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  • Specters in the Glass House

    By Jaime Jo Wright Knives Out meets The Great Gatsby! Rhemy Crenshaw had been in the foster system since an arsonist took the lives of her family. Determined not to be another statistic, she shoves aside her past trauma and… Continue reading

    Specters in the Glass House
  • The Broken Weathervane

    By Laura DeNooyer This story started out straight-forward enough, but turned into an absolute tangled knot – to the point where I wasn’t even sure how it was going to end! 1950s: The Buckwalter Brothers Grocery Store is a Wisconsin… Continue reading

    The Broken Weathervane
  • The Friday Review: Glen Eyrie

    5th Friday, time for a different kind of review! In case you missed it, in the beginning of August, me and two of my writer friends did a mini writer’s retreat at Glen Eyrie in Colorado Springs. We absolutely loved… Continue reading

    The Friday Review: Glen Eyrie
  • The Friday Review: A Fierce Devotion

    By Laura Frantz One of the few things that made the end of my vacation tolerable was the knowledge that this novella was waiting for me back home. I binge read almost all of it in one afternoon! Gabrielle Farrow… Continue reading

    The Friday Review: A Fierce Devotion
  • The Friday Review: Toxic Empathy

    By Allie Beth Stuckey Everywhere you look, there is controversy. The lines between right and wrong are blurred. As members of a Christian society, we are told we need to love and have compassion. But how much love and compassion… Continue reading

    The Friday Review: Toxic Empathy
  • The Friday Review: The Other Sister 

    By Jessica R. Patch When I read the premise, it brought me back to one of my favorite childhood movies, The Parent Trap (Haley Mills or Lindsey Lohan, both are good). The added ingredient of suspense and I was all… Continue reading

    The Friday Review: The Other Sister 
  • The Friday Review: The Seamstress of Acadie by Laura Frantz

    As Mary at the Covenant Christian Resource Center in Randolph knows, I have been waiting for this book for a year. Laura Frantz releases these historical fiction gems every January and I clear my reading schedule for them. Each book… Continue reading

    The Friday Review: The Seamstress of Acadie by Laura Frantz
  • The Friday Review: Rise to Rebellion

    By Jeff Shaara After my trip to Boston, I’ve been super-excited to dive deep into Revolutionary War history. Using Audible, I got the 23+ hour audiobook by famed historical author, Jeff Shaara. It took a while to get through, but… Continue reading

    The Friday Review: Rise to Rebellion
  • The Friday Review: The Lacemaker

    By Laura Frantz To celebrate the start of the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution, I decided to reread this gem in (almost) real time. This was the first Laura Frantz book I read. Quite a few years ago, my… Continue reading

    The Friday Review: The Lacemaker
  • The Friday Review: Finding Lady Enderly

    By Joanna Davidson Politano Cinderella meets My Fair Lady in this stunning Gilded Age mystery novel! Raina practically lives on the streets of London where she works as a rag woman and mourns the loss of the sailor she loved.… Continue reading

    The Friday Review: Finding Lady Enderly