIlvain found her real love when she wrote her first historical fiction. All her tales take place in Texas during major periods of its history. However, The Knotted Ring was inspired by an old family story, and in her search to understand what may have happened, she imagined their lives set in a time that she knew well––the establishment of the first Anglo colony.
McIlvain views history as the story of a people; the people she knows best have made Texas home.
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1st Prize: Autographed hardcover & tote bag; 2nd Prize: Autographed paperback + candle; 3rd Prize: Autographed paperback
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The Soul Whisperer’s Decision #NewRelease #BookReview @gmplano @FreshInkGroup

I am so happy to share with you the latest book from Gwen Plano. I've included my review as well. Congratulations to Gwen! Thank you, Jan, for letting me take over your blog today. I'm deeply grateful. I have a special interest in the Near-Death Experience phenomenon. Since the 1980s, I’ve read original research of …

Best Books of 2023! @LBroday @StaciTroilo @Virgilante @SueColetta1 @FionaTarr @DLFinnAuthor @bakeandwrite @m_morganauthor @CaroFrostWrites

I exceeded my Goodreads reading challenge this year and choosing the best books of the year is so hard. I'm doing it a little different this year by choosing the best book of each month, then an overall best of the year. Opinions expressed here are strictly my own. Click on the book cover to …

A Death At The Inn #NewRelease @JoanHallWrites #HarborPointeSeries

We are getting near the end of the Harbor Pointe Inn book series releases, and the one we are celebrating today is from Joan Hall! PURCHASE LINK BLURB: Suicide, accident, or murder?After an argument with her fiancé, up-and-coming actress Leah Myers booked a room at the Harbor Pointe Inn. Near the end of her stay, …

Killer Enigma – The Magnolia Bluff Crime Chronicles Tour @LoneStarLit @EnigmaSeries @1rburkey

THE MAGNOLIA BLUFF
CRIME CHRONICLES
Seasons 1 & 2 by
The Underground Authors
 
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Each stand-alone book in this multi-author crime novel series is set in the fictitious, beautiful little Texas Hill Country town of Magnolia Bluff. Each author writes in their preferred sub-genre to allow readers to experience humor, dark dilemmas, suspense, romance, thrills, and spills — told through good storytelling that will keep readers awake past their bedtime, trying to find out whodunit.

 
Season three of The Magnolia Bluff Crime Chronicles begins in January 2024. Stay tuned.
 
 
 
 
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1st: $25 Amazon gift card
2nd & 3rd: eBook bundles of first 18 books in the series
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The Gift – Harbor Pointe Series Book 2 #BookRelease @gmplano @FreshInkGroup

I can't tell you how excited I am as this series starts to release one book after another! First, we had Mae Clair's Price of Atonement, and now, we have Gwen Plano's compelling contribution! Release day was actually yesterday, but I was wrapping up my Ten Days of Flowers posts. PURCHASE LINK BLURB: In an …