About the Book: When War Reaches Clarissa’s Back Door, the Trustworthy Become Even Fewer. Journey into Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, of 1863 where Clarissa Avery Ross lives a full life. By day she is the daughter of a respectable shoemaker being courted by seminary student Kyle Forrester. But by night she is a conductor on the Underground … Continue reading My Heart Belongs in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania- A Book Review

A Perfect Weakness By Jennifer A. Davids For the next couple of weeks on First-line Friday's, I am sharing the first line to each of the books I got at the Faith and Fellowship Book Festival in Ohio. Hampshire, England, July 1868 Penelope Howard stood before a mound of earth in the church graveyard. Whose … Continue reading First Line Fridays- A Perfect Weakness

About the Book: Lieutenant Owen Masters and Emeline Baratt meet on a British warship as sworn enemies. Where will Emeline place her loyalties when forced to spy against her country? A trip home from England to Maryland in 1812 finds Emeline Baratt a captive on a British warship and forced to declare her allegiance between … Continue reading The Patriot Bride- A Book Review

The Cumberland Bride By Shannon McNear About the Book: In 1794, when Kate Gruener’s father is ready to move the family farther west into the wilderness to farm untouched land, Kate is eager to live out her own story of adventure like he did during the War for Independence and to see untamed lands. And … Continue reading The Cumberland Bride- A Book Review

Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all ye lands. Serve the LORD with gladness: come before his presence with singing. Know ye that the LORD he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture. Enter into his gates with … Continue reading His Encouragement #10- Thankful

My Heart Belongs in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania By Murray Pura Today on First-line Friday's, I am sharing the first line to a brand-new My Heart Belongs Book. My Heart Belongs in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania by Murray Pura. Saturday night, early December 1860 Adams County, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Five miles north of Gettysburg   It was so black … Continue reading First Line Fridays- My Heart Belongs in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

About the Book: In Kristi Ann Hunter's "Legacy of Love," Sarah Gooding never suspected returning a brooch to an elderly woman would lead to a job . . . and introduce her to the woman's grandson, a man far above her station. In Karen Witemeyer's "Gift of the Heart," widow Ruth Fulbright uses the family … Continue reading The Christmas Heirloom- A Book Review