Happy Friday & welcome to the First Line Friday link-up! It’s time to grab the book nearest to you and leave a comment with the first line. Today I’m featuring the first line of Millstone of Doubt by Erica Vetsch! I love this series and I love Erica, and I’m […]
THE LEGACY OF LONGDALE MANOR by Carrie Turansky GENRE: Dual Timeline Romance (Christian) PUBLISHER: Bethany House Publishers RELEASE DATE: September 26, 2023 PAGES: 351 Two women–a century apart–embark on a journey to healing, faith, forgiveness, and romance. In 2012, art historian Gwen Morris travels to England’s Lake District to appraise […]
Today, I’m delighted to bring you the cover reveal for Every Time We Say Goodbye by Natalie Jenner! GENRE: Historical Fiction (General Market) PUBLISHER: St. Martin’s Press RELEASE DATE: May 14, 2024 PAGES: 336 The bestselling author of The Jane Austen Society and Bloomsbury Girls returns with a brilliant novel […]
WHO LIT THE WHISTLING KETTLE? by Marilyn Leach SERIES: A Tibbyhill Lane Teashop Mystery #1 GENRE: Cozy/British Mystery (Clean/Inspirational) RELEASE DATE: October 15, 2021 PAGES: 265 Something’s burning at Tibbyhill Lane Teashop and it’s not the scones. Poppy Ellis has exchanged London urban grind for a rural waterside teashop. But […]
RECLAIMING THE SPY by Lorri Dudley SERIES: Agents of Espionage #2 GENRE: Historical Romance (Christian) PUBLISHER: Wild Heart Books RELEASE DATE: August 29, 2023 PAGES: 385 How can he protect her from himself when she keeps winding up in his arms? She never gave up hope. After ten years of […]
DEATH TAKES A BATH by Sharon Lynn SERIES: A Cotswold Crimes Mystery #1 GENRE: Traditional/Cozy Mystery (Clean with mild language) PUBLISHER: Level Best Books RELEASE DATE: December 6, 2022 PAGES: 350 When Maddie McGuire lands an archeology internship at the Roman Baths in England, she assumes everything will go her […]
A BEAUTIFUL DISGUISE by Roseanna M. White SERIES: The Imposters #1 GENRE: Historical Romance (Christian) PUBLISHER: Bethany House RELEASE DATE: August 22, 2023 PAGES: 363 In Edwardian London, not all that glitters is gold as a lady and an intelligence officer’s secret mission take them from the city’s dazzling ballrooms […]
Welcome to the Blog + Review Tour for The Baron and the Lady Chemist by Alissa Baxter, hosted by JustRead Publicity Tours! I’m delighted to have Alissa on the blog today to share some of her fave lines & the items on her heroine’s to-do list! THE BARON AND THE […]
Happy Friday & welcome to the First Line Friday link-up! It’s time to grab the book nearest to you and leave a comment with the first line. Today I’m featuring the first line of In the Shelter of Hollythorne House by Sarah E. Ladd! I’m woefully behind on Sarah’s books […]
Happy Friday & welcome to the First Line Friday link-up! It’s time to grab the book nearest to you and leave a comment with the first line. Today I’m featuring the first line of Appointment in Bath by Mimi Matthews. She is one of my very fave Victorian clean romance […]
Hello ladies and lords! After this week’s Top Ten Tuesday post on Books Set Outside the U.S. – in which I purposely left out England too – a couple of my dear reading friends still bemoaned England’s absence. I am nothing if not accommodating, but it really needed its […]
LONDON TIDES by Carla Laureano SERIES: MacDonald Family Trilogy #2 GENRE: Contemporary Romance (Christian) PUBLISHER: David C. Cook RELEASE DATE: June 9, 2015 PAGES: 402 Irish photojournalist Grace Brennan travels the world’s war zones documenting the helpless and forgotten. After the death of her friend and colleague, Grace is shaken. […]
Every once in a while, a book comes along that you know will stay with you forever. Pepper Basham’s The Thorn Bearer is the latest to fall into that category for me. As I said in my review here, her characters are rich and her language is poetic but her theme […]
THE THORN BEARER by Pepper Basham SERIES: Penned In Time #1 GENRE: Historical Romance (Christian) PUBLISHER: Vinspire RELEASE DATE: April 11, 2015 PAGES: 362 BRONZE MEDAL—CHRISTIAN FICTION—READERS FAVORITE BOOK AWARDS FINALIST—2015 GRACE AWARDS SHORT-LISTED—2015 INSPY AWARDS From the decks of the ill-fated Lusitania to the smoke-filled trenches of France, Ashleigh […]