Peering Through Life's Window

  A Warm Welcome to Nancy Mehl Nancy will give away a print copy of Cold Pursuit (U.S. residents only) . To enter join the Rafflecopter contest and leave a comment below. Also leave an email address below or with Rafflecopter.  Nancy shares one of her favorite Bible verses and a yummy recipe. Psalm 27:13:   I would have lost heart, unless I had believed that I would see the goodness of the Lord In the land of the living . (NKJV) A Yummy Recipe   The following recipe is my own! I changed another very basic recipe into this. It’s one of my husband’s favorite dishes.  Smoked Turkey Taco Soup Ingredients: Turkey Smoked Sausage (12 ounces) 8 cups chicken broth 1 can black beans (washed and drained) 1 pinto beans (drained) 1 can dark red kidney beans (drained) 1 large can Southwestern/Fiesta corn (drained) 2 Tablespoons taco seasoning (see recipe below) Directions: Cut sausage into slices. Then add all ingredients to a large pot. Simmer for 30 minutes. Add s...

  A Warm Welcome to Nancy Mehl To enter to win Night Fall (U.S. residents only) leave an email address and a comment below. About Night Fall Now that Alexandra "Alex" Donovan is finally free of her troubled upbringing, she's able to live out her childhood dream of working for the FBI. But soon after she becomes a member of the FBI's elite Behavioral Analysis Unit, authorities in Kansas and Missouri contact them about bodies found on freight trains traveling across the country--all killed in the same way. Alex never expected to be forced to confront her past in this new job, but she immediately recognizes the graffiti messages the killer is leaving on the train cars. When the BAU sends her to gather information about the messages from her aunt in Wichita, Kansas, Alex is haunted by the struggles she thought she'd left behind forever. In a race against time to solve the case while battling her own weaknesses, Alex must face how far she'll go--and what she's...

A Warm Welcome to Nancy Mehl What a treat to learn about Nancy's new series! I'm delighted she's sharing the story behind the story for Book One: Kaley Quinn Profiler series, Mind Games, currently on pre-order on Amazon. Nancy will give away a print copy of Blind Betrayal, Book Three of the Defenders of Justice series . (U.S. residents only). To enter to win leave a comment and an email address below. Hi Nancy, tell us about Mind Games. Writing Mind Games is a dream come true. I’ve been interested in FBI profiling for years. I’ve read about it, studied it, and watched every TV special I could find on the subject. So when the chance finally came to write the book I’ve always wanted to write, I jumped at it. Thankfully, through the help of another writer, I was hooked up with a retired FBI profiler. I was so excited. Until I found out I had almost everything wrong. Yes, I had some understanding about profiling, but I knew nothing about the FBI and how it works. ...

A Warm Welcome to Carole Brown   Carole will give away an e-book of With Music in Their Hearts. To enter to win leave a comment and an e-mail address below. Sometimes It’s Hard to be Content I Timothy 6:8 says, “Having food and raiment (clothes) let us be content. In my novel, With Music in Their Hearts , Emma Jaine Rayner, really wanted to be content and in many ways, was. She had a business she loved. She enjoyed the company of her tenants and their varied personalities. She adored her family, and she lived a comfortable life. But . . . She grew tired (although she wouldn’t admit it!) of the constant responsibility of caring for her family, and her inability in “making” them do as she thought they should. She worried about the more problematic residents. And she yearned for a man of her own. What’s a woman to do? I love the thought of being content. That place where you feel satisfied and pleasant and have ease of mind. Euphoric experience, right? Th...