Hello, November! #Recap #BookReviews #JamesWade @DAntion @JillWeatherholt @AuAuthor @frank_prem @joyyorkauthor @joanhallwrites

Hello, and happy November!! I love the fall of the year. It's my favorite time and I always feel energized. I've just returned from a book event for A Noble Bargain, at the Crossett Public Library in Crossett, Arkansas. Had a great turnout and gained new readers! A win-win. But the icing on the cake …

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 …

Books I’ve Loved – Part 4 #LizGauffrau @jameswadewriter @RZanettiAuthor @KaraONealAuthor

Book Reviews Catching Up
Still catching up from my summer reading and sharing reviews. Hope you see something you like today! PURCHASE LINK MY REVIEW: In this beautiful book of stunning photography and matching Haikus, you'll find yourself swept away into the truly simple pleasures in life. The author does a fabulous job of portraying incredible moments in time …

Books I’ve Loved – Part 3 #LucyScore @RobertaEatonCheadle @RLCarver #CharlesMartin #LizGauffreau

Book Reviews Catching Up
Hello, friends. I'm back with some more catch-up reviews from my summer reading. Enjoy!! PURCHASE LINK MY REVIEW: This was not my favorite Lucy Score book, but I enjoyed it. Riley Thorn is a psychic and all she wants is to be normal. Visions are strong and make her physically ill. So when she sees …

Books I’ve loved – Part 2 – Catching Up @dlfinnauthor @m_morganauthor @TeaganGeneviene #CDBennett

Book Reviews Catching Up
I'm still in catch up mode from my summer blogging break and have some more amazing books to share with you! I only share 4 and 5 star reviews here and all opinions are solely my own. I hope you find something new that you can't live without! PURCHASE LINK MY REVIEW: A fantastic dual-time …

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.”
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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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Courting Miss Emma #NewRelease @LBroday @LoneStarLit

I love it when I get to promote one of my sister’s new books! I loved this story.

COURTING MISS EMMA
The Hangman’s Daughters, Book 2
by
Linda Broday
Western / Clean & Wholesome / Sweet Romance / Historical Fiction
Publisher: Severn House
Date of Publication: November 7, 2023
Number of Pages: 203 pages
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Texas, 1868. Emma Taggart has finally found a place to belong – setting up Heaven’s Door orphanage with her sister Maura was a new beginning for her – and one she will do anything to protect.
When guarded ex-army man Stone Landry buys the neighboring land and moves in – camels and all – Emma’s world changes forever. He is an infuriating man who instantly gets under her skin – in ways she never dreamed possible, and despite herself, Emma starts to wonder if, just maybe, he is man enough to take on a Hangman’s daughter . . . But their newfound connection is quickly tested by violent night raids, kidnappings, and underhand tricks by powerful rancher Zeke Parker, who is intent on running them out of town and taking the land he deems to be his. Can Emma find enough courage to trust in Stone to give her the life, the family, she’s always dreamed of?
I’m a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of western romance novels and short stories. Watching TV westerns during my youth fed my love of cowboys and the old West and they still do. On a still day, I can often hear the voices of American Indians, Comancheros, and early cowboys whispering in the breeze here on the high West Texas plains. We refer to this land as “cowboy” country and men here still ride the range just as cowboys of old. My stories focus on family life and almost all have children.
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1st $25 Amazon gift card;
2nd autographed hardcover copy of WINNING MAURA’S HEART;
3rd eBook copy of COURTING MISS EMMA;
4th audiobook of ONE SHOT AT LOVE.
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August #BookReviews! @maeclair1 @ellejamesauthor @colleenhoover – Lucy Score – Sharon Sala

The sweltering month of August is ending, and we've been blessed with temps in the upper nineties this past week instead of over 100 every day. Maybe fall really is on the way! If you didn't get to view it last night, tonight is the official BIG blue moon that will not happen again until …

Friday Free For All #JulyBookReviews @FionaTarr @DebbyGrahl @StaciTroilo – Julie Benson – Lucy Score

Happy Friday. I am sharing my July book reviews in this post as I want to tell you about some great books I've read! I promise to return to Ireland next Friday. 🙂 PURCHASE LINK MY REVIEW: I love the setting of this story. A remote mining area in Australia with harsh conditions doesn't seem …