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  Though the Mountains be Shaken: Amid a troubled marriage, Kate Dunbar begins to have symptoms of a neurological disorder. She and her husband are separated when she receives a diagnosis of Parkinson’s Disease. I’ve wanted to write this story for some time since I also live with Parkinson’s. Her symptoms start similar to my own and progress quickly. I hope to bring awareness of this very prevalent disease by weaving it into a story that I think readers will enjoy.   My challenge as a writer was to achieve a satisfying ending without diminishing the seriousness of this disease. I believe that I accomplished that. I also desired to show that God’s grace is present in our afflictions.   He said, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness.” 2 Cor. 12:9     Book Blurb:   Kate Dunbar puts 100% into everything she does—a career as a literary agent, a mom of preschool twins, and the wife of Ryan Dunbar, a criminal defense attorney. She appears

  Discover a friend of King David’s that stuck closer than a brother. Biblical Fiction from II Samuel, Chapters 15-19.   Book blurb: When a quiet journey to Jerusalem turns tragic, newly orphaned Rimona must flee a kinsman set on selling her as a slave. Racing into the rocky hills outside of Hebron, Rimona is rescued by a Philistine commander journeying to Jerusalem with six-hundred warriors. Exiled commander, Ittai the Gittite, is seeking refuge in the City of David. Protecting a frantic Hebrew woman is not in his leadership plan. Although, having a nobleman's niece in his caravan might prove useful for finding shelter in a foreign land. Rimona and Ittai arrive in Jerusalem on the eve of a rebellion. In the chaos of an heir's betrayal, will they be separated forever, or can they defend King David and help the aging monarch control his rebellious son?   Extract: (Joab and Ittai prepare for war against King David’s son Absalom)        “Mahanaim is too far from

  Billie the elf lives on the bottom of Laurel’s bed. Laurel loves everything about elves and wanted one of her very own. Unfortunately, real elves are very shy. So, over the summer, Gramma crocheted one that Laurel could keep. At the beginning of December, Laurel got an Advent calendar, which started the countdown to Christmas. This got Billie thinking. What was Christmas? And why does so much go on in the four weeks of the period known as Advent? Billie can’t wait to find out as she and Laurel open the Advent calendar each morning. These are their adventures. extract : Billie took a deep breath and admired her handiwork. It needed one more thing. She eyed up the ribbon and the bells, before deciding on the silver bell. She tied it onto the wreath and sighed happily. It was perfect. She lowered the wreath to the chair before jumping down beside it. Then she lowered it to the floor and jumped beside it. Now all she had to do was carry it across the room and up onto the windowsill.

  St. Morien, Cornwall. Beautiful. Peaceful. Deadly. Detective Inspector Aidan Urquhart has a mystery on his hands. Three young women   reported missing back in the summer have been found dead; all still wearing the clothes in which they vanished; all frozen solid on the cold shore. When Jenica Zimmerman realises her sister is missing, she heads to the Cornish coast where the police have few clues. The DI leading the case warns her not to take chances, to go home and leave the case to his team. Determined to stay, Jenica takes a room at a local inn and attempts to find her sister herself. With Christmas fast approaching, all she wants is a happy ending. But when a fourth body is discovered, all tidings of comfort and joy seem far away. Extract: Two girls had been found dead on the beach at St. Morien in the last two weeks. Neither were Thea, but Jenica couldn’t help but worry. On a hunch she checked the photo app on her phone that Thea was addicted to. Her breath caught a

  In The Bleak Midwinter Blurb: The Adelphi Theatre has been the centre of drama in Headley Cross for one hundred years. Interim manager, Flick Anderson, does her best to juggle running the theatre and directing her first play, Home Is Where The Heart Is . Flick is overjoyed when her best friend and ex-boyfriend, Will Reid, takes on the main male lead—especially as she wrote the role for him. BAFTA winning actor Will Reid prefers stage work to anything else. When the job he should have been doing over Christmas is unexpectedly cancelled, he leaps at the chance of working with Flick. Could this be a new beginning for the two of them? But life is never that simple. Just as Flick begins to thaw, a spanner is thrown into the works that could wreck things forever.   Extract: Flick sighed. Maybe somewhere in the desk was a list of who to call to fix this kind of mess. She headed back to the office with no idea where to look. Twenty minutes later, she’d turned the office into a

 Includes all three Mistletoe Meadows novellas: Mistletoe Melody, Mistletoe Mission, and Mistletoe Movie Star. Mistletoe Melody: Former musician, Melody Staff, spends Christmas at a bed and breakfast in the village of Mistletoe Meadows. While everyone sings familiar carols of Christ drawing near, Melody stumbles over misplaced notes. Her recent diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis has scared off her fiancé and thrust her life into a grand pause. She's not sure her heart will ever sing again. Quentin Oxford has endured a devastating year. His preteen daughter suffered a stroke, and they've grieved his wife's sudden death, but the Lord coaxes a surprising refrain from Quentin's heart as God rewrites his and Melody's score into a holiday love song that will last for Christmases to come. Mistletoe Mission: While her own relationships always end up doomed, Emily Colt is still determined to create happily-ever-afters through her wedding and event planning business. In hopes of