Congratulations to Sarah for winning Liz Johnson’s SEAL under Siege and to Amy for winning Jan Watson’s Tattler’s Branch.
This week I’m hosting Janet Lee Barton with A Place of Refuge, Judy Christie with Sweet Olive, and Janet Bly with Stuart Brannon’s Final Shot (US and Canada only). If you want to enter the drawings for the books, please leave a comment on one of the post during the week with your email address. I will not enter you without an email address (my way to contact you if you win). If you don’t want to leave an email address, another way you can enter is to email me at margaretdaley@gmail.com. The drawings end Sunday (Sept. 29th) evening.
Janet Lee Barton was born in New Mexico and has lived all over in Arkansas, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma and Texas. She loves researching and writing historical romance. Janet and her husband live in Oklahoma, where they feel blessed to live near one daughter and her family.
The Blurb for A Place of Refuge by Janet Lee Barton:
A Hero from Her Past
If Kathleen O’Bryan were capable of trusting any man, it might be someone like Luke Patterson. She never expected to be reunited with the man that rescued her last summer. But when she arrives at Mrs. Heaton’s boardinghouse, seeking refuge, it’s the handsome writer who greets her at the door.
Something about the lovely Irish immigrant stirs Luke’s protective instincts. Life in New York’s harsh tenements hasn’t dimmed Kathleen’s tender spirit. Day by day, Luke feels the walls around his heart crumble. But it will take faith on Kathleen’s side, too, and the heart’s power to recognize a real home at last….
Judy Christie writes fiction with a Louisiana flavor, including “Sweet Olive,” her seventh novel. Judy started keeping a diary when she was nine–and still has all of them. A former newspaper editor and reporter, Judy blogs from her green kitchen couch at www.judychristie.com and loves visiting with readers at book clubs and online on Facebook and Twitter. Judy is also the author of the five-part Green series of novels, including “Gone to Green,” set in the fictional Louisiana town of Green, and “Wreath,” a novel about a 16-year-old girl who lives in a Central Louisiana junkyard after her mother die.
Blurb for Sweet Olive by Judy Christie:
“Sweet Olive” (Zondervan/HarperCollins Christian Publishing) is about what happens when a unique Southern town collides with the outside world and big oil. Oil-and-gas negotiator Camille Gardner must entice a group of rural landowners to sell their mineral rights and, instead, finds herself drawn to the folk art created by those same landowners. The first novel in the Trumpet and Vine series, it is set at an intersection in the fictional town of Samford, Louisiana. Publishers Weekly compares “Sweet Olive” to the Jan Karon Mitford series, and Library Journal and Romantic Times praise it as a story that will draw readers into the ambience of the small-town South and the people who live there.
Janet Chester Bly has published 30 nonfiction and fiction books, 18 she co-authored with her late husband, Christy Award winner Stephen Bly. Titles include The Hidden West Series, The Carson City Chronicles, Hope Lives Here, and The Heart of a Runaway. She resides in Winchester, Idaho. Her 3 married sons, Russell, Michael & Aaron, live down the mountain in Lewiston with their families.
Blurb for Stuart Brannon’s Final Shot by Stephen Bly with Janet Chester Bly, Russell Bly, Michael Bly, and Aaron Bly (in hardback, paperback or ebook):
Finishing Dad’s novel was a family affair. Can a committee create fiction? We had the passion and four months to find out.
It’s 1905. Two orphans flee from Oregon’s Tillamook Head. One of them is branded a hero. Dare they tell the truth and risk the wrath of a dangerous man? Meanwhile, a retired lawman searches for his missing U.S. Marshal friend while he grapples with the game of golf on behalf of a celebrity tournament.