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Pursuing Gold

By Cynthia L. Simmons

With his father dead and his business partner incapacitated, Peter Chandler inherits the leadership of a bank in economic crisis.
With only a newly-minted college degree and little experience, Peter joins his partner’s daughter, Mary Beth Roper, in a struggle to keep C&R Bank afloat while the Civil War rages around Chattanooga. Political pressure for unsecured loans of gold to the government stirs up trouble as tempers and prices rise. Their problems multiply when Mary Beth discovers counterfeit money with Peter’s forged signature. Can they find the forger before the bank fails? The two friends must pursue gold on behalf of their business, as they learn to pursue their heavenly Father to find hope and peace.

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This book has two new bank partners struggling with their new duties. They had no idea what kind of mess they were walking into.

Peter and Mary Beth were friends before becoming partners in a bank that just might go under.

There’s the Civil War nearing their door step. Then a murder. Now forged paper currency printed on their bank – a bank which has always dealt in gold and shunned paper currency.

The two must pursue gold as well as find the forgers and their cache of the false currency before it’s distributed and causes the bank to fail.

Will they also have a chance to pursue a budding romance?

Thank you, Ms Simmons, for this novel. I love historical novels and almost always learn something new in its particular time frame.

***I received this book free of charge from Litfuse, and am giving my honest opinion.***

Cynthia L Simmons and her husband, Ray, have five children and reside in Atlanta. She has taught for over thirty years as a homeschool mother and Bible teacher. She’s a columnist for Leading Hearts Magazine and she directs Atlanta Christian Writing Conference. Cyndi has a heart for encouraging women in today’s crazy, upside-down world. She loves history and peppers her speaking and teaching with fascinating vignettes from the past. Her first book, Struggles and Triumphs, was nominated for 2008 Georgia Author of the Year. She co-founded Homeschool Answers and hosts Heart of the Matter Radio.

For many deceivers have gone out into the world – those who do not acknowledge Yeshua as Messiah coming in human flesh. This one is a deceiver and the anti-messiah.

Watch yourselves, so you do not lose what we have worked for but receive a full reward.

Anyone who goes too far and does not remain in Messiah’s teaching does not have God. Anyone who remains in this teaching has both the Father and the Son.

2 John 7-9

The Remnant

By Monte Wolverton

What if there were an Apocalypse and Jesus didn’t return? What if the survivors found themselves living in a world ruled by a totalitarian government, where religion is forbidden and all religious texts have been destroyed? In The Remnant, award-winning author Monte Wolverton tells the tale of a band of concentration camp escapees who trek through the lawless American wilderness on a quest for authentic Christianity, only to come face to face with an unthinkable dilemma. The Remnant is a fast-paced story punctuated with dry satire, memorable characters and hard questions about religious institutions.

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It’s a big, scary world out there. But it’s also a world of freedom. Most people in the concentration camps have been there too long to have expierenced freedom. All they know is the one world government.

Then there’s the Safe Zone where the inhabitants are both protected and have more freedom of movement.

Outside these two areas is the “wild, wild west.” It’s not a very safe place.

One family along with friends who are fellow Christ believers decide to esvcape and find a place where they can freely worship/ They are armed only with the Remnant to guide them in their faith.

It’s a long and dangerous journey, and just when they think they’ve found what they’ve been looking for, their world is turned upside down.

In the end we are left wondering. Don’t even think about reading the end first. It won’t make much sense. Mr. Wolverton, please give me a follow up book soon. I really want to know the decision.

***A special thank you to litfuse for providing a copy without charge.***

Monte Wolverton is an award-winning author and syndicated editorial cartoonist. He is associate editor of CWR magazine. He is an ordained minister and holds a MA from Goddard College in Vermont. Along with his wife, Kaye, he makes his home in southwest Washington State.

We know that we love God’s children by this – when we love God and obey His commandments.

For this is the love of God – that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome.

For everyone born of God overcomes the world. And the victory that has overcome the world is this – our faith.

1 John 5:2-4

Rejoice always

pray constantly

in everything give thanks; for this is God’s will for you in Messiah Yeshua.

Tree of Life 1Thessalonians 5:16 – 18

Trust My Heart

By Carol J. Post

Grant McAllister arrives in Murphy, North Carolina, with one aim: to sell his inherited property and leave as quickly as possible. The big-city lawyer has no interest in his late, estranged grandparents or the dilapidated mansion he just acquired. After his high-profile divorce, he should be avoiding perky reporters, too. But Jami Carlisle is honest, funny, and undeniably appealing.

 
After breaking up with her safe-but-smothering boyfriend, Jami is determined to ace her first big assignment. A story about the McAllister estate is too intriguing to ignore—much like its handsome, commitment-phobic heir. Thanks to her digging, the pieces of Grant’s fraught family history are gradually fitting into place, but also upending all his old beliefs.

 
The two draw closer as they share their dreams, until misread signals and misunderstandings begin to test their trust. But in the unspoiled beauty of the Smoky Mountains, there’s healing and forgiveness to be found. And for Grant, this unplanned detour may be just what’s needed to finally guide him home. . .

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Grant wants to unload his inherited property and get out of Murphy and back to big city life.

Jami wants to finally write a big story for her small town newspaper after finally unloading her possesive boyfriend.

Do Grant and Jami clash? Is the pope Catholic? They have a lot of misunderstandings as they become closer. Can they ever get past them?

This is the first book by Ms Post that I’ve read. I don’t want it to be my last.

***A special thank you to litfuse for providing a copy for my honest opinion.***

From medical secretary to court reporter to property manager to owner of a special events decorating company, Carol’s résumé reads as if she doesn’t know what she wants to be when she grows up. But one thing that has remained constant through the years is her love for writing. She currently pens fun and fast-paced inspirational romance and romantic suspense stories. Her books have been nominated for a RITA® award and an RT Reviewers’ Choice Best Book Award. Carol lives in sunshiny Central Florida with her husband, who is her own real-life hero, and writes her stories under the shade of the huge oaks in her yard. Besides writing, she works alongside her music minister husband singing and playing the piano. She enjoys sailing, hiking, camping—almost anything outdoors. Her two grown daughters and grandkids live too far away for her liking, so she now pours all that nurturing into taking care of a fat and sassy black cat and a highly spoiled dachshund.

Loved ones, let us love one another, for love is from God. Everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.

The one who does not love does not know God, for God is love.

The love of God was revealed among us by this – that God sent His one and only Son into the world so that we might live through Him.

This is love – not that we have loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as an atonement for our sins.

Loved ones, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

No one has ever seen God. If we love one another, God abides in us and His love is made perfect in us.

1 John 4:7-12

Will an unplanned detour finally guide Grant home and find love with an honest, funny, and undeniably appealing reporter named Jami? Find out in a heartwarming romance by Carol J. Post, Trust My Heart. Grant McAllister arrives in Murphy, North Carolina, with one aim: to sell his inherited property and leave as quickly as possible. After breaking up with her safe-but-smothering boyfriend, Jami is determined to ace her first big assignment. A story about the McAllister estate is too intriguing to ignore—but as the two draw closer as they share their dreams, misread signals and misunderstandings begin to test their trust.

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Enter today by clicking the icon below, but hurry! The giveaway ends on November 23. The winner will be announced November 28 on Carol’s blog.

Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

For everything in the world – the desire of the flesh, the desire of the eyes, and the boasting of life – is not from the Father but from the world.

The world is passing away along with its desire, but the one who does the will of God abides forever.

1 John 2:15-17