Are you ready for some good old-fashioned romance in a contemporary setting? Then you’ll enjoy these nine stories of modern women who are forced to slow down and take a new look at dating and romance when new men enter their lives. For some it will take vacation time, others will discover through music, while some need the gentle nudges from both God and Grandma. Delight in discovering how chivalry is not dead despite the stresses of today’s world.
Kristin Billerbeck is a bestselling, Christy-nominated author of over 45 novels. Her work has been featured in
The New York Times and on The Today Show. Kristin is a fourth-generation Californian and a proud mother of four. She lives in the Silicon Valley and enjoys good handbags, hiking, and reading.
Lynn A. Coleman is an award winning and bestselling author of Key West and other books. She began her writing and speaking career with how to utilize the Internet. Since October 1998, when her first fiction novel sold she's sold 38 books and novellas.
Lynn is also the founder of American Christian Fiction Writers Inc.and served as the group's first president for two years and two years on the Advisory Board. One of her primary reasons for starting ACFW was to help writers to develop their writing skills and to encourage others to go deeper in their relationship with God. "God has given me a gift, but it is my responsibility to develop that gift."
Some of her other interests are photography, camping, cooking, and boating. Having grown up on Martha s Vineyard, she finds water to be very exciting and soothing. She can sit and watch the waves for hours. If time permitted she would like to travel.
She makes her home in Keystone Heights, Florida, where her husband of 42 years serves as pastor of Friendship Bible Church. Together they are blessed with three children, two living and one in glory, and eight grandchildren.
PEGGY DARTY authored more than 30 novels before she passed away in 2011. She worked in film, researched for CBS, and taught in writing workshops around the country. She was a wife, mother, and grandmother who most recently made her home in Alabama.
REBECCA GERMANY works full-time as a fiction editor and has written and compiled several novellas and gift books. She lives in Ohio, where she enjoys country life.
Yvonne is an award-winning, best-selling author of 56 novels, founded and directed the Blue Ridge Mountains Christian Writers Conference for 25 years, and is now director of the Blue Ridge Autumn in the Mountains Novelist Retreat (htp: //ridgecrestconferencecenter.org/event/novelist). She has joined Lighthouse Publishing of the Carolinas as Acquisitions and Managing Editor of Candlelight Romance and Guiding Light Women s Fiction. She earned a Master s Degree in English from Western Carolina University and has taught English and Creative Writing on the college level. Recent releases are a novella in
Reluctant Brides and
Name that Tune in
A Gentleman s Kiss (Barbour). Her 50th novel is
Hearts that Survive A Novel of the TITANIC (Abingdon), which she signs periodically at the Titanic Museum in Pigeon Forge TN. Her non-fiction compilations (Grace Publishing) are
Divine Moments and
Christmas Moments (2014),
Spoken Moments, Childhood Moments, and
Christmas Moments Book #2 (2015). She blogs at www.christiansread.com and Novel Rocket Blog.
Gail Sattler lives in Vancouver, BC, where you don t have to shovel rain, with her husband, three sons, two dogs, and a lizard who is quite cuddly for a reptile. When she s not writing, Gail is making music, playing electric bass for a local jazz band, and acoustic bass for a community orchestra. When she s not writing or making music, Gail likes to sit back with a hot coffee and a good book.
Pamela Tracy is a USA Today award-winning author of almost 30 books, contemporary, suspense, historical, and devotional.First published in 1999 by Barbour Publishing, their Heartsong Presents line, Pamela continues to write for Barbour as well as Love Inspired and Guideposts.Her 2007 suspensePursuit of Justicewas a Rita finalist. Her 2009 suspenseBroken Lullabywon the American Christian Fiction Writers' Book of the year award.You can find out more about her at www.pamelatracy.com
