Book Spotlight (and a Giveaway!): The Heart of the Mountains by Pepper Basham

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THE HEART OF THE MOUNTAIN by Pepper Basham
SERIES: My Heart Belongs in the Blue Ridge #2
GENRE: Inspirational Historical Romance
PUBLISHER: Barbour Fiction
RELEASE DATE: July 1, 2022
PAGES: 322

Can their hearts overcome the darkness of the mountains?

To escape a forced marriage, Cora Taylor travels from England to the Blue Ridge Mountains in search of her brother, who is working as a teacher in a mission school. She hopes to find a place where her nursing skills and independent ideas will be accepted and appreciated, but nothing prepares her for the wild mixture of isolation, community, brokenness, and hope within these mountains…or in the person of Jeb McAdams.

Returning from the devastation of World War 1 emotionally damaged, Jeb McAdams struggles against the rampant mountain alcoholism to soothe his nightmares. It’s easy to hide within the mountains, or it was, before Cora Taylor arrived. Now, she seems to show up at every turn, bringing her modern ideas, curiosity, and beautiful eyes with her.

Bound by their shared war history, the pair develop an unlikely friendship, which unexpectedly hints to something more. But when Cora’s desire to help the women of the mountains crosses an unspoken line, will Jeb be able to protect this feisty flatlander from the wrath of the mountain men or will he end up losing much more than his heart?

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Jeb couldn’t see the woman’s face. Her dangling position oriented her toward the view, but just some quick observation confirmed she wasn’t anywhere close to being a local. And those were some fancy boots, even if they were tinged with mud.

He took a few steps closer, examining the problem. She hung at the cliff’s edge. If she dropped or the tree branch broke, she had a fifty-fifty chance she’d end up on land, but with those dainty-heeled boots, Jeb wasn’t likely to put much faith on her balancing against the rocks.

Her light brown hair caught glints of reddish gold in the sunlight as it curled and spun in wild directions, half of it still in some sort of bun. But even that was coming more undone by the second, and her hair seemed to grow as each curl bounced loose. As he drew closer, he could make out a few of her words.

“On the count of three. One… two…” She moaned. “Let go of the branch. That’s what must be done.”

He blinked a few more times. What on this whole side of creation was an English woman doing hanging from a tree over a ravine in Maple Springs?

Maybe he’d had more drams of whiskey than he remembered.

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(1) winner will receive a print copy of The Heart of the Mountains and a $15 Amazon egift card!

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