Obsessive-Compulsive? Or spiritual Lessons? By guest author Anita Higman

My Sweaty Little Grasp

By Anita Higman

“Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.” Hebrews 13:5b (NIV)

            Life can be like a pretty yellow kite, soaring and dipping in the breeze, but that same kite can also plummet to the earth in an unexpected gust, breaking it into pretty yellow pieces.

            In other words, I can’t fully control the kite. It’s controlled by the currents that are out of my reach. The kite string may be in my sweaty little grasp, but its final destination is anyone’s guess.

That was a lesson I learned when I traveled to Australia to meet up with my husband who was working there temporarily on assignment. I left the house, knowing I wouldn’t be back for three weeks, so I planned for every kind of troubling scenario. I made sure all the faucets weren’t dripping. Check. Gates closed. Check. Electrical devices unplugged. Check. Windows and doors locked, alarm system armed. Check.

To be honest, my slight case of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder flared up into quite a blaze. After I checked and rechecked everything as best I could, I finally let the house go. When the driver picked me up to take me to the airport, I felt satisfied that our home was somewhat disaster-proof. Yeah, right. Not even close. There was no way I could have known that my husband and I would have to fly home from Australia early because Hurricane Ike would hit our neighborhood and ruin one of the rooms in our house. It was impossible to plan for everything because I never really had our home under my control. Not even for a minute. I only thought I did.

The spiritual lesson here was hard to miss. Only God was and is in control of our house, my life, this world. We cannot know what tomorrow will bring, whether our pretty yellow kite will soar into the sky or smash into bits, but I do know God has promised never to leave us or forsake us. He will always be right here, holding us and helping us, ever by our sides working things for good no matter what life bring. These are promises that the world loves to make, but only the Almighty can keep.

Lord Jesus, I thank you that even in this fallen and broken world, you will never leave us or forsake us. Amen. 
MEET ANITA HIGMAN

Best-selling and award-winning author, Anita Higman, has forty books published. She’s been a Barnes & Noble “Author of the Month” for Houston and has a BA in the combined fields of speech communication, psychology, and art. Anita loves good movies, traveling to exotic places, and brunch with her friends.

Please check out Anita’s latest novel, Summer’s List, through Moody Publishers. Feel free to drop by her website at www.anitahigman.com or connect with her on her Facebook Reader Page at https://www.facebook.com/AuthorAnitaHigman. She would love to hear from you!

SUMMER'S LIST--AN ADVENTURE

Life and love keep going awry for Summer Snow, until her grandmother sends her on an unexpected adventure with one Martin Langtree—a kind and quirky young man from Summer's past. With Laney the Chihuahua along for the ride, a childhood friendship is rekindled, a romance is sparked, and mysteries are solved in one magical Texas summer. Will Summer strike out on love again, or will things finally go her way?

WHEN YOUR GET UP AND GO GETS UP AND GOES: FORTITUDE OR ATTITUDE?

By Linda Rondeau

The remarkable thing about spiritual initiative is that the life and power comes after we 'get up and get going.' God does not give us overcoming life--He gives us life as we overcome."--- Oswald Chambers

Oswald wrote these words a long time ago. How did he know that our culture today would be so draining we’d have problems plodding through our days? So what should I do when my get up and go gets up and goes? Should I simply sit and wait for it to come back? There are days I think it has permanently left the building.

  

That Sinking Feeling

Sometimes my kids would complain that they didn’t feel like going to school. Of course, I dumbly retorted with, “Well, some days I don’t feel like going to work. So what would happen if I didn’t go to work?”

Kids are smarter than that. They equate a job with money. Kids aren’t paid to go to school. So the analogy falls short and the kids’ incentive to attend school is by no means enhanced. I revert to the old

standby sans rationale, ”Get out of bed. You’re going to school because I said so.” After they complied, their agile joints finally got their juices flowing. Often they’d come home saying their day ended up being good after all.

Often, the body will eventually fall into sync with the mind.  Exercise gurus are quick to point out that the feel- good hormone lags behind the action. In other words, the getup and go will return once my get up and go gets going.

I suppose that is true with our spiritual life as well. There are aspects of the Christian life that demand energy often at times when I feel the most depleted. That is when the Father reminds me, “Let his mind be also in you…”

                                                                               So which comes first? Fortitude or attitude?

THE OTHER SIDE OF DARKNESS

By Linda Rondeau

Summary

These are the things I will do; I will not forsake them. I will lead the blind by ways they have not known, along unfamiliar paths I will guide them (Isaiah 42:16).

After setting out on a forced vacation, and literally running into a moose, Manhattan Assistant D.A. Samantha Knowles finds it’s not so bad being stranded in a quirky but intriguing Adirondack town. But when her three-year prosecution against convicted killer, Harlan Styles begins to unravel, she’s thrust into a whirlwind of haunting memories, fear, and danger. And suddenly, Haven isn’t so safe, after all.

 With no future in Haven, and no way to escape the small town, teacher Zack Bordeaux fears he’s doomed to a life of mediocrity

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Haunted by the deaths of his wife and son, landscape artist Jonathan Gladstone feels bound to an estate he both loves and loathes. But when Zack and Jonathon meet Samantha, their lives take on a different course.

Three lives intertwined, tied together by dangerous circumstance and the faint echoes of an elusive hope. To make it through, each must find their way to the Light that’s found only on the other side of darkness.

A SELAH AWARD WINNER 

Winner of the 2012 Selah Award for best first novel The Other Side of Darkness, LINDA WOOD RONDEAU, writes blended contemporary fiction that speaks to the heart and offers hope to those with damaged lives. After a long career in human services, Linda now resides in Jacksonville, Florida.  A Christmas Prayer, (aka A Father’s Prayer) was a finalist for both the 2014 Selah and Carol Awards. 

It Really IS a Wonderful Life, inspired by the author’s personal experience, quickly became a Christmas classic. Watch for Fiddler’s Fling and Red Sky Promise, inspirational romances expected to be released later in 2015.

For sci-fi lovers, Rondeau offers a free download of her book, The Fifteenth article, from her website. Feel free to share with friends and family.

Readers may visit her web site at www.lindarondeau.com, her blog, Salt and Light, or email her at lindarondeau@gmail.com  or find her on Facebook, Twitter, PInterest, Google Plus and Goodreads.

   

Encouragement for Single Mothers

By Dawn V. Cahill

CRUMPETS AND TEA – Encouragement for Single Moms

Psalm 68:5 – A father of the fatherless, a defender of widows, Is God in His holy habitation.

ABOUT “CRUMPETS AND TEA”

In the far northwest corner of the United States lies an island-studded body of water called Puget Sound. Boats of all shapes and sizes ply the waters of the Sound—from super-sized freighters to stately ferries to skinny canoes.  Excursion boats take guests on high-speed tours between Seattle and the English-themed city of Victoria, BC.

One of these tour boats, the now-defunct Princess Marguerite, was once known for its catchy radio jingle. “Take a Princess to sea,” sang a British-accented gentleman. “Have some crumpets and tea.” If you closed your eyes, you could visualize yourself dropping all your cares overboard while you relaxed and indulged in the decidedly British custom of afternoon tea in plush surroundings. Uniformed bodies would hover nearby, waiting to meet your every need. You relish in the sensation of letting someone else do all the work for once.

Isn’t this what most of us single parents, especially moms, dream about? And that’s what I want to do for you…let you sit back and take a short breather from all your burdens. Just as though you were relaxing on the Princess Marguerite like a queen.

I’ll share encouraging Bible verses, nuggets of wisdom that others have passed on to me over the years, and strategies I learned as a single mother that made my job a little bit easier.

I’m glad you’ve joined me for crumpets and tea. Now, sit back, put your feet up, and exhale out all your worries. It’s your turn to be queen for a day.

About Dawn

Since I was a small child, I've loved stories, both reading and writing them. One of my earliest stories got high accolades from my third grade teacher. It was about a little Manx kitten whose mother rejected her because she didn't have a tail. Until an older, wiser cat helped the mother understand the importance of accepting her children the way God made them.

Over the years, I cranked out many a story, started and stopped several more. The most memorable one I started as a teenager, and I've promised myself and my sons I'm going to finish it someday. I called it "Mitch and the Martians." A group of Martian buddies visit Earth, just happen to land on the State Capitol building in Salem, Oregon (my home at the time), saw the brass-plated statue of a pioneer on the dome, and assumed all Earthlings looked like that. So they turned themselves into brass men and walked the streets of Salem. Strange adventures ensue!

We know much more about Mars now. When I finish the story, I'll include the premise that the residents of Mars live underground, which is why the NASA explorations never saw them!

I put writing on the back burner once I began raising my sons as a single mom. That was the hardest job I've ever done, but now I feel a nudge from the Lord to encourage other women who are facing the same struggles I did. My blog section called "Crumpets and Tea" is targeted especially for single mothers, and includes personal anecdotes and what I learned from them, as well as Bible verses and how the Lord used them to encourage me during my darkest days.

I started my first novel two years ago, and now have two completed ones to my name. And I'm one-fourth of the way through my third. I'm excited that the Lord reawakened my passion for writing, and am looking forward to seeing what He does through me!

Your readers might enjoy my latest post. It's a recipe with a twist!

http://dawnvcahill.com/2015/06/07/recipe-of-a-single-mom/

Dawn's First  Published Book

A short story available only in ebook, When Lyric Met Limerick. Here's the blurb:

  Aspiring rock star Howard McCreary only wants to be rich and famous. At least that’s what he’d always thought until Luna Rickles, the cute poetess, walked into his life. But when disaster strikes, his rock star career comes to a screeching halt. As his troubles escalate, Howard makes a desperate bargain with God. But as the walls crumble around him, is it too late for Howard? Or can God really redeem his mistakes and turn them into something good?

Here are the links to my book. On the bookshop manager link, all formats are available for download.

Bookshop manager - http://my.bookbaby.com/book/dawnvcahill

Amazon - http://www.amazon.com/When-Lyric-Limerick-Dawn-Cahill-ebook/dp/B00QMYFHHY/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1433714577&sr=1-1&keywords=when+lyric+met+limerick

Here's my Facebook author page:

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Dawn-V-Cahill/581290478668884?ref=hl

And my website:

http://dawnvcahill.com

HOW GOD USED A DEVASTATING ACCIDENT WITH A LOGGING TRUCK TO BLESS BONNIE LEON

God Has a Plan

By Bonnie Leon

We daydream, contemplate our future and make plans. But the plans of man are questionable at best. We decide what we believe is right, but God knows better and sometimes he says, “No. I have a more excellent way.”

  Jeremiah 29:11-14 says, “For I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord. They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope. In those days when you pray, I will listen. If you look for me wholeheartedly, you will find me. I will be found by you, says the Lord.”

In May of 1991, after being highly encouraged by an author who’d taught at a writers’ workshop, I drove home with my head full of ideas about my writing career. But God had another plan. And if I’d had a choice I might well have said, “No.”

A few weeks following the workshop I drove my van up a winding road near my home. A loaded log truck approached from the opposite direction and barreled around a corner where he tipped over in front of me and then slammed into my van.

In a moment my life changed. My grand ideas disappeared like a morning mist.

I spent the next year and a half with doctors, every kind of therapist, loss of mobility and loss of spirit. No matter how much I longed for the old me I couldn’t reclaim it.

One day, hopeless and desperate I asked God to give me something to do that mattered. He heard my prayer. He always hears our prayers.

One step at a time he led me forward and flung wide every door toward writing and publishing. All he asked of me was to trust and to step through his opened doors. Two years following my horrific accident I sold my first novel, The Journey of Eleven Moons.  I’ve since written and published twenty more.

I live with pain and disability, but God gave me a great gift—servant to the Most High God.

He has a plan for you—all you have to do is walk through his opened doors to discover what it is.

Summary of To Dance With Dolphins by Bonnie Leon

Watch for this book to be released Aug. 1, 2015 

Twenty-one-year-old Claire Murray has suffered from a mysterious disease for years. Her social circle has shrunk to a small support group for people with chronic illness and disability. But what if life could be about more than doctors, pain, and medications?

Claire and three others—old grouch Tom, hippy-holdout Willow, and moody Taylor—hatch plans for a cross-country trip to swim with the dolphins in Florida. Only a day into the trip, they unexpectedly need help. And who happens to be hitchhiking along the highway but a young, good-looking loner named Sean Sullivan? However, the last thing he wants is to be harnessed to a bunch of ailing travelers.

Though the journey proves difficult, following God’s plan might be even harder. Will they find the courage to follow their dreams and dare to live again?

Here's more about Bonnie Leon 

Bonnie Leon is the author of twenty-one novels, including the recently released Where Eagles Soar, the popular Alaskan Skies and bestselling The Journey of Eleven Moons and bestselling series, Sydney Cove.

In 2014 Bonnie branched out into independent writing with her first ever memoir, a story about A Native American woman who grew up in the Alaskan wildnerness where she learned to hunt, trap, and survive. Her greatest foe, however, was not the grizzlies or wolves in the wilds, but rather her father.

Bonnie’s books are being read internationally and she hears from readers in Australia, Europe, and even Africa. 

She enjoys speaking for women’s groups and teaching at writing seminars and conventions. These days, her time is filled with writing, being a grandmother and relishing precious time with her aged mother.

Bonnie and her husband, Greg, live in Southern Oregon. They have three grown children and eight grandchildren.

You can find bonnie at

https://www.bonnieleon.com

https://www.facebook.com/BonnieLeonAuthor

https://www.bonnieleon.blogspot.com

https://www.@bonnie_leon

https://www.pinterest.com/bonnieleon/

Ada Brownell Summer 2015 Newsletter: The Lady Fugitive on sale and Facts, Faith & Propaganda Free June 11-13

Dear Reader Friend:

A couple of days ago good news came to me unexpectedly. Elk Lake Publishing reduced the price of the Kindle version of my book, The Lady

Fugitive from $9.98 to $3.98.I don’t know if it’s a special sale or a permanent markdown. It probably depends on how many sell at this new price. The historical romance has 46 reviews on Amazon.

To celebrate the price reduction of The Lady Fugitive, my new book, Facts, Faith and Propaganda, will be free June 11 to 13, which is Thursday through Saturday.

 This scripture sums up what Facts, Faith and Propaganda  is about: “Things we have heard and known we will not hide from our children. So the next generation will know them, even the children yet to be born, and they in turn will tell their children. Then they would put their trust in God” (Psalm 78:4-6 NIV).

I’m so blessed our five children serve the Lord (one already is in heaven). I was honored to teach youth a large hunk of my life, and teaching in Christian education made me dig into the truth. Then being a newspaper reporter exposed me to the world as it is, not how we wish it would be. As a representative of The Pueblo Chieftain I could ask any question I needed to reveal truth for a story, and as a result I learned as well as my readers.

When you thoroughly investigate a subject through testimony and evidence, truth comes out. I now understand some of the reasons why many youth reject Christianity. According to the Pew Research Center the number of people who identify with Christianity dropped nearly 8 percent from 2007 to 2014. Most of the dropouts were young adults. Now is the time to learn about some of the problems and understand this happened because truth has been spinned, hidden, or because youth often haven’t been taught what they needed to know at church. Share the facts with your children and grandchildren.

Now (deep breath) here’s the short summary for The Lady Fugitive, a fun, suspenseful, entertaining book that readers say made them laugh cry, and sometimes wish they had a gun to help. They love the characters and most say they couldn’t put it down.

Short Summary of The Lady Fugitive

How does a respected elocutionist become a face on a wanted poster?

Jenny Louise Parks escapes from the coal bin, and her abusive uncle offers a handsome reward for her return. Because he is a judge, he will find her or he won’t inherit her parents’ ranch.

Determination to remain free grips Jenny, especially after she meets William and there’s a hint of romance. But while peddling household goods and showing a Passion of the Christ moving picture, he discovers his father’s brutal murder.

Will Jenny avoid the bounty hunters? Can she forgive the person who turns her in?

Get both books on Ada Brownell’s Amazon author page https://www.amazon.com/author/adabrownell  or at buff.ly/L8up6E

RECIPE

Lillian’s Zucchini Bread

Note: Lillian was my stepmother. Almost everyone who tastes this zucchini bread says it’s the best they ever ate. It’s so moist! I wrap cooled loaves in foil and freeze to later give as gifts or share at meetings.

1 cup oil                                                                               2 teaspoons cinnamon

3 eggs                                                                                   3 cups flour

1 cup brown sugar                                                           1 teaspoon soda

1 cup white sugar                                                            ¼  teaspoon cloves

2 teaspoons vanilla                                                         ½ teaspoon nutmeg

2 cups zucchini, grated                                                  ½ cup walnuts  or pecans

1 teaspoon baking powder                                          ½ cup raisins

1 teaspoon salt

In large bowl mix oil, eggs, sugars, vanilla. Add zucchini, then dry ingredients. After well mixed stir in nuts and raisins. Pour into loaf pans. Bake 1 hour at 350 degrees F.

Bonnie Engstrom and Butterfly Dreams. Are you becoming beautiful inside and out?

MEET AUTHOR BONNIE ENGSTROM

Butterfly Dreams

"Think of ways to encourage one another to outbursts of love and good deeds." Hebrews 10:24Stories to make you laugh a little, love a lot and believe!
2nd Place Winner ~ Writer's Digest 81st Annual Writing Competition Short Story Category

Link to book on amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Butterfly-Dreams-Christian-Contemporary-Romance-ebook/dp/B00XZVOYKS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1432212771&sr=8-1&keywords=butterfly+dreams+engstrom

Biographical Sketch

Bonnie Engstrom holds a BA in English from the University of Southern California and studied Creative Writing at the University of Pittsburgh, as well as post graduate work at the University of California at Irvine. 

She lives in Scottsdale, Arizona with husband Dave of fifty years, is the mother of three grown children and the proud grandmother of six grandchildren, four of them who live in Scottsdale and two in Costa Rica!

She is a member of American Christian Fiction Writers and an original invited member of Gayle Roper’s Fiction Mentoring Clinic, Mount Hermon Christian Writers Conference, 2003 mentored by James Scott Bell. She is a member of Romance Writers of America and a member of Christian Writers of the West, the regional Arizona chapter of ACFW.

She has judged the ACFW Genesis and the Carol Awards contest numerous times.

She proudly promoted Christian fiction by serving as a reader at www.readingwriters.com, where she critiqued manuscripts for both published and non-published writers. Her Reading Writers bio reflects her faith, and she believes she was only one of two Christian reviewers.

In addition to giving complimentary critiques to many ACFW writers, she has been an influencer and reviewer for Sharon Dunn, Deborah Raney, Brandilyn Collins, Dan Walsh, Sharon Shrock, Richard Mabry, A.K. Arenz, Kathryn Cushman and Linda Windsor.

Her education column, Beyond the Basics, appeared for several years in The Newport Ensign and Costa Mesa News newspapers (CA) as a result of her involvement in education – thirty years in Parent, Teacher Associations and serving as a five time PTA president both locally and school district-wide. She authored several PTA award proposals: one for Outstanding Unit which won top California PTA honors, one for Outstanding Teacher of the Year for which the nominated teacher placed second nationally, and another for a National PTA Outstanding Unit Award that garnered first place and for which she presented workshops at a National PTA Convention. She also co-authored an innovative, updated version of the National PTA Reflections Program (a contest for students to stimulate creativity in broad spectrum arts, including writing). She presented the program with her co-author at two state PTA conventions and numerous Orange County workshops. She has twice been an invited workshop presenter for the Consortium of Independent Studies in California. She also wrote a monthly column for the Christian Media Association newsletter, and several articles for Write On!, the quarterly newsletter for the Orange County Christian Writers Fellowship. 

When she attended the 2005 ACFW conference in Nashville two editors requested a full manuscript with changes of her women’s fiction Second Chances. Because of a sudden move from one state to another, she was unable to comply within their timeframes. The manuscript was requested again at the 2007 ACFW conference. However, it has been expanded and no longer fits within the word count requirement for Barbour’s Heartsong Presents line.

Her entire adult life was comprised of writing and volunteering in education from co-founding a unique parent-cooperative community preschool to writing education columns and publishing hundreds of PTA newsletters that she laid out by hand with a waxer before computers made late nights easier.

Almost all of her stories are set in Arizona and in California where she used to live. One is set partly in Sweden in the cities and towns where her husband’s and her ancestors lived.

She loves to hear from friends and readers at her website: www.bonnieengstrom.com.

Bonnie Engstrom loves to write and she loves food, especially sushi and salad. She used to love to cook, but since her husband retired he took over as resident chef. Many of her stories are centered around food, two around Swedish food reflecting the couple’s heritage. She grew up in Pittsburgh, he in Chicago, and they met in Washington, D.C when they attended George Washington University. They raised their children in Southern California (that is a separate state from Northern California, isn’t it?), so several of her stories are set in Newport Beach where she was an advocate for education, mostly in PTA, for over thirty years.

She lives in Arizona with psychologist husband Dave of fifty years, is the mother of three grown children and the proud grandmother of six grandchildren, four of whom live in Scottsdale and two in Costa Rica on the beach! Pura Vida! Surf on! The couple’s eldest son is an IT expert who taught his mother everything she knows about computer literacy. Unfortunately, he and his wife life in Maryland, too far to fly home for a weekend to help Mom as he used to when she lived in California and he in Arizona.

She loves to hear from her readers and can be contacted at bengstrom@hotmail.com, or check out her website at www.bonnieengstrom.com.

Filled empty nest, hearts and fulfilled dreams--Jubilee!

By Peggy Trotter

Thanks for having me on, Ada! Such a privilege.  I’m extremely excited to share about my debut novel, Year of Jubilee! It’s been a long time coming. I’ve written since I was a child and always dreamed of becoming a writer and publishing novels. But you know, life can get in the way when God places other things in front of your dreams.

My family, my children—I was determined to do my best with them and that took most of my energy. Mix in a full-time job of teaching, and my free time literally disappeared. However, God impressed on my heart that my children were my most important responsibility early on. It yearned to raise them in the best possible way, guiding them ever towards Jesus Christ the Savior! Watching them both be baptized set a deep sense of satisfaction in my heart. Yet when they flew the nest, emptiness edged in! I remember praying for God to fill the void my grown children left in my heart. Oh, boy did He!

God reminded me of my first dreams and off I went! Only this time, I wasn’t going to just finish another manuscript, I was going to see it published. And here it is! I’ve been dreaming this novel in a variety of ways for probably 20 years.

Then six years ago, I hammered out the final version on the keyboard. And it’s only the beginning! I have another coming out Oct. 9^th, entitled, Reviving Jules, a Christian Contemporary.

But let’s get back to Year of Jubilee.  Here’s a little excerpt for you:

“Ma’am, I have no reason to hide facts. Your former husband cheated at cards and Mose Brown shot him clean through.” He paused to gauge her reaction. When she gave none, he continued. “Mose is in jail now, waiting judgment.”

She stood with that pitiful gun. More than likely the weapon was more hazardous to her than him. Her lack of reaction set him to digging, and he was on his way back to start a new row when she finally spoke.

“You own this land now?”

He stopped again and nodded. “Yes, Ma’am.”

She let out a shuddering breath.

“I apologize about all this being sprung on you, but Colvin never mentioned a spouse. As a matter of fact, he assured me the place had been empty for six months.”

Rafe dug the sharp edge of the shovel into the sod with new effort. A wife. Or worse yet, a widow. A very neglected one. Anger roiled inside him. He wished Colvin were alive so he could thump the side of his head with this shovel. Here he’d purchased this land in the middle of nowhere, intending to build a successful farm, recover from humiliation, and avoid female entanglements. Now, he’d inherited a widow.

With teeth gritted, he tore into the soil. After turning over another three rows, he paused. She still stood there. Fine. He’d tell her the way it had to be.

“Listen, I’ll be glad to pay your fare anywhere. You just let me know, and I’ll go to town and buy you a stage or a steamer ticket. Shoot, I’ll even buy you a horse if that’s how you wanna go. Colvin had no business doing this to you and, as his cousin, distant though we were, the least I can do is get you home.”

Rafe had never seen hope slide off of a person’s face quite like it did from hers. Her skin paled and her mouth parted. The small woman’s intense eyes, dark as night, pleaded. For what? For kindness? For understanding? For help? Rafe wasn’t sure. Despite the mixed messages, he recognized the despair in the sag of her body. Uneasiness teemed in his gut.

She shook her head, her voice a mere whisper. “There’s nowhere.”

“Surely you’ve got somewhere you can go. Your folks’ house maybe? An aunt or uncle or even a cousin?”

She glanced away and the shotgun lowered until the barrel stabbed the ground. “I’m an orphan.”

You can purchase Year of Jubilee from Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Smashwords or any other reputable book sellers. You can catch up with me at these websites! Thanks for having me on your blog, Ada!

 Peggy Trotter is a small town Hoosier native who teaches 1^st and 2^nd grade at a small Christian School and writes Christian Romance in her spare time. God blessed her with a wonderful husband who cooks and helps clean while supporting her crazy dreams. She has two incredible grown kids, one fabulous son-in-law, and two rays of sunshine, commonly called grandchildren.

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