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New Release: Historical Romance - Siege of Azalea Plantation

Siege of Azalea Plantationhttp://www.amazon.com/Siege-Azalea-Plantation-Book-ebook/dp/B018JOIFRI/The Civil War stole her life and her new husband, but she vowed to keep his memory and dream alive and restore Azalea Plantation.
Widow Alexis Bella Seaborne led a sheltered life in the arms of massive oaks at Azalea Plantation with her new husband Luke Wyatt until the Civil War forced her to forget about the elegant dress of a lady and embrace survival when a Yankee officer took control of her home.
Lieutenant Reese Armstrong sieges her home for use as a hospital for his wounded soldiers and encampment grounds during the forty-seven day standoff for control of the Mississippi River before the surrender of Vicksburg.
Reese never thought he’d fall for a Southern belle, but he can’t deny the attraction he feels each time Alexis’s haunted blue eyes show passion for the home she loves and her beloved South. He can’t help but envy the love and regard she held for her husband and longs for love like it.
Alexis never thought she could love again when her husband died in the war. How could she fall for a Yankee when Union soldiers killed him? Left with nothing but a war-ravaged rundown plantation after the invasion of an ocean of blue, can she find trust and faith to move on? As movement flutters in her stomach, can she let go of the past to find a future for her and her unborn child? http://www.amazon.com/Siege-Azalea-Plantation-Book-ebook/dp/B018JOIFRI/

Photo of Houmas House near New Orleans used with permission. Credit inside of book.

Faith, Friends, Fiction, and Cornbread

Check out the link where I'm a guest with a Thanksgiving story. Nike has done an awesome job. Thanks, Nike. BJ http://faith-fiction-friends.blogspot.com/2015/11/thanksgiving-some-things-never-change.html

Free Cornbread Dressing/Stuffing Recipe at end of River Oaks Plantation

Christmas is fast approaching. In the back of River Oaks Plantation, you will find my mother-in-law's family recipe passed down through the generations for cornbread dressing/stuffing. I use it every year as all of our southern relatives. Stuff your turkey with it this year and give it a try. If you have readers on your Christmas list, I have several Christmas-themed books as well as historical romances. Just browse the site and click on the covers to read about them.

Merry Christmas and may you have a blessed one!

Below is the blurb and link for the novel with the recipe. Hope you enjoy both the book and the dressing. Many readers have in the past. This is one of my bestselling books.

Blessings,
BJ

If Danny comes home from the war, how will Maggie explain what happened while he was gone? Southern Writers Magazine showcased as a Must Read. "I was so enthralled with this story that I had to keep reading it to the very end." Amazon best-seller. Indie Award winner. Love and romance endure, grow, and flourish. Experience the antebellum South with Maggie and Danny and weather the storm with Cammie and Noah. Noah still has the ring he bought for Cammie years ago. Should he give it to her and ask the question he never did? Threatened by nature & man, can love survive? Love through a raging, killer hurricane and river flood. Noah fights to save Cammie to save the love that could have been. Whose life will the river claim?
http://www.amazon.com/River-Oaks-Plantation-B-Robinson-ebook/dp/B00H8XZLCE

Let it Snow: Home Sweet Home

Sweet Christmas romance. Clean read.  This is Book 1. Book 2, the last of the two-part serial will release the end of October or early November, titled When Snowflakes Fall: Wrapped in Love. Make a cup of hot chocolate with marshmallows, put your feet up, and journey to another world with Ashley and Scott. Spend Christmas in a cabin in the Maine woods.

Can one invitation change her life? Ashley doesn't have much to look forward to over winter break except not having to trudge to work in the freezing cold until she receives an invitation to spend the Christmas holidays with a peer and his family. She's been dreaming of a Christmas spent in a cabin in the woods. Now, she has an invitation. At least one Christmas wish is coming true. http://www.amazon.com/Let-Snow-Home-Sweet-Snowflakes-ebook/dp/B01696227W/

A New Novel and a New Short Story--Both Historical Romance

Historical romance. A Mississippi plantation. A southern belle. A Union officer. The turmoil of the Civil War rips a country asunder as lives are transformed. Brothers, three reared in the South, the other the North. Will they ever see eye-to-eye?
Alice Caldwell is young and in love in the midst of the raging war that disrupts her world. She hopes to soon announce her engagement when the Civil War destroys her plans, and her beau leaves to fight.
Bert Russell, a Union officer, invades her life when his wounded men are moved to Whitworth College in Brookhaven, Mississippi, and he turns it into a hospital for his soldiers. When there is not enough room for his men and the Confederate soldiers, he confiscates Cotton Grove Plantation, Alice’s home, as a hospital for his remaining men and encamps on her front lawn.
Working in the hospital with wounded and dying men changes Alice’s once-sheltered life. She’s no simpering southern belle batting lashes behind a sandalwood fan, but becomes a woman who finds the courage to go on.
Through it all, the magnolia trees continue to bloom, majestic live oaks curtained with Spanish moss wave their limbs, the great Mississippi River continues to flow as the North and South battle for its control, and somehow, people go on with their lives.
http://www.amazon.com/Belle-Officer-Battlefield-Romance-Book-ebook/dp/B00YQB58BK/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1433280984&sr=1-2&keywords=the+belle+and+the+officer

Civil War Historical Romance Short Story
A complete short story with beginning, middle, and conclusion divided into four chapters and an epilogue for your reading convenience and pleasure.
Carmen and Ben fall in love one Grand Isle Summer, but the Civil War comes to Louisiana, and disrupts their plans. Ben takes off to Fort Livingston to see why the Confederate soldiers are gathered.
Six months go by with no word from Ben. Carmen warned him if he went to war, she would disguise herself as a man and follow him. Early one morning, she slips out of Grand Isle Plantation and finds an old boat. Carmen paddles to the fort in search of her lost summer love, intending to find him if it is the last thing she ever does, leaky old boat or not.
The waves are rough and nearly wash right over the sides of the wooden boat. Carmen fears she might have been too brave, but she doesn't turn back. She has to find Ben.http://www.amazon.com/Grand-Isle-Summer-Love-Romance-ebook/dp/B00ZT5YUEI/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1434542965&sr=1-1&keywords=Grand+Isle+Summer+Love

Inspiration for The Belle and the Officer

I am inspired to write through life experiences, God, and nature. For instance, for The Belle and the Officer, I remember my early Mississippi days spent in the red clay at my grandmother’s fascinated by the little doddle bugs that rolled up their tiny bodies and reminded me of Volkswagen cars. My father had a brother who had a cotton farm years after the Civil War. There were no slaves. He paid people to pick his cotton and gave me a smaller sack telling me I could pick, too.

He paid me twenty-five cents a bag, and I soon played out, so I didn’t make much, but I can say I’ve had the experience of picking cotton. I think I earned a dollar. Remembering this, made me want to set a novel in the small Mississippi town where my father grew up and their college became a hospital during the war. Until I conducted the research for this book, I had never heard about Whitworth College in Brookhaven, Mississippi

New Historical Novel & Short Story

Historical romance. A Mississippi plantation. A southern belle. A Union officer. The turmoil of the Civil War rips a country asunder as lives are transformed. Brothers, three reared in the South, the other the North. Will they ever see eye-to-eye?
Alice Caldwell is young and in love in the midst of the raging war that disrupts her world. She hopes to soon announce her engagement when the Civil War destroys her plans, and her beau leaves to fight.
Bert Russell, a Union officer, invades her life when his wounded men are moved to Whitworth College in Brookhaven, Mississippi, and he turns it into a hospital for his soldiers. When there is not enough room for his men and the Confederate soldiers, he confiscates Cotton Grove Plantation, Alice’s home, as a hospital for his remaining men and encamps on her front lawn.
Working in the hospital with wounded and dying men changes Alice’s once-sheltered life. She’s no simpering southern belle batting lashes behind a sandalwood fan, but becomes a woman who finds the courage to go on.
Through it all, the magnolia trees continue to bloom, majestic live oaks curtained with Spanish moss wave their limbs, the great Mississippi River continues to flow as the North and South battle for its control, and somehow, people go on with their lives.
http://www.amazon.com/Belle-Officer-Battlefield-Romance-Book-ebook/dp/B00YQB58BK/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1433280984&sr=1-2&keywords=the+belle+and+the+officer

Civil War Historical Romance Short Story
A complete short story with beginning, middle, and conclusion divided into four chapters and an epilogue for your reading convenience and pleasure.
Carmen and Ben fall in love one Grand Isle Summer, but the Civil War comes to Louisiana, and disrupts their plans. Ben takes off to Fort Livingston to see why the Confederate soldiers are gathered.
Six months go by with no word from Ben. Carmen warned him if he went to war, she would disguise herself as a man and follow him. Early one morning, she slips out of Grand Isle Plantation and finds an old boat. Carmen paddles to the fort in search of her lost summer love, intending to find him if it is the last thing she ever does, leaky old boat or not.
The waves are rough and nearly wash right over the sides of the wooden boat. Carmen fears she might have been too brave, but she doesn't turn back. She has to find Ben.http://www.amazon.com/Grand-Isle-Summer-Love-Romance-ebook/dp/B00ZT5YUEI/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1434542965&sr=1-1&keywords=Grand+Isle+Summer+Love

Meet Me at the River

Meet Me at the River
by B. J. Robinson
Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, as clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb down the middle of the great street of the city. On each side of the river stood the tree of life, bearing twelve crops of fruit, yielding its fruit every month. And the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations. - Revelation 22:1-2
For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever. Therefore encourage each other with these words. – Thessalonians 4:16-18
I lost my mother to cancer March 4, 1998, and February 23 is her birthday, so I found myself thinking of her and of seeing her again. This March, she will have been in Jesus’ arms seventeen years. They say time heals all wounds, but my heart still misses her as much as ever. Only Jesus saves and heals. Since her death, I also lost my youngest sister, and loved ones and friends have lost those they love as well. It is my hope that through this devotional and God’s Word, others who have lost loved ones will continue to keep faith and hope alive.
After Mother’s loss, I heard The Kingdom Heirs sing “Good News From the Graveyard,” and the song helped, but Robert Lowry wrote a hymn in 1864, “Shall We Gather at the River?” which eased my heart even more.
These songs and the above-captioned scriptures helped me in my time of need. God sent His Comforter and though I still miss my mother dearly, I know she’s no longer in pain, and I will see her again when we gather at the river. As Robert Lowry wrote, “Yes, we’ll gather at the river, The beautiful, the beautiful river, Gather with the saints at the river That flows by the throne of God.”
I pray you will be comforted by the Bible verses and hymns as I was, but most of all, I pray you will accept Jesus and let Him heal your heart and save you if you have not already, so you will meet your loved ones at that beautiful, flowing, crystal river and see them again. Friends and loved ones, I hope to see you there one day. Meet me at the river.
Copyright B. J. Robinson 2015
About the Author

Bio: B. J. Robinson writes Amazon best-selling Christian and inspirational romance. She is a retired teacher with five children and twelve grandchildren as well as three dogs and a cat. Since she enjoys writing in various genres, there are numerous selections readers may choose from among romantic suspense, historical romance, mystery, and sweet contemporary romance. Robinson is an avid reader and passionate writer whose hope is to entertain her readers by taking them on a continuous journey to other worlds.


Only 99 cents. Short stories and devotionals from the heart and soul. Stories include: Lisa Has Her Wings, Divine Intervention, Finding Your Best Friend, Hot Glazed Doughnuts, Watching My Scotty Grow, Lightning Strikes, Miracle Grower, Weeds of my Heart and Memory Lanes, and devotionals. In the story "Lisa Has Her Wings," a girl has an eating disorder. Life can be too competitive with the competition being the thinnest. http://www.amazon.com/Meet-Me-River-Stories-Devotionals-ebook/dp/B00U217V8G/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1425230081&sr=1-2&keywords=Meet+Me+at+the+River

Scripture taken from the HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION, copyright 1973, 1978, & 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved.    

The Inspired Pen Blog Presents The Belle and the Officer

The Inspired Pen Blog presents an excerpt for The Belle and the Officer. Read an excerpt of my latest novel on the lovely blog, The Inspired Pen. I’m so thrilled to be here. Thanks for having me. "Please tell me you're not going. Fiddlesticks, we haven't announced our engagement.” http://theinspiredpen.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-belle-and-officer-battle-field.html

The Belle and the Officer is Live!

Historical romance. A Mississippi plantation. A southern belle. A Union officer. The turmoil of the Civil War rips a country asunder as lives are transformed.
Alice Caldwell is young and in love in the midst of the raging war that disrupts her world. She hopes to soon announce her engagement when the Civil War destroys her plans, and her beau leaves to fight.
Bert Russell, a Union officer, invades her life when his wounded men are moved to Whitworth College in Brookhaven, Mississippi, and he turns it into a hospital for his soldiers. When there is not enough room for his men and the Confederate soldiers, he confiscates Cotton Grove Plantation, Alice’s home, as a hospital for his remaining men and encamps on her front lawn.
Working in the hospital with wounded and dying men changes Alice’s once-sheltered life. She’s no simpering southern belle batting lashes behind a sandalwood fan, but becomes a woman who finds the courage to go on.
Through it all, the magnolia trees continue to bloom, majestic live oaks curtained with Spanish moss wave their limbs, the great Mississippi River continues to flow as the North and South battle for its control, and somehow, people go on with their lives.
http://www.amazon.com/Belle-Officer-Battlefield-Romance-Book-ebook/dp/B00YQB58BK/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1433280984&sr=1-2&keywords=the+belle+and+the+officer