Looking in the Window: The Hills Are Alive With Spring, Two Books in the Discipleship Series Set in Western NC. Giveaway
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Years ago, I brought a bit of Western North Carolina to my house as a small bush. I never trimmed it into a city shrub, but let it grow wild and free like in the mountains. My mountain laurel blooming season has ended, but it's still in season in Northern Western North Carolina.
Recently I set two books in a Discipleship Series in Western North Carolina. The characters in Hidden Danger and Dangerous Detour tell their stories in the winter when cold air whips around the hills.
About Hidden Danger, Christian Romatic Suspense, Discipleship Series Book 1
After Emily Hanover’s left standing at the altar in Blue Mountain, North Carolina, she visits Sky High Campground to put her life back together. Because it’s February and few people visit this time of year, she’s alone on the premises. When noises in the middle of the night frighten her, she gathers her courage and peeks outside. A man carrying a body over his shoulder emerges from the dark shadows onto her front yard. She flees to the protection of her bedroom.
The next morning, she visits ex-military officer turned security guard, Nick Lancaster. He listens intently to Emily, but dismisses her claim of foul play as a hunter carrying a deer. After he sees a freshly dug hole in Emily’s yard and finds two more in the woods, he agrees—there’s suspicious activity. Then he and Emily embark on a mission exposing murder and a far-reaching sinister plot, neither suspecting danger can bring romance.
Read the Top Author Award Review Here
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About Dangerous Detour, Discipleship Series Book 2
Four people face a winter storm in the wilderness. Two have
lost their way. One has lost his purpose and one has lost his soul.
Headed home for Christmas vacation, Ruthie, a quiet professor, crosses paths with Moose, a football coach, on an icy blocked road in Western North Carolina. Amid a winter storm, they unknowingly take shelter in a killer’s hideout. Escaping under fire, they flee into a frozen, snow-covered forest. Trying to find their way out and shake the murderer, they dodge bullets each day until the temperature drops and the world turns quiet. Then, they set up camps to survive in the wilderness. Even though they grow attracted to each other, neither admits it until each of them suffers a frightening injury. Finally, they head to a house Ruthie sees in the distance. Will they meet a new friend, or a foe?
From a Five-Star Review: Gail Pallotta’s mystery romance grabs your attention on the first chapter. This is the second book in a series, and it does not disappoint you because of the suspense and all the cliffhangers at the end of each chapter. It was difficult to put down.
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A Close-up View of a Western North Carolina Spring
A poem about the landscape in Western North Carolina penned by William Paulk, my writing professor and a nominee for the Pushcart X: The Best of Small Presses, in 1984, for his book of poetry, The Beholden Hills.
The Gift
From unknown depths below,
Twisting like a firefly in the dark,
Here, suddenly there, now here again,
With deceptive-seeming ease,
The little spring breaks forth at last
And bubbles from the soil
To form a pool and quench my thirst.
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