Book Spotlight (and a Giveaway!): Saving Mrs. Roosevelt by Candice Sue Patterson

Joan scowled. “How can I possibly regret looking my best when someone as handsome as Captain Leonard Webber is about to shake my hand and welcome me aboard?”

Shirley loved her friend like a sister despite the theatrics, but the girl was exhausting sometimes.

For the next twenty minutes, the line crept forward while Joan babbled about which position she hoped to gain and if the captain was single. “I don’t see a ring,” she whispered in Shirley’s ear.

“It doesn’t matter if he’s single or not,” Shirley hissed back. Handsome or not, his intense, serious demeanor was intimidating and borderline scary. “He’s a captain. He cannot and would not disgrace his position over a relationship with -”

“Miss?” A male voice with a rich tenor sizzled over her like sea foam left behind from a retreating wave.

Shirley turned and fell into the greenest eyes she’d ever seen. Vibrant green, like the pines that lined the shoreline, rimmed in warm brown that reminded her of –

“Your name?”

His lips were working but her brain wasn’t. A jab to her spine jumpstarted her synapses and she managed an “um.”

Joan snickered behind her.

Mortification doused Shirley’s body. “Davenport.” She cleared her throat. “Shirley Davenport.”

Candice Sue Patterson studied at The Institute of Children’s Literature and is an active member of American Christian Fiction Writers. She lives in Indiana with her husband and three sons in a restored farmhouse overtaken by books. When she’s not tending to her chickens, splitting wood or decorating cakes, she’s working on a new story. Candice writes Modern Vintage Romance–where the past and present collide with faith. For more on Candice and her books, visit www.candicesuepatterson.com.