Newsletter for December 2025

Featured Books

In 1934 St. Louis, Missouri, Pamela, outwardly a young, white socialite (but inwardly an unsettled late adolescent), is about to give birth to her first child. To assist in the delivery, she searches for the ‘colored’ midwife, Miss Minnie, who attended her own birth in 1911. Her and her husband’s families vehemently protest. During the final months of her pregnancy, her husband, Frank, even brings in relatives to closely monitor Pamela’s behavior and whereabouts. Deviously, Pamela sidesteps them by secretly pressuring her ‘colored’ maid to help her. What kind of calamity and racial tension will their search dredge up? Could the outcome be murder?

 

 

A National Park Love Story by Chris Truxell and Jeff Crum

FROM HEARTBREAK TO HIKING TRAILS- A LOVE STORY ACROSS AMERICA! Some journeys begin with a single step. Theirs began with a click! Two middle-aged divorcees connect online, never expecting that a spontaneous getaway would set the course for a timeless love story spanning fifteen years and 63 national parks. What started as whimsy became a mission, one that carried them across mountains and deserts, forests and canyons, through laughter, tears, and every shade of life in between. Along the trails they hiked and the vistas they embraced, they also faced life's fiercest climbs: blending families, battling cancer, nearly losing a child, and rediscovering the joy of living and loving fully. From an unexpected first trip to one final, unforgettable adventure, theirs is not just a travel story - it's proof that second chances are worth taking. But through it all, one truth echoed louder: chasing sunsets and summits, we found second chances and forever! HEALING LOVE STORY ETCHED IN STONE, SKY, and SECOND CHANCES!

 

More than a travel memoir, our book of love is a breathtaking testament to love, resilience, and the healing embrace of nature, truly inspired by the national parks. Poignant, uplifting, and unforgettable, this travel adventure romance book stands as a testament to the beauty of second chances and the way nature can write the greatest stories of all. If you've ever longed for healing, hope, or a horizon worth chasing, this travel memoir book will take you there! GRAB THIS BOOK NOW!
 

 

 

Dying Cry by Margaret Mizushima

Newlyweds Mattie and Cole Walker are teaching Cole’s daughters how to snowshoe in a remote canyon when a shattering scream pierces the air. They know that somewhere ahead, someone has been injured or worse. Cole takes the girls while Mattie and Robo go deeper into the canyon to search for the source of the scream.

From a distance, Mattie and Robo see a shadowy figure at the base of a cliff, but a rockslide buries the person under layers of stone and shale before they can provide help. Desperate to uncover the individual in case they’re still alive under the rock, their efforts are in vain. The victim is already dead. When they investigate the canyon rim from which the person fell, they discover evidence that indicates the fall was no accident. To make matters worse, the victim was one of Cole’s friends.

The Timber Creek County investigative team springs into action, uncovering a trail of greed that leads to a killer who threatens Mattie’s cherished new family and tests her with the most difficult task she’s faced in her duty as a K-9 handler.

Assimilation by Lonnie Busch

They’ve only visited her in dreams… until now.

Kercy Powell loves spending summers at their secluded island cottage in Ontario; a place where her birth defects and wheelchair are never on display. Just before her eighteenth birthday, Kercy is shocked to learn her mother sold their island paradise, offering only this grave warning, “Don’t ever go back there!”

The ensuing years bring Kercy a miraculous metamorphous, making her wheelchair unnecessary. Upon her mother’s death, she inherits the family fortune and buys back her most treasured getaway. Kercy is soon plagued by old nightmares; strange beings who visit in her sleep. One night, two men boat out to her cottage and attempt to assault her. She manages to escape into the dense underbrush of the island, only to witness the unholy cries of her attackers as they’re savagely murdered.

The inexplicable murders trigger a visit from Special Agent Mallory, a cagey FBI officer who is only interested in how the two men died. But Kercy has no idea, until she comes face to face with her “protectors,” creatures who live beneath the deep, icy waters of Georgian Bay. And while they’ve rescued her before, Kercy can’t shake the notion that their intentions are nefarious.

Imperfect Happiness:  A Journey of Perfect Twists - Thirty-Day Devotional to Living Life Well by Terry C. Fleitz

Designed to entertain and inform, IMPERFECT HAPPINESS is an inspirational true story introducing relatable life events which highlight God's many resources to LIVE Imperfect Happiness (Life)  WELL, with God.

IMPERFECT HAPPINESS amplifies The Bible and Traits of Jesus through Prayer, Scripture, Leadership Skills and Christian Music to help anyone Live The Bible, rather than Just Read The Bible.
The book has something for everyone from those Dealing with Dependencies to Raising Godly Kids.
The primary target audience is Young People, New Christians and Those Who Don't Know God.

Terry Fleitz wrote the book during his 2+ year battle with cancer.

Tokyo Juku by Michael Pronko

In Japan’s relentless world of high-stakes exams, eighteen-year-old Mana is desperate to turn failure into triumph. After flunking once, she pushes herself through sleepless nights at a Tokyo cram school, clinging to the old saying: “Four pass, five fail.” She tries to sleep just four hours and study the rest, but when a midnight break leads her to a horrifying discovery—her teacher stabbed to death beneath the whiteboard—her dream of success shatters. Instead of exam scores, she now faces suspicion, scandal, and the fight of her life.

Enter Detective Hiroshi Shimizu. Usually a forensic accountant, Hiroshi is thrust into a homicide investigation that spirals far beyond a single classroom tragedy. As he investigates, he’s drawn into a labyrinth of exam pressures, financial deceptions, and power struggles inside Japan’s billion-dollar education machine. With the media circling and the system eager to pin blame, Hiroshi must protect an innocent girl while exposing truths so volatile they could shake the foundations of Japanese society.

Tokyo Juku transcends a simple whodunit. It’s a gripping mystery with cerebral stakes, an unflinching look at Japan’s exam obsession, and a razor-sharp procedural thriller infused with cultural insight. Pronko blends insider knowledge of Tokyo life with the taut pacing of a seasoned crime writer, crafting a story that is as thought-provoking as it is suspenseful. 

At the center stands Detective Hiroshi, an empathetic and quietly determined investigator whose intuition is tested against a system rigged for success. And within the unique, pressure-cooker world of juku, where ambition and anxiety collide, the cost of learning may prove fatal.

Book Giveaways for December

Win a copy of Such a Clever Girl by Darby Kane.  All you have to do is click on the book cover below.  It will take you to the main page.   Look for the giveaway on the left.  Follow the instructions listed.

Win a copy of Why Do I Keep Doing This? by Kati Morton  All you have to do is click on the book cover below.  It will take you to the main page.  Look for the giveaway on the right.  Follow the instructions listed.

Book Giveaway Winners for November

 

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