Peering Through Life's Window

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 See below to enter the Giveaway. 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 shoulde...

More in-depth descriptions of these books can be found on the ACFW Fiction Finder website Biblical Romance: Mantle by Dana McNeely -- Faith. Redemption. The cost of leadership. Will the next generation rise to the challenge and uphold the legacy of Elijah, or will they falter under the weight of the mantle? (Biblical Romance from Mountain Brook Ink)   Children’s Middle-grade/Chapter book: Dixie Randolph and the Mystery of Willow Creek by MaryAnn Diorio -- A twelve-year-old girl learns of a plot to kill her father and risks her life to save his.(Children’s Middle-grade/Chapter book from TopNotch Press)   Contemporary Romance: Meet Me on Lilac Lane by Andrea Christenson -- He was her late husband's best friend, but for him she'd always been the one. (Contemporary Romance from Sunrise Publishing)   Anxious For Love by Gina Conroy -- She’s anxious about love. He’s built a career on it— what could possibly go wrong? Fans of witty banter, reluc...

Photo Ai Generated My wish for you comes from my favorite Irish blessing. “May the road rise to meet you, May the wind be always at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face, The rains fall soft upon your fields. And until we meet again, May God hold you in the palm of his hand.” Who was Saint Patrick? Find out here and get the recipe for Irish Cream Brownies I’m excited to announce my new release, Dangerous Detour, Discipleship Series Book Two . Even though it’s in a series, it can stand alone.  Meet Moose and Ruthie, the hero and heroine in Dangerous Detour. Photos AI Generated 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 ...

  Curl up with a cup of coffee or tea and a good book. Enter below to win twenty good books supplied by the Love to Read a Good Book contest.  One winner will win all twenty books by twenty different authors.  The prize value is $104.60. Enter between now and February 28th. Click here:   https://kingsumo.com/g/1x9rzp1/love-to-read-a-good-book-giveaway

  What fun! Something to keep us company. On those cold winter nights cozy up with a good book. Escape with Christian romance, mystery or suspense. Book value is $65.88. The contest ends on February 3rd. To enter click below. https://kingsumo.com/g/1v98z7m/cozy-up-to-a-good-book-giveaway

HAPPY SUMMER!    Whether enjoying a lemonade and a snack while reading a good book, having tea with a friend or hosting a bridal shower, strawberries make the occasion special. See recipes below. Summer Reading and Recipes There are over two-dozen recipes in the back of Cooking up a Mystery, each one named for a character in the book. They were donated by members of Mission Love Seeds, a charitable group created to help children throughout the world and to respond locally after disasters to demonstrate God's love. Learn more at Mission Love Seeds About Cooking up a Mystery Laney Eskridge worked to put her husband through dental school. Then he left with another woman. She's on edge from the emotional scars and her parents' deaths. Then she hears unexplained noises in her new tea house, and her anxiety is tripled. Add a budding romance with Eric—a guy with a fear of commitment—and it's all too much to handle. She cuts ties with Eric and plunges into making her business...

  A Warm Welcome to Nancy Mehl Nancy will give away a print copy of  her latest book, Cold Threat (U.S. residents only). To enter to win leave a comment and an email address below and enter the Rafflecopter contest. Hi Nancy, first, tell us a little about yourself. I’m a wife, mother, and a writer. I’ve been writing for over twenty-five years and recently had my fifty-third book published. I don’t have a lot of free time, but I love to read and watch TV to relax.   Lots of writers enjoyed reading as children. Were you an avid reader as a child?  Yes. I would stay up all night and read books under my bedspread, using a flashlight so I could see. I suspect my mother knew, but she didn’t say anything. Why do you write? I write because I believe God called me to do it.  Tell us about your latest book. Cold Threat is the second book in my Ryland and St. Clair series. River Ryland and Tony St. Clair travel to Burlington, Iowa, to help Tony’s father with a very c...

  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 Fay Lamb Fay shares a devotional. She's also having a contest. Enter here   by guessing at the clues given to you as to the location of each book in The Visitor series. One Day Heaven Was Open Those five words from “One Day” rang in my head as I contemplated this post. The hymn is a beautiful story of Christ’s redemptive love, but those lyrics came to mind for a different reason. There had been a day in my life when Heaven had opened, and I saw clearly my Savior who bled and died for me. Since that day, there have been other times when the Lord has shown Himself real to me. One particular time I will never forget occurred one very early foggy morning. While driving to work, I passed an entrance ramp onto Interstate 95. An overwhelming prompting from the Holy Spirit urged me powerfully with one word. “Pray.” Then a still, small voice said, “Pray for Ethan.” Ethan is my grown son. I knew he would have been on his way to work in the fog driving on the interst...

  A Warm Welcome to Nancy Mehl Nancy will give away a print copy (U.S. residents only) of Dead Fall . Last year this thriller won the Daphne Du Maurier Award for Excellence in Mystery/Suspense, as well as the Carol Award. Enter to win at the Rafflecopter Contest below. Now from Nancy: Favorite Bible Verse I love God’s Word so picking just one Bible verse is hard. But I think a lot about Psalm 91. I guess the part I recite and lean on the most is: Psalm 91: 14-16 “Because he has set his love upon Me, therefore I will deliver him; I will set him on high, because he has known My name. He shall call upon Me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him and honor him. With long life I will satisfy him, and show him My salvation.” These are such encouraging promises. We will never be alone. We can count on God to deliver us from anything we go through. And we can believe for a long and satisfying life.  Favorite Recipe  Nancy Shares a Recipe From Her...