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Finding Home is available now on Amazon (in e-book and paperback formats), with other retailers coming in the next week or two. In honor of that, I will be posting some book club questions for you to contemplate over the next several days.
Here's today's:
In Finding Home, Morgan Flynn finds herself inconveniently falling for her boss, the ruggedly handsome game warden Owen Hargreave. That's a tricky situation - and a romance novel standby! What are some other novels you've read that use this framework successfully?Finding Home

In Finding Home, Morgan Flynn ends up living in a new town, a new country...even on a new continent. It leads her to question all sorts of things about herself.

When was the last time you felt like a fish out of water? What steps did you take to get more familiar with your surroundings, or more comfortable in the situation?

In Finding Home, Owen is experiencing an old friendship that's gone inexplicably sideways.

What do you do when someone you know well starts acting in a new way? How about if you can't explain or defend their choices? When is it better to hang on and try to salvage the relationship, and when is it better to cut ties?

In Finding Home, Owen often feels like he's acting a role in a play in which he doesn't understand all the parts - or even the plot itself. Have you ever felt like a small cog in a bigger, baffling machine? How do you continue functioning, while keeping your ethics and moral compass intact?

In Finding Home, Morgan and Owen give each other some very special, meaningful gifts for Christmas. What's the best gift you ever received? What made it meaningful?

That's it for our book club questions for now!
Wishing all of you a very Happy New Year, and looking forward to more great discussions in 2017!

In celebration of the release of Finding Love, (book two in the Second Chances series) Finding Home is now on sale for 99 cents. This sale is only for a limited time, though, so be sure to snag your copy before the price goes back up!

Want to share Finding Love with your book club? Great! All this week, I will post a question a day, to help you get the conversation started!

In Finding Love, Edward struggles to remember certain things that are very important to him. We’ve all had folks among our friends and family who have struggled with memory issues. It’s disconcerting when someone can’t remember something you think they should know. But what happens when YOU are the one who can’t remember? What then? Do you wonder what other people might know about you, or how you fit into the bigger picture? Do you wonder what you’re missing?

They say that things often get worse before they get better, and Meg and Edward’s situation in Finding Love is certainly an example of that. Sometimes it seems like they take two steps back for every one step forward, but eventually they do get their happily ever after. Have there been times when you felt like your progress was more backward than forward, and that you’d never get where you were going?

There are several people in Finding Love that are struggling with hope: Meg hopes that Edward will remember everything they had together. Edward hopes that he can discover what’s missing in his life so he can regain a sense of normalcy. And poor George hopes he can keep the whole ship afloat long enough for everyone to right themselves. Hope can be a wonderful thing, a beacon pulling us forward through dark times. But at what point does hope become foolishness? What makes the difference between something that is preventing us from facing reality, and something worth striving for?

While we’re on the topic of hope, let’s talk about forgiveness. In order to move forward, Meg has to forgive Edward for some of his actions. Edward has to figure out how to forgive himself for some of his actions. Given their feelings for each other, and the reasons behind Edward’s missteps, forgiveness comes relatively easy for these two. In real life, however, how do you determine how much forgiveness is just enough… or too much?