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Book Preview ~ Her One and Only

Her One and Only, by Becky Wade

Gray Fowler, star NFL tight end, is being pursued by a stalker, so his team hires a protection agency to keep Gray under the watch of a bodyguard at all times. When Gray meets Dru Porter, an agent assigned to him, he's indignant. How can an attractive young female half his size possibly protect him?

But Dru's a former Marine, an expert markswoman, and a black belt. She's also ferociously determined to uncover the identity of Gray's stalker. And she's just as determined to avoid any kind of romantic attachment between herself and the rugged football player with the mysterious past. But the closer they get to finding the stalker, the closer they grow to each other. As the danger rises, can Dru and Gray entrust their hearts--and their lives--to one another? Purchase the book HERE. 

Becky Wade’s a California native who attended Baylor University, met and married a Texan, and settled in Dallas.  She published historical romances for the general market before putting her career on hold for several years to care for her three children.  When God called her back to writing, Becky knew He meant for her to turn her attention to Christian fiction.  She loves writing funny, modern, and inspirational contemporary romance!  She’s the Carol Award, INSPY Award, and Inspirational Reader’s Choice Award winning author of My Stubborn Heart, Undeniably Yours, Meant to Be Mine,  A Love Like Ours, and Her One and Only. Learn more about Becky HERE. 

This Week's Recipes

Here are this week's new additions to Country at Heart Recipes. Join the Vogts Sisters at the Kansas Sampler Festival this weekend. Learn more HERE. 
Citrus Punch
Lemon Tarts
Mother's Day Brunch Ideas

More Gray

I posted earlier this year about "Going Gray". 
Here's an update--pictures taken right before my last cut--seven months after my last hair-coloring in September. 
When you see me next, I hope you won't bestartled by the silver-haired gal standing before you.Enjoy the moments . . . 

Book Preview ~ The Midwife's Dilemma

The Midwife's Dilemma, by Delia Parr

Midwife Martha Cade has decided. When he returns in February, she is going to marry Mayor Thomas Dillon. That is the only decision in life in which she feels confident these days. Everything else around her feels like it's changing too fast, from her daughter's obvious affection for the town's young doctor to Martha realizing she's ready to pass on her role as midwife to someone younger. Even her beloved town of Trinity is changing.

The 1830s Pennsylvania town, having mushroomed in size and population, is becoming an important agricultural and economic center for the region, and soon a canal will connect it even more to the outside world.

It is a season that will set the course for the rest of her life. Martha will need every ounce of confidence, courage, and faith she possesses to overcome the obstacles that will make her life far more challenging and difficult than she can dare to imagine. Purchase the book HERE.  Delia Parr is the author of seventeen historical and inspirational historical romance novels, including Hearts Awakening, Love's First Bloom, and Hidden Affections. The mother of three grown children, she was a long-time high school teacher in southern New Jersey before retiring to Florida.

This Week's Recipes

Here are this week's new additions at Country at Heart Recipes.Join the Vogts Sisters tomorrow night in Kansas City, Mo for music at the Coda. Learn more HERE.
Lemon Orange Cake
Pimento Cheese

Featured Author, Elle E. Kay, shares her recipe for Chicken Gravy.

Grandma's Recipes

If you've been following this blog for very long you know how much I enjoy cooking and trying new recipes.My Grandma did, too, so I got it honest! 
Since her passing away one month ago, we've had the pleasure of going through all the treasures in her home--which included many recipe books and recipe files. What you see above is only a small portion of her collection. 
I love going through her newspaper clippings, and handwritten recipes and notes--and I have been trying to make one of her recipes each week for our family.
Grandma was a school cook for over 26 years and was known for her delicious meals and COOKIES! Click HERE for her Snickerdoodle Cookie Recipe.

Book Preview ~ Stitching a Life in Persimmon Hollow

Stitching a Life in Persimmon Hollow, by Gerri Bauer

In At Home in Persimmon Hollow, readers’ hearts were captured by Agnes Foster as she built a new life for herself in a very special frontier town amid the Florida wilderness—and found love along the way. Now, in the second novel of the Persimmon Hollow Legacy series, we meet starry-eyed seamstress Josefa Gomez.

Living with her aunt and uncle, the housekeeper and caretaker at Agnes and Seth’s Taylor Grove compound, Josefa longs for the glamorous life of a fashion designer far beyond her small town. But her dreams of designing exquisite gowns for rich women in Paris and New York alarm her Tia Lupita, who fears that Josefa’s ambitions are unrealistic for a girl of her station. In late 19th century America, a Mexican woman’s best prospect may well be a suitable marriage and a position in the household of a kind employer. When Lupita announces a plan for Josefa to move away from Persimmon Hollow to live with distant relatives in Texas and prepare for an arranged marriage, the headstrong beauty knows she has to make an audacious choice.

Will Josefa follow her dreams of glamor or submit to her aunt’s plans for stability and security? Can she find a way to use her gifts in a truly productive way? And when a choice arises between two suitors, will she choose a rich man who could give her all the outward trappings she desires, or a quiet carpenter who has fewer material goods—but a bigger heart? Buy the book HERE. Gerri Bauer has a B.A. in English from Stetson University, where she works in social media and online marketing and volunteers for their campus ministry program. She was born and raised in New York City but has deep roots in Florida, where she lives with her husband, spoils her cats, and keeps tabs on a far-flung extended family. She is the author of At Home in Persimmon Hollow. Learn more about Gerri's books on her Website HERE. 

This Week's Recipes

Here are this week's new additions at Country at Heart Recipes.Have a great weekend! 
Chocolate Sheet Cake
Lemon Bars
Cookbook Preview ~ Jacque Pepin's Heart and Soul in the Kitchen

Emma's Dandelion Soup

This past year, I have been collecting old pots and pansfor Emma to play with outside when she comes to visit. 
My grandma had a bunch of little items that I added to my collection after she passed away. Emma is having lots of fun making all kinds of wonderful recipes this week.
Here is her Dandelion soup she made for Papa. 

Book Preview ~ Playing the Part

Playing the Part, by Jen Turano

Lucetta Plum is an actress on the rise in New York City, but is forced to abandon her starring role when a fan's interest turns threatening. Lucetta's widowed friend, Abigail Hart, is delighted at the opportunity to meddle in Lucetta's life and promptly whisks her away to her grandson's estate to hide out.

Bram Haverstein may appear to simply be a somewhat eccentric gentleman of means, but a mysterious career and a secret fascination with a certain actress mean there's much more to him than society knows.

Lucetta, who has no interest in Abigail's matchmaking machinations, has the best intentions of remaining cordial but coolly distant to Bram. But when she can't ignore the strange and mysterious things going on in his house, it'll take more than good intentions to keep her from trying to discover who Bram is behind the part he plays. Buy the book HERE.  Jen Turano, author of the Ladies of Distinction series and the A Class of Their Own series, is a graduate of the University of Akron. She is a member of ACFW and lives in a suburb of Denver, Colorado. Visit her Website HERE.