Dear Ms. Adams, About a year ago I read and enjoyed the first novel in your Willow Park series, Married for Christmas. Jessica and Daniel’s romance appealed to me in part because the characters were people of faith but the book was not an inspie and did not proselytize. Since ... more >
Dear Ms. Flynn: While it is not explicitly stated and I don’t see any acknowledgment of it, this appears to be a fictionalized version of “what happens next” after a true life abduction of Amy Billing that occurred in 1974. The similarities between the setup as well as when the story ... more >
Dear Ms. Clare, I bought this self-published novella for 99c. It’s book 4.5 in the Bluebonnet series but can be easily read as a stand-alone. Emily Allard-Smith runs The Peppermint House, the only bed and breakfast in Bluebonnet. It doesn’t get many patrons but fortunately, she has enough money that ... more >
Christmas vacation 1984 is far from festive at the house of eighteen year-old Alejo Sandoval. His parents teeter on the verge of divorce. His final semester of high school looms ahead. He has just found out that his trickster cousin Martin has vanished, leaving no traces behind. And he keeps ... more >
Dear Ms. Aster: Because of the emotionally moving content and the type of story, an interracial romance set in the 1970s South, I thought this would be the perfect October book club read for Dear Author. It’s possible that this book is overtly racist and that I should have recognized ... more >
Dear Ms. Sloan: This book was recommended on the basis that it was in the vein of Kristen Ashley. I avoided the first book because many reviews indicated that the heroine was weak and somewhat twee, spending her time being held by all the big handsome men in her life ... more >