Waiting By Bonnie Dodge BOOK SPOTLIGHT 

  
Waiting

By Bonnie Dodge

Genre: Women’s Fiction

 

Three generations of Foster women– senior citizen Maxine, attention seeker Grace, and aspiring artist Abbie–think they are nothing alike. But they all share a secret. They wait. For love, for attention, for life, for death, for Idaho’s warm, but promising summer to return. In their journeys between despair and happiness, they learn there are worse things than being alone, like waiting for the wrong person’s love. With sensitivity and humor, Waiting carries readers into the hearts of three women who learn that happiness comes from within.

 

Author Bio

  
Bonnie Dodge is co-author of the anthologies Hauntings from the Snake River Plain and Voices from the Snake River Plain, and author of Miracles in the Desert, a book of essays about Twin Falls, Idaho. She is an award-winning writer and has won honors for her short stories and novels. Her column, “Life in this Magic Valley” ran in Ag Weekly, a supplement to The Times-News for six years.

 

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Between the pages of the book……

 

This is a stamp set I purchased a while back and never used it. I ran across it the other day and decided to put it to good use.  

I colored the stamp with CTMH color pencils. I love the way it turned out.   

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The Wraith of Carter’s Mill by C. Evanfall – BOOK SPOTLIGHT Plus GIVEAWAY 

  
The Wraith of Carter’s Mill

By C. Evenfall

Genre: Paranormal/Suspense

The Wraith of Carter’s Mill chronicles five generations of women from the turn of the century to present day. It depicts in startling detail the result of an old curse and the wraith that haunts the family. Sensitives, The Guardians and The Forgotten tell the tale while the fourth shocking segment, Carter’s Mill provides the back-story. It reveals the shameful truth behind a century of sorrow and the curse of revenge that plagues the Carter women.

Zeb, the Carter family patriarch, is a hard, callous man. He runs his thriving sawmill, farm and family with an iron fist. When he commits an incredible act of cruelty, he ignorantly brings a terrible curse down upon all his kin. Martha Thompsons’ prophecy proves true as the family falls into ruin, and the women pay the price.

Almost a century after Zeb’s death, a Carter daughter is born with notable yet uncanny gifts. It will be up to Shyanne to unearth a long buried family secret and set an old wrong back to rights. Will she find a way to lift the curse and banish the accursed wraith that haunts her? If she fails, she risks losing her own little girl to the dark entity forever.

A small North Carolina community, where everyone knows everyone sets the perfect stage for this suspenseful drama. Rich in history and southern culture, The Wraith of Carter’s Mill harkens back to a time when life was simpler, and superstition was part of everyday living. 

 

Author Bio:

  
 

C. Evenfall grew up on the Crystal Coast of North Carolina. In many ways, her community was isolated from the outside world, and time simply stood still. The old ways of “doing things” surrounded her, and she was both fascinated by the rich history and influenced by it.

 As with any such place, the area was rich with ghost lore and old tales of “people done wrong.” C. Evenfall, a child seen and not heard, hovered as close as she dared, listening to the old stories when the adults got together talking about old times. She also spent many nights with the sheet pulled over her head in childish fright.

A paranormal encounter when she was just six years old, experienced by two other people at the same time, convinced her that ghosts really did exist. C. Evenfall has been seeking answers ever since. Her fascination with the unexplainable, coupled with her love of history and southern culture and the role women play in both, have inspired her to write The Wraith of Carter’s Mill, a series of novellas. Each inspired by tales from her childhood and the family members who passed them down.

 Life has taken her many places, but today, C. Evenfall resides with her husband in the same fishing village where she grew up. Together they enjoy hiking, camping, gardening and the outdoors in general. She forgives his skeptics’ dismissal of things that go bump in the night and loves him dearly in spite of it. They complement one another perfectly.

Social Media Links:

Author’s Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CEvenfall

Author’s Blog: http://cevenfall.wordpress.com/

Amazon Author Page: http://www.amazon.com/C.-Evenfall/e/B00MSV6YT0

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/8508982.C_Evenfall

Twitter:@CEvenfall2

Book Trailer: https://youtu.be/5sO-swDNQPY

Buy Link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00VIU9YKS 

The author is giving away 5 digital copies of The Wraith of Carter’s Mill & a $10 Amazon Gift Card!

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My favorite card!

I think this is a repeat….but this is my all time favorite card. I ran across it the other day and just had to post it. I will not give it away because I just love the colors. The paper was left over from a previous project and I don’t remember what company made this paper. The stamp is embossed in bronze embossing powder and I added beads!

  
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Hanover House by Brenda Novak

  
OVERVIEW


Welcome to Hanover House….

Psychiatrist Evelyn Talbot has dedicated her life to solving the mysteries of the antisocial mind. Why do psychopaths act as they do? How do they come to be? Why don’t they feel any remorse for the suffering they cause? And are there better ways of spotting and stopping them? 

After having been kidnapped, tortured and left for dead when she was just a teenager–by her high school boyfriend–she’s determined to understand how someone she trusted so much could turn on her. So she’s established a revolutionary new medical health center in the remote town of Hilltop, Alaska, where she studies the worst of the worst. 

But not everyone in Hilltop is excited to have Hanover House and its many serial killers in the area. Alaskan State Trooper, Sergeant Amarok, is one of them. And yet he can’t help feeling bad about what Evelyn has been through. He’s even attracted to her. Which is partly why he worries. 

He knows what could happen if only one little thing goes wrong…

REVIEW

Evelyn Talbot is a hard working psychiatrist determined to find the mystery within the psychopaths’ mind.   After her horrific experience as a teenager, which led her to this quest, she establishes a medical center, remote Alaska, devoted to this cause. 

This is a wonderful read. It has a little bit of everything, intrigue, danger, romance and an outstanding setting. Evelyn and Amorok are great together. With his protective nature and her damaged psyche, it makes the reader gasp in places, especially when Evelyn finds herself in peril once again.

I read this in one sitting on an airplane and it was a perfect read for the trip. I was able to only focus on the book and turn off everything around me. It kept me enamoured through the whole flight. 

I received this novel from Netgalley for an honest review. 

  

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Framed and Burning by Lisa Brunette BOOK SPOTLIGHT

  
 

Framed and Burning: Dreamslippers Series, Book Two

By Lisa Brunette

Genre: Mystery, Suspense

 

Book description

 

A family of private investigators who have the ability to “slip” into another person’s dreams find it’s a gift with limitations…and consequences. Someone sets fire to dreamslipper Mick Travers’ studio, killing his assistant. Eccentric Granny Grace and her level-headed granddaughter Cat hope to prove Mick’s innocence and hunt down the real killer. Would they discover that a jealous rival was out to destroy Mick’s art—and reputation? Or is something even darker behind the arson and murder? 
Author Bio

  

 
Lisa Brunette is author of the Dreamslippers mystery series, winner of an indieBRAG medallion and praised by Kirkus Reviews, Midwest Book Review, and others. Brunette is a career writer with a long list of newspaper and magazine bylines and story design credits in hundreds of bestselling video games. She holds an MFA from University of Miami, where she was a Michener Fellow. Her short stories and poetry have appeared in magazines and won her numerous awards. 

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Christmas in August

   
I used SEI paper and the stamplistic stamps. 

 

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Saving Grapes by J.T. Lundy 

  
Overview 

Thirty-two-year-old Jason Barnes recently lost his job, and his heart. Now, thanks to a meddling ex-wife and a golf cart fiasco, he has just thirty days to pay a $60,000 fine or go to jail.

Jason was hoping his Aunt Clara would come to his rescue, but she unexpectedly dies, gifting her liquid assets to charity. She does, however, will Jason a picturesque French vineyard—and it’s worth millions. But there’s a catch! If Jason goes to jail, the vineyard will transfer to his unscrupulous stepbrother.

To raise the cash he needs, Jason travels to France with his knucklehead of a best friend to sell the vineyard. Cashing in will not be so simple, though. Formidable nuns farm the vineyard, and he needs their blessing to sell. To persuade the good sisters, Jason attempts a madcap series of dubious schemes, and while doing so falls for what he thinks is the perfect French woman. Amidst this melee of wine, women, nuns, and villains, Jason must unearth his true values in order to save more than just his soul.

Infused with J.T. Lundy’s deliciously skewed sense of humor, and full of flawed but irresistible characters, Saving Grapes is a rollicking, good-hearted Wodehousian comedy that speaks to the hapless romantic in all of us.

Review

Jason has, sort of, inherited a vineyard in France. He must stay out of trouble to inherit….needless to say…the odds are against him. 

This is a cute, funny, quick read. The setting is wonderful. The vineyards of France, what could be better. 

As a matter of fact, Jason’s best friend reminds me of Alan from the movie  The Hangover.  A lot of their antics in this story remind me of the movie. It is a wild crazy ride.  

It is silly and stupid in places….exactly as the author intended. So, if you are looking for a nutty, erratic read, this is it! 

I received this book from Netgalley for an honest review 

  


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The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George

  
OVERVIEW

Monsieur Perdu can prescribe the perfect book for a broken heart. But can he fix his own?

Monsieur Perdu calls himself a literary apothecary. From his floating bookstore in a barge on the Seine, he prescribes novels for the hardships of life. Using his intuitive feel for the exact book a reader needs, Perdu mends broken hearts and souls. The only person he can’t seem to heal through literature is himself; he’s still haunted by heartbreak after his great love disappeared. She left him with only a letter, which he has never opened.

After Perdu is finally tempted to read the letter, he hauls anchor and departs on a mission to the south of France, hoping to make peace with his loss and discover the end of the story. Joined by a bestselling but blocked author and a lovelorn Italian chef, Perdu travels along the country’s rivers, dispensing his wisdom and his books, showing that the literary world can take the human soul on a journey to heal itself.

Internationally bestselling and filled with warmth and adventure, The Little Paris Bookshop is a love letter to books, meant for anyone who believes in the power of stories to shape people’s lives.

REVIEW

This novel starts out as a 5 star read. The prose is absolutely fantastic. I love Perdu and the barge/bookstore. But, after Perdu finds a letter from his lost love, the book went downhill from there. 

Perdu is the owner of a bookstore on a barge (very unique). He is a sad man, not really living, totally lost. He realizes he has made a terrible mistake and the best way he knows to cope is to take the barge/bookstore on a trip. 

The story has a fabulous start. I was enraptured with Perdu and his lost love. However, as the story went deeper, it became more convoluted and I completely lost interest. 

This is a story about grieving, loss and growth throughout life.  As I said earlier, the prose is fantastic. I marked many passages. But, it is almost as if the author changed course in the middle. 

I see a lot of promise in this author. I look forward to reading her as she develops. 

I received this novel from Netgalley for an honest review.

  

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Musical Memories    FINALLY! 

   
One of the best things about working with clear acrylic is you can see through to the next page. I love how you can see the Fleur de lis on the next page. 

   
The trim around these pages was left over from her uniform. I just had to use it. I had to attach it with redline tape to make sure it stayed in place. It is very heavy and didn’t want to cooperate very well.    
One problem with working with clear is you can see through it to the next page….you have to think about what you can see. This is why I repeated the tags on the page above and the page below. These pages were decorated with alcohol inks.


   I painted the left page with gold paint and added clear stickers and trim. The right side is decorated with alcohol inks and stamps. 

  I love how you can see through this to the clear stickers on the page behind it. 

This took all summer to complete. But I love the final outcome!! Very well worth the hard work. 

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