The power of fiction, the beauty of words, and the God who made us to wield them for His glory.

A Girl’s Guide to the Outback (Jessica Kate) – Review

How far will a girl go to win back a guy she can’t stand? This funny, sweet, and romantic story proves that opposites do attract—and that God has a sense of humor.

Samuel Payton is a passionate youth pastor in Virginia, but below the surface, he’s still recovering from the blow of a failed business and insecurities he can’t shake. His coworker, start-up expert Kimberly Foster, is brilliant, fearless, and capable, but years of personal rejection have left her defensive and longing for a family. Two people have never been more at odds—or more attracted to one another. And every day at work, the sparks sure do fly.

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17 February 2020

First Line Friday – A Waltz for Matilda (Jackie French)

Happy Friday, book lovers, and welcome to First Line Friday hosted by Hoarding Books. Many of my international friends and readers have heard about the bushfires that have been devastating Australia over the last weeks and months. While I have not been in danger personally, I have friends and family who have had to be on constant alert or even evacuated, and it has been heartbreaking to see reports of the loss and suffering in other beloved parts of our country. As a family, we have made the twelve-hour drive to Melbourne from our home north of Sydney many times, and so many of the small towns and rural landscapes we enjoy visiting along the way have been severely impacted by the fires.

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17 January 2020

Carry Me Away (Dorothy Adamek) – Review

Inspired by the incredible true story of an Australian shipwreck and those who survived to tell the tale.

When the Black Swallow sinks off the Australian coast in 1877, Australian midshipman Tom Darley rescues English passenger Ada Carmichael from the disaster that claims her entire family. News of the only two survivors enchants the world, but Ada needs to hide before secrets and old foes find her.

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6 November 2019

Carry Me Home (Dorothy Adamek) – Review

Finella Mayfield hates two things: liars and thieves. And she’s determined to marry a man who’s neither. Chasing her dead father’s dreams, the twenty-year-old English bride arrives in Australia in 1875 for an arranged marriage. Anticipating her future as village preacher’s wife, she records her thoughts in her Everlasting journal. 

But instead of her fiancé, Finella is met by Shadrach Jones, a poor farmer sent to collect her from…

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12 October 2019

Cover Reveal! Carry Me Away by Dorothy Adamek

Welcome, book lovers! A cover reveal is always exciting, but it’s extra exciting for me when it’s for a book written by a fellow Australian! And that’s what I have for you today. Dorothy Adamek is revealing the cover for book two in her Blue Wren Shallows series, set in Australia in the late 1800s, and I can’t wait for you to see it! And just check out some of these endorsements:

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19 September 2019