Happy Sunday!
I’m super late sending this out but it’s because I wanted to finish Beneath the Surface. Lydia, my intern, was reading through it and helping me finesse it, and I knew it was close. I finished it last night, so I’ll link it below. It will be in Kindle Unlimited so if you have a subscription, you can read for free. In addition, I would love to get some honest reviews for it, so if you don’t have KU and you don’t mind clean psychological thrillers, please shoot me an email and I’ll get you a copy tonight to read.
I will send more later, but I’m so tired from yesterday (another early morning with cross country) that I’m heading upstairs to catch some zzzs. However, please check out the book and tell me what you think.
Have a blessed Sunday
Lorana
Featured book of the week:
He's returned home on business after a devastating break-up. She works at her cousin’s small town diner in Fair Creek and has given up on finding love. Can Caleb convince Annie to take a chance on him this Christmas?
Caleb Galloway is heartbroken over his girlfriend's betrayal and wants to lose himself in business and visit his family. He returns home to Fair Creek a few days before Christmas to negotiate a land deal. But he gets a surprise when his sister's twin babies need him to be their guardian.
Annie York helps at the diner but it's not her dream job. She struggles to support her daughter, Chloe, and is determined to make a better life for them on her own.
When Caleb runs into Annie, the crush he had on her in school resurfaces. As she teaches him about caring for the twins, he's drawn to her even more. Will Caleb's Christmas gift to Annie be showing her that he loves her and won’t let her down if they build a family?
Here are the other book recommendations for the week. Remember, we haven’t read all these books, but Rose works really hard to make sure the books I share are clean and match the values you expect to find in my books.
Sara Thurston –she’d lost everything. Marauders took her family, and the War Between the States robbed her of her fiancé. What was left was a deep despair that stole the souls of many. The bank took her home in Missouri, leaving her destitute and homeless. Signing on as a nanny for a couple and their three boys would take her to Denver, but nothing would heal her weary heart.
Jacob Worth – left Texas with two friends to fight in the War Against Northern Aggression. Four years later, his friends were dead, he’d killed more than he wanted to think about, and he had nowhere to go. He couldn’t face the people back home. Instead, he rode west to Denver. After all, where does a man go to heal a wounded spirit?
Aven's life is crumbling around her, her father's death leaves them destitute. Determined to do everything she can to keep her sisters fed and happy she has no choice but to marry the persistent suitor, Mr. Archie Mitchell, a much older man who makes her skin crawl. As the wedding draws closer, Aven prays that the Lord will intervene.
Can a young man in a horse drawn sleigh save her from a lifetime of fear and unhappiness and provide a safe home for her sisters?
Eight years ago, he asked me to marry him and I said yes … then I ran.
Ava
Even so, I never dreamed we’d end up here—him hating me for the choices I made to save his career. It’s fine. I’ve moved on.
I’ve had a few bumps in the road with my rising event planning career, but running my best friend’s wedding to her pro-football fiancé will fix all of that. If I pull off the perfect wedding.
There’s one more bump I wasn’t expecting—my ex, Jett McCombs, is a groomsman, and seeing him again makes two things clear.
I still love him.
He still hates me.
Jett
The last thing I need distracting me in the middle of a championship football season is a wedding, especially not some high-profile circus. And I definitely don’t need to face the ghosts of my past and the woman that got away. The woman who gave up on us and shattered my heart.
With her in charge of the over-publicized wedding, there’s no avoiding her or the fact that I’m not as over her as I thought.
One thing I know for sure is that I can’t trust Ava with my heart ever again.
Someone just needs to tell my heart that.