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The Friday Review: Buried Wilderness Secrets

By Jaime Jo Wright Aaliyah Terrence is a Montana Park Ranger. With her black lab, Peaches, she patrols the wilderness, keeping campers safe and reveling in the beauty of the mountains. But her haven is shattered when she stumbles across a serial killer’s remote burial ground – and he stumbles across her. Wade Marlowe is…
The Friday Review: Hosannas Forever

By David and Barbara Leeman When I saw that David and Barbara Leeman were releasing another hymn devotional, I immediately pre-ordered it. Wow! It was so worth it! Hymns about heaven sound great, but how often do we sing them? How many can you list off the top of your head? While churches in the…
9/10 9/11

I thought I might say something or write some profound post, but it looks like most of the words have been said already . . . so I wrote anyway, if only to pin down the turmoil of my thoughts. Our enemy, the devil, prowls about like a roaring lion, looking for someone to devour.…
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 pours her energy into her new job: research assistant to the famed biographer Elton Floyd.…
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 small-town family success story. Run by brothers August, Fritz, and Edmund, everything appears ideal on…
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 it there and plan on going back. I highly recommend Glen Eyrie if you’re looking…