A Melody of Love and Murder Cover Reveal & Casting fun!!!

                 First things first, here is the cover I decided on for "A Melody of Love and Murder."

                                                                           Synopsis:
What happens when a young woman goes home and chaos ensues? Find out in "A Melody of Love and Murder".


Scarlet Comfort is a successful Southern Gospel singer. She has been traveling all over the world since she was discovered 8 years ago at her high school talent show. One day she gets a call from her Nana Rose. Rose tells her she needs Scarlet to come home as soon as possible. While Scarlet is home she runs into Beau Weston, her old boyfriend. Scarlet believes they are just too different, Beau is a simple country boy and Scarlet has become accustomed to city living and traveling. But, not long after Scarlet arrives weird things start happening. Then murder comes to town. While trying to figure out their feelings for each other, Scarlet and Beau must find out what is going on. But, Scarlet needs to watch her back. The killer is coming for her next, and she must discover who is creating all the chaos....before it's too late.


Now let's have some casting fun. These photos are inspirations for my characters and people I would want to play my characters if my story actually became a feature film. (That would be cool, huh!)

Help Needed!!!!

Okay ya'll, I need some help deciding which cover to go with for my NaNo novel, "A Melody of Love and Murder." So comment below which you like the best.

Option #1

       

Option #2

Dawn of Christmas by Cindy Woodsmall Review

Synopsis:
This Christmas, experience learning to trust alongside the Plain folk of Apple Ridge, Pennsylvania in this heart-warming tale of second chances.

Sadie enjoys her freedom away from home and her mission trips to Peru, but after four years, her Old Order Amish family insists it’s time to come home and settle down. Levi, a bachelor who distrusts women after a family heartbreak, also has no desire for romance. To keep their families from meddling in their lives, Sadie and Levi devise a plan—but soon discover that the walls around their hearts are breaking down. Can they let go of their prejudices, learn to trust each other, and embrace a future together?

Review: 5 Stars!
Oh my gosh! This book was so good! A cute romance set in the Amish country during Christmas time! Three of my favorite things all in one novel! If you like any of these three things I really suggest you go pick up this novel!

New Billy Graham Book Review!!

From America's evangelistic elder statesman

Salvation is what we all long for, when we are lost or in danger or have made a mess of our lives. And salvation belongs to us, when we reach out for the only One who can rescue us--Jesus.

The saving message of the Gospel is the heartbeat of this preacher and evangelist. Millions around the world have heard Billy Graham proclaim this unchanging truth. He has never forgotten the transformation of his own life, when he first said yes to God's gift of salvation, and he has witnessed multitudes turn their hearts to the God of Hope.

"The Reason for My Hope: Salvation "presents the essence of that transformative message. It is biblical and timeless, and though simple and direct, it is far from easy. There are hard words, prophetic words, directed toward a culture that denies the reality of sin and distracts us from the veracity of Hell. But through its ominous warnings shines a light that cannot be extinguished--a beacon of hope that Jesus came "to seek and to save that which was lost" (Luke 19:10).

Review:
If you get any book written by Billy Graham, this is the book to get. I think this is the best book Billy has written to date. You want to be uplifted, inspired, and be filled with hope. Read this book! You won't regret it!

Another Novel Update & NaNoWriMo!!!

      Hey guys, I'm baaaaccckkkkkk!!! Sorry for being gone for a little while, I've been quite busy planning and plotting for NaNoWriMo next month. That's right, I am writing 50,000 words in thirty days. I'm excited and nervous at the same time. I hope I can make the goal. And for fun, since I've already posted the synopsis on my NaNoWriMo profile, I'll post my synopsis here. It's pretty short, but it will get longer once the novel is written. So......here it is!!

Synopsis for Untitled Novel:

(Christian/ Inspirational Romantic Suspense)
Scarlet Comfort is a successful Southern Gospel singer. She has been traveling all over the world since she was discovered 8 years ago at her high school talent show. One day she gets a call from her Nana Rose. Rose tells her she needs Scarlet to come home as soon as possible. While Scarlet is home she runs into Beau Weston, her old boyfriend. Scarlet believes they are just too different, Beau is a simple country boy and Scarlet has become accustomed to city living and traveling. But, not long after Scarlet arrives weird things start happening. Then murder comes to town. While trying to figure out their feelings for each other, Scarlet and Beau must find out what is going on. But, Scarlet needs to watch her back. The killer is coming for her next, and she must discover who is creating all the chaos....before it's too late.

P.S. I'm still trying to tie down a title. So if you have any ideas, please leave a comment.

Forever Friday by Timothy Lewis Review

                         Forever Friday by Timothy Lewis
                         Rating: 2.5 Stars!


















Goodreads Synopsis:
Ideal for readers of Nicholas Sparks, Forever Friday is the heartwarming and captivating tale of an unlikely couple, a weekly gift of devotion, and a heartbroken man longing to discover the secret to lasting marriage.

After a devastating divorce leaves Adam Colby heartbroken, he is not sure how he can put the pieces of his life back together. He wonders if even God can make sense of the mess that remains-until a package of mysterious postcards that direct Adam to the story of Gabe and Huck Alexander. Drawn by her desire to find a true soulmate, Pearl "Huck" Huckabee breaks a turbulent engagement with her fiancé to marry Gabe Alexander, a man she's known just a few short weeks. Wanting to celebrate and protect their love, Gabe mails her a meaningful postcard every week-beginning in 1926-for the next sixty years. Designed to arrive on Fridays, each postcard not only contains an original poem, but holds precious truths, the sum of which answer the universal question: what makes a marriage last? As Adam begins to uncover the Alexanders' secret, he records Gabe and Huck's extraordinary romance. It's a process that will change his life forever.

Review:
This wasn't my favorite novel. It was okay, but not great. There are plenty other romance novels out there in the Christian market that are better. Another thing I did NOT like was there was one curse word. I did not appreciate that whatsoever. Reading a Christian novel, I shouldn't be worried that I'll come across foul language. I was pretty disappointed. I wouldn't recommend this to others.

Prairie Song Review

The first step in a challenging journey is often the one that means the most.

Though it means saying goodbye to the beloved friends and spiritual mentors of her St. Charles, Missouri quilting circle, Anna Goben is certain that she needs to enlist her family in the Boones Lick Company wagon train. The loss of her beloved brother in the Civil War has paralyzed her mother and grandfather in a malaise of grief and depression and Anna is convinced that only a fresh start in the Promised Land of California can bring her family back to her. Although the unknown perils of the trail west loom, Anna’s commitment to caring for her loved ones leaves no room for fear—or even loving someone new.

During the five-month journey, trail hand Caleb Reger plans to keep a low profile as he watches over the band of travelers. Guarding secrets about his past and avoiding God’s calling on his life, Caleb wants to steer as far from Anna as she does him, but she proves to be just as he assessed her from the beginning— independent, beautiful trouble.

Led by a pillar of hope, the group faces rough terrain that begins to take a toll on their spirits. Will the wilderness of suffering lead them astray, or will the gentle song of love that echoes across the prairie turn their hearts toward God’s grace and the promise of a new home?

Review:
This novel tells the story of the hardships people went through in this time period, and the things that helped them through it all. A sweet romance intertwined through out the story was wonderful. This is a must read.

Fatal Tide Review

                                                      5 Stars!!








                                                                                      




                                                                                    [About the Book]

Dani and Tommy discover that the vicious killings in East Salem were merely the birth pangs of a greater evil about to be born.
Occultist leaders at Saint Adrian’s school are in league with an East Salem pharmaceutical company. Together they’ve developed a drug that acts as a time-bomb in children, attacking and killing the prefrontal cortex—the moral center of the brain—once adolescence begins.
East Salem residents Dani Harris, forensic psychiatrist, and Tommy Gunderson, former pro-football player, have discovered the plan to deliver this drug into the water system and will stop at nothing to halt it. Their secret weapon? Reese Stratton, a student who barely escaped from St. Adrian’s—without his twin brother.
Now demonic creatures are terrorizing East Salem under the cover of darkness. Having killed two residents, the beasts have surrounded Tommy’s hillside home. But their deadly attacks seem to have been just a prelude to greater disaster: during a physical battle between angels and demons, a dam breaks, flooding the town of East Salem, but also washing it clean.

                                                                                             [Review]

Best book in the East Salem Trilogy! Dani and Tommy's story comes to an end in Fatal Tide! If you like suspense, romance, and supernatural warfare, grab you self copies of the entire East Salem Trilogy today!

Burning Sky By Lori Benton Review

                                                         

                                                         


                                                              [About the Book]

“I remember the borders of our land, though I have been gone from them nearly half the moons of my life. But who there will remember me? What I have seen, what I have done, it has changed me.

I am the place where two rivers meet, silted with upheaval and loss.

Yet memory of our land is a clear stream. I shall know it as a mother knows the faces of her children. It may be I will find me there.“

Abducted by Mohawk Indians at fourteen and renamed Burning Sky, Willa Obenchain is driven to return to her family’s New York frontier homestead after many years building a life with the People. At the boundary of her father’s property, Willa discovers a wounded Scotsman lying in her path. Feeling obliged to nurse his injuries, the two quickly find much has changed during her twelve-year absence—her childhood home is in disrepair, her missing parents are rumored to be Tories, and the young Richard Waring she once admired is now grown into a man twisted by the horrors of war and claiming ownership of the Obenchain land.

When her Mohawk brother arrives and questions her place in the white world, the cultural divide blurs Willa’s vision. Can she follow Tames-His-Horse back to the People now that she is no longer Burning Sky? And what about Neil MacGregor, the kind and loyal botanist who does not fit into in her plan for a solitary life, yet is now helping her revive her farm? In the aftermath of the Revolutionary War, strong feelings against “savages” abound in the nearby village of Shiloh, leaving Willa’s safety unsure.

Willa is a woman caught between two worlds. As tensions rise, challenging her shielded heart, the woman called Burning Sky must find a new courage--the courage to again risk embracing the blessings the Almighty wants to bestow. Is she brave enough to love again?

Review:
Burning Sky was such a beautiful novel about a a woman, Willa, caught between two different worlds. If you like Historical novels and Romance novels than you NEED to pick up Burning Sky!