Book Review: A Christmas to Remember

A Christmas to Remember: is a collection of eight Christian romances celebrating the gift of Christmas. The collection is available now for pre-order at .99. That's right. Eight Christian romances for .99.

However, it is only available on Amazon and in Kindle Unlimited, but what a great buy!

 

And now, please meet the authors: Julie Arduini, Kimberly Rose Johnson, Valerie Comer, Elizabeth Maddrey, Ginger Solomon, Lindi Peterson, Deb Kastner and Janet W. Ferguson, fellow bloggers at Inspy Romance, for A Christmas to Remember.

Only available:  October 2 – December 31, 2018, so pre-order today!

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October 2--December 31, 2018, ONLY!

 I've asked Julie Arduini, one of the authors, to tell you a little bit about each of their stories. So get ready, you're in for a real treat.

Laugh, cry, and fall in love as you savor these brand-new Christmas romances from some of your favorite authors. Pair with a peppermint chai, hot chocolate, or your favorite wintry flavor, then snuggle down in front of the fireplace with a quilt over your lap… and maybe a purring cat!

Eight authors have joined together in this Christian romance collection that will leave you celebrating the gift of Christmas.

Until I Met You by award-winning author Kimberly Rose Johnson
After a difficult breakup, Brandi Prescott is taking a hiatus from men and focusing on her career, the Lord, and getting to know herself. Everything is going according to plan until one fateful, rainy morning in Seattle when a passing car drenches her and everything changes.

The Cowboy’s Christmas Reunion by USA Today bestselling author Valerie Comer
The Cowboy Santa program is supposed to be a chance to help his neighbors. When Kade Delgado’s ex-fiancée, now a single mom, shows up on his list, neither of them are thrilled. Is there any hope for a second chance at love?

Hope for Christmas by Elizabeth Maddrey
When he arrived at the ranch, he wasn’t sure what he was looking for. She wasn’t looking for anything beyond stability for her son. Christmas might be a season of hope, but do they dare risk everything for love?

Can’t Live without You by Ginger Solomon
Clarissa Harding’s fiancé’s betrayal doesn’t hurt as much as learning her best friend, Sawyer Chasin, knew his brother’s secret and didn’t tell her. The marriage would have been fake, but her feelings for Sawyer aren’t.

Beautiful Heart of His by Lindi Peterson
Two wrongs don’t make a right has never been more true. Will Mason’s past wrongs push Scarlett away or help her fall in love with him?

Restoring Christmas by Julie Arduini
Filled with grief and regret, Holly Christmas returns to Geneseo Valley and the family business, The Christmas Mansion. Can Kevin Holt restore her love for the season and the memories she left behind?

The Cowgirl’s Christmas Gift by Publishers Weekly bestselling author Deb Kastner
Cowgirl Maisey Gray knows horses, not six-year-olds. But when her socially-awkward, VR glasses-wearing neighbor needs help creating the perfect Christmas for his nephews, it’s up to Maisey to make sure Cam and the boys have a Christmas they’ll never forget.

Falling for Grace by Janet W. Ferguson
Grace Logan needs a place to pick herself up now that her ex is marrying her former best friend. Grief drives Seth Gibbs to his family’s vacation home, and three years later, he has no plans to leave. Until Grace falls into his life.

This is a beautiful project I'm really excited about. Pre-Order now! Tell others. If you enjoy it, please leave a review on Amazon and/or Goodreads? Thank you so much and Happy Reading!

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Julie Arduini loves to encourage readers to surrender the good, the bad, and ---maybe one day---the chocolate. She’s the author of ENTRUSTED: Surrendering the Present, ENTANGLED: Surrendering the Past, and ENGAGED: Surrendering the Future. She also shares her story in the infertility devotional, A WALK IN THE VALLEY. Her latest release, YOU’RE BEAUTIFUL, is a book for girls ages 10-100, written with her teenaged daughter, Hannah. A CHRISTMAS TO REMEMBER is a boxed set featuring Julie and some of the authors from the Inspy Romance blog available for pre-order now. She blogs every other Wednesday for Christians Read, as well as monthly with Inspy Romance. She resides in Ohio with her husband and two children. Learn more by visiting her at http://juliearduini.com, where she invites readers to subscribe to her monthly newsletter full of resources and giveaway opportunities.

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Restoring Christmas by Julie Arduini

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Book Review: Love by the Number by Laura V. Hilton

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Laura V. Hilton

Feb. 6, 2018

Kindle, paperback

Whitaker House Publishing

After her fiancé dies in a buggy accident, Lydia Hershberger is invited to Jamesport to manage her Mennonite aunt’s gift shop while her aunt and uncle are on a mission trip. While there, Lydia gets acquainted with her aentie’s best friend, Bethel Bontrager, and her grown son, Caleb. Lydia is surprised to find herself drawn to handsome clockmaker, Caleb Bontrager. But in spite of an instant flame of attraction between them, he doesn’t seem interested. In fact, pesky Caleb treats her like he doesn’t even like her.

 

Bright and sparkly. That’s Caleb’s first impression of Lydia. He’s always been attracted to sparkly things. In fact, his affinity for those things, and the trouble they can cause, are exactly why he’s determined to change his ways and settle down. With Lydia’s aentie gone, he is handling the books for the gift shop and forced to spend time in Lydia's presence.

When God offers Lydia a second chance at love and family, will she take it? Or will the secret Caleb harbors cause her even more heartbreak? 

Love by the Number by Laura V. Hilton, won this reviewer's heart from the very first page, and from there, the story turned into a terrific read. Ms. Hilton is a wizard at matchmaking her hero and heroine and making their courtship a spectacular read. The characters are well developed and their problems to overcome are relatable.

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Amish Book Review

 Book Review: The Amish Candy Maker by Laura V. Hilton

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February 5, 2019

Kindle, paperback

Whitaker House Publishing

The Amish Candy Maker

A letter brings him to Mackinac County. Can one woman make him stay?

Agnes Zook has found herself on her own in a small Amish community in Mackinac County after a tragedy took the life of her parents and siblings. Most of the Amish call her “off in den Kopf” (strange) since she’s starting her own business and forging her own way in the community instead of relying on the bishop to take care of her. Since she’s viewed as non-submissive and too-forward for an Amish woman she’s not courted by other young men in the area.

Isaac Mast is on the verge of leaving the Amish church. He’s become a sought-after Auctioneer and has a thriving business, but he feels confined by the strict rules. When his brother is severely injured in a wild fire, Isaac receives a letter from his sister-in-law, begging him to come to Mackinac County to help out while his brother is hospitalized for skin grafts and his wife is with him. They have young children that can’t be left alone. Isaac agrees but is unsure how to manage the children when he has weekend auctions he’s expected to attend. Agnes may be an answer to prayer.

When Isaac and Agnes meet, sparks fly, but everything changes. While neither of them fit within the structures of the Amish faith, could their differences be the one thing that helps them form a deeper connection to their faith . . . and each other?

 

The Amish Candy Maker by Laura V. Hilton is an intriguing plot that captures the reader's attention from the very beginning and doesn't let go until the very end. A must read that will find a permanent spot on your book shelf.

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Firestorm by Laura V. Hilton

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Laura V. Hilton

The Amish of Mackinac County Series

Kindle, paperback (July 10, 2018)

Whitaker House Publishing

Firestorm  

After a stalker breaks into their home, Bridget Behr and her family migrate from the bustling Amish community where she grew up in Ohio to the sparsely populated Upper Peninsula of Michigan. While her father and brother try to find work in Michigan, the family is forced to reside in a borrowed RV until the house and barn are rebuilt. While Bridget is hoping for a fresh start, she’s afraid to trust anyone—even Gabriel, the overly-friendly Amish man who lives nearby. Bridget thinks he’s a flirt who serial dates and doesn’t even remember the girls’ names.

Due to a lack of construction jobs in his Florida community to keep Gabriel Lapp out of trouble, he has been sent to Michigan to work. His father is desperate for his son to settle down. When the Behr family walks into Gabe’s home in the middle of a thunderstorm, he learns of their circumstances and offers to help them rebuild. For Gabe, the beautiful Bridget he teasingly calls “the recluse,” after he discovers she doesn’t attend youth events, confuses him like none other.

 

                                                                                                                           

As Gabriel and Bridget grow closer, they realize there is more to a person than meets the eye. Just as Bridget is finally settling into her new life, and perhaps finding love, tragedy strikes. Now Bridget and her family must decide if they should move to another Amish community, or dare to fight for the future they’d hoped for in Mackinac County.

Firestorm by Laura V. Hilton is an artfully crafted novel with well-developed characters, a unique story-line and theme, with twists and turns to make it a page-turner.

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Love Inspired Books

Love Inspired books make a great summer read...

 

Have you ever read a Harlequin® Love Inspired® novel? They are short novels of Christian inspiration and are the perfect size to slip into your pocket or purse and take anywhere. The LI line includes: contemporary, historical, suspense, and Amish. Below are my reviews for three of the books in this line.

 

The Texas Rancher's Return by Allie Pleiter is contemporary and a very sweet read. Gunner Buckton has come home to take over the family Bison ranch, Blue Thorn. Although he has matured, he is soured by a failed relationship where the woman used him and stomped on his heart. Brooke Calder has slowly managed to knock off some of his distrust of women until he finds out the company she works for, DelTex, is out to swindle him out of his land. The question is, whose side is Brooke on. Was she just playing up to him to help DelTex get his land? I loved the story. It was  well-written and the characters well-developed. I'll read this one again.

 

Mail Order Mix-Up by Christine Johnson was the best historical romance novels I've read in a long time. It takes place in 1870 Singapore, Michigan. Pearl Lawson has signed a contract with the Singapore school that she cannot marry while under contract. But when she sees an advertisement in a New York newspaper for a mail-order bride she takes along her friend, Amanda, who desperately wants to marry. On board the Milwaukee, they run into Mr. Decker and they mistake him for the man looking for the bride. But this Mr. Roland Decker is not looking for a bride and he assumes his brother Garrett submitted the ad. Pearl has a crisp, take-charge attitude that Rolland likes and does appreciate her company. The story is fun, lively, and a page-turner to see who would marry and who would not by the end of the story.

 

 

Amish Refuge by Debby Giusti is a stunningly terrific suspenseful read! Yet, it is a very sweet read at the same time that it has a lot of tension, plots twists, and scenes that bring you to tears, then warms your heart. Miriam Miller's family was once Amish and now in search of her sister, she finds herself thrown back into a community she knows little about. Miriam Miller is running from a man and happens onto a farm outside Willkommen, Georgia, owned by Abram Zook, an Amish man. Abram takes her in and hides her and is the only person she can trust. He is Amish and a very determined man to protect her. After all he has done for her, Mariam has to make a choice: stay or leave. I've read this book twice and will read again. This book qualifies as both an Amish read and a Suspense read.