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Who I Am With You by Robin Lee Hatcher – Review & Giveaway

January 20, 2019 by Suzie Waltner 2 Comments

About the book

Who I Am With YouFor these two broken hearts, the first step toward love will be a huge leap of faith.

Jessica Mason isn’t looking for love when she meets Ridley Chesterfield. Instead she is still reeling from the tragic, unexpected loss of her husband and daughter—and awaiting the arrival of her unborn child. Harboring the secret of her husband’s betrayal, her pain is deeper than anyone knows.

Ridley Chesterfield is hiding out in Hope Springs, Idaho, avoiding a political scandal and the barrage of false media headlines that have tarnished his good name. The last thing Ridley wants is a relationship—but when fate leads Ridley to form a friendship with his reclusive and pregnant neighbor, he wonders if this small-town hideout might be more of a long-term destination. 

When Jessica begins to read her great-grandfather’s Bible, she finds a connection with a man she never knew. Somehow the verses he marked and the words he wrote in the margins open her heart to healing. And as Ridley and Jessica help each other forgive the people who have broken their hearts, they must decide if the past will define them or if they will choose to love again.

Who I Am with You weaves together a modern-day romance with Jessica’s great-grandfather’s story from the 1930s, reminding us that some truths can cross generations and that faith has the power to transform families forever.

Who I Am with You is the first book in Robin’s new “A Legacy of Faith” series.

 

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Filed Under: Book Review Tagged With: Forgiveness, Idaho, marriage, Time Slip

Grace Restored by Toni Shiloh – Review, Snippet & a Giveaway

March 23, 2018 by Suzie Waltner 3 Comments

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About the Book

Grace Restored

Series: Freedom Lake
Genre:  Adult, Christian, Contemporary, Romance
Publisher: Indie
Publication date: March 20, 2017

Michelle Thomas has it all. Beautiful and successful, she’s just opened her own law firm in Freedom Lake. What more could she want? When her old flame rolls back into Freedom Lake, she’s intent on ignoring him. But how can she give the widower and his precious twin girls the cold shoulder?

Still reeling from the death of his wife, Guy Pierre returns to Freedom Lake to take over as town sheriff and raise his twin daughters. Alone. Yet, life keeps throwing Michelle in his path and sparks of interest began to rise.

Will old secrets tear them apart again or can they find the faith to let God’s grace restore what has been broken?

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Filed Under: Blog Tours, Book Review, Contests and Giveaways, Excerpt Tagged With: Excerpt, Forgiveness, forgiving yourself, Giveaway, Grace Restored, Past Regrets, Toni Shiloh

Still Waters by Lindsey P. Brackett Blog Tour (with Review, Behind the Scenes, & Giveaway)

September 21, 2017 by Suzie Waltner 2 Comments

Still Waters Lindsey Brackett

Still Waters Lindsey P. Brackett

 

Still Waters Lindsey P. BrackettGenre: Adult, Christian, Contemporary, Fiction
Publisher: Lighthouse Publishing of the Carolinas
Publication date: September 8, 2017

When her beloved grandmother requests one last summer at Still Waters, the family cottage on Edisto Beach, Cora Anne returns to a place that haunts her with loss and tempts her with forgiveness. Peace means reconciling her family and her Edisto memories. But acceptance may mean loving the man determined to preserve a past she’d rather forget.

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Cora Anne Halloway has a mapped out plan for her life. But when a roadblock is tossed in her way, her Nan offers her an alternative Cora Anne can’t get excited about. Returning to Edisto Beach, a place where so many things went wrong in her life, seems more of a nightmare than an opportunity.

Yet the lure of financing for graduate school lures her to the place she’s avoided for a summer of helping Nan organize the beach home. A summer that just might possibly heal all the hurt Cora Anne has harbored for years.

Lyndsey Brackett portrays Cora Anne’s fears, hurts, and remorse throughout this story. And each time the main character released a bit of her past, I rejoiced with her.

This family is so real. A mixture of chaos with three pre-teen triplet brothers, dysfunction with Cora Anne’s divorced parents, and fun with a cousin who shares a birthday and is more like a sister.
Then there’s Tennessee Watson. A man who has every reason to hate her but continues to show up. To draw her out.

This book drew me in and sat me down like a member of this family—both the blood relations and the community kind of family—and reminded me that while hurting is okay, letting it define the rest of my future is not. God forgives and forgets our sins and mistakes. How can we do any less?

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Disclosure statement:
I receive complimentary books for review from publishers, publicists, and/or authors, including NetGalley. I am not required to write positive reviews. The opinions I have expressed are my own. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission’s 16 CFR, Part 255. 

Still Waters Lindsey P. Brackett

Still Waters Lindsey P. Brackett

Still Waters Lindsey P. Brackett

Award-winning writer Lindsey P. Brackett once taught middle grades literature, but now she writes her own works in the midst of motherhood. A blogger since 2010, she has published articles and short stories in a variety of print and online publications including Thriving Family, Country Extra, HomeLife, Northeast Georgia Living, Splickety Prime, Splickety Love, and Southern Writers Magazine Best Short Fiction 2015. Lindsey serves as Editor of Web Content for the Splickety Publishing Group, and she writes a popular column for several North Georgia newspapers.

As a mother of four chaotic kids, her home is always full of wet towels, lost library books, and strong coffee. Her love of family ties and southern places prompted her debut novel, Still Waters, inspired by her own love of Edisto summers and peach ice cream. Connect with her at http://www.lindseypbrackett.com.

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  1. My grandparents actually met on a back road in Colleton County in the 1940’s. She was lost and he was bundling pine straw to sell. So that story inside the story is true.
  2. McConkey’s Jungle Shack—and they’re not kidding about the shack part—really does have the best fish tacos on the coast.
  3. Late in the book I reference a story about soldiers mistaking a loggerhead turtle for an enemy when the beach was being used as a lookout during WWII. This really happened and you can read about it in Nell Graydon’s Tales of Edisto, which I used for both reference and inspiration.
  4. We drive a blue minivan and it’s kind of well-known because the paint job was bad (thanks Honda) and we’ve never spend the money to fix it. So my best friend begged me to put the blue van in the story. It’s there, when Cora Anne and Nan stop at King’s Market, complete with a passel of kids. (I have four of those.)
  5. King’s Market has the best key lime pie. For real.
  6. My cousin Heather and I were born 18 hours apart, and our moms are sisters. Yes, she inspired Hannah. We spent (and still do sometimes) many weeks on Edisto with her family growing up. Our favorite thing was to hunt for sharks teeth and snail shells so we could make necklaces with our grandmother.
  7. The book is set in 2006 because I wanted a time period before social media’s invasion and before BiLo bought out the Piggly Wiggly. Edistonians are not coming around. They still call their only grocery store The Pig.
  8. The Edisto Island Open Land Trust is a gem I stumbled upon while researching what made the most sense for Tennessee’s philanthropic spirit. The EIOLT was the perfect fit since it’s all about preservation of the Island’s natural beauty, while empowering home owners to still be able to afford family property that’s been passed down for generations. The executive director, John, drank coffee with me one morning at the Edisto Coffee Shop and told me so much valuable information.
  9. Botany Bay (and that’s the Botany sentinel tree on my cover) was nearly destroyed by Hurricane Matthew in 2016. Edisto took the brunt of the storm’s hit and the eye passed over the island. The entire first row of houses were left standing in water since the beach was pushed inland. But the community there is strong and resilient. They’ve been rebuilding and regrouping. The beaches will never look the same, but as my mama says, “That’s nature. And life. Storms come and you have to deal with the aftermath.” Or, as Tennessee puts it in the story, “Sometimes a storm’s what clears out the junk…”
  10. Edisto Beach still has a video store, probably the last one left in the country. It’s also one of two places in the town to get ice cream—unless you’re sitting on your own porch enjoying the ocean breeze and listening for the churn to slow down. 

Still Waters Lindsey P. Brackett

Still Waters Lindsey P. Brackett

 

Still Waters Lindsey P. Brackett

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Filed Under: Blog Tours, Book Review, Contests and Giveaways Tagged With: Christian Fiction, Contemporary, Edisto, Faith, Family, Forgiveness, Lindsey P. Brackett

The Power of Grace and Love

February 6, 2016 by Suzie Waltner 1 Comment

Have you ever dwelt on the poor choices and mistakes you’ve made in your past? Perhaps the affects of those sins were far reaching. Despite receiving forgiveness from those you’ve hurt in the process (family, friends, innocent bystanders) and God’s grace, you don’t feel deserving of any of it. In the second book of her Penned in Time series, The Thorn Keeper, author Pepper Basham explores the power of God’s grace and love.

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In the midst of World War I, Catherine Dougall walks a fine line between the woman she was a year ago—one who flirted with every eligible man who might secure her fortune, one who brought pain to those who loved her in an attempt to find the approval she never received from her own father—with the one she is now—someone who desired nothing more than to serve. Her family home in Ednesbury, England has been turned into a makeshift hospital and orphanage, and Catherine tirelessly spends her day helping wherever she can, often beside her friend, Dr. David Ross.

There are more hurting people than those with her home, and Catherine finds injustice in the way so many less fortunate are shunned by David’s aunt, the patroness of the town. Her resolve to better the circumstances of the lower social class brings her face-to-face with her own situation and where she could be in months if not for the family and friends surrounding her.

As Catherine brings hope to the soldiers hospitalized in her home and the women in town who need some hope and encouragement, she struggles with her feelings toward the doctor and how her past can ruin the kind, caring, man she’s grown to care for deeply.

By the end of the second chapter of this book, I was both enchanted and endeared by Catherine Dougall. She makes no apologies for the woman she is, the decisions she makes, her stubborn streak, or her tenacity in bettering the lives of those around her. David’s steadfast and caring personality is the perfect complement to Catherine’s fiery one.

The theme of this book is grace and forgiveness—especially forgiving oneself for those past choices. Basham does an excellent job of handling the balance of a renewed life lived for God with a past life lived in self ambition and the lasting consequences of the latter. For those who read the first book in the series, reading The Thorn Keeper will be like visiting old friend and for those who have not, you will still feel like part of the Dougall family as you settle in with this group of people.

***Vinspire Publishing provided me with a complimentary copy of this book via NetGalley in exchange for an honest and fair review. All opinions expressed are my own.

Filed Under: Book Review Tagged With: Christ Fic, CR4U, Forgiveness, Grace, Historical Fiction, Hope, Pepper Basham, Vinspire Publishing, World War I

Return to King’s Meadow, Idaho One Last Time

January 11, 2016 by Suzie Waltner Leave a Comment

I’ve enjoy spending time in Robin Lee Hatcher’s fictional Idaho small town. The characters have become familiar and loved. And Hatcher ends her King’s Meadow series with a tale of letting go, of living, of forgiving, that packs a punch.

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When Penny Cartwright’s younger brother is killed in a car accident, her world comes crashing down around her. She hadn’t been supportive of his brother’s decision to move to Nashville and pursue his dream as a drummer in a band. And now, she’ll never get the chance to tell him she loves him again. Penny’s goal is to take care of her dad and survive her day-to-day routines. When her hands are occupied and her mind is busy, she doesn’t focus on the pain of her loss. Not until Trevor Reynolds moves to town.

Trevor’s determined to keep his promise to his young drummer and spend some time in Idaho. Unsure of exactly what he’s supposed to do while there, the one thing he’s sure of is that he needs to talk to Brad Cartwright’s dad and sister. And while Rodney accepts him immediately, Penny can barely stand to remain in the same room with him, let alone look at him. What will it take to prove he’s not a bad person? That he’d made a mistake he blames himself for when he allowed Brad to drive in the middle of the night instead of stopping for a hotel? And what was it about her that drew him?

Hatcher delves into the difficult subject of grief and morning as well as forgiveness and letting go of blame—whether for oneself or another. When bitterness is released, true healing can begin.

****Thomas Nelson and NetGalley provided me with a complimentary copy of this book in exchange for an honest and fair review. All opinions expressed are my own.

Filed Under: Book Review Tagged With: Forgiveness, Idaho, King's Meadow Series, Netgalley, Robin Lee Hatcher, Singers, Thomas Nelson

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