Category: Historical

INTERVIEW | Andrea Boeshaar

Andrea, describe yourself for our visitors. I’m a published author of 36 novels, novellas, and nonfiction. I’m a certified Christian life coach and I teach writing workshops. I’ve been married for more than 30 years. My husband and I have 3 adult sons, all of whom are married, and 2 precious grandchildren. That’s me in [...]

BOOK REVIEW | Wagered Heart

Wagered Heart by Robin Lee Hatcher The book opens as Bethany Silverton is walking through the town of Sweetwater, Montana, her new home. It is a small town, one that doesn’t even have a church…yet. That is her goal as she goes from building to building, letting the people know that her father, Reverend Silverton [...]

BOOK REVIEW | A Lady of High Regard

A Lady of High Regard (Book #1 Ladies for Liberty) by Tracie Peterson Mia Stanley is a lady of high regard living in late nineteenth century  Pennsylvania fighting for the rights of women and children beyond what  her social status believes is appropriate. Tracie Peterson has done it  again in my opinion. I must admit [...]

BOOK REVIEW | Snowbound Colorado Christmas

SNOWBOUND COLORADO CHRISTMAS Authors: Susan Page Davis, Lena Nelson Dooley, Darlene Franklin, Tamela Thalia Bloom hosts a Christmas party on December 3, 1913, and it is the talk of Denver. However, the gently falling snow turns into a blizzard and lasts six days… Fires of Love by Tamela Hancock Murray: Thalia Bloom looks forward to [...]

BOOK REVIEW | Shadow of Danger

SHADOW OF DANGER by Jeanne Marie Leach Rachel Ringhold is forced to leave the orphanage she lived in and told that she needs to run for her life and not return. Rachel doesn’t know where to go, until she remembers an old friend, Seb Jemeson. Seb had moved to Colorado, so Rachel starts out to [...]

BOOK REVIEW | The Shape of Mercy

The Shape of Mercy by Susan Meissner Anyone who’s been a reader here for any length of time knows just how much I love Susan Meissner’s books. She has a way of wrapping tendrils of letters and pages around your heart and squeezing until you feel the story inside of you. She has done something [...]

BOOK REVIEW | Jessie

Jessie by Lori Wick At about half way through I can tell you that the story is good and fun and intriguing. But the writing is irritating. Much as I said when I reviewed Sabrina by Lori Wick, the word usage is just awkward and causes a break in concentration and overall is ruining the [...]

BOOK REVIEW | My Heart Remembers

MY HEART REMEMBERS by Kim Vogel Sawyer Maelle Gallagher woke up in the wee hours of the morning, to a fire. Her father helps her rescue her younger brother and sister, but he and their mother die in the fire. Orphaned, a police officer takes the three children to an orphanage, but he misunderstood Maelle [...]

BOOK REVIEW | Washington’s Lady

WASHINGTON’S LADY by Nancy Moser Martha Curtis has known too much loss. Her father-in-law, her father, her husband, and two of her children all die in less than eight years. Martha vows never to love again, but before too long, she finds herself enamored with a war hero, George Washington. Still, Martha worries whether George [...]

BOOK REVIEW | The Falcon and the Sparrow

THE FALCON AND THE SPARROW by M. L. Tyndall Dominique Celene Dawson is a traitor. She has no choice but to be one. Either she betray mother England, or she’ll never see her brother again. Dominique has been offered a rule as governess to the six-year-old son, William, of the Navy Admiral Chase Randal—but her [...]