Will Annette’s search for love and acceptance replace the loss and hurt in her heart? Find out in Janine Mendenhall’s book one, Starving Hearts, of the Triangular Trade Trilogy. Since her assault, Miss Annette Chetwynd has been plagued by nightmares and worries about an arranged marriage. But she yearns to find her anonymous rescuer. Unfortunately, her health and intellect prevent it. Both repel suitors and cause Annette to doubt God’s existence, at least until He answers her prayers in an unusual way. . . .
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When a chance encounter leads to love, can Annette and Peter overcome the odds or will they be forever separated?
Since her assault, Miss Annette Chetwynd has been plagued by nightmares and worries about an arranged marriage. But she yearns to find her anonymous rescuer. Unfortunately, her health and intellect prevent it. Both repel suitors and cause Annette to doubt God’s existence, at least until He answers her prayers in an unusual way. . . .
Mr. Peter Adsley is joining the clergy, and he desires a godly wife by his side. After a failed attempt to obtain one, he engages in a clandestine meeting with the bewitching young woman who keeps crossing his path. But she is so unsettling.
Destined for disappointments, Peter and Annette both endure disgraceful situations. Will Peter’s faith sustain him through overwhelming setbacks? Can Annette overcome her doubts? Or will their starving hearts yield to the machinations of a mad man?
ISLAND BREEZES
Three starving hearts (one is also a cruel nut job). After being assaulted Annette spent years dealing with nightmares. Now her mother is trying to force her into an arranged marriage to the very man who assaulted her.
Peter planned to ask his lady love to marry him, but his brother beat him to the punch. His plans to pastor a church with a wife in hand definitely seemed bleak. Would he be accepted as a single pastor?
Then there is the villainous Sir Likebridge. His heart is starved of human decency.
Secrets and undercurrents abound in this book. Sometimes I thought I knew what would probably happen next. I didn’t.
Thank you so much, Ms Mendenhall, for holding my attention so tightly that I didn’t want to lay down this book. I’m looking forward to Book 2 of the Triangular Trade Trilogy, Never Past Hope. By the way, on the last page there’s a little gift for you from the author.
***A special thank you to litfuse who provided a review copy.***
By day, Janine Mendenhall teaches English and is a high school counselor. By night, when normal people are asleep, she writes or watches historical romance movies like Pride and Prejudice and claims that’s “research.” At eight, Janine got hooked on “happily ever after” while watching Beauty and the Beast starring George C. Scott. Visit her here, and you’ll find the exact scene she held in her mind’s eye for thirty-nine years until she recently located it on YouTube.
Happy National Grilling Day, aka Labor Day. This day no longer commemorates anything except the obsession of a large majority of Americans gathering together around the family grill. Enjoy your day and have a burger for me.
There’s no grill on the island, but I think I’ll have to import one next spring. I do miss the flavor of food cooked out on the grill.
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2016
This year I think we need to do more than just try to escape labor for a day. It’s time to seriously think about our country and the freedoms we have been losing. Let’s focus on patriotism and love for our nation.
Likewise, wives, be submitted to your own husbands so that – even if some do obey the message – by the wives ‘ conduct, without a word they may be won over
For you were called to this, because Messiah also suffered for you, leaving you an example so you might follow in His footsteps:
“He committed no sin, nor was any deceit found in His mouth.”
When He was abused, He did not return the abuse. While suffering, He made no threats. Instead, He kept entrusting Himself to the One who judges righteously.
He Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree, so that we, removed from sins, might live for righteousness. “By His wounds you were healed.”
For you like sheep were going astray, but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Guardian of your souls.
Fall in love with these remarkable service dogs and their stories of courage, faith, and loyalty in Ace Collins’ new book, Service Tails. Their training was intense, their loyalty unquestioned and each step of the way they constantly adapt to better serve those they lead. These unforgettable dogs are more than heroes; they are models from which we can learn how to love and serve unconditionally.
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Not all heroic dogs wildly toss themselves into lifesaving situations. Some save lives simply by their incredible commitment to duty and service. Some lead the way to independence for people whose disabilities were supposed to limit their lives.
In Service Tails: More Stories of Man’s Best Hero, prolific author Ace Collins introduces us to leaders whose entire lives are wrapped in the banner of service. Their stories are remarkable snapshots of the value of vision and teamwork, as well as devotion to duty and unconditional love and acceptance-stretching the way we see both canine and human potential. Their training was intense, their loyalty unquestioned and each step of the way they constantly adapt to better serve those they lead. These unforgettable dogs are more than heroes; they are models from which we can learn how to love and serve unconditionally.
ISLAND BREEZES
This is a great book about some really amazing dogs. When most people think of a service dog, they think of “seeing eye” dogs for the blind.
But that’s only the beginning. When I started reading this book I didn’t want to stop. And when the book ended I still didn’t want to stop.
Thank you so much, Mr. Collins, for this very enlightening and interesting book. Please give us more of these stories.
***A special thank you to litfuse for providing a review copy.***
Bestselling author Ace Collins has written more than 60 books including novels Swope’s Ridge and Words of the Father, as well as the nonfiction Stories Behind the Best-Loved Songs of Christmas; and Lassie: A Dog’s Life. His books have become movies and network television specials. Ace Collins has sold more than 1.5 million books during his career and makes his home in Arkadelphia, Arkansas.
A recipe for love and loss, merriment and mayhem, fun and faith in the backwoods of the Pacific Northwest can only be found in Fetching Sweetness by Dana Mentink. It should have been so simple for Stephanie Pink: Retrieve a reclusive author’s valuable new manuscript and be promoted to a full-fledged literary agent. But when the author’s canine companion, Sweetness, makes a break for it and Stephanie has to track Sweetness down, she meets Rhett Hastings. They’re in for a surprising string of adventures and misadventures.
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