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This Week's Recipes

Here are this week's new additions at Country at Heart Recipes. The Vogts Sisters will travel to Overland Park tomorrow night to perform at Homer's Coffeehouse. If you're in the area join us! Learn more HERE. 
Taco Bowl Salad
Zucchini Boats

Featured Author, Deborah Raney, shares her recipe for Arby's-style Chicken Salad.

Book Preview ~ The Inn at Ocean's Edge

The Inn at Ocean's Edge, by Colleen Coble

Claire’s visit to a luxury hotel in Maine awakens repressed memories, threatening all she holds dear.In 1989, Claire Dellamare disappeared from her own fourth birthday party at the Hotel Tourmaline on the island of Folly Shoals, Maine. She showed up a year later at the same hotel, with a note pinned to her dress but no explanation. Nobody knows where Claire spent that year—and until now, Claire didn’t even know she had ever been missing.But when Claire returns to the Hotel Tourmaline for a business meeting with her CEO father, disturbing memories begin to surface . . . despite her parents’ best efforts to keep them forgotten.Luke Rocco lost his mother under equally mysterious circumstances—at the same time Claire disappeared. After a chance encounter reveals the unlikely link between them, Claire and Luke set out together to uncover the truth about what happened that fateful year. With flashbacks swimming just beneath her consciousness and a murderer threatening her safety, Claire’s very life depends on unscrambling her past . . . even if her family refuses to acknowledge it. Someone—maybe everyone—is hiding something from Claire Dellamare, and it will cost her everything to drag the truth out into the light. Purchase the book HERE.USA Today bestselling author Colleen Coble has written several romantic suspense novels including Tidewater Inn, Rosemary Cottage, and the Mercy Falls, Lonestar, and Rock Harbor series. Visit her website at www.colleencoble.com

This Week's Recipes

Here are this week's new additions at Country at Heart Recipes. The Vogts Sisters will travel to Independence, MO to perform at the Backroom Gallery/Codie's Cafe tomorrow night. Learn more HERE. 
Bow Tie Pasta with Sausage and Sweet Peppers
BBQ Baby Back Ribs
Featured Author, Karen Witemeyer, shares her recipe for Chocolate Peanut Butter Crispies.

Three Little Kittens

Recently we became owners of three little kittens! 
They were two small to let them stay outside at night, so we've been keeping them in the house at night. Oh my! They love to wrestle with each other, bounce, and run! Lots of fun to watch. 
But we're trying hard to turn them into outside cats--indeed! 

Book Preview ~ Love Arrives in Pieces

Love Arrives in Pieces, by Betsy St. Amant

Former pageant queen Stella Varland doesn't trust beauty anymore after her divorce. Her appearance betrayed her and led to her brokenness-so instead of being beautiful, now she tries to make beautiful things, but always falls short. So she keeps her passion for her secret art to herself and focuses on her interior design work. But if she doesn't get another job soon, she'll be stuck living with her parents.
Contractor Chase Taylor is determined to live a life of no regrets after losing his fiancie in a car crash. Now he lives life at full speed, striving to see how much he can accomplish. He knows if he slows down, he'll fall apart. So he returns home to Bayou Bend to renovate the town's old theater, and is shocked to learn former flame Stella is the designer for the project.Forced to work together, Chase and Stella battle their chemistry and their pasts as they struggle to compromise and come together on a vision for the theater. Chase doesn't understand why Stella is such a subdued version of herself, while Stella doesn't get Chase's constant need for productivity and speed. Their wills clash as they attempt to hide their brokenness-and their unresolved feelings for each other-until Chase breaks through Stella's walls and convinces her to enter her mosaic tile art in a contest. Purchase the book HERE.  Betsy St. Amant lives in Louisiana with her young daughter and has a heart for sharing the amazing news of God's grace through her novels. A freelance journalist, Betsy is a member of American Christian Fiction Writers. When she’s not reading, writing, or singing along to a Disney soundtrack with her daughter, Betsy enjoys inspirational speaking and teaching on the craft of writing. Visit her website at www.betsystamant.com 

This Week's Recipes

Here are this week's new additions at Country at Heart Recipes. The Vogts Sisters will be performing at their first Bluegrass Festival tomorrow afternoon in Pittsburg, KS. Learn more HERE. 
Coconut Cream Pie
Cucumber Tomato Salad
Featured Author, Marian Merritt, shares her recipe for Creamy Mushroom and Chicken Fettuccine

Book Preview ~ A Worthy Pursuit

A Worthy Pursuit, by Karen Witemeyer

A teacher on the run. A bounty hunter in pursuit. Can two enemies learn to trust each other before they both lose what they hold most dear?

Stone Hammond is the best tracker in Texas. He never comes home empty-handed. So when a wealthy railroad investor hires him to find his abducted granddaughter, Stone eagerly accepts.

Charlotte Atherton, former headmistress of Sullivan's Academy for Exceptional Youths, will do anything to keep her charges safe, especially the orphaned girl entrusted to her care. Charlotte promised Lily's mother she'd keep the girl away from her unscrupulous grandfather, and nothing will stop Charlotte from fulfilling that pledge. Not even the handsome bounty hunter with surprisingly honest eyes who comes looking for them.

When Miss Atherton produces documentation that shows her to be Lily's legal guardian, Stone must reevaluate everything he's been led to believe. Is she villain or victim? 

Then a new danger forces Charlotte to trust the man sent to destroy her. Stone vows to protect what he once sought to tear apart. Besides, he's ready to start a new pursuit: winning Charlotte's heart. Purchase the book HERE.  

Winner of the HOLT Medallion and the Carol Award, and a finalist for the RITA and Christy Award, bestselling author Karen Witemeyer writes historical romance because she believes in giving the world more happily-ever-afters. Karen makes her home in Abilene, Texas, with her husband and three children. Learn more about Karen and her books at www.karenwitemeyer.com.

This Week's Recipes

Here are this week's new additions at Country at Heart Recipes. The Vogts Sisters will be performing at Fort Scott's Good Ol' Days tomorrow afternoon from 4-7:00 PM. Join us at the First Street Stage for some great music and entertainment! Learn more HERE.
Easy Corn Dip
Warm Potato Salad with Chicken and Asparagus over Spinach 
Cookbook Preview ~ The New Cast Iron Skillet Cookbook

Vogts Sisters ~ Summer Schedule

We have a jam-packed summer ahead with concerts nearly every weekend. We're excited to be adding two Bluegrass Festivals to our calendar as well as an Oklahoma weekend tour. If we're going to be in your area, please join us for some music and entertainment! See more HERE. 

Book Preview ~ Lizzy and Jane

Lizzy and Jane, by Katherine Reay

Lizzy and Jane couldn’t be further from Jane Austen’s famous sisters for whom they are named.Elizabeth left her family’s home in Seattle fifteen years ago to pursue her lifelong dream—cheffing her own restaurant in New York City. Jane stayed behind to raise a family. Estranged since their mother’s death many years ago, the circumstances of their lives are about to bring them together once again.Known for her absolute command of her culinary domain, Elizabeth’s gifts in the kitchen have begun to elude her. And patrons and reviewers are noticing. In need of some rest and an opportunity to recover her passion for cooking, Elizabeth jumps at the excuse to rush to her sister’s bedside when Jane is diagnosed with cancer. After all, Elizabeth did the same for their mother. Perhaps this time, it will make a difference.As Elizabeth pours her renewed energy into her sister’s care and into her burgeoning interest in Nick, Jane’s handsome coworker, her life begins to evolve from the singular pursuit of her own dream into the beautiful world of family, food, literature, and love that was shattered when she and Jane lost their mother. Will she stay and become Lizzy to her sister’s Jane—and Elizabeth to Nick’s Mr. Darcy—or will she return to the life she has worked so hard to create? Purchase the book HERE. 

Katherine Reay has enjoyed a life-long affair with the works of Jane Austen and her contemporaries, and her favorite authors also include C. S. Lewis, Madeline L’Engle, Charles Dickens, J.R.R. Tolkien, John Piper, Timothy Keller, and the Bronte sisters. After earning degrees in history and marketing from Northwestern University, Katherine worked as a marketer for Proctor & Gamble and Sears before returning to school to earn her MTS. Katherine is an avid runner and a black belt in Tae Kwon Do. Her works have been published in Focus on the Family and the Upper Room. After living all over the world (including London), she currently lives with her husband and three children (with a great sense of permanency) in Seattle. Dear Mr. Knightley is her first novel. Follow her on Facebook HERE.