DiAnn Mills' Breach of Trust

Breach of Trust
By DiAnn Mills

I really enjoyed reading this romantic suspense. You get pulled into Paige Rogers’ world in a small town in Oklahoma. She’s the local librarian who can handle whatever is thrown at her because she was a CIA operative who “died” in Africa on a mission.

Split Creek, Oklahoma is a quiet small town, not anything like what Paige was used to, but surprisingly she settled into her life, enjoying her job as the town librarian. But some of the people of the town aren’t who they seem to be. Someone is watching her for Daniel Keary, the shoo-in as the governor of Oklahoma and the man who wants her out of the way because she knows the type of man Keary really is.

DiAnn Mills has put together a story of opposites—a quiet life versus a life and death situation, a local high school football coach versus a high powered lawyer and the next governor of Oklahoma, lies and secrets versus honesty. She has woven together a story with intriguing characters who are thrust into fighting for their way of life and in the end their very lives.

Maggie Brendan's interview

This week I'm hosting Lyn Cote and The Desires of Her Heart as well as Maggie Brendan and No Place for a Lady. If you want to be entered in both or either of the drawings for these books, please leave a comment during the week with your email address (you
won't be entered without an email address so I can contact you if you win). If you want to enter a drawing but don't want to leave an email address, you can email me at margaretdaley@gmail.com. The drawings end Sunday evening.

Maggie Brendan's interview:

1. What made you start writing?
I was an avid reader growing up and consequently, I was always plotting stories in my head. I have an active imagination. When I would observe life in general and events around me, I was always thinking-“What if…”.

2. How long have you been writing? When did you sell your first book?
Though I wrote my first little book in 3rd grade and one in the 5th grade, I wrote off and on throughout the years, when my children were small. I started to become serious about writing about 5 or 6 years ago after attending a Bible Study, Write His Answer, at my church.

3. How do you handle rejections?
Initially not well, I’m afraid, and it’s tough on the ego. However, one thing I finally realized is that a rejection is not a rejection of me personally, and maybe not even my work. It may be that it was not what the publisher was looking for at the time or it may not fit their particular need.

4. Why do you write?
I simply love to write! Even when I was working, I would write. I truly love entering “another world” where I can create and control the outcome of the story. I want to entertain the reader and make them “sigh” and feel connected to my characters as though they are living character’s lives.

5. What would you be doing with your free time if you weren’t writing?
If I wasn’t writing, I’d like to scrapbook with my daughter, or work on a painting and read more books. I would do more volunteer work at my church, and visit my grandchildren and daughter in Augusta. One granddaughter lives in my area, so I get to see her more often.

6. What are you working on right now?
I’m in the middle of book 3 of Heart of the West.

7. Do you put yourself into your books/characters?
Funny that you ask. I didn’t think I did but my critique buds and daughter said that some of my personality comes through in the heroine.

8. Tell us about the book you have out right now.
It’s a story about a young Southern belle from Georgia that goes to visit her aunt in Colorado and winds up going on a trail drive, something very few women did in 1892. Romance, tragedy and faith make up the composition of this story and the heroine must rely on God in the face of difficult times more than she ever has which makes her stronger.

9. Do you have any advice for other writers?
I’d tell other writers to read as much in your genre as you can but don’t stop there. Read other types of books and other writing styles as well. Attend writing workshops or conference if you can so you can connect with other writers, agents and publishers. Join a critique group or form your own. Writers are everywhere. Learn your craft and do it well and when you submit your first three chapters, be sure it’s a clean manuscript (meaning polished and edited) so that you present yourself as a professional and serious about your writing.

10. How important is faith in your books?
My faith is extremely important since I write inspirational stories. I must have time alone to pray and think and listen to the voice of God by myself and have corporate worship as well. This is one of the reasons I enjoy getting outside taking a walk.

11. What themes do you like to write about?
I enjoy stories that tug at the reader’s heart, through a challenge that they must face or obstacle to overcome. It may cause the reader to think, “I could do that!” I enjoy sprinkling historical facts throughout so that the story becomes believable.

12. What is your favorite book you’ve written and why?
I’d have to say my first novel is my favorite because it was the most fun to write. The heroine is full of spunk and becomes a lot stronger in her faith and how she looks at life, and how she regards others.

13. What is your writing schedule like?
When I wake up in the morning, the first thing I do is grab a cup of coffee and take a peek at email. Then I shower and have a bite to eat and then return to my computer by 9. I’ll look over what I wrote the day before to remind me of where I was going with the story. Some days there’s marketing things to do or researching a topic for my book. I’ll stop around 1 pm and have lunch, take a walk and then I’m back at the computer until supper. I try to do maintain this schedule 4 to 5 days a week. I do all the running around on Saturdays and Sunday is church but if I’m on deadline or doing edits, I’ll do some work on Sunday night. I like to leave Sunday afternoons open for free time and connecting with my family. I usually work on my blog in the evenings, when I take time to do it. http://southernbellewriter.blogspot.com. I am a resident blogger once a month at http://bustlesAndspurs.com.

Lyn Cote's heroine's interview

This week I'm hosting Lyn Cote and The Desires of Her Heart as well as Maggie Brendan and No Place for a Lady. If you want to be entered in both or either of the drawings for these books, please leave a comment during the week with your email address (you
won't be entered without an email address so I can contact you if you win). If you want to enter a drawing but don't want to leave an email address, you can email me at margaretdaley@gmail.com. The drawings end Sunday evening.

Interview with the heroine of The Desires of Her Heart:

1. Miss Dorritt Mott of Belle Vista Plantation, Louisiana, tell me the most interesting thing about you.
I run my stepfather’s plantation and have since I was 16. Men always act as if women can’t do anything except have babies, gossip and embroider. I often wonder if my stepfather gives any thought at all to all I do and the little he does.

2. What do you do for fun?
I am most happy when I am away from my family. I like to embroider (though I should resent it after the above comment). I like to look out over the marsh at the southern edge of our plantation and think of traveling faraway.

3. What do you put off doing because you dread it?
Marriage. I have put it off since I came out at 16 and hope to put it off for the rest of my natural life.

4. What are you afraid of most in life?
Winding up married to a man I cannot respect or love. Frankly, I don’t have much respect for men. My own father cared nothing for me.

5. What do you want out of life?
I want somehow, some way to become free of my family and live independently. Fortunately, I have a good education and I am a respectable woman of excellent family. I might be able to become a school teacher.

6. What is the most important thing to you?
Independence. Freedom

7. Do you read? If so, what is your favorite type of book to read?
I have recently read Washington Irving’s very entertaining Rip Van Winkle.

8. If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
My family. I have always felt that I was born into the wrong home.

9. Do you have a pet? If so, what is it and why that pet?
I don’t have pets but I do love horses and animals.

10. If you could travel back in time, where would you go and why?
I do not want to go back in time. I would like to go ahead in time. I would hope that women would be more respected in the future though why I believe that I couldn’t tell you. Hope springs eternal I suppose.
I’m sorry but I must leave you now. My stepfather has just told us we will be forced to leave our home. And it’s all his fault.

This week Lyn Cote and Maggie Brendan

Congratulations to Marta for winning Renee Ryan's The Marshal Takes a Bride and to Raspberry Girl for winning Cynthia Hickey's Fudge-Laced Felonies.

This week I'm hosting Lyn Cote and The Desires of Her Heart as well as Maggie Brendan and No Place for a Lady. If you want to be entered in both or either of the drawings for these books, please leave a comment during the week with your email address (you won't be entered without an email address so I can contact you if you win). If you want to enter a drawing but don't want to leave an email address, you can email me at margaretdaley@gmail.com. The drawings end Sunday evening.

Lyn Cote's bio:

RITA finalist, Lyn Cote loves to write inspirational romance, romantic suspense, historical romances and historical sagas. Her brand is “Strong Women, Brave Stories” and her stories always include strong women, a multi-cultural cast of characters and authentic history. Lyn was raised in IL, raised her children in IA and now lives in the northwoods of Wisconsin on a lake in a pine forest. She loves watermelon, Wheel of Fortune, Paula Deen’s shows, and cats. And dogs too. Lyn worked her way through college as a beautician, then taught school for nearly a decade and then became a full time mom. Now with an empty nest, she and her husband are starting to travel as a twosome and enjoy it just being the two of them.

About The Desires of Her Heart:
1st Texas Star of Destiny series
Avon Inspire
ISBN#:978-0061373411

Blurb:
In 1821, Dorritt Mott is a woman ahead of her time. When her family is forced to leave New Orleans, she meets Quinn. The New Orleans lady and the half-breed scout, become unlikely allies on the trek to the Austin settlement in Texas. Two armies, marauding Comanche and a traitor in their midst stand between them and their destination. All Dorritt thinks she wants is her own independence, but is it possible that she will gain the unrecognized desires of her heart? And teach Quinn to enlarge his vision also?



Maggie Brendan's bio:

Maggie Brendan is a member of the American Christian Writers and the American Fiction Writers Association. No Place for a Lady is her first novel. Brendan lives in Marietta, Georgia.

Blurb from Amazon about No Place for a Lady:

Crystal Clark arrives in Colorado's Yampa Valley amid the splendor of a high country June in 1892. After the death of her father, Crystal is relieved to be leaving the troubles of her Georgia life behind to visit her aunt Kate's cattle ranch. Despite being raised as a proper Southern belle, Crystal is determined to hold her own in this wild land--even if a certain handsome foreman doubts her abilities. Just when she thinks she's getting a handle on the constant male attention from the cowhands and the catty barbs from some of the local young women, tragedy strikes the ranch. Crystal will have to tap all of her resolve to save the ranch from a greedy neighboring landowner. Can she rise to the challenge? Or will she head back to Georgia defeated? Book one in the Heart of the West series, No Place for a Lady is full of adventure, romance, and the indomitable human spirit. Readers will fall in love with the Colorado setting and the spunky Southern belle who wants to claim it as her own.

Scavenger Hunt: Can You Solve the Mystery

Without a Trace...
Will a young mother's disappearance bring a bayou town together... or tear it apart?
This exciting new continuity from Love Inspired Suspense brings a special challenge to its readers.
Can you find the clues to the mystery?
This month, we'll be looking BACK at Margaret Daley's contribution, What Sarah Saw, for special clues from the book. If you haven't read it, you can purchase it here. Stay tuned, because each week during the month of February, a new clue will be released. Find the icon depicting the clue, and email the url you found it on to dream.eharlequinhost@gmail.com to be entered in a drawing for a special prize from author Margaret Daley.
Week One Clue: Alligator
Week Two Clue: Puppy
You can find clues on the eHarlequin.com site as well as on our pages on Facebook and MySpace.
If you want to get a jump start on next month's challenge, be sure to pick up the next book in the series, Framed! by Robin Caroll.
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Scavenger Hunt

Cynthia Hickey's heroine's interview

This week I'm hosting Renee Ryan with The Marshal Takes a Bride and Cynthia Hickey (and her heroine) with Fudge-Laced Felonies. If you want to be entered in the two drawings or one of them, please leave a comment with your email address (this is necessary in order to be entered and for me to get in touch with you if you win). Or you can email me at margaretdaley@gmail.com. The drawings end this Sunday evening.

Interview with the heroine from Fudge-Laced Felonies:

1. Summer Meadows, tell me the most interesting thing about you.
Well, I own a candy-store. Finally. The finest handmade chocolates in the South! Oh, and I love Ethan Banning, but he thinks of me as a little sister.

2. What do you do for fun?
I love to read. I’m growing roses for the county fair, and of course, my chocolate.

3. What do you put off doing because you dread it? This is hard, because I’m an “A” type personality, but especially with this case, I put off taking information to my police-chief of a cousin, Joe. He’ll just lecture me anyway, so what’s the point?

4. What are you afraid of most in life? Losing someone I love.

5. What do you want out of life? Ethan Banning!

6. What is the most important thing to you? God ranks right up there, but of course my family, my business, solving this dratted mystery!

7. Do you read? If so, what is your favorite type of book to read? Romance novels.

8. If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be? My stubbornness. If I didn’t have a stubborn streak a mile long, I could let go of the reins on this mystery quicker and let God take over.

9. Do you have a pet? If so, what is it and why that pet? A dog. A Cairn Terrier named
Truly Scrumptious. I loved the song from Chitty Bang Bang when I was a kid.

10. If you could travel back in time, where would you go and why? I would most definitely go back far enough to see who put the diamonds, bloody gardening glove, and rusty can of cash beneath the rose bush I hoped would win a blue ribbon at the fair. Did I tell you the bush died? Not only am I curious about how these things got there, but someone owes me a new bush!

Renee Ryan's interview

This week I'm hosting Renee Ryan with The Marshal Takes a Bride and Cynthia Hickey (and her heroine) with Fudge-Laced Felonies. If you want to be entered in the two drawings or one of them, please leave a comment with your email address (this is necessary in order to be entered and for me to get in touch with you if you win). Or you can email me at margaretdaley@gmail.com. The drawings end this Sunday evening.

Renee Ryan's interview:

1. What made you start writing?

I know this may sound odd, but I don’t consider myself a writer. I’m more of a storyteller. As a child I hated, hated, hated creative writing courses (still do). I assumed because I couldn’t “write on command” that meant I wasn’t meant to be a writer of any kind. So I graduated college with a degree in Economics and Religion and ultimately ended up teaching high school Econ and Latin. Not the most exciting courses, I know. To keep my students’ attention I quickly learned to teach through storytelling. Once my oldest child reached middle school I decided it was time to focus on parenting (I’d seen too many teenagers get into trouble because of lack of supervision). I started writing out of sheer boredom. My storytelling skills had been honed in the classroom. The hard part was learning how to write.

2. How long have you been writing? When did you sell your first book?

I started writing seriously in 1997. I sold my first book through the inaugural Romantic Times/Dorchester New Historical Voice contest in 2001. That book hit the shelves in July of 2002. My February 2009 Love Inspired Historical release, THE MARSHAL TAKES A BRIDE, is my second book. That’s seven years between book releases. Needless to say, I learned a lot about patience and persistence during that very long dry spell.

3. How do you handle rejections?

I keep writing. I know this sounds overly simplistic, but it’s really that basic for me. I’ve received over 200 rejections on various manuscripts so I’ve learned to compartmentalize each project. Rejections aren’t personal, they’re business. A rejection is simply one person’s opinion on a particular project at a particular moment in time. I try not to let it get more complicated than that.

4. Why do you write?

I consider my writing a ministry as much as a career. I’m the quill, God is the Author. I pray for the words daily. I write to both entertain and inspire my readers. I admit it’s a constant battle to remember the outcome is for God’s glory not my own. I’m a work-in-progress.
5. What would you be doing with your free time if you weren’t writing?

I’d like to think I would spend my free time volunteering for worthy causes. I’m sure that would be partially true. But mostly, I think I’d be procrastinating. I’m a master procrastinator. Did I mention I was a work-in-progress?

6. What are you working on right now?

I’m working on another Love Inspired Historical, book two in the continuity, AFTER THE STORM: THE FOUNDING YEARS. It’s been a fascinating learning experience.

7. Do you put yourself into your books/characters?

Doesn’t every writer? I’m constantly tapping into emotions I’ve experienced and lessons I’ve learned whenever I’m putting characters on a page. I truly believe we don’t write “what we know,” we write “who we are.” Human emotions are universal. And really, aren’t we all walking wounded on same level. Or am I the only odd ball here?

8. Tell us about the book you have out right now.

THE MARSHAL TAKES A BRIDE is my current release. The story deals with two of my favorite themes: forgiveness and redemption. The hero has lost his wife and can’t move on; the heroine has had her own set of tragedies and can’t move on either. Both are wounded, yet neither are victims. They’re strong characters who are learning to face the harsh realities of life, even if their approach is highly flawed. Add a precocious five-year-old little girl and these two are doomed, at least in terms of holding onto their status quo.

9. Do you have any advice for other writers?

Never, never, never give up (see my response on rejection above). Surround yourself with people who believe in you and your talent. Get rid of emotional vampires, those people who try to suck out your good mood. And, of course, write. You can’t sell if you aren’t writing. Do the work, enjoy the process, success will come -- perhaps not quickly or in the form you expect, but it will come.


10. How important is faith in your books?

Very important, mainly because faith is such an important part of my life. I write characters who believe in God but who are struggling with flawed thinking and/or wavering faith. Only when their faith is strengthened are they able to grasp their happily-ever-after.

11. What themes do you like to write about?

Sins of the heart, forgiveness, redemption, trust!

12. What is your favorite book you’ve written and why?

By far, my favorite book is my WWII romantic thriller for the Love Inspired Historical line. The book is set in 1939 Nazi Germany. It’s fast-paced and action packed, with a VERY heroic hero (well, I think so anyway). The men and women of the German Resistance were some of the bravest people in human history. I tried to capture that heroism in both my hero and heroine, but especially my hero. I’ll let the readers decide if I pulled it off.

13. What is your writing schedule like?

I treat my writing like a regular job. I write Monday through Friday. If I’m on deadline I’ll also write on Saturday, but I always take the evenings off and try to honor the Sabbath. I start my day with an hour of exercise, a quick shower and then devote the rest of the time to writing. For me, consistency is the key. I have days where I fall off, but that’s because I’m a master at procrastination. It’s always an effort to stay focused. Deadlines are great incentives!

This week Renee Ryan and Cynthia Hickey's heroine

Congratulations to Becca for winning Miralee Ferrell's Love Finds You in Last Chance, California. Congratulations to Cheri for winning Victoria Bylin's The Maverick Preacher.

This week I'm hosting Renee Ryan with The Marshal Takes a Bride and Cynthia Hickey (and her heroine) with Fudge-Laced Felonies. If you want to be entered in the two drawings or one of them, please leave a comment with your email address (this is necessary in order to be entered and for me to get in touch with you if you win). Or you can email me at margaretdaley@gmail.com. The drawings end this Sunday evening.

Renee Ryan's bio:

Renee Ryan grew up in a Florida beach town where she learned how to surf and skateboard very poorly. As a teenager, she gave up on both pursuits and began entertaining herself during countless hours of "laying-out" by reading all the classics. It wasn’t until the summer between her sophomore and junior years at Florida State University that she read her first romance novel. Hooked from page one, she spent hours consuming book after book while working on the best (and last!) tan of her life.

Two years later, armed with a degree in Economics and Religion, she explored various career opportunities, including stints at a Florida theme park, a modeling agency, and a cosmetic conglomerate. She moved on to teach high school Economics, American Government and Latin while coaching award-winning cheerleading teams. Several years later, with an eclectic cast of characters swimming around in her head, she began seriously pursuing a writing career.

Renee recently reconciled her writing with her faith and began penning Inspirational Romances for Steeple Hill. She lives in Southern Georgia with her husband, teenage daughter and a large fluffy cat many have mistaken for a small bear. For further information about Renee, check out www.ReneeRyan.com.

The Marshal Takes a Bride's blurb:

A True Hero Never Leaves a Damsel in Distress--He Marries Her!
U.S. Marshal Trey Scott is fixin' to walk down the aisle just as soon as his stubborn bride-to-be agrees to say "I do." Katherine Taylor's five-year-old sister and an orphanage full of children are depending on her. So why won't the pretty schoolteacher marry him to save her tarnished reputation? Granted, Trey isn't willing to abandon his quest to avenge his first wife's murder. His name alone will protect Katherine until he returns, but she thinks he should leave vengeance to a higher power. Will the sacrifice demanded by the woman he loves be too great to bear...or will it be Trey's ultimate redemption?



Cynthia Hickey's heroine's bio (From Fudge-Laced Felonies):

Summer Meadows entered church on Sunday, not to find God, but to search for a killer.

While transplanting the rosebush her church's handsome Sunday school teacher, Ethan Banning inadvertently killed, Summer and Ethan discover a hidden stash of diamonds, a rusty can full of cash, and a bloody gardening glove. This discovery sets Summer and her candy-making aunt on a search for a killer.

As Summer gets close to the truth, not only of the theft, but of her true feelings for Ethan, the diamond thief hatches a plan to hush the feisty sleuth.

Ethan's love for Summer stays buried beneath his teasing, waiting until God tells him it is time to declare his feelings. Meanwhile, Summer's quirky and daring resolve to solve the case has him acting in a heavy-handed manner in order to protect her, and almost pushes her away.

I am the mother of seven! Three
step-children, one birth child, and three
adopted children. I have five
grandchildren. My husband and I live in
Arizona, surrounded by our children.

I am an army brat having grown up in
many parts of the United States and
Germany with most of my childhood spent
in the foothills of the Ozark mountains in
Arkansas.

I grew up in a family of story tellers. For
years I sat around and listened to my
grandmother or an aunt or uncle tell me
stories of my family's history. As I grew, I
learned some of the stories were true,
while others were just that, stories.

Story telling is in my blood. I can't imagine
doing anything else. I have made up
stories since I was a child.

Love Languages

I bet you didn't think that love had it own language, but it does. I read an interesting book about the language of love we use. In the book, The Five Love Languages, Gary Chapman was insightful and interesting. But most of all I saw such potential for a writer to use the information to flush out her characters, especially in regards to the love relationship between the hero and heroine. I highly recommend reading the book, even if you aren't a writer because it makes you take a good hard look at your relationships-not just husband and wife ones.

When two people are in a relationship, it is important for each one of them to demonstrate in some way the importance of the other in his/her life. The problem often arises in a relationship when these two people don’t speak the same love language. They don’t speak to the other’s deepest emotional need (a need that has been shaped by their childhood). We want to be loved by the other and valued as worth loving by that person. So how you express your love is important in a relationship. You may be saying, “I love you,” to your significant other, but he isn’t hearing it because he doesn’t speak the same love language. Think of two people who speak a different language like English and Chinese and they don't know the other person's. Hard to communicate when you don't speak the same language.

The Five Love Languages
By Gary Chapman

These are the five love languages:
1) Words of Affirmation-Some people need to hear the words from their loved one to believe they are loved. They need verbal compliments and praises.

2) Receiving Gifts-To others the receiving of a gift from their loved one tells them they are loved by that person. The gifts don’t necessary have to be expensive. The thought behind the gift is what is most important. It tells the person he was thinking about her. In a time of turmoil the gift of your presence can be what is valued the most.

3) Acts of Service-There are some who need love expressed through doing something for them. It could be something like doing the dishes or taking out the trash. It is important that the act of service is given freely, not demanded.

4) Quality Time-Another love language is spending quality time with your loved one. I don’t just mean being with him. I mean really talking and listening to him. You must be totally focused on him to the exclusion of everything else. Within this are also quality activities. When doing things together, one should want to do the activity and the other has agreed. You are showing your love by doing the activity together.

5) Physical Touch-A touch on his arm as you walk by, holding hands on a couch, or a back rub when he is tense can be to some an expression of love. There are many levels of physical touch and not all have to be intimate to show you love someone.

Victoria Bylin's interview

This week I'm hosting Miralee Ferrell with Love Finds You in Last Chance, California and Victoria Bylin with The Maverick Preacher. If you want to be entered in the either of the drawings or both, please leave a comment this week and your email address (this is necessary in order for me to contact you) or you can email me at margaretdaley@gmail.com. The drawings end Sunday evening.

Victoria Bylin's interview:

1. What made you start writing?
I’ve been a reader as long as I can remember. My favorite books as a child were “The Black Stallion” series by Walter Farley and the “Little House” books by Laura Ingalls Wilder. Somewhere in the midst of those adventures I felt a longing to tell stories of my own. I tried writing fiction in college, but my mind was mired in academics. I kept journals and wrote a lot of letters, but fiction remained my first love.


2. How long have you been writing? When did you sell your first book?
I got serious about writing romance in January 1999, shortly after my dad passed away. I realized I didn’t want to leave this earth without finishing a book length work of fiction. I sat down and started a western historical romance. I named the heroine Susan and put her in a barn with a dead body! The next thing I knew, I was on chapter three and loving the story. That first manuscript didn’t sell, but it taught me how to write. I sold my second completed manuscript in February 2002 to Harlequin Historicals.

3. How do you handle rejections?
No one likes to see a returned manuscript sitting on the front porch. I know! My first rejected ms arrived on my birthday. I saw the UPS envelope and thought, “Oh, boy! My mom sent me a birthday present.” Not! The moment was heartbreaking, but I’ve since become much more circumspect. A rejection isn’t a comment on the writer’s worth as a human being. I’d tell anyone who’s completed a book-length manuscript to celebrate. It’s an awesome achievement. As for selling, that’s in God’s hands. Do your best. Study the craft. Take the risk. Wait. Hope. Pray. And let God be in charge.


4. Why do you write?
I read somewhere that fiction is the marriage of logic and emotion. I love that definition. I write because I’m a puzzle addict. I like putting pieces together and discovering a bigger picture.

5. What would you be doing with your free time if you weren’t writing?
I truly don’t know. I can’t sing a lick, can’t draw and don’t like to cook! I enjoy listening to music and walking, and I enjoy the outdoors, but I’d want to find something with a purpose.


6. What are you working on right now?
I’ve got two books in process. The first is Kansas Courtship (LIH, Mar 2010). This is the third book in a three-book continuity called “After the Storm.” It’s set in High Plains, Kansas in 1859. The town has been wiped out by a tornado and the people are rebuilding both the town and their lives. The continuity launches in January 2010 with Valerie Hansen’s book, High Plains Bride. That will be followed in February by Heartland Wedding by Renee Ryan.

As soon as I finish Kansas Courtship, I’ll go back to the book that follows The Maverick Preacher. I don’t have a title yet, but the story is set in 1875 Cheyenne. The heroine is a preacher’s daughter in need of a second chance, and the hero is a lawman with a secret. The overall series is called “The Women of Swan’s Nest.”

7. Do you put yourself into your books/characters?
I do, but it’s not deliberate. Little things stand out. I used to work for an ophthalmologist. Somehow eye conditions have worked their way into all my books. I’m currently working for a dermatologist, and now my characters have skin issues! On a more serious note, I come from a typical family that’s dealt with tough times. My books aren’t autobiographical, but I’ve “felt the feelings” that I write about.

8. Tell us about the book you have out right now.
The Maverick Preacher is about a man searching for peace. Once an esteemed Boston minister, Joshua Blue has been knocked off his high horse. He’s now searching for his sister and her illegitimate baby to make up for his prideful mistakes. Instead of his sister, he finds Adie Clarke. Adie owns Swan’s Nest, a boardinghouse for women in trouble. She also has an adopted son and the answers concerning Josh’s sister . . . answers that could cost her everything.


9. Do you have any advice for other writers?
I have a list of sayings taped to my desk. Here are my favorites: (1) WRITE BIG! (2) Don’t limit God. (3) Conflict is a fight. When in doubt, throw another cat in the bag. (4) Convey emotion through action. (5) Every good story starts with a threat. Last, I’d say, “Love what you do.”


10. How important is faith in your books?
It’s the main thing. In a way, it’s the only thing. I can’t imagine telling a story that isn’t a spiritual journey. I don’t always have a salvation thread, but my characters will always emerge with a deeper faith.


11. What themes do you like to write about?
I have three that keep popping up: Redemption, Resurrection and Restoration. My books are generally about men and women finding forgiveness, coming back to life after a tragedy, or regaining ground they’ve lost.

12. What is your favorite book you’ve written and why?

My favorite book is the only manuscript I haven’t been able to sell. Mainstream publishers said it was too Christian. I knew it was too mainstream for a Christian publisher, so I didn’t try that market. The hero is a travel writer who’s living life in the fast lane when God knocks him off his motorcycle. The heroine is still mired in the ways of the world. One of these days, I’m going to rewrite it and try again.

13. What is your writing schedule like?
In addition to writing books, I work part-time in a doctor’s office. I get up early when I can, approximately 5 a.m.. I get the most written early in the morning and on Saturdays. If my husband’s watching the SciFi Channel, sometimes I’ll write at night.

Miralee Ferrell-heroine interview

This week I'm hosting Miralee Ferrell with Love Finds You in Last Chance, California and Victoria Bylin with The Maverick Preacher. If you want to be entered in the either of the drawings or both, please leave a comment this week and your email address (this is necessary in order for me to contact you) or you can email me at margaretdaley@gmail.com. The drawings end Sunday evening.

Interview with the heroine from Love Finds You in Last Chance, California:

1.Alexia, tell me the most interesting thing about you.
First, I’d prefer if you call me Alex, if you don’t mind? I’m a bit of a tomboy and love the shorter name Papa always called me. Interesting, huh? I guess I’m kind of unusual compared to other girls in town. I’m over 20 and not married…in fact, I don’t even have a beau, although there’s a few young men in the area that are trying to court me. Papa just died and I’m trying to run our horse ranch myself, with my Uncle Joe’s help…but he had an accident recently and can’t ride. I don’t really care for quilting socials and women’s gatherings, so I spend most of my time on the ranch.

2.What do you do for fun?
That’s an easy one. There’s nothing better than taking a long ride on my favorite horse, Banner. He’s a Morgan/Mustang mix and he has an amazing lope. I love riding through the hills surrounding our ranch and spending hours exploring. It’s fun to go alone, or with my dog Hunter…dogs and horses are accepting of who you are and don’t judge you if you don’t fit in, you know. It’s peaceful in the hills and riding brings me closer to God as I see His wonderful creation spread out before me.

3.What do you put off doing because you dread it?
Wearing dresses! Papa always insisted I wear them when I go to town and they’re so bothersome. They get tangled around my legs and get in the way. Why just the other day I came out the door of the mercantile and headed down the boardwalk and ran into….oops! Better not tell you that. I think it’s in the book someone wrote about me and I’d hate to give it away.

4.What are you afraid of most in life?
Hmm…that’s a little harder. I guess maybe not being accepted for who I am. The women in town want to press me into their own mold and I don’t fit their way of life. But my friend Elizabeth tells me that God loves me the way I am, and to trust Him. I know she’s right. It’s just hard sometimes when someone like Mabel Gurney raises her eyebrows at me and makes little snide comments. I’m afraid I might not make the ranch a success, too. Papa trained me to run it and I can work horses and ride as well as any of the hands, but men don’t always like to take orders from a woman.

5.What do you want out of life?
To make Papa proud, even though he’s gone on to heaven. Of course, I want to make my heavenly father proud, too. It’s just that Papa had such high hopes for the ranch and for me. He wanted to see me married and settled, but there’s not much hope of that. I need to keep focused on work right now, or I’ll never get this mortgage paid off. Maybe someday the right man might come along, although it’s unlikely. Mostly there’s just miners in our area, and they keep to themselves. Guess I’ll have to trust God for that part of my life, as well.

6.What is the most important thing to you?
My family and my relationship with the Lord. Of course, Uncle Joe isn’t really my blood uncle, but he was my papa’s best friend from before I was born. And Martha, she’s been with us since right after Mama died, caring for me and trying hard to turn me into a lady. They’re all the family I have left, but I love them as much as if we were truly related.

7.Do you read? If so, what is your favorite type of book to read?
I don’t have much time to read, what with spending so much time on the bookkeeping and caring for the horses. I read Papa’s bible that he kept on his office desk.

8.If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
I’d like to be a little better shot with my rifle. We’ve had something bothering the stock lately, and I can’t afford to lose any horse. Oh…did you mean something personal? I guess maybe my figure. I’m pretty slender with tiny bones, and I think I look more like a boy than a woman…at least when I’m wearing trousers.

9.Do you have a pet? If so, what is it and why that pet?
Oh yes, and he’s wonderful! Uncle Joe brought me a puppy over a year ago. He’s a big dog, black and tan markings with course, short hair and I named him Hunter. I figured maybe he’d live up to his name and hunt down the wild animals that bother the horses. He’s a big baby, though…he likes to chase the deer and rabbits, but nothing else. All he wants to do is play fetch. But he’s one of my best friends and loves to go on long rides with me.

10.If you could travel back in time, where would you go and why?
Travel back in time? Do they do that in 2009? My goodness, we’ve never thought of anything like that here in 1877, even with all the modern conveniences they’ve invented to make life easier. How would you do that, anyway? Oops…I guess you needed an answer. I love wild horses, so I think I’d want to go back at least a hundred years before the land was heavily settled, and try to find the big bands of horses that roamed some of the valleys. It would be even better if I could capture a stallion and bring him back to my herd. Can you bring something back with you when you travel through time, or just yourself?

I hope I’ve been helpful. I didn’t go on to normal school to get a teaching license or anything, and I only attended our little school here in Last Chance, so I’m not very educated. But Martha and Papa taught me at home some, so I hope I didn’t shame them while answering your questions. It would be awfully nice if your readers would come visit me, Uncle Joe and Martha, plus get acquainted with some of the people in Last Chance. I’m still kind of scratching my head why Miralee’s book is called Love Finds You in Last Chance, CA….hmm….I wonder if there’s something I don’t know?

This week Miralee Ferrell and Victoria Bylin

Congratulations to Jo for winning Allie Pleiter's Bluegrass Courtship and Sherrinda for winning Becky's Walk With Me.

This week I'm hosting Miralee Ferrell with Love Finds You in Last Chance, California and Victoria Bylin with The Maverick Preacher. If you want to be entered in the either of the drawings or both, please leave a comment this week and your email address (this is necessary in order for me to contact you) or you can email me at margaretdaley@gmail.com. The drawings end Sunday evening.

Miralee Ferrell's Bio:

Miralee Ferrell's debut novel, The Other Daughter, released in October 2007 with excellent reviews. Romantic Times Book Reviews magazine awarded it 4 out of 4.5 stars, and a motion picture studio is considering the book as a possible family movie. She is working on the books sequel, scheduled to release in 2009. Love Finds You In Last Chance, CA was just awarded 4 1/2 stars from RT and releases Feb. 1st.

Miralee lives in a rural community in Washington with Allen, her husband of 36 years. Together they have two grown children, both married. She serves on staff at her local church and is actively involved in ministry to women. Miralee enjoys working in her large flower garden, riding horses and sailing with her husband.


Summary of Love Finds You in Last Chance, California:

Two people trying to make it on their own must work together to save what
they both love... It's 1877 and just before Alexia Travers’ father died,
he mortgaged his land in exchange for gold to buy more horses. But when no gold
is found, Alexia is left with a heavily encumbered ranch and no man to lean
on. Not that she wants one: despite several offers, the feisty brunette has
no interest in marriage. Instead, she dons men’s clothing and rides the
range, determined to make the ranch a success on her own.

Justin Phillips arrives in the town of Last Chance, California, with a young
son he cannot care for by himself. When he applies for a job on Travers
Ranch, Alexia reluctantly accepts his help. Though the young woman can ride,
shoot, rope, and break young colts, she is irritated to learn that Justin
can do everything just a shade better!

When disaster threatens the Travers' Ranch, Alexia and Justin must work
together to save someone they both love. Can these two independent people
learn to depend on God…and each other?



Victoria Bylin's Bio:

Victoria Bylin writes for Love Inspired Historicals. Her next book, THE MAVERICK PREACHER, will be released in February 2009 and is a prequel to THE BOUNTY HUNTER'S BRIDE (May 2008). Prior to joining LIH, Victoria wrote five westerns for Harlequin Historicals. ABBIE'S OUTLAW was a 2006 Rita Finalist in the Best Short Historical category. She's also finaled in the Holt, the National Readers Choice Awards and the Bookseller's Best Awards. Vicki really does believe in HEA. She and Mike have been married forever and have two grown sons.

Back blurb of The Maverick Preacher:

Once upon a time, he was one of Boston's most righteous ministers. Now Joshua Blue is a guilt-stricken man scouring the West to find the sister he drove away with his pride. When the trail leads him to Denver, a beautiful boardinghouse owner might be the key to unlocking past secrets….

By sheer determination, Adelaide Clark has raised her young son alone. When Joshua arrives at her door, Adie fears he'll tear her family apart. As she gets to know the charming preacher, however, she sees he's come to make amends for past wrongs. Soon his strong faith sparks Adie's long-buried hope for a future with a God-sent partner at her side….

ACFW February Release List

February brings thoughts of chocolate and valentines and some of us worry about groundhogs and shadows. Whatever the case, winter can't last forever, and there is always an excuse to read a good book! We've got 11 new releases to choose from this month. Check them out - and don't forget to visit my new Spotlight interview with author Julie Klassen.



1. Evidence of Murder by Jill Elizabeth Nelson from Steeple Hill. When a business owner discovers on her property evidence of a decade-old multiple murder, she and the surviving son of the massacre become targets of a desperate and powerful killer.



2. Framed!, Book 2 of the Without A Trace continuity series by Robin Caroll from Steeple Hill Love Inspired Suspense. A modern day Romeo and Juliet story.



3. Gingham Mountain Lassoed in Texas Series by Mary Connealy from Barbour Publishing. A school marm fears cruel intentions when a rancher, with a special heart for unwanted children, adopts too many of them.



4. Illusions by Wanda B. Campbell from Urban Christian. Illusions depicts the struggles of a young pastor and wife.



5. Insight by Deborah Raney from Steeple Hill. Two people brought together by tragedy discover an amazing connection that threatens to tear them apart.



6. Love Finds You In Last Chance, CA by Miralee Ferrell from Summerside Press. A woman trying to make it alone in the old west, a man she isn't sure she can trust, and someone who threatens them both.



7. On a Killer's Trail by Susan Page Davis from Love Inspired Suspense. Can a reformed bad-boy detective and an ambitious reporter overcome their past to solve a string of crimes?



8. The Desires of Her Heart by Lyn Cote from Avon Inspire. The Desires of Her Heart is based on authentic Texas history and portrays the expansion of Angloamericanos into Spanish territory.



9. The Gold Standard by Lisa Lickel from Barbour Publishing - Heartsong Presents: Mysteries. Judy's last relative, Aunt Louise, was poisoned - but how?



10. The Renewal, Book 2 of the Project Restoration Series by Terri Kraus from David C. Cook. For single-mom Leslie Ruskin and master carpenter Jack Kenyon, both starting over in a new town, could working together on restoring the Midlands Building be a blueprint for disaster, or will their lives be transformed by the promise of a new Occupant?



11. Wind Dancer by Jamie Carie from B&H Publishing. Revolutionary period of escaping captivity and finding true salvation.



Happy reading ~

This and that

January was an interesting month of trying to set a full-time writing schedule up for myself. You would think after being retired for a year I would already have that done. Not! Because I kept getting interrupted with teaching. I did two long term sub jobs for the school district I taught at for 22 years.

Now though, I want to write truly full-time, and I need a schedule to keep up with everything. Hence the schedule. Stories are screaming to come out, but I have to sit down and get them down on paper. Slowly a routine is falling into place and I know it doesn't necessarily happen overnight.

In January I finished two proposals (2010 continuity book 3 and a Christmas novella) for the two Love Inspired Suspense books I recently sold and have gotten them to my editor. I also read my galleys on my July Love Inspired book and line edits on my November Love Inspired. Not to mention the eight books I have to read for the RITA contest. Eek! Did I mention I'm a slow reader? Thankfully I just finished the 6th one.

I was given an okay on the continuity story, so I'm going to finish writing it, then the novella. That will take me through April. That's my plan, but you know how plans go. Life happens.

Allie Pleiter's hero interview

If you want to be entered in the drawings for Becky Melby's Walk with Me and/or Allie Pleiter's Bluegrass Courtship, please leave a comment with your email address. This is necessary in order for me to contact you--you will not be entered without an email address included or you can email me at margaretdaley@gmail.com to be entered. The drawings end this Sunday evening.

Interview with the hero Drew Downing from Allie Pleiter’s Bluegrass Courtship:

1.Drew Downing, tell me the most interesting thing about you.
Probably that I’m not as interesting as everyone thinks. Sure, as host of Missionnovation, I’ve probably got one of the coolest jobs on television. But I’m just an ordinary guy who likes to build things--I just get to do it in front of the cameras. I carry a pocket watch of my Dad’s even though I wear a wristwatch. I love chocolate chip cookies and caffeine has long lost its effect on me. Is any of that interesting, or just weird?

2.What do you do for fun?
My job is the most fun I have, so I suppose I work for fun. Which is why it never feels like work. Okay, maybe at three in the morning before our target project is supposed to be completed and the power goes out in the driving rain, then it doesn’t feel much like fun. That’s usually when I start singing. Makes everybody laugh. I’d much rather they were awestruck…

3.What do you put off doing because you dread it?
I can’t remember the last time I had a physical. A couple of emergency room visits…you never want to get in an argument with an electric staple gun…but I’m too afraid some doc will tell me to stop pulling all nighters or to slow down and eat better. When your sponsor is Delicious Dave’s Chocolate Chip Cookies, you better not be counting calories.

4.What are you afraid of most in life?
If I slow down, I’ll find out I like slowing down. That’d be disastrous for a whole bunch of people.

5.What do you want out of life?
Every single bit of it.

6.What is the most important thing to you?
That people know I’m the real deal. Missionnovation is out to help churches by renovating them to reach their full potential. So that the strength of the building matches the strength of the congregation inside. There’s no gimmick or hitch. We don’t cut corners and we do quality work. It just so happens we do it with the cameras on.

7.Do you read books? If so, what is your favorite type of book?
My favorite books are the instruction manuals for this year’s coolest new power tools. I don’t have time for much else. Oh, and a Bible. That’s the best instruction manual of all, if you ask me.

8.If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
I’d give myself six fingers on each hand so I could play wicked guitar and hold more stuff while I nail. On second thought, that might be a bit creepy. I suppose I wish I could care less about the folks who are sure I’m not what I seem to be. I’m always trying to convince them I’m the real deal, and that’s gotten me a bit off track from time to time.

9.Do you have a pet? If so, what is it and why that pet?
We had a moth on the show bus for a week once. I named it Homer until it ate through one of my favorite sweaters. I’m thinking maybe that doesn’t really count. If I didn’t travel so much, I’d be a big yellow lab kind of guy.

10.If you could travel back in time, where would you go and why?
I’d build stuff with Jesus. He was a carpenter, so we’d totally get along. Plus, I’m guessing I’d learn a lot more about a lot more than just how to fit wood together.

Becky Melby's interview

If you want to be entered in the drawings for Becky Melby's Walk with Me and/or Allie Pleiter's Bluegrass Courtship, please leave a comment with your email address. This is necessary in order for me to contact you--you will not be entered without an email address included or you can email me at margaretdaley@gmail.com to be entered. The drawings end this Sunday evening.

Becky Melby's interview:

1. What made you start writing?
An overactive imagination that just started spilling onto paper as soon as I learned to make letters and turn them into sentences—probably around the age of seven or eight. I wrote short stories and poetry for years, but about fifteen years ago Cathy Wienke, my good friend of eighteen years at the time, literally threw a novel at the wall, picked up the phone, and said, “We could do better than this!” We wrote our first novel as a fun pastime while homeschooling our kids.

2. How long have you been writing? When did you sell your first book?
I got serious when I took a creative writing class in high school and had a teacher who took my passion for words seriously. Cathy and I sold our first book to Heartsong in 1994.

3. How do you handle rejections?
I still tend to take it very personally at first, but I’ve done a fairly good job of taming the self-talk that tells me I’m a complete and utter failure. I pout, I pray, and then I either move on with my current project or work on improving the one that didn’t sell. Rejection is part of life and one of a writer’s best teachers.

4. Why do you write?
It keeps me sane! If I weren’t writing for publication I’d still be journaling and writing poetry for no one but God and myself. I’m one of those who can’t not write. The reason I write fiction is because I love the creative process of inventing people, places, and problems. And I write Christian fiction because I believe in the power of story to convey Truth.

5. What would you be doing with your free time if you weren’t writing?
Reading someone else’s writing! That’s my constant lament—I don’t have enough time to read. I’d also be spending more time with family and friends and finishing the doll house and scrapbooks that are gathering dust upstairs.

6. What are you working on right now?
Cathy and I are working on our third contemporary series for Heartsong Presents. This one, Pleasant Surprises, is set in Illinois. It’s about a woman who has found her identity in her party planning business. When her company is in danger of bankruptcy, two men step forward to offer opposing advice and she finds herself in a triangle of confusion.

7. Do you put yourself into your books/characters?
Not intentionally, but friends say they “hear” me all over my writing. I do use personal struggles and the things God has taught me as themes.

8. Tell us about the book you have out right now.
Walk with Me is a contemporary romance set in Minnesota. The hero, Trace McKay, is fresh out of prison where he served three years for secondary manslaughter. Heroine Sydney Jennet is a strong proponent of her church’s new program to reintegrate prisoners into society, but when an apartment fire results in the program’s first ex-con living in the basement of the house she shares with her parents, she has to rethink her stance. It doesn’t take long for her to be drawn to Trace, but there are people in the little town of Pine Bluff, Minnesota who are intent on driving him away. When threats force Trace to leave town, their budding relationship is also in danger.

The next two books in the series, Dream Chasers and Stillwater Promise, come out later this year.

9. Do you have any advice for other writers?
Bathe your work in prayer—before, during, and after. And approach writing the way a concert pianist approaches his or her talent. You may have been gifted with natural ability, but it takes hours and hours of practice and studying to hone the craft. Finally, don’t give up! I’m always encouraged by stories of famous authors who accumulated mountains of rejection letters before that final breakthrough.

10. How important is faith in your books?
Absolutely essential. I don’t know if I would continue to write for publication if I couldn’t write stories that offer hope. Cathy and I both look on this as a ministry. I love crafting Christian Cinderella stories that illustrate how God takes our brokenness and even our mistakes and transforms them into something beautiful for Himself.

11. What themes do you like to write about?
Second chances are big in all of our stories...the Cinderella theme. The importance of strong marriages and family connections are also really important.

12. What is your favorite book you’ve written and why?
Possibly our third Minnesota book—Stillwater Promise. I really struggled with this one while I was writing it. It’s about a married couple with two little girls. The couple has been separated for two years and now the husband, a new Christian, is attempting reconciliation. I was worried that I wouldn’t be able to develop enough romantic “spark” between two people who knew each other so well and had hurt each other so deeply. In the end, I loved how the story played out and I even learned a few things to apply in my own marriage!

13. What is your writing schedule like?
As an empty-nester, I am blessed with time. I have two full days and two half days each week to devote to writing. I try to keep roughly the same 9 to 6 or 2 to 6 hours my husband does, but my Wednesday afternoons are gloriously devoted to watching my eight-month-old grandson (one of nine grandblessings

This week Becky Melby and Allie Pleiter

Congratulations to Holly for winning Shirley Connolly's I See God in the Simple Things and rebornbutterfly for winning Amy Deardon's A Lever Long Enough.

If you want to be entered in the drawings for Becky Melby's Walk with Me and/or Allie Pleiter's Bluegrass Courtship, please leave a comment with your email address. This is necessary in order for me to contact you--you will not be entered without an email address included or you can email me at margaretdaley@gmail.com to be entered. The drawings end this Sunday evening.

Becky Melby's bio:

Becky Melby has co-authored six inspirational romances with her friend of thirty-three years, Cathy Wienke. Walk with Me, the first in a series of Heartsong Presents romances based in Minnesota, was released in October of 2008. Walk with Me was chosen as the Heartsong Presents Editor’s #1 Contemporary Pick for 2008. A three-in-one collection, Wisconsin Blessings, by Barbour Publishing came out in February of 2006 and a novella, Over the Wall in Race to the Altar by Barbour, released in September of 2007. Cathy and Becky are currently working on their third Heartsong series, this one set in Illinois.

Becky has written more than two dozen juvenile and YA stories for publications such as Pockets, Straight, With, Junior Trails, and Encounter.

Parents of four sons and nine grandchildren, Becky and her husband Bill live in Wisconsin. They host and lead a small group Bible study in their home and enjoy backpacking, motorcycle rides, RVing, and anything that involves a house full of grandkid noise.

Walk with Me Synopsis:

Fresh out of prison, Trace McKay is the first parolee to join the Sanctuary program run by Sydney Jennet’s church. Trace doesn’t deny causing a man’s death, but there’s more to the story than some people in Pine Bluff, Minnesota want to believe—and church members are expressing their dissent with more than their voices. Sydney tries to remind the Sanctuary program’s critics of Jesus’ command to “love one another,” but never in her wildest imagination does she expect the first parolee in the program to be a man so good-looking, a man who knows the Lord. . .a man she finds herself falling madly in love with.

Trace has nothing to hide about his past, but someone in Pine Bluff won’t forgive him for it. Will the menacing threats targeting Trace and Sydney tear the two apart? Can Sydney find the courage to face her own past and trust Trace with the secrets she’s tried so hard to hide?


Allie Pleiter's bio:

An avid knitter, coffee junkie, and devoted chocoholic, Allie Pleiter writes both fiction and non-fiction. The enthusiastic but slightly untidy mother of two, Allie spends her days writing books, doing laundry, running carpools, and finding new ways to avoid housework. She grew up in Connecticut, holds a BS in Speech from Northwestern University, spent fifteen years in the field of professional fundraising, and currently lives in suburban Chicago, Illinois. The “dare from a friend” to begin writing nine years ago has given rise to a career spanning two parenting books, six novels including the multi-nominated MY SO-CALLED LOVE LIFE, and various national speaking engagements on faith, women’s issues, and writing. Visit her website at www.alliepleiter.com
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BLUEGRASS COURTSHIP back cover copy:

The celebrity host of TV’s Missionnovation, Drew Downing is comfortable with his fame. He’s become accustomed to the cheering, star-struck townfolk that usually welcome him as he renovates churches countrywide. Usually. Then he and his crew set up in tiny Middleburg, Kentucky, to rebuild the church’s storm-damaged preschool. The very lovely, very no-nonsense hardware store owner Janet Bishop is suspicious of Drew’s true motives. It looks like Janet Bishop’s faith—in God, in herself, and in love—needs some serious rebuilding. And Drew Downing is just the man for the job.

From RT Book Reviews Magazine:
“Four Stars--With some delightfully humorous moments, Pleiter delivers an appealing romance as well as a story filled with interesting characters”