Today for Fiction Friday I’m sharing my book recommendation for Last to Fall, Book 3 in Lynn H. Blackburn’s Gossamer Falls romantic suspense series that’s releasing on March 3, 2026. Here’s the Book Description: She’s caught in a deadly game. He’s the only one who can help her win.Bronwyn Pierce has poured everything into The …
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Today for Fiction Friday I’m sharing my book recommendation for Liz Johnson’s contemporary Christmas romance, Meddling with Mistletoe, set on Prince Edward Island, Canada. Here’s the Book Description: Whitney Garrett is preparing to enter culinary school in the spring, but first she has to sell enough homemade pies at the local Christmas markets to pay …
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Today for Fiction Friday I’m sharing my book recommendation for A Winter of Sweet Secrets by Heidi McCahan that’s releasing on September 30, 2025. Here’s the Book Description: What will it take to save her family’s candy company…and end a decades-long feud?For generations, the Evergreen Candy Company has been a beloved small-town Alaskan tradition run …
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Today for Fiction Friday I’m sharing my book recommendation for Holly and Nick Hate Christmas, a new romcom from Betsy St. Amant that’s releasing next month. Here’s the Book Description: When a Christmas-hating woman’s brother sets her up with a fellow Grinch and it backfires, she decides to out-Christmas her date by kicking off a …
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Today for Fiction Friday I’m sharing my book recommendation for Mistletoe Season, a charming Christmas romance novella collection with stories from Pepper Basham, Kathleen Fuller and Sheila Roberts that’s releasing on October 8, 2024. Here’s the Book Description: Return to Mistletoe by Kathleen Fuller Emmy Banks has always loved Christmas. How could she not when she …
By Carolyn Miller Lights, camera, action! I recently heard my new release Muskoka Spotlight being described as a celebrity romance book. I suppose it is, as it’s about a famous Hollywood actor hiding out in Muskoka, Canada where he meets an aged care nurse, and sparks fly, etc. It’s just I hadn’t really thought about …
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By Carolyn Miller Today I am talking about What Makes a Strong Heroine? It takes a special kind of woman to cope with all the flak, so it was interesting to consider what kind of qualities a woman might need to deal with situations where she could face anything from misogynistic remarks to having hot …
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By Carolyn Miller A few years ago I approached Aussie author friend Narelle Atkins about the possibility of doing a multi-author Christian contemporary romance series. We brainstormed ideas, authors we knew who wrote in a similar genre (or planned to), and settled on the concept of a fictional town set in east Washington state called …
By Carolyn Miller I recently posted in a Facebook group a question that I’ve been pondering for a while now. Does it bother you as (presumably) a Christian reader to read about Christian characters pursuing relationships when they don’t know if the other person is a Christian or not? I recently read a contemporary novel …
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By Carolyn Miller Have you ever felt crushed by circumstances, work or expectations? Recently my husband and I returned from ten nights in Fiji. This was a very necessary mid-year escape ostensibly to celebrate our 25th wedding anniversary, but it also proved a majestic motivator to complete a huge range of tasks before limited internet …
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