Peering Through Life's Window

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  A Warm Welcome to Bettie Boswell Bettie will give away an arc of Hoping for Treasure . To enter to win join the Rafflecopter contest below and leave a comment with your email address. Hi Betty, first, tell us a little about yourself. I am a retired teacher for both primary classrooms and elementary general music. A few years before I retired, I decided to be an author. After many unpublished manuscripts, those dreams came true in 2020.  When I'm not writing, I enjoy experimenting with art materials and taking photos on walks around the neighborhood. My three grandchildren keep the grandma taxi service busy during the school year. At church, I work with the music where my husband is minister. I am not a big fan of cleaning house. Dust bunnies don't fear me. Many authors were avid readers as children. How about you? If so, what did you read? I enjoyed reading as a child. I loved Little Women and the other Alcott books. As a youngster, my mother read many Little Golden Books, ...

A Warm Welcome to Jean Pike Jean talks about Jesus' intervention in her life as well as His intervention in the life of the heroine in   About the Little Things.          Miracles and Answered Prayer Beautiful and restless, Rochelle Delany makes choices as a young woman that almost ruin her life. As the story opens, she seeks to escape the nightmare of her present by fleeing back to her past. But things have changed in the small town of Redford’s Crossing, and she wonders if a person can ever really go home again. She grew up going to church but because of choices she made and choices that were forced on her she has been away from God for a long time. There is a scene in which Rochelle’s past pays a visit to her present and she finds herself in a dire situation. She cries out to God, and God steps in in a most miraculous way.  I’ve seen too many miracles to ever doubt that Jesus is real. He answers prayer in his own way and time. but no praye...

  On July 4th, a few years ago, I got up and dressed in blue jeans and a three-quarter-length shirt, attire a bit warm for the day. But perfect for the fireworks display that night, because there was less of me exposed for the bugs to bite.  During the afternoon it rained, but my husband, Rick, said, “It’s supposed to clear up. I don’t think we’ll have a problem going to the show tonight.” We’d been to the fireworks before when it rained, even got caught in a storm there one year and waited an hour or so for the event to start.   The rain stopped. Rick and our daughter, who always comes home to go to the July 4th fireworks, dressed in jeans. At twilight we grabbed a can of bug spray and our stadium seats and started out the door. A loud crack of thunder roared. We slinked back inside like wet puppies to wait until the sky cleared. It grew darker and the thunder louder. Lightning danced around our front yard. Rick turned the television to a weather station. The radar ...

More in-depth descriptions of these books can be found on the ACFW Fiction Finder website Contemporary Romance: Dial S for Second Chances by Linda Shenton Matchett -- Jade Williams agrees to be on the high school reunion committee because the-one-that-got-away is out of the country and won’t be home in time to attend the festivities. Now, he’s not only home but joined the committee. Is it too late to back out or can she set aside forty-five years of regret and pretend she isn’t to blame for her broken heart? One of the downsides of being rich means fielding requests for money and favors. But when an old high school buddy contacts Derek Milligan to be on the reunion committee as just one of the gang, no strings attached, he can’t resist. At the first meeting, he’s dismayed to find himself sitting next to his former high school sweetheart. He should be angry. Instead, he’s attracted. Can he risk his heart a second time? (Contemporary Romance from Shortwave Press)  Fire and Ice ...