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Announcement: Winner THE SECRET CHORD by Geraldine Brooks
And the winner of the giveaway for THE SECRET CHORD by Geraldine Brooks is….. Audrey S (subscribes to blog) The winner will be notified via email. Thank you to everyone who entered and a huge thank you to the publisher for making this giveaway possible!
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Giveaway: THE SECRET CHORD by Geraldine Brooks
Peeling away the myth to bring David to life in Second Iron Age Israel, Brooks traces the arc of his journey from obscurity to fame, from shepherd to soldier, from hero to traitor, from beloved king to murderous despot and into his remorseful and diminished dotage. Brooks’ primary narrator is David’s counselor and friend the prophet Natan who sets down the best and worst of David: the light and the dark, the betrayals, deaths, kindness, baseness, and soaring above all, the unparalleled music that he created. THE SECRET CHORD provides new context for some of the best-known episodes of David’s life while also focusing on others, even more remarkable and…
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Announcement: Winner BOOK MARK Inspired by MIST OF MIDNIGHT by Sandra Byrd
And the winner of the MIST OF MIDNIGHT inspired BOOKMARK is….. Lisa M (Tweeted about giveaway) The winner will be notified via email. Thank you to everyone who entered and a huge thank you to the publisher for making this giveaway possible!
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Giveaway: BOOK MARK Inspired by MIST OF MIDNIGHT by Sandra Byrd
Are you longing for a modern Gothic romance complete with mistaken identity and misty moors? Then this is the book for you! In the first of a brand-new series set in Victorian England, a young woman returns home from India after the death of her family to discover her identity and inheritance are challenged by the man who holds her future in his hands. THIS GIVEAWAY IS FOR A LACE BOOKMARK ONLY. The bookmark is inspired by this wonderful novel! Giveaway runs 3/11/15 to 3/17/15 Winners will be announced 3/18/15. (how to enter) On this blog you must leave a comment to be entered in the giveaway. Your comment MUST include your…
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Review: Mist of Midnight: A Novel (Daughters of Hampshire #1) by Sandra Byrd
Rebecca Ravenshaw has survived an unthinkable tragedy in India. During the uprising against the English, both of her parents are killed and her brother died from illness. She is all alone in the world and wants to return to England where her father’s estate is. When she arrived in England after a long journey, she finds that someone else has already come forward claiming to be her. No one knows her, she hasn’t been in England since she was a child. She has no other living relations, no friends in England…..nothing to prove she is who she says she is. Rebecca soon discovers that the women claiming to be her…
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Review: The Heiress of Winterwood (Whispers on the Moors #1) by Sarah Ladd
Amelia Barrett made her best friend a dying promise: to take care of her child, Lucy, at all costs….and Amelia plans on fulfilling that promise. Lucy’s father has been away at sea and has never met the child but he is returning from his adventures soon and will meet her for the first time. Amelia is fearful that he will take the child and she will never see her again. Lucy has become like her own daughter and she can’t stand the thought of never seeing her again. So Amelia has devised a plan to keep her and Lucy together forever….her can Captain Sterling will need to get married. There…
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Review: Gracelin O’Malley (Gracelin O’Malley #1) by Ann Moore
In Ireland, poverty is dominating the country throughout the 19th century. It’s a time of British rule and the Irish people need to make some concessions in order to survive to famine. Gracelin (Grace) is forced to put aside what dreams she had for herself and marry an English lord, Bram, to save her family from ruin. Though her brother encourages her to hold out and wait for love, Grace proceeds with the marriage. Initially the marriage seems like it will workout. Bram seems tender and gentle but after a time his true colors begin to shine though and their marriage rapidly becomes one of promise, to nothing short of a nightmare.
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Review: The Chalice (The Crown #2) by Nancy Bilyeau
Henry VIII changed the face of England when he broke with the Catholic Church to marry his great love, Anne Boleyn. This decision was felt by all those at court and those in the monastic sects. Joanna Stafford was once both a noble and a novice nun in training. Once King Henry made the choice to split from the church, Joanna struggles to make a common life for herself in the small village of Dartford. As the world around her takes shape based on the whims of a tyrannical king, Joanna and those closest to her, feel King Henry’s decisions acutely. All Joanna really wants is to start her tapestry…
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Review: A Wreath of Snow: A Victorian Christmas Novella by Liz Curtis Higgs
It’s Christmas Eve and snow has started falling on the small Scotland town of Stirling. Margaret Campbell has just had a row with her family and wants nothing more than to catch the first train out of Stirling back to Edinburgh. Gordon Shaw has just completed his interview for the newspaper he works for and he too is eager to leave Stirling but for an entirely different reason. Stirling was his home long ago until the shame of a tragic accident forced him to move away. The snow is coming down harder when the train finally departs from Stirling with Margaret and Gordon on board when it collides with a large snow…
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Review: The Tutor’s Daughter by Julie Klassen
High on the cliff tops of Cornwall, the distant sounds of a pianoforte can be heard echoing through Ebbington Manor late at night. Emma Smallwood and her father have come to Ebbington Manor as live in tutors for Sir Giles Weston and his family. Emma and her father ran a small boarding school where the two eldest Weston boys, Henry and Phillip, attended in their youth. Emma doesn’t harbor much affection for the eldest brother, Henry. All she remembers of Henry was that he was a bully who always played pranks on her when he was at the school. As for Phillip, Emma remembers him as a kind hearted, friendly…