Anticipation Thursday: A Stolen Kiss by Mindy Steele

   Anticipation Thursday!

I appreciate it when other readers share what they're reading because I love hearing about new books that are about to be released. Today, for Anticipation Thursday!, I'm sharing a new book by bestselling, award winning author Mindy Steele. She is also a dear friend so how can I not be excited that A Stolen Kiss is now available as an ebook and the print copy releases on December 1st!

ABOUT THE BOOK

Who kissed who first?

Full of faith, hope, and romance, this new series takes you into the Heart of Amish country.

LeEtta Miller brazenly accepts a dare from her friends. What harm is there in kissing a handsome stranger she’ll never see again? Unfortunately, the incident was witnessed and when her father learns her good virtues are marred, he wills her to marry.

Benuel Ropp wanted a family, but not this way. He was trying to regain some of what he tarnished by coming to Cherry Grove, not to get married to a stranger. Well, if Laura thought he’d flinch and let her boldness add another stain to his name, she was mistaken. He had forgiveness to earn and a name to restore, and if he had to make sacrifices to do it, so did she.

Who kissed who first, he can’t even remember anymore.

Why is my anticipation so great?

    LeEtta Miller tried to roll her eyes as quietly as she could while Mammi Iola rambled on like a swoony teenager. Nothing was more embarrassing than standing in a hot kitchen with a dozen other women while your sixty-nine-year-old widowed grandmother spoke of her newest special friend.

    "I thought you were sweet on Owen Schmitt", Gemma Shetler quipped under a not-so-silent breath. The eighty-year-old had just celebrated her sixty-first anniversary and never skipped a chance to address Mammi Iola's unusual courting habits.

The words above are the first two paragraphs of A Stolen Kiss and it's apparent that Mindy has written another story with the romance and humor that we've all come to love. Best of all, it's Amish fiction and it's the seventh book in a well-loved series from Barbour Books! Have you read any of the other books in The Heart of the Amish?

 

I love this endorsement for A Stolen Kiss from another outstanding Amish author, Jennifer Beckstrand!

 

Doesn't this make you want to read this book as soon as possible? The Stolen Kiss is now available in eBook and the print version will be available December 1st. 

AMAZON     BARBOUR BOOKS     WALMART

Christmas is coming! Are there any book lovers on your Christmas list?

My review of A  Stoken Kiss will be available soon. I hope that you'll come back to view my thoughts!

I grabbed a sneak peek of A Stolen Kiss that Amazon is sharing on its website. Want to see even more of the sample preview? Check out this link!

Come Home for Christmas: Jesus Is Calling You Back to the Greatest Story Ever Told by Matthew West

ABOUT THE BOOK

Matthew West, in his trademark creative and engaging style, leads readers to experience Christmas through the eyes of a child and to come home to greater joy, hope, peace, and belonging found only in Jesus.

Come Home for Christmas invites readers to enter the Christmas season intending to turn their hearts to God. In the midst of what can be the busiest and most stressful holiday season, each chapter points the reader to the kingdom realities that God invites each of us to participate in through the birth of Jesus. Matthew West's humor, Bible-teaching, and storytelling challenge us to embrace this season of Christmas as the homecoming that God intends for it to be. Through the pages of this winsome and inspiring book, you will:

• Feel the wonder of Christmas as you did when you were a child
• Move beyond the baby in the manger to the Savior of the world
• Return your heart to the joy, peace, love, and hope found in Jesus
• Restore neglected or broken relationships with family and friends
• Come home to the life God intended you to experience throughout the year

This special book, which springs out of Matthew's love for Christmas, reminds us that the story of Christmas calls readers back to the heart (or the home) of what it means to be loved by God. Each chapter will include a specific Bible reading about the Christmas story, and the book will include small group discussion questions and an Advent challenge.

This book would be a wonderful Christmas gift but plan to keep a copy for yourself!

Purchase link: https://bit.ly/comehomeforchristmasFGM

MY THOUGHTS.....

"Why don't you come home for Christmas?" are words that many people love hearing as an invitation to physically be with family but this new book by singer/songwriter Matthew West reminds us that it is our hearts that need to return home for Christmas. Come Home for Christmas is such a heartwarming book! I was encouraged, inspired, and reminded that Christmas is more than how many presents are under the tree or how many parties and dinners I attend. Christmas is the time to recall the greatest story ever told and to reaffirm the promise of everlasting love and eternal life that was offered by a special birth.

JOY  is one of my favorite words and there is an entire chapter about Joy. 

Matthew West reminds us that 

• The Story of Jesus is a Story of Joy 
• God's Joy is Beyond Circumstances
• Joy is Calling You Home!

Come Home for Christmas is small enough to stick in a Christmas stocking but it's packed full of memories, humor, great stories, and even a few West family Christmas recipes. This book is a perfect addition to personal devotion time, especially during the Advent season, but it would also be a wonderful gift!

This recipe is similar to Transparent Pie. a pie that is especially popular in my area of Kentucky.  Transparent Pie doesn't use cornmeal and some recipes don't call for vinegar but the butter, sugar, eggs, and vanilla make it a must-have dessert for the holidays!

I received a copy of this book from the author and publisher via FrontGate Blogger Network. There was no obligation for a positive review.

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Matthew West is a five-time GRAMMY® nominee, a multiple ASCAP Christian Music Songwriter/Artist of the Year winner and a 2018 Dove Award Songwriter of the Year (Artist) recipient. He has received an American Music Award, a Billboard Music Award, a K-LOVE Fan Award and was named Billboard’s Hot Christian Songwriter of the Year. A recipient of the Rich Mullins Impact Award, West also received a Primetime Emmy® Award nomination for Original Music & Lyrics for the title track for the feature film “The Heart of Christmas.” He has been awarded a RIAA Gold certification for his single “Hello, My Name Is” and RIAA Platinum certification for the song “The Motions.”

In addition to his own recording career, he has co-hosted the K-LOVE Fan Awards six times adding another this year and has more than 130 songwriting credits to his name, including cuts by Rascal Flatts, Scotty McCreery, Michael W. Smith, Amy Grant, Mandisa, Danny Gokey and others, along with back-to-back No. 1 songs by Casting Crowns including their recent single, “Nobody,” which West is featured.

Adding author to his list of accolades, West has written eight books to date: My Story, His Glory, Give This Christmas Away, The Story Of Your Life, Forgiveness, Today Is Day One, Hello, My Name Is, The God Who Stays, and his latest, Come Home for Christmas. 

Matthew and his wife Emily live in Nashville with their two daughters, Lulu and Delaney.

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Come Home to Christmas can be purchased HERE

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