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Book Preview ~ Someday Home

Someday Home, by Lauraine Snelling

A heartwarming story that celebrates how life-changing friendships can be found in all seasons of life.

The sprawling lake home Lynn Lundberg built with her husband has been an epicenter of joyful family life, from summer holidays spent around the water, to cookies baked in the kitchen with grandchildren in the fall. But since her husband's sudden passing two years ago, Lynn has been lost in the grief and solitude she feels without him at home. She doesn't want to sell the big family place, but she can't exist there on her own much longer. 

After hearing of a new way of living--where single women share responsibilities as housemates--Lynn thinks she's found the answer to her prayers. Soon she meets two ladies with whom she could begin this journey. Angela Bishop, a successful real estate agent accustomed to the finer things in life, has just been jilted by her husband of twenty-five-years. Judith Rutherford, who has devoted her adulthood to caring for her ailing father, must leave the only home she's known now that he has passed. 

These three women seek a place to grieve, to laugh, and to be renewed. But coming from such differing circumstances, will the new challenges they face undo their plans? Or will they begin a friendship to see them through the years to come in this SOMEDAY HOME? Buy the book HERE. 

LAURAINE SNELLING is the award-winning author of more than 65 novels. Her books consistently appear on ECPA bestseller lists and have been translated into Norwegian, Danish, and German. A hallmark of her style is the empathy with which she explores difficult issues in her compelling stories. Lauraine and her husband, Wayne, live in the Tehachapi Mountains with a bassett named Sir Winston. 
Learn more: LauraineSnelling.com

This Weeks Recipes

Here are this weeks new additions at Country at Heart Recipes. This weekend, the Vogts Sisters travel to Neosho, Missourito perform at One14 Coffee. Learn more HERE. 
Cottage Cheese Butterhorns
Chili Cheese Roll

Thanksgiving Day Menu Ideas

Shades of November

A few photos to celebrate the month of November.

Book Preview ~ The Painter's Daughter

The Painter's Daughter, by Julie Klassen
Sophie Dupont, daughter of a portrait painter, assists her father in his studio, keeping her own artwork out of sight. She often walks the cliffside path along the north Devon coast, popular with artists and poets. It's where she met the handsome Wesley Overtree, the first man to tell her she's beautiful.

Captain Stephen Overtree is accustomed to taking on his brother's neglected duties. Home on leave, he's sent to find Wesley. Knowing his brother rented a cottage from a fellow painter, he travels to Devonshire and meets Miss Dupont, the painter's daughter. He's startled to recognize her from a miniature portrait he carries with him--one of Wesley's discarded works. But his happiness plummets when he realizes Wesley has left her with child and sailed away to Italy in search of a new muse.

Wanting to do something worthwhile with his life, Stephen proposes to Sophie. He does not offer love, or even a future together, but he can save her from scandal. If he dies in battle, as he believes he will, she'll be a respectable widow with the protection of his family.

Desperate for a way to escape her predicament, Sophie agrees to marry a stranger and travel to his family's estate. But at Overtree Hall, her problems are just beginning. Will she regret marrying Captain Overtree when a repentant Wesley returns? Or will she find herself torn between the father of her child and her growing affection for the husband she barely knows? Buy the book HERE.  Bestselling, award-winning author Julie Klassen loves all things Jane--Jane Eyre and Jane Austen. A graduate of the University of Illinois, Julie worked in publishing for sixteen years and now writes full-time. She and her husband have two sons and live in St. Paul, Minnesota. Learn more at www.julieklassen.com.

This Week's Recipes

Here are this weeks new additions at Country at Heart Recipes. This weekend, The Vogts Sisters will travel to Overland Park, KS to perform at Homer's Coffee House. Learn more HERE.
Cranberry Salad
Pumpkin Pie


Featured Author, Gina Welburn, shares her recipe for Gluten-Free Banana Bread.

Three Little Kittens

Here are a few photos our youngest daughter took of our latest additions to our barn family.

They were born mid August, so are around 12 weeks old here.

Kittens are so cute and fun to watch as they scamper around. Enjoy the moments . . . 

Book Preview ~ A Refuge at Highland Hall

A Refuge at Highland Hall, by Carrie Turansky

In this third and final book in the Edwardian Brides Series, you'll be swept away to England and France in 1915 as the Ramsey family and their staff and friends face the dramatic challenges and losses of World War One, yet they also experience the hope and triumph that comes as they put their trust in God to carry them through. Penny Ramsey helps the family welcome a group of orphaned children to Highland Hall, but she soon discovers caring for them is more difficult than she'd expected. She writes to Alex Goodwin, a daring British pilot, who chases German zeppelins across the sky over the Front Line in France, and longs for the day she will see him again. You'll be delighted by two pure and heartwarming romances: Penny and Alex, and Lydia Chambers and Marius Ritter, a lady's maid and a prisoner of war. Buy the book HERE.



 CARRIE TURANSKY is an award-winning author of more than a dozen novels and novellas. She has been the winner of the ACFW Carol Award, the Crystal Globe Award, and the International Digital Award, and a finalist for the Inspirational Readers Choice Award and the ACFW Carol Awards and Genesis Contest. She has written contemporary and historical romances, women's fiction, short stories, articles, and devotionals. She lives in New Jersey with her husband, Scott, and they have five adult children and four grandchildren. Learn more about Carrie on her Website HERE.

This Week's Recipes

Here are this weeks new additions at Country at Heart Recipes. This weekend, The Vogts Sisters will travel to Wichita to The Donut Whole. See more information HERE. 
Weekend Brunch Casserole
Thin Gingersnap Cookies
Cookbook Preview ~ The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Dinnertime

Luther Turns Three

This last month, we celebrated Luther's 3rd Birthday. We know he was born in October, so we "unofficially" named his birthday Reformation Day. We lit three candles and put them on a Twinkie. He loved it! 
Hubby brought Luther to us as a little puppy on Christmas Eve.
Since then, he's become one of our favorite pets--full of love, devotion, and sweetness.Here he is taking a hug from our little granddaughter.
We love you, Luther. Happy Birthday! 
(See more Luther Memories HERE.)

Book Preview ~ Another Way Home

Another Way Home, by Deborah Raney

Grant and Audrey are adding grandchildren to their family left and right, but middle daughter, Danae, and her husband, Dallas Brooks have been trying for years with no baby in sight.Though Danae is ready to consider adoption, Dallas will not even discuss it. Despairing of ever having a family of her own, Danae decides to pour her passion and energies into volunteer work with a newly opened women's shelter in town. Looking for a good cause to fill her lonely days, she never expects to give her heart to the hurting women she meets there. She's finally learning to live her life with gratitude, but then heart-wrenching events on Thanksgiving weekend threaten to pull the entire Whitman clan into turmoil... and leave them all forever changed. Buy the book HERE.  Deborah Raney s books have won numerous awards including the RITA, National Readers Choice Award, HOLT Medallion, the Carol Award, and have twice been Christy Award finalists. She and her husband, Ken, recently traded small-town life in Kansas—the setting of many of Deb's novels—for life in the (relatively) big city of Wichita. Visit Deb on the web at DeborahRaney.com.