The calendar has flipped and it’s fall even though it doesn’t feel anything like that where I live. But I know the cooler weather is coming and soon that will fade and winter will be here.
I’ve partnered with other authors for a sale on books to fill your e-readers for such a time. Reading, hot drinks and comfy blankets are my favorite way to spend my evenings. I’m thinking you might feel the same?
It’s not out yet, not until Aug. 8th. But it is available for preorder on Amazon.
This was a fun book to write. Lori and Lucy were in the other A Time for Love books and they needed to tell their stories. In a Time to Heal they got their chance.
It’s been a great month for reading. Lots of rainy days and nights is a good reason to hang out in a chair with my Kindle. Except for nights when the hockey playoffs are on and then my attention goes to our local team. The St. Louis Blues. I’m not a big sports fan except for hockey. For some reason I like it. I think it’s because I’m amazed at the agility of the players. I can not stand up on ice at all.
I’ve jumped into KindleUnlimited with gusto and have had fun tracking down good books to read.
From Book 1: The Cowboy’s Christmas Reunion A jilted cowboy gets a second chance at love when his ex-fiancée returns with her small daughter.
From Book 2: The Cowboy’s Mixed-Up Matchmaker Friends become more in this romance with a matchmaker bent on finding dates for the cowboy she believes doesn’t return her love.
From Book 3: The Cowboy’s Romantic Dreamer Opposites attract in this romance with a grumpy cowboy burned by love and a bubbly romance editor with (almost) all the answers!
From Book 4: The Cowboy’s Convenient Marrage. Rivals form a marriage of convenience in this contemporary cowboy romance but plan not to fall in love.
From Book 5: The Cowboy’s Belated Discovery. In this epiphany romance, all she asks is one shot at winning his heart, but he can’t take one more chance at love.
From Book 6: The Cowboy’s Reluctant Bride. In this unexpected pregnancy romance, they’ve both had a change of heart, but secrets make it hard to trust.
On the vast, uncharted Kentucky frontier of the 1770s, Temperance Tucker has learned to be fleet of foot, accurate with her rifle, and silent about the past. But her family secrets complicate her growing attraction to a handsome Virginia land surveyor with a harsh history of his own. Will the hurts and hardships of the past prevent them from a fulfilling future?
When I drive around this country it’s hard to imagine what it looked like in 1770. Thanks to my GPS on my phone I never get lost. Temperance Tucker has her own GPS–her eyes and her memory.
Following her story deep into the woods of Kentucky and a hair-raising event inside of a cave kept me reading many nights after my bedtime.
It’s not your normal romance where the couple meets and fall in love and marry. It’s much more complicated and the setting takes on a life as a character.
If you want a book that’s not so fast-paced allowing you to live in the book’s world for a time, this book is for you.
I know I should be writing but I downloaded Christy Barritt’s Lantern Beach P.D. series. They are on KindleUnlimited so I devoured them like a sack of candy at least there weren’t calories involved.
These are great, they are light on gory details which makes them perfect for me. I like to read books with romance and police cases but I’m not a fan of being terrified.
And while it’s fun to read them back to back you don’t have to. The books are good on their own.
Cassidy and Ty are back in an all-new Lantern Beach series that will leave readers wanting more . . .
A runaway woman. A dead body. A mysterious compound.
When Cassidy Chambers accepted the job as police chief on Lantern Beach, she knew the island had its secrets. But a suspicious death with potentially far-reaching implications will test all her skills—and threaten to reveal her true identity.
Cassidy enlists the help of her husband, former Navy SEAL Ty Chambers. As they dig for answers, both uncover parts of their pasts that are best left buried. Not everything is as it seems, and they must figure out if their John Doe is connected to the secretive group that has moved onto the island.
As facts materialize, the danger on the island grows. Can Cassidy and Ty discover the truth about the shadowy crimes in their cozy community? Or has darkness permanently invaded their beloved Lantern Beach?
It’s spring weather sort of…rainy, gloomy and partly sunny.
Over the winter I’ve watched some of the Netflix series Tidying Up and read the Cozy Minimalist. I’ve been inspired to remove some of the things in my home.
But…
The idea of piling all my clothes on the bed and donating
the ones that don’t bring me joy sounds like a bad idea. I’m tired of wearing
my winter clothes and it’s not warm enough to switch over for the next season.
If I followed Marie Kondo’s advice next winter, I’d have to shop for an entire
new wardrobe. Sounds like fun.
But…
My bank account has been following the minimalist life style
too long for me to purchase much of anything new.
Then there are the books. So many books in my house and I’ve
donated a lot of those already. I’m going to say the ones that remain all bring
me joy or like the ones my laptop sits on earn their keep.
Collections to pair down? I had to think about that one. I
don’t seem to have those either unless you count the millions of files and
photos on computer. I suppose I could take the next ten years and tidy those
up. Nah. Can’t see those so they can’t possible count as clutter, right?
There is one room in my house that could use some tidying.
The sewing room.
Shudder. That room is a scary mess. So many things were
piled in there when my son and his wife and my grandkids moved in while their
house was being built. Sure they took their stuff out but the room is ‘out of
sorts’ in a major way.
This is where following these plans becomes tricky. It seems to be the area that I’m not ready to let go of that causes me and maybe others to hold back from letting go.
That room will take a long time to go through and I’ll have to evaluate if I want to keep sewing. I think I do but honestly, I haven’t sewn anything in five years. But I want too, I think. I don’t have time until summer to tackle this issue, but it is weighing on me. And that’s when the tidying up and minimalist people say it’s time to get to work and find out what’s important enough to stay.
I’m giving going to set a deadline for next September to have that room back together or packed to donate. Pray for me!
What about you? Have you hopped on this crazy train of
living like a minimalist?
I’m giving going to set a deadline of next September to have that room back together or packed to donate. Pray for me! What about you? Have you hopped on this crazy train of living like a minimalist?
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This month isn’t over yet but I’ve got two fun books to recommend.
We had a few snow/windchill days here in Illinois so school was canceled. That meant I could read!
I dug into this one, no pun intended. I couldn’t stop reading!
After seven years as a Chicago homicide detective, Lisa Grant has hit a wall. Ready for a kinder, gentler life, she takes a job as a small-town police chief. But the discovery of a human skeleton by a construction crew at the edge of town taxes the resources of her department. A call for assistance brings detective Mac McGregor, an ex-Navy SEAL, to her doorstep. As they work to solve the mystery behind the unmarked grave, danger begins to shadow them. Someone doesn’t want this dead person telling any tales–and will stop at nothing to make certain a life-shattering secret stays buried.
And this one. I love the character in this series. Joey Darling is a mess but doing her best to pull it all together but trouble is always finding her.
Actress Joey Darling is beginning a new season . . . of her TV show and her life.
Joey Darling’s life is finally on track. Her hit series has been picked up by a new network, her relationship with Detective Jackson Sullivan couldn’t be better, and she’s even bought a house. But right after taking possession, Joey discovers a dead body upstairs.
Joey knows she won’t have any peace until she figures out why a dead woman was left at her house and who killed her. And she desperately needs peace as the “normal” life she’s trying to establish quickly progresses from great to the brink of collapse.
The countdown is ticking as Joey must soon leave to begin filming. But one gaffe after another slows her investigation and makes her question her choices. The closer Joey gets to answers, the more someone is determined to make sure this season of her life is canceled—permanently.
