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The Vogts Sisters at Walnut Valley Festival

If you happen to be a bluegrass or folk music fan and are planning to go to the Walnut Valley Festival in Winfield, KS, our daughters will be performing a few main stage showcases as well as a couple in the Pecan Grove. Festival tickets can be purchased at the gate today.Festival dates: September 13-17.

Book Preview ~ A Stranger at Fellsworth

 A Stranger at Fellsworth, by Sarah Ladd
In the fallout of her deceased father’s financial ruin, Annabelle’s prospects are looking bleak. Her fiance has called off their betrothal, and now she remains at the mercy of her controlling and often cruel brother. Annabelle soon faces the fact that her only hope for a better life is to do the unthinkable and run away to Fellsworth, where her estranged uncle serves as the school’s superintendent. Upon arrival, Annabelle learns that she must shed her life of high society and work for her wages for the first time in her life.Owen Locke is unswerving in his commitments. As a widower and father, he is fiercely protective of his only daughter. As an industrious gamekeeper, he is intent on keeping poachers at bay even though his ambition has always been to purchase land he can call his own. When a chance encounter introduces him to Annabelle Thorley, his steady life is shaken. For the first time since his wife’s death, Owen begins to consider a second chance at love. As Owen and Annabelle grow closer, ominous forces threaten the peace they thought they’d found. Poachers, mysterious strangers, and murderers converge at Fellsworth, forcing Annabelle and Owen to a test of fortitude and bravery to stop the shadow of the past from ruining their hopes for the future. Purchase the book HERE.Sarah E. Ladd received the 2011 Genesis Award in historical romance for The Heiress of Winterwood. She is a graduate of Ball State University and has more than ten years of marketing experience. Sarah lives in Indiana with her amazing family and spunky Golden Retriever. Learn more at her Website HERE.

This Week's Recipes

Here are this week's new additions at Country at Heart Recipes.Join the Vogts Sisters this weekend at the Kansas State Fair. Learn more HERE.
Blueberry Kuchen
Baked Baby Back Pork Ribs
State Fair Foods

Book Preview ~ Love Remains

Love Remains, by Sarah M. Eden

For nearly a year, Tavish O’Connor has carried the crushing weight of his family’s future on his shoulders. He has taken on the care of his youngest brother, Finbarr, who lost his eyesight in a terrible accident. But the lad needs more than Tavish can provide. Finbarr needs hope.

Cecily Attwater specializes in hope. As a tutor to the newly blind, she has dedicated her life to helping others overcome the obstacles she herself has conquered. Her new assignment in a remote corner of Wyoming proves trickier than usual: Finbarr refuses to learn. To make matters worse, his family—and the other Irish townspeople—are less than thrilled to discover an Englishwoman in their haven.

Cecily’s only hope lies in securing the cooperation of her pupil’s brother, Tavish, who happens to be her harshest critic and quite possibly the most frustrating man she’s ever known.

For Finbarr’s sake, Tavish and Cecily forge an uneasy alliance that, as the weeks pass, tiptoes toward something deeper than either dares admit or face, and toward a future they know to be impossible. There can be no hope of a happy outcome for an Irish man and an English woman amongst a people reeling from violence and centuries of hatred between their two homelands. Other Books in the Hope Springs Series: Longing for Home; Hope Springs; My Dearest Love
Buy this book HERE.   


SARAH M. EDEN is the USA Today bestselling author of multiple historical romances, including Foreword Review’s 2013 “IndieFab Book of the Year” gold medal winner for Best Romance, Longing for Home, and two-time Whitney Award Winner Longing for Home: Hope Springs. Combining her obsession with history and affinity for tender love stories, Sarah loves crafting witty characters and heartfelt romances. She has thrice served as the Master of Ceremonies for the Storymakers Writers Conference and acted as the Writer in Residence at the Northwest Writers Retreat. Sarah is represented by Pam Howell at D4EO Literary Agency. Visit Sarah at www.sarahmeden.com

This Week's Recipes

Here are this week's new additions at Country at Heart Recipes.Join the Vogts Sisters this Sunday in Burdick, KS for a Labor Day Celebration.Learn more HERE.
Cinnamon Applesauce
Pork Stir-Fry
Labor Day Menu Ideas

Book Preview ~ Freedom's Ring

Freedom's Ring, by Heidi Chiavaroli

Boston, 2015
Two years after nearly losing her life in the Boston Marathon bombing, Annie David is still far from “Boston strong.” Instead she remains isolated and defeated—plagued by guilt over her niece, crippled in the blast, and by an antique ring alongside a hazy hero’s face. But when she learns the identity of her rescuer, will he be the hero she’s imagined? And can the long-past history of the woman behind the ring set her free from the guilt and fears of the present?

Boston, 1770
As a woman alone in a rebellious town, Liberty Caldwell finds herself in a dangerous predicament. When a British lieutenant, Alexander Smythe, comes to her rescue and offers her employment, Liberty accepts. As months go by, Alexander not only begins to share his love of poetry with her, but protects Liberty from the advances of a lecherous captain living in the officers’ house where she works.

Mounting tensions explode in the Boston Massacre, and Liberty’s world is shattered as her brother, with whom she has just reunited, is killed in the fray. Desperate and alone, she returns home, only to be assaulted by the captain. Afraid and furious toward redcoats, Liberty leaves the officers’ home, taking with her a ring that belonged to Alexander.

Two women, separated by centuries, must learn to face their fears. And when they feel they must be strong, they learn that sometimes true strength is found in surrender. Buy the book HERE. 
Heidi Chiavaroli is a writer, runner, and grace-clinger who could spend hours exploring Boston’s Freedom Trail. She writes women's fiction and won the 2014 ACFW Genesis contest in the historical category. Heidi makes her home in Massachusetts with her husband, two sons, and Howie, her standard poodle. Learn more about Heidi and her books HERE. 

This Week's Recipes

Here are this week's new additions at Country at Heart Recipes.Have a great weekend! 
Applesauce Spice Cake
Strawberry Wine Slushes
Shrimp Boil Party

Book Preview ~ To Wager Her Heart

To Wager Her Heart, by Tamera Alexander

Can a railroad man and a Southern Belle turned teacher find a way to work together to achieve their dreams in the new reality of the post-Civil War South?

Sylas Rutledge, former gambler and new owner of the East Line Railway, invests everything he has into this venture, partly to see if he can do it—but mostly to avenge his father. One man holds the key to the railway’s success—General William Giles Harding of Nashville’s Belle Meade Plantation. But Harding is champagne and thoroughbreds, and Sylas Rutledge is beer and bullocks. Sy needs someone to help him maneuver in high society, and when he meets Alexandra Donelson, he quickly decides he’s found his tutor.

Spurning her family’s wishes that she marry, Alexandra Donelson is pursuing her passion for teaching at Fisk University, the first freedmen’s university in the United States. But her family does not approve, and ultimately, her father expels her from the family home and cuts her off completely.

Through her friendship with Mary Harding, Alexandra is thrown together with both General Harding and Sylas Rutledge. And she soon finds herself falling in love with a man whose roguish qualities and adventuresome spirit smack more of recklessness than responsibility. Sylas Rutledge will risk everything to win the hand of the woman he loves. What he doesn’t count on is having to wager her heart to do it.

Set at Nashville’s historic Belle Meade Plantation, To Wager Her Heart is a sweeping Southern love story about a nation mending after war, the struggle to move a country forward, and the courage of a man and woman to see themselves for who they truly are—and can be—with each other. Purchase the book HERE.  
Tamera Alexander is a USA Today bestselling novelist and one of today's most beloved authors of Christian historical romance. Her works have been awarded and nominated for numerous industry-leading honors, among them the Christy Award, the RITA Award, the Carol Award, Library Journal's top honors, and have earned the distinction of Publisher's Weekly Starred Reviews. Her deeply drawn characters and thought-provoking plots have earned her devoted readers worldwide. Learn more about Tamera HERE.

This Week's Recipes

Here are this week's new additions at Country at Heart Recipes.The Vogts Sisters will travel to North Central Kansas and Nebraska for an Eclipse Weekend.Learn more HERE.
Cherry Pie
Green Bean Potato Salad
Featured Author, Rosanne White's Cornish Pasties

Vogts Sisters' Eclipse Weekend

This weekend our daughters, the Vogts Sisters will travel to North Central Kansas and then Nebraska for an Eclipse Weekend Celebration.They will have performances at the Brown Grand Theatre, Concordia, KS; Hanson Craft Fair, Logan, KS; The Chocolate Bar, Grand Island, NE; and The Lark Listening Room, Hastings, NE.Learn more HERE.