05 December 2018

Home Again | Spotlight

ABOUT THE BOOK

For the Bradshaw brothers, coming back to their hometown is the last thing they wanted. But to cope with family tragedy, they’re reuniting in Benevolence, Washington—a place of hope, caring, and ever-surprising love...

It’s ex-Navy SEAL Porter Bradshaw’s toughest challenge ever—six grieving nieces and nephews. With his brother, Matthias, killed in a car crash, and his sister-in-law, Sunday, hospitalized, Porter must take his turn looking after their children and the ancestral farm. He doesn’t know much about parenting. Still, Porter is used to going it alone professionally—and personally. But warm-hearted teacher Clementine Warren is a complication he can’t resist...

For Clementine, Benevolence is where her hopes for a real home and family crashed and burned. But as Sunday’s friend and former neighbor, she promised to always be there for the children. And as she and Porter work to comfort the young Bradshaws, his sense of duty and passionate commitment are rekindling more than Clementine’s dreams. Now with trouble coming, she’ll face down her fears to prove to Porter, and herself, that together they can make a future full of love...

Publisher: Zebra
Release Date: October 30, 2018

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Waiting on Wednesday | Love and Other Mistakes

Hosted weekly by Breaking the Spine 
to spotlight eagerly-anticipated upcoming releases.
(Similarly, Can't-Wait Wednesday is hosted by Wishful Endings.)

Happy Wednesday!

Hate-to-love romance? I'm in.

04 December 2018

After the Rain | Cover Reveal

ABOUT THE BOOK

A heartfelt, emotional story of the beauty and pain found in picking up the pieces and starting over after disappointment.

Publisher: Lighthouse Publishing of the Carolinas
Release Date: February 4, 2019

Evangeline Denmark | Days of Fantasy for Christmas

ABOUT THE BOOK

Grey Haward has always detested the Chemists, the magicians-come-scientists who rule her small western town. But she has always followed the rules, taking the potion the Chemists ration out that helps the town’s people survive. A potion that Grey suspects she—like her grandfather and father—may not actually need.

By working at her grandfather’s repair shop, sorting the small gears and dusting the curio cabinet inside, Grey has tried to stay unnoticed—or as unnoticed as a tall, strong girl can in a town of diminutive, underdeveloped citizens. Then her best friend, Whit, is caught by the Chemists’ enforcers after trying to protect Grey one night, and after seeing the extent of his punishment, suddenly taking risks seems the only decision she can make.

But with the risk comes the reality that the Chemists know her family’s secret, and the Chemists soon decide to use her for their own purposes. Panicked, Grey retreats to the only safe place she knows—her grandfather’s shop. There, however, a larger secret confronts her when her touch unlocks the old curio cabinet in the corner and reveals a world where porcelain and clockwork people are real. There, she could find the key that may save Whit’s life and also end the Chemists’ dark rule forever.

Publisher: Blink
Release Date: January 5, 2016

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Mark of Blood and Alchemy

Top Ten Tuesday | Cozy, Wintry Covers

Hosted weekly by That Artsy Reader Girl.

Happy Tuesday!

I've spent a lot of time recently talking about the Christmas books I've read. Today, instead, I'm focusing on the cozy, wintry stories I'm still hoping to read by the end of the month—I can't wait!