October November Clash Champion!

Congratulations to Kara Isaac, with Clash of the Titles Champion, Kara Isaacs, Can't Help Falling

Can't Help Falling

 

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A funny, heartfelt romance about how an antique shop, a wardrobe, and a mysterious tea cup bring two C.S. Lewis fans together in a snowy and picturesque Oxford, England.

Emelia Mason has spent her career finding the dirt on the rich and famous. But deep down past this fearless tabloid-reporter façade, there’s a nerdy Narnia-obsessed girl who still can’t resist climbing into wardrobes to check for the magical land on the other side. When a story she writes produces tragic results, she flees to Oxford, England—home to C.S. Lewis—to try and make amends for the damage she has caused.

Peter Carlisle was on his way to become one of Great Britain’s best rowers—until he injured his shoulder and lost his chance at glory. He’s determined to fight his way back to the top even if it means risking permanent disability to do so. It’s the only way he can find his way past failing the one person who never stopped believing in his Olympic dream.

When Peter and Emelia cross paths on her first night in Oxford, the attraction is instant and they find common ground in their shared love of Narnia. But can the lessons from a fantasyland be enough to hold them together when secrets of the real world threaten to tear them apart? Cobblestone streets, an aristocratic estate, and an antique shop with curious a wardrobe bring the world of Narnia to life in Kara Isaac’s inspiring and romantic story about second chances.

What Voters Had to Say:

These authors are all a blessing! Please keep writing...You encourage us all!

The cover alone makes me want to read the book, which sounds like a wonderful read. :)

Loved Can't Help Falling. More please! :)

Keep writing, Kara! Love your books!

Kara Isaac, I have just discovered your books and love them. Keep it up!

I loved Kara Isaac's first book, Close to You, so am really looking forward to reading Can't Help Falling. I enjoy her style of writing. I recommended Close to You to my book club, so hopefully we'll be reading and discussing it sometime in 2017.

I have read, and enjoyed, Can't Help Falling. As far as the covers, I have to vote for this one because what little you see of the guy's face, it looks like my son!!

I won Kara Isaac's Can't Help Falling on a Facebook giveaway and was wonderfully surprised at how much I loved this book! The cover is amazing and it really catches the eye!

Kara has a zany unique writing style that combines substance with heartfelt laughter

I'm not familiar with some of these authors but really like some of them!  Keep up the good work!

Kara Isaac, you have such a gift bringing comedy, romance, and meaning to your stories. I love them!!

Wish I could have picked two books here, because Can't Help Falling caught me just by the description. I'll be looking for this one!

About the Author:

Kara Isaac lives in Wellington, New Zealand. When she's not working her day job as a public servant, chasing around a ninja preschooler and his feisty toddler sister, she spends her time writing horribly bad first drafts and wishing you could get Double Stuf Oreos in New Zealand. Her debut romantic comedy, Close To You, released April 2016. Her sophomore novel, Can't Help Falling, releases in October 2016 and is an RT Reviews Top Pick. She loves to connect with readers on GoodReads, Twitter, Facebook and through her website.

Featuring Author Terri Wangard

Featured Book: Soar Like Eagles

Author: Terri Wangard

Publisher: Celebrate Lit Publishing Group

Released:  December 2016

Genre: Historical / Historical Romance

PLEASE WELCOME AUTHOR TERRI WANGARD AS SHE SHARES INFORMATION ABOUT THE WRITING OF THIS BOOK SET IN WWII. TAKE IT AWAY, TERRI . . .

For the third book of my World War II series, I needed something to involve my main character with. At first I considered the train canteens, where volunteers laden with food met troop trains crisscrossing the country. That wouldn’t work though, because my navigator was heading overseas and I didn’t want a correspondence relationship. Then I discovered the Red Cross clubmobiles.

The American Red Cross operated canteens on the home front and clubs and clubmobiles overseas during World War II to provide soldiers and sailors with a cup of coffee, a doughnut, and a bit of friendly conversation that gave the men a familiar connection with home.

The Red Cross operated canteens in World War I when thousands of service personnel were traveling by train between their homes and camps and then to the ships that took them overseas. With the United States’ sudden entrance into World War II in 1941, the American Red Cross once again cared for troops on the move. Stateside, the Red Cross operated canteens near military installations, at train stations, ports of embarkation, and at military airfields. Canteen volunteers worked tirelessly securing donated and purchased supplies, preparing food and drinks, setting up facilities, and serving the troops.

Around the world, the Red Cross staffed permanent service clubs, traveling clubmobiles, and other recreational facilities. Service clubs provided refreshments, accommodations, and comfort and recreational activities wherever American troops were located overseas. In major cities, they offered meals, recreational activities, overnight accommodations, and barbershops and laundries. Some also provided sightseeing opportunities, touring museums, castles and cathedrals, and attending local theaters and movie houses.

Smaller clubs provided food in outlying areas near American military camps. The Red Cross also operated rest homes, often in stately manor houses in rural, tranquil locations overseas, for service personnel needing respite from the pressures of war.

To serve military sites in isolated areas, the Red Cross used clubmobiles in Great Britain in 1942 and later, the continent. Staffed by three American Red Cross women and a local driver in England, they visited several sites in a day, bringing refreshments, entertainment, and a touch of home to the troops in a foreign land. They used converted half-ton trucks and single-deck London buses, which featured kitchen equipment for making and serving doughnuts and coffee. Some carried phonographs and loudspeakers to provide music for the troops, and the women often danced with the servicemen. On the continent, the women had to drive and service their trucks.

Many American servicemen had never traveled far from home. At Red Cross clubs and clubmobiles in far-flung places around the globe, they received a connection to home and civilian life through friendly American women and familiar food. The Red Cross served a basic purpose of raising morale.

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Carol Doucet of Soar Like Eagles was proud to be a Doughnut Girl. 

She wants to do her part for the war, but struggles to maintain her ideals.

He joins the air force, hoping to find peace.

            Carol becomes a Red Cross doughnut girl, serving GIs and boosting their morale. Believing wartime romances are doomed to disappointment, she attempts to avoid entanglements and transfers to France, away from Chet, the airman she’s falling for.

            Chet’s father always belittled him. Now a well-regarded navigator, he longs to prove him wrong. After he’s ditched in the North Sea, parachuted into France, and been called before a review, his focus changes to staying alive, and winning the Red Cross girl he keeps crossing paths with.

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Terri Wangard grew up in Green Bay, Wisconsin, during the Lombardi Glory Years. Her first Girl Scout badge was the Writer. These days she is writing historical fiction, and won the 2013 Writers on the Storm contest and 2013 First Impressions, as well as being a 2012 Genesis finalist. Holder of a bachelor’s degree in history and a master’s degree in library science, she lives in Wisconsin. Her research included going for a ride in a WWII B-17 Flying Fortress bomber. Classic Boating Magazine, a family business since 1984, keeps her busy as an associate editor.

Connect with Terri:
www.terriwangard.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/AuthorTerriWangard
Pinterest: www.pinterest.com/terriwangard/

Buy link:  http://amzn.to/2dMEDNJ

Soar Like Eagles won the ACFW (American Christian Fiction Writers) First Impressions contest as a historical, but could be considered a historical romance.

Featuring Susan Page Davis

FEATURED BOOK: Seven Brides for Seven Texans

AUTHORS: Erica Vetsch, Amanda Barratt, Susan Page Davis, Keli Gwyn, Vickie McDonough, Gabrielle Meyer, Lorna Seilstad

IT IS MY PLEASURE TO WELCOME AUTHOR SUSAN PAGE DAVIS who shares a bit about her novella, one of the seven stories in the above collection.

ALSO, SUSAN IS OFFERING A PRINT COPY OF SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN TEXANS. JUST LEAVE A COMMENT BELOW TO BE ENTERED.

Synopsis for Seven Brides for Seven Texans Collection:

Meet the seven Hart brothers of the 7-Heart ranch in central Texas. Each man is content in his independent life, without the responsibilities of a wife and children—until their father decides 1874 will be the year his grown sons finally marry, or they will be cut from his will. How will each man who values his freedom respond to the ultimatum? Can love develop on a timeline, or will it be sacrificed for the sake of an inheritance?

In Susan’s novella, For Love or Money, you’ll meet Jane and Crockett: Burned out of their house, Jane and her family move into a cave, where she discovers some hidden money. Crockett Hart comes to help them rebuild, and she asks for his help. When he learns where the money came from, he hopes it won’t keep their two families apart, because he’s falling for Jane. 

       Purchase links for Seven Brides for Seven Texans (Now available on Kindle, too!)

• ·        From Amazon: http://amzn.to/2eRHaHH
• ·        From ChristianBook.com: https://www.christianbook.com/Christian/Books/easy_find?Ntt=seven+brides+for+seven+texans&N=0&Ntk=keywords&action=Search&Ne=0&event=ESRCN&nav_search=1&cms=1&search=
• ·        From Barnes & Noble: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/seven-brides-for-seven-texans-romance-collection-amanda-barratt/1123611042?ean=9781634099653

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Susan Page Davis is the author of more than 60 novels and novellas in the historical romance, mystery, and suspense genres. She is the mother of six and grandmother of ten. A Maine native, she now lives in western Kentucky with her husband Jim. She has won many book awards, including two Inspirational Reader’s Choice Awards, two Will Rogers Medallions, the Carol award, and more. Visit her website at: www.susanpagedavis.com.

     Find Susan at:

·        Website: www.susanpagedavis.com

·        Twitter: @SusanPageDavis

·        Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/susanpagedavisauthor

·        Blog on the 23^rd of each month: www.hhhistory.com  

     DON'T FORGET TO LEAVE A COMMENT TO BE PLACED IN THE DRAWING FOR A PRINT COPY OF SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN TEXANS BETWEEN NOW AND WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 14TH AT MIDNIGHT CST.

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Christmastide on Bald Head Island ♦ Rose McCauley ♦ Giveaway

Welcome to Whispers in Purple, dear readers. 'Tis the Season, right? Christmas is in the air! The bell-ringers are out; grocery store parking lots are full of fragrant evergeen trees ready to be taken home and decorated; some of us are already listening to Christmas music; and others, like our guest author today, are sharing their seasonal books and writings for your reading pleasure.

So please join me in greeting author Rose Allen McCauley and her brand new release, Christmastied on Bald Head Island, our second—but not last!—Christmas feature of the month. Oh, yeah . . . there's a giveaway included, as well. Just scroll down for the details

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Four generations of women find second chances at love on Bald Head Island.

Literature weaves its way through the hearts of the Jordan family women. Matriarch, Grace Jordan, has a particular affinity for William Shakespeare. Just as his play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, spins a tale of the planning of one wedding but ends with three ceremonies, Grace and her two daughters, Rosalind and Miranda, discover rekindled love while planning Rosalind's daughter, Jane Anne's Christmas wedding. 

In a twist of fate, ceremony plans change. However, just like Elizabeth Bennett and Anne Shirley from Jane Austen and Lucy Montgomery's respective classic tales, all four Jordan women discover what—and who—will make them truly happy.

Buy links:  

• Kindle: http://amzn.to/2d4pzxG 
• Paperback: http://amzn.to/2eTgLrY 

ABOUT ROSE:

Rose has been writing for over a decade and has five books published. A retired schoolteacher who has been happily married to her college sweetheart for over forty years, they enjoy their growing family of three children and their spouses and five lovely, lively grandkids! She loves to hear from her readers. You can reach her through her website www.rosemccauley.com or twitter @RoseAMcCauley and Facebook http://on.fb.me/1LrXNoS

ABOUT THE GIVEAWAY: 

Rose is offering one free copy of Christmastime on Bald Head Mountain for your Kindle reader. Entering is simple: just leave a comment below this post and include your contact info: e.g. you (at) yourdomail (dot) com (so we can notify you if you win)  Giveaway ends one week from today (Monday, December 12) at Midnight CST. Note: I require a minimum of 5 (five) comments in order to make the giveaway fair, so share this blog post with friends & family on Facebook, Twitter, or other social media you choose. Thanks. 

Radio Wave Romance ♦ Katie Clark ♦ Giveaway

Does it look like this where you live? No, not here, either- yet!

Well, it's December. How did that happen? 

As the calendar rolls over from November to December, our thoughts are focusing on Christmas . . . of course. So, I am pleased to bring my Whispers readers the first Christmas season-related blog post with guest blogger KATIE CLARK.

Hi Peg! Thanks for having me! Christmas is my favorite time of the year, so it was only natural when my latest novel ended up being a Christmas-themed story. Radio Wave Romance has a special meaning for me, as it delves gently into the world of childhood cancer—a place my own family “lived in” for many years. It’s a story that will hopefully tug at the heartstrings while still leaving readers smiling at the end. I hope your readers enjoy it, and I’m happy to give away one digital copy to a lucky reader. Leave a comment and I will choose a winner based on a random number generator! **See details below.

Radio Wave Romance: 

Hit radio show host Annalise Waters is challenged on-air when one of her listeners, social studies teacher Christopher Sanders, accuses her of being cold-hearted toward the needs of the local children’s hospital. Afraid of public backlash, the station arranges a fundraiser for the hospital, with Annalise at the head. But it’s a fundraiser that drags up painful memories from Annalise’s past.

Christopher hadn’t intended to be hustled into a fundraiser—he’d only wanted to make a point. But as he spends more time with Annalise, and realizes his mistaken judgment, he can’t deny the growing feelings for this woman who is anything but cold-hearted. Will she ever forgive his on-air accusations and see the depth of his true feelings?

BUY LINKS: 

• Amazon
• Barnes and Noble
• Books A Million

ABOUT OUR GUEST:

KATIE CLARK started reading fantastical stories in grade school and her love for books never died. Today she reads in all genres; her only requirement is an awesome story! She writes sweet Christian romance for adults, as well as exciting speculative fiction for Christian teens. 

You can connect with her at her website, on Facebook, or on Twitter.

 **ABOUT KATIE'S GIVEAWAY:

As Katie mentioned above, a free digital copy of Radio Wave Romance is being offered to one of you Whispers readers. Simply leave a comment below with your contact information, e.g: you (at) yourdomain (dot) com, so we can contact you should your name be drawn as the winner. Your window of opportunity begins today, December 2, 2016, and ends next Friday, December 9, 2016, at Midnight, CDT.  

Share this giveaway with friends! I require a minimum of 5 (five) comments to make the giveaway fair.

Thanks!