Blog Tour: Love Finds You in Lonesome Praire, Montana

*Fall in Love with Lonesome Prairie Contest*

Summerside Press offers a line of romance novels based on American towns and cities with fun names and interesting histories called Love Finds You. Authors Tricia Goyer and Ocieanna Fleiss offer up Love Finds You in Lonesome Prairie, Montana.


Tricia is the author of several books, including Night Song and Dawn of a Thousand Nights, both past winners of the American Christian Fiction Writers' (ACFW) Book of the Year Award for Long Historical Romance. Ocieanna is a published writer and edited six of Tricia's historical novels.


Love Finds You in Lonesome Prairie, Montana is the second book I read in the Love Finds You series. In 1889, Julia Cavanaugh rides the orphan train to deliver girls in her care to new families. After the final stop in Montana, Julia plans to head back east. But when she gets to Lonesome Prairie, she discovers she has been purchased as a "bride" by a miner.


The authors do a good job at bringing Lonesome Prairie to life, weaving together the realities of orphan trians, mail-order brides, circuit preachers and the isolation of life on the prairie. Besides Julia's dilemma, there are interesting subplots that move the story along.


For a glimpse inside the book, you can read the first chapter.

Enter the Fall in Love with Lonesome Prairie Contest and win a Montana Gift Basket!

To enter, fill out the entry form. The winner will be announced on December 14. The basket includes:

• winter fleece throw
• huckleberry chocolate bar
• Paula Dean candle
• Montana ball cap
• Montana apron
• Montana greeting card set
• and more!!

Blog Tour: Your Chance To Win a Copy of Sweet Caroline by Rachel Hauck

**Post a comment for a chance to win a copy of Sweet Caroline**

I've read Sweet Caroline. Rachel Hauck weaves an engaging story about the consequences of choices. The ending left me a bit surprised--but life has a way of doing that, doesn't it? Sometimes I think Hauck ended the book just right. Sometimes I wish she'd written a different ending. Hhhhmm. That's also a bit like real life, isn't it?

Here's a peek at Sweet Caroline's storyline:

Caroline Sweeney has always done the right thing--the responsible, dependable thing--unlike her mother who abandoned her family. But when her best friend challenges her to accept an exciting job adventure in Barcelona, Spain, Caroline says "yes" to destiny.
Then, without warning, ownership of the run-down cafe where she's been waitressing falls right into Caroline's lap. While she's trying to determine the cafe's future, handsome Deputy Sherriff J.D. Rand captures Caroline's heart.
But when her first love, Mitch O'Neal, comes back to town, fresh from the heat of his newly-found fame as a country music singer in Nashville, Caroline must make some hard choices about love and the pursuit of the sweet life.

Visit Hauck's Web site. She's also involved with My Book Therapy, a writing craft blog, which won over the heart of this non-fiction writer.

**Rachel Hauck is sponsoring a contest too!**

Enter to win a Scrumptious Baking Basket from Rachel. The basket contains a super cool apron, a low country cook book signed by Pat Conroy, rolling pin, and a pie plate! All you have to do to enter is sign up for Rachel's newsletter here.

Other stops along the blog tour:

Revka at Our Family Porch
http://ourfamilyporch.blogspot.com/

Lauren at Baseball and Bows
http://baseballsandbows.blogspot.com/

Cindy at Notes in the Key of Life
http://cindyswanslife.blogspot.com

5/28
Joanna at Becoming His
http://joannaweaver.blogspot.com

Patty at Girlfriends in God
http://patty-girlfriendsingod.blogspot.com

Pam at Without Fear
http://withoutfear07.blogspot.com/

5/29
Lynetta at Open Book
http://www.lynetta.blogspot.com/

Tricia at It’s Real Life
http://triciagoyer.blogspot.com/

Mindy at Ponderings of the Heart
http://philippians4verse8.blogspot.com/