In the midst of WWII, Jane Linder pours all her energy and dreams for a family into her career at the Toronto Children’s Aid Society. As acting directress, Jane hopes for a permanent appointment so she can continue making a difference in the lives of troubled children. But if anyone were to find out she is divorced, everything would change. 

Garrett Wilder has been hired to overhaul operations at the Children’s Aid Society. He hopes to impress the board members with his findings and earn the vacant director’s position. A war injury ended his dream of taking over his parents’ farm, but with the security of the director’s job, he’d be able to contribute financially and help save the family business. 

Despite their competing interests, feelings begin to blossom between them. But then Jane’s ex-husband returns from overseas with an unexpected proposition that could fulfill her deepest desires. Suddenly at a crossroads, can Jane discern the path to true happiness?

‘Really, Lord? how much more agony am I expected to bear?’

It’s WWII and Jane Linder is working as acting directress of the Toronto Children’s Aid Society. Then a stranger is hired to do some quality control at the home and make sure Jane’s doing a good job. Garrett Wilder has been injured in the war and there is not much he can do, and he hopes to qualify to take over Jane’s job if his investigation proves she is not doing a good enough job. Jane loves her job but she is scared to death someone will find out she is divorced and change everything. And Jane is also taking care of her near invalid mother. Then there is Martin, the eight year old boy who cannot seem to find a place anywhere in any foster home.

‘She was tired of being strong all the time. Tired of the constant weight of responsibility.’

All these ingredients add up to a marvelous story. Jane loves children and desperately wants to continue working with them. Garrett seriously needs a job that is not strenuous and can’t work on his parents’ apple farm. Then things get complicated when they began to have feelings for one another. Everyone at work thinks Jane’s husband is off in the war.

Mason takes all these ingredients and puts together a book that you won’t soon forget. It’s rich and full and she knows how to delve into the depths of her characters’ hearts and longings. Even the children. I had a hard time putting it down. And there are moments when tears flow at the goodness of God. Well done!

My thanks to Bethany House for a copy of this book via Net Galley. I was not expected to leave a positive review and the opinion here is expressly my own.

Kentucky packhorse librarian Tansy Calhoun doesn’t mind the rough trails and long hours as she serves her Appalachian mountain community during the Great Depression. Yet she longs to find love like the heroines in her books. When a charming writer comes to town, she thinks she might have found it–or is the perfect man actually closer than she thinks?

Perdita Sweet has called these mountains home for so long she’s nearly as rocky as the soil around her small cabin. Long ago she thought she could love, but when the object of her affection up and married someone else, she stopped giving too much of herself away to others.

As is so often the case, it’s easier to see what’s best for others than to see what’s best for oneself, and Perdita knows who Tansy should choose. But why would anyone listen to the romantic advice of an old spinster?

Saddle up for a heartfelt story of love–love of family, love of place, and the love of a lifetime–from bestselling author Ann H. Gabhart.

‘The way the Lord can bring blessings at hard times can confound a body for certain.’

The time is the Great Depression, the setting is Appalachia, and the story is full and rich. Tansy Calhoun is a WPA packhorse librarian (this was a real program) and she thoroughly enjoys bringing the richness of books to those up in the hills and other areas of her county. Folks that are barely surviving at times and they sure do love these books Tansy brings every few weeks. Tansy doesn’t just drop books off; she visits and reads to them, listens to their problems and prays for them. She discovers that everyone has a story to tell, some painful and hard to hear. But she presses on.

I find it amazing that these women were willing to endure so much to bring books to folks in this remote area of Kentucky in such hard times. Being a book lover, this story is particularly interesting to me. I would have loved seeing a book woman ride up on a horse, bringing me a new book to read.

‘Sometimes Tansy thought every prayer she’d ever thought to pray and some she hadn’t thought up had been answered the day she got one of the book routes here in Owsley County.’

Ann Gabhart opens the door up to these people and their lives in Appalachia and we are able to feel what they feel and also experience their hurts. All because of her gift at story telling. She makes them come alive.

Told in her signature style, Gabhart’s cadence rolls sweetly along throughout the book. I found myself invested in their lives as I let myself be carried away with the flow. Such wonderful characters and powerful emotions they had! I was captivated! I can highly recommend this one. And, in my opinion, it’d make a most excellent movie. Well done!

My thanks to Revell Publishing for a copy of this book via Net Galley. I was not expected to leave a positive review. The opinion here is entirely my own.

A Country Girl with a Big Dream by Ann H. Gabhart

Hi, everybody. Susan invited me over to visit, but she said she didn’t want the usual song and dance about writing this or that book, although I do have to mention Along a Storied Trail that had its book birthday on June 1. If you like storytelling, you just might like riding along with my packhorse librarian as she takes books up into the hills.

Okay, that was my book pitch. Now I’m going to tell you a story about a little country girl with a big dream.

I grew up in a white clapboard house built around two log rooms. I was born in one of those rooms more than a few years ago. My father was a farmer and my mother a farmwife. Dad raised corn and tobacco and had beef cows. Mama raised chickens, a garden and three girls. We butchered our own meat. Well, I didn’t. Dad did although I did get in on stirring the lard in the big black kettle over a fire and enjoyed eating cracklings. Mom canned our vegetables and fruits and made jam out of the wild blackberries we picked. Oh, and we sometime had a strawberry patch. My favorite. Nothing better than a strawberry with the kiss of the sun still warming it.

Dad had sheep too and sometimes when one of the ewes had twins she would decide two was one too many. So we would raise the rejected baby on a bottle. Loved those little curly lambs. We never lacked for cats and kittens around the farm to pet. Then, when I was eight or so, I got the dog hunger and one of dad’s friends brought me a pup. I was a happy kid. I don’t think I’ve been without a dog since except after my dear Oscar died of bone cancer in 2017. A couple of dog lonely months went by before I found my wild and wooly Frankie at a humane shelter. A year later, a church friend needed a home for her dog, Marley, and we added him to the family.

Back to the pleasures of growing up on a farm. We had to help with the picking and weeding and whatever else needed doing on the farm, but I also had plenty of time for fun and walking in the woods and reading. I loved to read. Still do. But that loving to read back when I was a kid gave me the wild idea to write a book myself. I wanted to be a Hardy girl (like those Hardy boys) and solve a mystery. No actual mysteries out on our farm, so I wrote my own story in a wire bound notebook. I’ve been writing ever since.

When I started noticing boys, the Lord must have been watching out for me and helped me meet the right guy at the young age of fourteen.  I was a teenage bride, and by the time I was nineteen, I was mom of two babies. That will grow a girl up fast. But I never lost my dream to write stories. Between changing diapers and washing those diapers (everybody washed diapers back then) I somehow found time to keep writing. I had some pieces published in church magazines to encourage me. Then, I wrote a novel and never looked back. I loved bringing characters to life that I could live with for months while they shared their stories with me.

Success didn’t come overnight. We bought a farm and built a house. We had another baby. I helped my husband on the farm. He took a job off the farm but money was still tight. We had a huge garden and I filled shelves with canned vegetables and froze some fruits and vegetables too. I wrote my first book while Captain Kangaroo entertained my youngest son and the older two were in school. That book didn’t sell. Nor did the second book I wrote, but the third book, a historical romance, found a home at Warner Books.

I’d like to say it was all smooth sailing after that, but no. I’ve had some rocky valley times with my writing when I couldn’t find any loving editors for the stories I wrote. Along the way, I did some temporary secretarial work to help pay the bills, but after a while, I’d quit so I could have more time for writing.

Fortunately for me, Christian fiction was gaining an audience. Also fortunately for me, the Lord put a story in my heart about a young teen and her preacher father. That book, Scent of Lilacs, did find a loving editor and I’ve been blessed to have published over twenty books in the Christian market. I love including the faith journeys of my characters in my stories. I also like setting those books in Kentucky and finding ways to include my love of nature and sometimes dogs (or cats in my Hidden Springs mysteries) in my stories. 

My husband and I have been members of a little country church for over fifty years. We still live out here on the farm where I like to go walking with my dogs and now and again, some of my nine grandkids. I am blessed to have a beautiful wilderness area that has a creek that springs up out of the ground at the base or a tall cliff. The clear creek ripple over rocks down a narrow valley. Beside the creek and on the hillsides, wildflowers abound.

I’m thankful for my phone camera that lets me snap pictures to my heart’s content without the first worry about the cost of film. I enjoy sharing my pictures of flowers, the creek, and my dogs. I’ve also been known to take a grandkid picture now and again. I like to post my pictures on my Facebook author’s page, Instagram and on my blog to liven up the posts. Sometimes that picture might be a beautiful wildflower. Other times it could be dew on a spider web or frost on a dandelion puff.  But I think my cow and snake pictures can get the most response.

Frankie and Marley keep me moving by demanding we go walking every day. Frankie has a clock in his dog head and when it’s our usual walking time, he comes in my office and pushes his ninety pound body between me and the keyboard. He doesn’t crawl all the way up in my lap. He’s too big for that, but half of him is heavy enough. He has a way of convincing me that a walk will give me time to think up some new plot points. Marley is much more patient, but where Frankie is, he wants to be too.

My husband is retired from farming now, and we lease the farm to a young man who has a herd of cattle. That lets me enjoy seeing the new calves in the spring, and the dogs get to bark at the cows that give them a look that says “not them again.” We gave over most of the garden spot to our son who has a growing family, but we do keep a few rows for ourselves. I don’t put up (can or freeze) as much as I used to. I can green beans, make a little blackberry jam, freeze some tomatoes and zucchini while enjoying fresh produce out of the garden during the summer. 

I’m still a country girl who sometimes can’t believe my big dream to write books came true. But I am so very glad it did. I smile every time someone says they’ve read one of my stories. I’m happy when reader friends say they enjoy my newsletter or that they like digitally sharing my Sunday morning walks on Facebook or hearing about what Frankie and Marley are up to.

Sometimes the Lord gives a person the desires of her heart.  I’m blessed to be one of those people.

Thank you, Susan, for inviting me over and letting me chat about that little girl with a big dream.

Members of Hanger’s Horsemen, Mark Wallace and Jonah Brooks arrive in Llano County, Texas, to deliver a steed, never expecting they’d deliver a baby as well. Left with an infant to care for, they head to a nearby foundling home, where Mark encounters the woman he’d nearly married a decade ago.

After failing at love, Katherine Palmer dedicated her life to caring for children, teaming up with Eliza Southerland to start Harmony House. From mixed ancestry, illegitimate, and female, Eliza understands the pain of not fitting society’s mold. Yet those are the very attributes that lead her to minister to outcast children. The taciturn Jonah intrigues her with his courage and kindness, but there are secrets behind his eyes–ghosts from wars past and others still being waged.

However, when a handful of urchin children from the area go missing, a pair of Horsemen are exactly what the women need. Working together to find the children, will these two couples find love as well?

‘The Almighty had his hands on this. He assigned the Horsemen this duty, and I ain’t about to argue with him. Are you?’

Karen Witemeyer kicked off this series last year with ‘At Love’s Command’ and I was blown away by how wonderful it was! It made my top reads of the year for 2020. I absolutely loved it so much and was on pins and needles until the second book in the series came out. Now it’s here and I am once again just amazed at her talent.

This is Mark and Jonah’s story. As they are headed home after a horse sale, they travel by a cabin where a lone woman is in the throes of childbirth. From there, they must head to a foundling home where Mark is shocked to see the woman who once turned down a marriage proposal. She and another woman run the home. Soon after, they discover some serious crimes are being committed, and being two members of Hanger’s Horsemen, cannot turn aside without trying to catch the culprits.

‘He’d battled raiding Indians, survived being shot by rustlers, and outsmarted deadly outlaws as part of an elite military squad. He could lay siege to a woman’s heart and wear down her resistance.’

Jonah also finds himself faced with a wonderful woman who truly acts as if she can’t stand the sight of him. Eliza knows better than to trust a man and has determined she will remain on her own the rest of her life. But she hasn’t figured on the absolute integrity of this man. Jonah’s character was just done so incredibly well. And let me tell you, his horse, Augustus, was one of the true heroes of this story! I loved that horse so much! Well done!

Karen Witemeyer has always been a favorite of mine, but this series is my total favorite of her work! I am proud to have her books on my shelves. There is so much to love about this book. It was captivating! Highly recommended.

My thanks to Bethany House Publishers for a copy of this book via Net Galley. I was not required to leave a positive review. The opinion here is expressly my own.

The ultimate cure that could heal any disease? Crazy.

That’s exactly what research scientist Marian Creighton has always believed about her father’s quest, even if it does stem from a desire to save her sister Ellen from the genetic disease that stole their mother from them. But when her father falls into a coma after drinking a vial of holy water believed to contain traces of residue from the Tree of Life, Marian must question all of her assumptions. He’s left behind tantalizing clues that suggest he’s crossed back in time. Insane. Until Marian tests his theories and finds herself in the Middle Ages during a dangerous peasant uprising.

William Durham, a valiant knight comes to Marian’s rescue and offers her protection . . . as his wife. The longer Marian stays in the past, the more she cares about William. Can she ever find her father and make it back to the present to heal her sister? And when the time comes to leave, will she want to?

Bestselling author Jody Hedlund is your guide down the twisting waters of time to a volatile era of superstition, revolts, and chivalry in this suspenseful story.

‘What had she gotten herself into?’

I have been a fan of Jody Hedlund’s since her first book, which still sits on my shelves. So, of course, I want to read everything she writes. However, as a rule, I don’t much care for time travel. There are a very few authors who have done it well that I’ve read. I love Hedlund’s work, so I decided that I wanted to read her take on time travel. Boy, was I in for a surprise!

Hedlund’s take on time travel is so unique that I was immediately intrigued and totally invested in the story. Imagine, if you will, that drinking a vial of holy water from the fourteenth century could cure a person in the present day. I think one would agree that it is a unique premise. Imagine again, finding that vial and barely putting your lips to it and being transported to another time? What had she gotten herself into?’

I have been a fan of Jody Hedlund’s since her first book, which still sits on my shelves. So, of course, I want to read everything she writes. However, as a rule, I don’t much care for time travel. There are a very few authors who have done it well that I’ve read. I love Hedlund’s work, so I decided that I wanted to read her take on time travel. Boy, was I in for a surprise!
rted back to 1381 England. Well, that did it for me. I love the medieval setting and Hedlund has proven more than once that she does this genre well indeed.

Will Durham, a most valiant knight, rescues Marian from a beating and offers her protection as his wife. His wife! Wait a minute! The ramifications of this particular situation could be long reaching and possibly very uncomfortable. But Marian goes along with it, hoping that she an get back to the present day with the vials of holy water needed to heal her father, who is in a coma, and her sister, who has a genetic disease. Then, on top of everything else, England is in the midst of a dangerous peasant uprising. (Hedlund does her research well and includes actual historical events in all her books.) Now, about Will Durham. What a powerful and totally swoon worthy hero this dude is. His character is a sight to behold. A true and valiant, most chivalrous knight. And soon Marian is wondering if she really wants to go back to the present day.

I was completely captivated by this book. I have always enjoyed Hedlund’s books and she has proven she is incredibly good at switching genres effortlessly. Although I must admit, I am completely partial to her medieval settings. She is tops there! I cannot WAIT for the second in this series! I can highly recommend this one.

My thanks to Revell Publishing for a copy of this book via Net Galley. I was not required to leave a positive review. The opinion expressed here is entirely my own.

1885. 
Adria Fontaine has been sent to recover goods her father pirated on the Great Lakes during the war. But when she arrives at Foxglove Manor–a stone house on a cliff overlooking Lake Superior–Adria senses wickedness hovering over the property. The mistress of Foxglove is an eccentric and seemingly cruel old woman who has filled her house with dangerous secrets, ones that may cost Adria her life. 

Present day. 
Kailey Gibson is a new nurse’s aide at a senior home in a renovated old stone manor. Kidnapped as a child, she has nothing but locked-up memories of secrets and death, overshadowed by the chilling promise from her abductors that they would return. When the residents of Foxglove start sharing stories of whispers in the night, hidden treasure, and a love willing to kill, it becomes clear this ho

‘Ain’t nothing lives long here at Foxglove Manor.’

Jaime Jo Wright once again employs her trademark time slip to to plunge her readers into a gothic tale that will grip your attention from the very first paragraph and doesn’t let go until the last page is turned.

1885. Alexandria Fontaine is sent to Foxglove Manor by her hateful father to find his gold. Foxglove Manor is set on a cliff overlooking Lake Superior. Adria feels only desperate evil here, a house chock full of secrets. And strangers. She suspects everything here and feels no peace at all.

‘Being afraid just came with the territory of living in Foxglove Manor.’

Present Day. Kailey Gibson goes to work at Foxglove Manor and is given permission to bring her older autistic brother with her. The brother who writes down series of letters that puzzle her and which seem to have something to do with the creepiness of Foxglove Manor. She, too, feels the overpowering secrets of the place.

Creepy in all the best ways, Foxglove Manor holds mysteries that will hold two women captive and they must risk everything to destroy the demons of the past. Jaime Joe Wright is in her element here. Her vivid descriptions of everything plops the reader right down into the middle of the story and they are not let go! This one held me totally enthralled all the way through. I highly recommend this one.

My thanks to Bethany House Publishers for a copy of this book via Net Galley. I was not required to leave a positive review. The opinions in this review is entirely my own.

‘Coincidences happened but when murder was involved, nothing was above suspicion. ‘

Virginia Vaughan adds to her series with this fast paced suspense book. Seeing her friend has been murdered, Kellyanne finds herself guardian of a four month old boy and her ex boyfriend has just walked back into her life. And all of a sudden, someone wants both her and the baby dead. So now she must trust Zeke and her lawmen brothers to keep them safe.

Action packed and populated with fine characters, Vaughan once again proves she is a dab hand at inspirational suspense. Well done.

My thanks to the publisher and author for a copy of this book. The opinion here is entirely my own.

Publisher: Love Inspired
Pubblication Date: June 29, 2021
Genre: Inspirational Romantic Suspense
Length: 164 pages
Buy Link: Texas Baby Cover-Up (Cowboy Lawmen Book 4) – Kindle edition by Vaughan, Virginia. Religion & Spirituality Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.

Audrey is a viscount’s daughter who has suffered her sister Maris’s cruel, jealous behavior all her life. An act of malice led their father to send Maris to a convent, but Audrey was still left with scars. Three years later, Audrey’s father is determined to marry off his damaged daughter, and Maris is returning. Desperate, Audrey sneaks away.

However, life outside her home is dangerous, and she soon finds herself attacked, injured, and in dire straits. She is taken in at Dericott Castle to be nursed back to health. While there, she decides to keep her identity a secret and work as a servant in the castle. But she doesn’t count on falling in love with the young and handsome Lord Dericott, who lost his arm several months earlier.

Meanwhile, Edwin—Lord Dericott—is curious about the new, well-educated servant’s identity. When the man Audrey’s father wanted her to marry comes looking for her, each must make a life-changing decision about what to believe and whether or not love is truly worth trusting.

In this Ugly Duckling retelling, New York Times bestselling author Melanie Dickerson brilliantly crafts a high-stakes, encouraging tale about the power of love.

My Rating: 4 Stars!

I always did love a good fairy tale. I still do. That’s why I love Melanie Dickerson’s retelling of fairy tales with an inspirational bent. This second book in her Dericott series brings us her retelling of The Ugly Duckling. Audrey’s face is marred and Edwin is missing an arm lost in battle. Both feel abnormal but discover that God has plans for them. Dickerson tells this in such an interesting way and I was mesmerized. Recommended.

I received a complimentary copy of this book from Thomas Nelson Publishers via Net Galley. The opinion in this review is expressly my own.

Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Publication Date: June 1, 2021
Length: 334 pages
Genre: YA
Buy Link: Amazon.com: Castle of Refuge (A Dericott Tale Book 2) eBook: Dickerson, Melanie: Kindle Store

When State Department attorney Vivian Steele witnesses two ambassadors collapse as if poisoned at a diplomatic dinner in Washington, DC, she is recruited to be a member of a joint FBI task force assigned to investigate. But she soon finds her by-the-book ways clashing with a special agent in the Diplomatic Security Service, Jacob Cruz. A former Navy SEAL and in charge of the event’s security, Jacob takes the attack personally and is driven to act quickly, even ahead of the rules and regulations. 

As Viv starts to work her diplomatic sources, her past as a State Department lawyer comes back to haunt her, and secrets held tightly by the government thrust her into a web of danger. Afraid, Viv turns to the one man bent on protecting others. But can she accept Jacob’s reckless ways as exactly what she needs to stay alive and to discover the truth behind the attacks?

About Rachel Dylan

Rachel Dylan is an award-winning and bestselling author of legal thrillers and romantic suspense. Rachel has practiced law for over a decade including being a litigator at one of the nation’s top law firms. The Atlanta Justice Series features strong, female attorneys in Atlanta. Deadly Proof, the first book in the ATLANTA JUSTICE series, is a CBA bestseller, an FHL Reader’s Choice Award winner, a Daphne du Maurier Finalist, and a Holt Medallion Finalist. Lone Witness is the winner of a Holt Medallion, the Maggie Award, and is a Selah Finalist. Rachel lives in Michigan with her husband and five furkids–two dogs and three cats. Rachel loves to connect with readers. You can find Rachel at http://www.racheldylan.com.

‘Experience told her that sometimes security could only do so much if people were intent on inflicting terror.’

Rachel Dylan brings her explosive Capital Intrigue series to a gripping conclusion with Power Play. Intrigue most definitely is the way to describe this series. She adds more compelling characters with this book and brings back ones from the last two books and the action is nearly non-stop. You will be captivated all the way through!

My thanks to Bethany House Publishers for a copy of this book via Net Galley. I was not required to leave a positive review and the opinion here is my own.

Publisher: Bethany House
Publication Date: June 1, 2021
Length: 299 pages
Genre: Inspirational Romantic Suspense
Buy Link: Power Play (Capital Intrigue Book #3) – Kindle edition by Dylan, Rachel. Religion & Spirituality Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.

‘Even when she’d stopped believing, God still had answered her prayer.’

Michelle Sass Aleckson and Susan May Warren bring us back to that wonderful and charming little town of Deep Haven, MN for another great story. When Veronica Morales and her kid brother come to Deep Haven for her to take a job as a paramedic, she is wary of everyone in the town. Will they fit in here? Especially since most folks seem to think a local should have gotten the job Ronnie is filling. Hoping this will be a safe place for her ten year old brother Tiago to grow up in and have a better life, Ronnie is hoping against hope they can indeed fit in.

Very soon she butts heads in a big way with the town’s fire chief, Peter Dahlquist. Peter is related to nearly everyone in town and a big vote is coming up for the town council, on which he has a seat. Both sides of his family expect him to vote their way. He wants to please everyone and he just has enough on his plate right now, thank you very much, without a new and very bossy paramedic. Then her little brother gets caught up in some trouble in town and things began to spiral downward. Worse, Peter is beginning to fall for this woman!

Both Peter and Ronnie have some important lessons to learn as they navigate their way through these barriers in the town. Long held family traditions threaten Peter’s happiness and Ronnie feels certain she and Tiago should find a life elsewhere.

Michelle Sass Aleckson has done a bang up job with this one, the third in a six book series set in Deep Haven. Well written with a cast of great characters and set in a town I personally would love to visit and stay a while, it’s one for the keeper shelf. Well done!

My thanks to the publishers for a copy of this book. I was not expected to leave a positive review. The opinion here is entirely my own.

About The Book:

Embrace the enchantment of summer with these contemporary twists on timeless tales.

A New Beginning — Who is she? Acacia Martin raised by an impostor mom serving a prison sentence for her sins, or Jasmine Callahan abducted at birth from a family she’s yet to meet? Luckily, she has Drake to help her untangle the mess that is her life. Will he ensnare her he art in the process?

An Ever After Summer — The employees of In a Bind are terrified of Jean-Luc Thibodeaux, so Bellamy Larson hops on a plane to France to deal with the beastly client. Yet once she arrives, she’s convinced he merely needs a friend. Then her heart begins to want ever after, not just one summer.

Gwen and the Three Dates — Life isn’t a romantic movie, but Gwen Lochs is determined to find her leading man. When she joins a cheesy dating site, Gwen agrees to just three dates. Can Ben Smith watch his best friend and soulmate find someone else? A romantic comedy about searching for that just-right love.

Unkissable — Reality diva Charlotte Lavigne’s on-camera meltdown reminds former teen-TV prince Jaime Reyes exactly why he left Hollywood ten years ago. A chance encounter leads to a bargain that transforms them both. When it’s time to face her past, will their rediscovered love be strong enough to build a future together?

Let these four sweet contemporary Christian romances take you away this summer.

About Teresa Tysinger

Teresa Tysinger is an author of Southern Contemporary Romance inspired by grace. She writes on the fringes of being a wife, mom, and full-time communications and public relations professional. She loves coffee, traveling, and prides herself in knowing and loving almost every genre of music. Born in Hawaii, raised in Florida, and educated in North Carolina, she now resides in Texas with her husband, daughter, and dog. Teresa is a proud member of American Christian Fiction Writers

About Jaycee Weaver

Jaycee Weaver lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico, with her amazing husband, three daughters, two crazy shih-tzus, and a dwarf rabbit. When she’s not writing, she’s probably in pursuit of her 90 million other hobbies or shuttling the kids around. Jaycee loves to read multiple genres, drink too much coffee, sing, take landscape and floral photos, sew, cook, bake, and craft nearly anything. She considers herself a recovering perfectionist and occasional hot mess. She does her best to live her faith in action, being open, honest, and real; letting God be Lord over the good, the bad, and the ugly even when it’s hard

My Rating: 4 Stars!

I loved fairy tales as a child. Still do. I have been looking forward to this collection because I have read the last collections by these authors. I was not disappointed! This collection, I believe, is my favorite.

Andrea Boyd does a retelling of Rapunzel, which was one of my favorite fairy tales. I love how she turned this one around, about the girl whose whole life was sheltered by her mother. Totally cool.

Toni Shiloh does a great job with another of my favorites, Beauty and the Beast. I thoroughly enjoyed this one, too! It was done well indeed.

Teresa Tysinger tackles Goldilocks and the Three Bears with a captivating and delightful story. I loved it!

Jaycee Weaver does a redo of The Frog Prince in a bang up way.

I read this book in a day, it was so good! I can highly recommend this collection. My thanks to the publisher for a copy of this book. I was not required to leave a positive review and received no compensation. The opinion in this review is entirely my own.