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

SALE! Cathy Gohlke’s ‘Promise Me This’

Looking for an historical romance read?  Love Edwardian/Titanic era stories? On sale this month from Tyndale Publishers: Australian Kindle buyers click here. Publisher’s Overview: Michael Dunnagan was never supposed to sail on the Titanic, nor would he have survived if not for the courage of Owen Allen. Determined to carry out his promise to care for Owen’s relatives in America and his younger sister, Annie, in England, Michael works hard to strengthen the family’s New Jersey garden and landscaping business. Annie Allen doesn’t care what Michael promised Owen. She only knows that her brother is gone—like their mother and father—and

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8 December 2015

Calico Spy (Margaret Brownley) – Review

  I like the premise of this series, each book following a female undercover operative for the Pinkerton Detective Agency, especially since the concept has its basis in actual history (I was a bit skeptical at first and actually looked it up!) Nevertheless there were a few things that held this novel back for me, most prominently a reliance on too many clichés, both in establishing the conflict and in building up the romance, too much time taken to explain the characters’ thoughts to the reader, and a plot that really just meandered for the first half of the book.

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7 December 2015

New Historical Romance from Bethany House

Have you checked out this new release from Bethany House Fiction?  Releasing 1 December (or 24 November if you use Kindle AU!) Please note:  The description below is taken directly from Amazon.com.  I have not reviewed this novel. Until the Dawn (Elizabeth Camden) A volunteer for the newly established Weather Bureau, Sophie van Riijn needs access to the highest spot in her village to report the most accurate readings. Fascinated by Dierenpark, an abandoned mansion high atop a windswept cliff in the Hudson River Valley, Sophie knows no better option despite a lack of permission from the absent owners. The

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30 November 2015

My Brother’s Crown (Mindy Starns Clark & Leslie Gould) – Review

This book essentially contains two stories: one set in the present day (narrated in the first person), and one set in France in 1685 (narrated in the third person). In the present, Renee Talbot’s family have had the sole surviving copy of the ‘Persecution Pamphlet’ in their safekeeping for more than three centuries. Originally printed in 1685 as “A Collection of Verse for the Encouragement of Young Men and Women” it actually contained carefully concealed information to assist Huguenots (French Protestants) fleeing persecution under King Louis XIV. For eleven generations it has been handed down through the Talbot family from

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21 November 2015