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Cold Fury: Cold Harbor # 3 by Susan Sleeman

Wow!! This book was very riveting, fast paced, and exciting! This is the first book I’ve read in this series so I definitely plan on going back and reading books 1 and 2 of the Cold Harbor series. The characters from book 1 and 2 were mentioned in this book but every book can be read as a stand alone.

I really liked the team unity, protectiveness and loyalty to each other. I also really liked the main characters Maggie and Jackson. After parting ways after a terrible tragic accident, they are brought back together so Jackson can protect Maggie against a killer who is targeting her. They have great chemistry and trust and work together really well in this book.

Lots of intense action, drama, romance, forgiveness and faith. Clean, christian fiction-highly recommend if you want a thrilling, edge of your seat, suspense!

I received a copy of this e-book complimentary for blog and social media review. All opinions are my own.

About the Book:
Six years ago tragedy tore them apart…
Maggie Turner happily works as an assistant professor in the Criminal Justice Department and lives a quiet life near campus. That is until Jackson Lockhart bursts into her life unexpectedly. Then a cyclone of emotions erupt as she remembers the tragedy that once tore them apart. She’d often thought of him, but they’d agreed never to see each other again, and so far, they’d kept their promise. But today…Jackson has a good reason for breaking his promise. Maggie’s life depends on it.
Will it now bring them back together?
In an ongoing investigation, Jackson has learned that university officials secretly photographed her classroom in a study on attendance. The recorder was supposed to run only during the class session, but it malfunctioned and recorded an entire week, which includes a shocking murder that has now put Maggie’s life in danger. Can Jackson unravel the lies surrounding this incident before the killer unleashes his fury on Maggie and takes her life?

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Biography
SUSAN SLEEMAN is a bestselling and award-winning author of more than 30 inspirational/Christian and clean read romantic suspense books. Readers love her romantic suspense series for the well-drawn characters and edge-of-your-seat action. She graduated from the FBI and local police citizen academies, so her research is spot-on and her characters are real. In addition to writing, Susan also hosts thesuspensezone.com. She has lived in nine states but now calls Oregon home. Her husband is a retired church music director, and they have two beautiful daughters, a very special son-in-law, and an adorable grandson.
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“Love’s Journey Home” by Julie Coulter Bellon

I really enjoyed this book! “Love’s Journey Home” is book #2 in the Lincoln Love Stories series, but can be read as a stand alone book.

Good steady pace, interesting characters and story plot. I read it in two nights because I was drawn to the character Olivia and wanted to know how the story would end.

Clean womens fiction book with some romance and drama. The other main character Mick has to face his past emotional demons in order to open up and learn to have faith in others and to love.

Lots of emotions and themes in this book-happiness, grief, addiction, mistrust, faith, adoption… overall great story-highly recommend!

I received a copy of this e-book complimentary for blog and social media review. All opinions are my own.

About the Book:
Olivia Dalton has a reputation in the DA’s office—tough, thorough, and fierce when she’s closing a case. Those skills are essential in the courtroom, but not in the relationship department—until Mick Donovan crosses her path. Everyone thinks he’s a player, but when an unexpected situation arises, she glimpses an honorable man instead. Olivia is drawn to him, but he pushes her away, unable to shake the past that still haunts him.

Mick Donovan learned at a young age never to let anyone close because those you love never stay. Keeping people at arms-length has never been hard for him—until he meets Olivia Dalton. Mick is caught up in a case she’s prosecuting, and he can’t deny his attraction to her, but when she uncovers the past he’s kept carefully hidden, he’s sure she’ll turn away. Yet, even with all his secrets in the open, Olivia reaches out. Can he let his guard down long enough to let her in and take a chance on love?

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Author Bio:

Julie Coulter Bellon is the author of more than a dozen novels—all with some romance in them, some with suspense, too. Her book All Fall Down won the RONE award for Best Suspense and Pocket Full of Posies won a RONE Honorable Mention for Best Suspense.

Julie loves to travel and her favorite cities she’s visited so far are probably Athens, Paris, Ottawa, and London. She loves to read, write,teach, watch Castle, Hawaii Five-O, and eat Canadian chocolate. Not necessarily in that order.

Julie offers writing and publishing tips as well as her take on life on her blog ldswritermom.blogspot.com You can also find out about all her upcoming projects at her website juliebellon.com

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“The Kindness Challenge: Thirty Days to Improve Any Relationship” by Shaunti Feldhahn
I actually read this book and did an online 30 day kindness challenge last January so I have had this book over a year now.

I have read this book at least twice since then because I find it very practical and helpful. This kindness challenge can help with any kind of relationship-work, family, partner. I used this book and challenge towards my husband and he noticed immediately and appreciated it.

I highly recommend this book if you are wanting to make a difference in someones life and if you want to learn how to be more patient, kind and loving.

You can go to the website here: https://www.jointhekindnesschallenge.com/book to join the free 30 day challenge once you’ve received your book or download a sample chapter to see what the book is like.

I received a copy of this book complimentary for blog and social media review. All opinions are my own.

About the book:
One month to a great relationship… with anyone!

Think of your toughest relationship. Think of a relationship that is good but could be great. Think of a group of people that drives you nuts. You want to show more kindness and generosity, but sometimes you’re just tired, stretched, and frustrated. Besides, would small actions make that big a difference? Yes!

After years of extensive research, Shaunti Feldhahn has concluded that kindness is a superpower. It can change any relationship, make your life easier and better, and transform our culture. But how does it work? And how can you show kindness when you don’t feel like it?

In The Kindness Challenge, Shaunti explores….
* Three simple acts that make all the difference in any relationship (with a spouse, child, co-worker, brother-in-law…)
* Whether kindness is ever the wrong approach
* The seven ways you may be unkind and never realize it
* Eight types of kindness—and which might be the best fit for you
* Ten sneaky obstacles that get in the way of giving praise
* Practical ways to persevere when kindness is tough
* How kindness in marriage leads to benefits in the bedroom (yes, really!)
* Why your acts of kindness today can help transform the world

With self-assessments, day-to-day tips, a 30-day challenge, and specific kindness ideas, The Kindness Challenge can make your toughest relationships better and your good relationships great—starting today.

Try the 30 Day Kindness Challenge and be a part of a kindness revolution in your home, your world, and yourself.

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In The Kindness Challenge, innovative researcher Shaunti Feldhahn reveals three simple steps proven to make any interaction better and any relationship thrive—whether with a romantic partner, coworkers, a child, siblings, your hard-to-please stepmother, or rude people at the grocery store. You’ll learn which ways of acting, speaking, and thinking will make the greatest difference for your life.

Doing these simple acts for thirty days not only has power to change the other person—it has the power to change you!

In these pages, Shaunti introduces you to a host of people from all walks of life who have tested the 30-Day Kindness Challenge in real-life situations and have seen the difference it makes. She shows you the inspiring results of her before-and-after surveys. And she challenges you not only to try the 30-Day Kindness Challenge for yourself but to be a part of the movement to transform our culture.

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A Passionate Hope: Hannah’s Story (Daughters of the Promised Land) by Jill Eileen Smith

If you like reading biblical fiction books, you will absolutely love this book! “A Passionate Hope” is Hannah’s story and is another book in the “Daughters of the Promised Land” series.

The book begins in 1141 BC and follows Hannah’s story as she becomes betrothed to Elkanah and as they marry and try to start a family. The entire book spans at least 40 years of their lives.

Through out the book I could feel Hannah’s heartache and longing to have a child leap from the chapters as the years went by and she still couldn’t conceive. Elkanah’s love and devotion to her regardless of her condition was so sweet and inspirational.

The author used the scriptures as her foundation for her story which mentions that Elkanah took a second wife for her to bear his children and that Hannah was “taunted by her continuously”.

The monthly and yearly heartache of not being able to get pregnant, extended family issues, wickedness of the people and priests, along with her husband taking a second wife; were all burdens Hannah faced but yet she continued to pray and have faith in God. Her husband continued to love her unconditionally, pray with her and seek guidance to help her.

I like that the book focuses mostly on Hannah but we also get to read from Elkanah’s and the second wife’s points of view through out the book. This story was very well written, lots of descriptive historical facts and details-very real and emotional.

I absolutely loved this book and couldn’t put it down. I received a copy of this book complimentary for blog and social media review. All opinions are my own.

About the Book:
Hannah and her husband, Elkanah, share a deep and abiding love, for each other, for their God, and for his tabernacle at Shiloh. Greatly disturbed by the corruption of the priests, they long for restoration and pray for a deliverer. But nothing changes as the years pass. Years that also reveal Hannah to be barren.

Pressured by his family to take another wife, Elkanah marries Peninnah, who quickly begins to bear children. Disgraced and taunted by her husband’s new wife, Hannah turns again to prayers that seem doomed to go unanswered. Do her devotion and kindness in the face of Peninnah’s cruelty count for nothing? Why does God remain silent and indifferent to her pleas?

Travel back to the dusty streets of Shiloh with an expert guide as Jill Eileen Smith brings to life a beloved story of hope, patience, and deliverance that shows that even the most broken of relationships can be restored.

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About the author:
Jill Eileen Smith is the bestselling and award-winning author of The Wives of King David, the Wives of the Patriarchs, The Loves of King Solomon, and The Daughters of the Promised Land series. Her research into the lives of biblical women has taken her from the Bible to Israel, and she particularly enjoys learning how women lived in Old Testament times. Jill lives with her family in southeast Michigan. Learn more at www.jilleileensmith.com.

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