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Her personal safety isn’t the only thing in jeopardy-so is her heart. In Hope Toler Dougherty’s new novel, Rescued Hearts, children’s clothing designer Mary Wade Kimball’s soft spot for animals leads to a hostage situation when she spots a briar-entangled kitten in front of an abandoned house. Discovering the kidnapped woman ratchets the complications for undercover agent Brett Davis. Brett forsakes his three-month mission and helps her escape, the bent-on-revenge brutes following behind . . . and then Mary Wade’s safety is threatened once more.

Cozy up this fall with Hope’s new book and enter to win a Kindle Fire!

One grand prize winner will receive:

• A copy of Rescued Hearts
• A Kindle Fire 7

Enter today by clicking the icon below, but hurry! The giveaway ends on November 13. The winner will be announced November 14 on the Litfuse blog.

KJV Know the Word Study Bible

The study of God’s Word can be easy and rewarding if you break down the Bible into easy-to-understand segments. The KJV Know The Word Study Bible offers three easy ways to begin studying Scripture and helps individuals transition from being a casual reader of the Bible to becoming a regular student of the Bible.
Features Include:
• King James Version Bible text
• Three easy approaches to study the Bible (book-by-book, verse-by-verse, or topic-by-topic)
• Insightful introductions for each book of Scripture
• Words of Jesus in red
• Beautiful two-color interior page design
• Comprehensive list of theological notes
• Concordance
• Full-color maps
You can choose to study the Bible book-by-book, verse-by-verse, or topic-by-topic; each path offers powerful insights that will help you develop a daily routine of Bible study. The book-by-book series of notes leads you through the main points of each book of the Bible. The verse-by-verse notes help you to dig deeper into God’s Word. The topic-by-topic articles, which cover 21 theological topics, guide you through a series of insightful notes and give you a thorough biblical understanding of each topic.

With the beautiful and timeless text of the KJV translation, the KJV Know the Word Study Bible offers you choices of how to study Scripture and grow in your relationship with Christ. Learn more about The KJV Know the Word Study Bible here.

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This is a very good next step if you’ve been reading your Bible. It’s going from merely reading (that’s a good thing) to actually digging in and studying.

I like the way it goes in depth not only chapter by chapter, but also verse by verse.

It has a list whereby you can study topic by topic. If you don’t see the topic you want, there’s a concordance in the back.

I’ve found this Bible very helpful, especially if you’re a King James reader.

***I received this book free of charge from Litfuse.***

“A woman overwhelmed”-is this a phrase you can relate to? If you answered yes, you need to read Hayley DiMarco’s new book, A Woman Overwhelmed. The best-selling author shares biblical insights and personal stories to offer a glimpse at the comedy of an overwhelmed life while encouraging us to discover the depths and heights of God’s love and power. Choose to bask in the abundance of the Father instead of the abundance of life as his unfathomable depths can surely replace our fathomable messes.

Become a woman less overwhelmed by life and more overwhelmed by God and enter to win Hayley’s $75 Merry Maids Visa Card Giveaway to help lessen your daily load.

One grand prize winner will receive:

• A copy of A Woman Overwhelmed
• A $75 Merry Maids Visa Cash Card

Enter today by clicking the icon below, but hurry! The giveaway ends on November 3. The winner will be announced November 6 on the Litfuse blog.

Blessed is the one who considers the wretched –

Adonai will deliver him in the evil day.

Adonai will protect him and keep him alive.

He will be made blessed in the land.

You will not give him over to the desire of his foes.

Adonai will strengthen him on his sickbed.

May You restore him completely from his bed.

Psalms 41:2-4

Trust in Adonai with all your heart,

lean not on your own understanding.

In all your ways acknowledge Him,

and He will make your paths straight.

Proverbs 3:5-6

Diving deeper into God’s Word can be easy and rewarding if you break it down book by book, verse by verse, or topic by topic with the new KJV Know The Word Study Bible by Thomas Nelson. The book-by-book series of notes leads you through the main points of each book of the Bible. The verse-by-verse notes help you to dig deeper into God’s Word. The topic-by-topic articles, which cover 21 theological topics, guide you through a series of insightful notes and give you a thorough biblical understanding of each topic. With the beautiful and timeless text of the KJV translation, the KJV Know the Word Study Bible offers you choices of how to study Scripture and grow in your relationship with Christ.

This fall, become a regular student of the Bible and enter to win the Kindle Fire giveaway!

One grand prize winner will receive:

• A copy of the KJV Know The Word Study Bible
• A Kindle Fire 7
• A Kindle Fire case (winner’s choice)

Enter today by clicking the icon below, but hurry! The giveaway ends on October 31. The winner will be announced November 1 on the Litfuse blog.

Delight yourself in Adonai, and He will give you the requests of your heart.

Psalm 37:4

Bringing Maggie Home

By Kim Vogel Sawyer

Decades of loss, an unsolved mystery, and a rift spanning three generations

Hazel DeFord is a woman haunted by her past. While berry picking in a blackberry thicket in 1943, ten-year old Hazel momentarily turns her back on her three-year old sister Maggie and the young girl disappears.

Almost seventy years later, the mystery remains unsolved and the secret guilt Hazel carries has alienated her from her daughter Diane, who can’t understand her mother’s overprotectiveness and near paranoia. While Diane resents her mother’s inexplicable eccentricities, her daughter Meghan-a cold case agent-cherishes her grandmother’s lavish attention and affection.

When a traffic accident forces Meghan to take a six-week leave-of-absence to recover, all three generations of DeFord women find themselves unexpectedly under the same roof. Meghan knows she will have to act as a mediator between the two headstrong and contentious women. But when they uncover Hazel’s painful secret, will Meghan also be able to use her investigative prowess to solve the family mystery and help both women recover all that’s been lost?

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A life filled with both dreams and nightmares. That’s been Hazel’s life for seventy years. She can’t forget the nightmare of losing sister Maggie. And she can’t let go of the dream that Maggie would someday come home.

This secret of Hazel’s affects not only herself, but also her family. She becomes an overprotective mother who ended up with a resentful daughter. Diane in turn strove to raise he daughter to be an independent woman who was caught in the middle.

Fortunately, (or unfortunately in Hazel’s eyes) her secret was accidentally exposed. Now what will these three women do about it? They make plans to search for Maggie, but things don’t always turn out as planned.

Thank you, Ms Vogel Sawyer, for this thought provoking book. I’m looking forward to your next book. I hope you’ll be writing more about Meghan. She’s an intriguing character.

***I received this book free of charge from Litfuse.***

Kim Vogel Sawyer is a highly acclaimed, best-selling author with more than one million books in print, in several different languages. Her titles have earned numerous accolades including the ACFW Carol Award, the Inspirational Readers Choice Award, and the Gayle Wilson Award of Excellence. Kim lives in central Kansas with her retired military husband Don, where she continues to write gentle stories of hope and redemption. She enjoys spending time with her three daughters and grandchildren.

Find out more about Kim at http://www.kimvogelsawyer.com/. See also http://litfusegroup.com/author/ksawyer.

He has told you, humanity, what is good and what Adonai is seeking from you:

Only to practice justice, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God.

Micah 6:8

Many Sparrows

By Lori Benton

Either she and her children would emerge from that wilderness together, or none of them would. . . .
In 1774, the Ohio-Kentucky frontier pulses with rising tension and brutal conflicts as Colonists push westward and encroach upon Native American territories. The young Inglesby family is making the perilous journey west when an accident sends Philip back to Redstone Fort for help, forcing him to leave his pregnant wife Clare and their four-year old son Jacob on a remote mountain trail.

When Philip does not return and Jacob disappears from the wagon under the cover of darkness, Clare awakens the next morning to find herself utterly alone, in labor and wondering how she can to recover her son . . . especially when her second child is moments away from being born.

Clare will face the greatest fight of her life, as she struggles to reclaim her son from the Shawnee Indians now holding him captive. But with the battle lines sharply drawn, Jacob’s life might not be the only one at stake. When frontiersman Jeremiah Ring comes to her aid, can the stranger convince Clare that recovering her son will require the very thing her anguished heart is unwilling to do-be still, wait and let God fight this battle for them?

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Clare didn’t really want to go, but her husband was determined to move west. It’s a rough journey that Philip is taking his pregnant wife and small son on – especially when he chose not to stay with a wagon train.

During the journey Clare ends up alone and in labor. Fortunately Jeremiah Ring comes along. Neither Clare nor he really wants him to become her midwife, but he is caught in the middle of either helping Clare or leaving her alone in the wilderness when her baby insists on being born.

I don’t really want to go into more detail as I’m afraid I’ll get carried away and spoil the story for you. Just know that it’s a real page turner with a surprise ending. And no, you can’t look at the ending first, because 1) it will spoil the story and 2) you won’t understand it anyway.

This is the first book of Ms Benton’s that I’ve read. I’m looking forward to reading many more.

***I received this book free of charge from Litfuse.***

Lori Benton was raised east of the Appalachian Mountains, surrounded by early American history going back three hundred years. Her novels transport readers to the eighteenth century, where she brings to life the Colonial and early Federal periods of American history. When she isn’t writing, reading, or researching, Lori enjoys exploring and photographing the Oregon wilderness with her husband. She is the author of “Burning Sky,” recipient of three Christy Awards, “The Pursuit of Tamsen Littlejohn,” Christy-nominee “The Wood’s Edge,” and “A Flight of Arrows.”

Find out more about Lori at http://loribenton.blogspot.com. Also, check out this link http://litfusegroup.com/author/lbenton.