This week I’m reviewing a book you may have read. Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate. It’s a New York Times Best Seller, and I don’t know why I’m just learning about it! Here’s the back cover copy: Memphis, 1939. Twelve-year-old Rill Foss and her four younger siblings live a magical life aboard their family’s Mississippi River shantyboat. But when …
How Observant Are You?
This week I’m doing something a little different, but first the answer to last week’s Mystery Question: A man was wanted as a serial killer. He was arrested but after parents of a teenage victim refused to allow her to testify, he was sentenced to only seventeen months for assault. Three of the following statements are true, and one is …
Reader Friday ~ Called To Protect
Something new today. You have an opportunity to be entered in a drawing here on my blog for Justice Betrayed AND a drawing over at the Suspense Sisters for a $10 gift card because I’m reviewing Called to Protect on both sites! So, here we go! Last night I was up reading Called to Protect until 2 a.m.! And I really needed to get …
Can You Guess The Incorrect Answer?
Last week was an exciting week! As I told you on Friday, I’m really excited about the grant we received to talk to kids in two counties in our area about abstinence and making healthy choices for their lives. While I won’t be doing the programs like I used to, and loved doing, by the way, I’m happy that the …
Reader Friday ~ Burden of Proof
It has been a BUSY week for me. I’m a co-founder of Aiming for Healthy Families, Inc. and just this month we received a grant to talk to kids in our area about abstinence! So we’ve been training and setting up everything…which means I’m waaaay behind on my deadline. lol. But I have had time to read DiAnn Mills’ fabulous book, Burden …
Crime Quiz
This weekend I spent time with friends and family at a family reunion. We ate and visited as we looked at old photos of those who had gone on. Then because we had some who had not seen some of the old home places, we did a “tour” of Pocahontas, Tennessee, where most of the older folks had lived at …
Reader Friday ~ The Bad Boy of Butterfly Harbor
This week I picked up a book I’d been meaning to read for a while. It’s a Heartwarming title – The Bad Boy of Butterfly Harbor by Anna J. Stewart, and I knew it’d be a good read. More about my take on the story later. I used to write for Heartwarming. I’ve always loved the message of hope I always get …
Crime Most Unusual
Saturday I helped a neighbor and as I walked back to my house, I dropped my phone. Flat. Facedown. Now, I’ve dropped my phone hundreds of time, but for some reason this time the screen shattered. And I know why. No good deed goes unpunished! So now I have a new, larger phone. Maybe my fingers won’t hit the wrong …
Reader Friday ~ The Mending
It’s Friday so that means I need to have a review up! 🙂 The Mending by Susan Lantz Simpson is the second book in this series. The first book is The Promise here. and I reviewed it back in January. We met Malinda Stauffer in The Promise. Here’s the back cover copy: With autumn’s golden glow, marriage season comes to Southern Maryland’s Amish country. …
Funny Blotter Reports
Can you believe it’s October??? This photo is from late last October of a pond not far from my house. Where did 2018 go? The countdown has begun for finishing my first Natchez park ranger romantic suspense that I’m calling Natchez Standoff! So, after two weeks of being out of town and working on edits, I am now hard at …