Welcome to the Blog + Review Tour for Texas Reclaimed by Sherry Shindelar, hosted by JustRead Publicity Tours!
About the Book
Title: Texas Reclaimed
Series: Lone Star Redemption #3
Author: Sherry Shindelar
Publisher: Wild Heart Books
Release Date: February 3, 2026
Genre: Christian Historical Romance
Can love blossom between a woman haunted by her family's past and a man haunted by the trauma of war?
Cora Scott is determined to hold onto her family's Texas ranch and provide a stable home for her young half-brother, Charlie, despite the mounting challenges of post-Civil War frontier life. But when a scheming creditor threatens to seize their land, she must accept help from Ben McKenzie, a former Yankee soldier sent by her late brother. Though Ben's generosity and strength draw her, the man's private struggle she stumbles upon—too reminiscent of her father's alcoholism—makes her question whether she can trust her heart to him.
Ben McKenzie arrives in Texas intent on fulfilling his promise to his dying friend to protect Cora and Charlie. While using his inheritance to save their ranch, he battles not only the loss of their cattle but also his dependency on laudanum—a medicine that turned into a curse after his imprisonment at Andersonville. As his feelings for Cora deepen, he must choose between his promise to his father to take over their Philadelphia newspaper and his growing dream of a life with Cora in Texas.
When a Comanche warrior begins courting Cora and Ben's responsibilities in Philadelphia threaten to tear them apart, they must decide if their love is strong enough to overcome their fears and forge a future together on the Texas frontier.
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Excerpt
Cora sank against Ben’s chest like parched earth soaking up rain, her body trembling almost as
much as Ben’s battered one. He could have been killed. A chill swept over her body. Her hands
dug into the back of Ben’s rumpled undershirt and held on tight. Thank God, Ben was alive,
standing, and breathing. Thank God, they hadn’t taken Charlie. That they were all still here safe.
Charlie came alongside and hugged them both. Ben slipped one hand from Cora and wrapped his arm
around the boy’s shoulders. Jack scurried around their feet, panting. Safe. Cora bit her lip and squeezed
her eyes shut. She choked back a sob. She wouldn’t cry. Strong and steady beneath the hard wall of his
chest, Ben’s heart pounded against her cheek.
His warmth permeated the dirty linen of his shirt and the thin cotton of her chemise, drawing her
like a magnet.
Moisture dropped onto the back of her head. A metallic smell. Blood.
Her breath caught. What was she thinking? Releasing her hold, she pulled back a few
inches, her hands still lingering on his sides as if they belonged there. “You’re bleeding.” Every
inch of her wobbled.
About the Author
Originally from Tennessee, Sherry Shindelar is a romantic at heart who enjoys taking her readers into the past. She fell in love with writing when she was nine years old. Decades later, she is living out her dream of writing stories from her heart and sharing them with the world. Sherry is a multi-award-winning author: 2025 Maggie Award Winner, 2023 ACFW Genesis Finalist, and 2022 Crown Finalist. She currently resides in Minnesota with her husband of forty-one years. They have three grown children and three grandchildren.
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Tour Giveaway
(1) winner will receive a signed copy of Texas Reclaimed and $40 gift card to winner's choice of Amazon or Barnes & Noble!
Full tour schedule linked below. The giveaway begins at midnight February 3, 2026 and will last through 11:59 PM EST on February 10, 2026. Winner will be notified within 2 weeks of close of the giveaway and given 48 hours to respond or risk forfeiture of prize. US/CAN only. Void where prohibited by law or logistics.
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Welcome to the Blog Tour for Perfect by Kimberly Keagan, hosted by JustRead Publicity Tours!
About the Book
Title: Perfect
Series: Hearts on Display #1
Author: Kimberly Keagan
Publisher: Ventana Publishing, LLC
Release Date: May 6, 2025
Genre: Historical Romance
In the glittering era of the Gilded Age, the heirs of Philadelphia’s Denwall Department Stores navigate family expectations, relentless ambition, and unexpected love.
William Walraven’s picture perfect life is turned upside down when his fiancée jilts him for an English aristocrat and his father refuses to name him as his successor. To prove he’s worthy of leading Denwall Department Stores, Will must open their first New York store under budget and before the Christmas shopping season.
Overwhelmed by disappointment and a nearly impossible deadline, Will has no time for distractions—especially not the captivating bookseller he saves from being crushed by a beer wagon.
Ivy King and her aging grandmother are barely keeping their struggling bookshop afloat. Though drawn to the charming, enigmatic man who saved her life, Ivy has no illusions about her place in the world. It certainly isn’t beside a department store heir whose dazzling emporium threatens to close her family’s business.
Brought together in the wake of an attack on Will’s brother, Will and Ivy find themselves at a crossroads—torn between the expectations that define them and a future neither expected.
Perfect is a clean, wholesome historical romance featuring opposites-attract tension, class differences, a touch of mystery and humor, and an inspirational journey of faith and love.
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Excerpt
From Chapter 2, Scene 1Ivy had no time to listen to verbose speeches or admire handsome men. Turning, she collided with a protestor’s wooden sign. She stepped to the side but was closer to the curb than she realized. A sharp pain shot up her left leg as her ankle buckled, and she started to fall into the street. Her hands flew out to stop her face from smashing into the Belgian block that rushed to greet her. An arm grabbed her around the waist and pulled her back onto the sidewalk just as a beer wagon barreled by.
When her knight in shining armor gently set her down, Ivy gasped at the searing pain in her ankle. Slowly, she turned and lifted her chin to find the face of her rescuer. He was the man with the hazel eyes, and his arms held her upright, thank goodness. Otherwise, she would surely land in a heap at his feet.
“Are you all right?”
“Yes, thanks to you.” Ivy tried to gather her wits. That was a narrow escape, and had he not grabbed her, she would have met her Maker that day. But to prove she was indeed fine, she took a tentative step.
About the Author
Kimberly Keagan discovered her love for romance novels at thirteen, often choosing a book over chores. She believes there's nothing like being transported to another time and place to find a happily ever after.
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Tour Giveaway
(2) winners will receive a “Perfect” Tea Time Bundle which includes a lovely tea set, a signed copy of Perfect, and other cozy reader treats—like a candle, stickers, coaster, and bookmark!
Full tour schedule linked below. The giveaway begins at midnight May 6, 2025 and will last through 11:59 PM EST on May 13, 2025. Winners will be notified within 2 weeks of close of the giveaway and given 48 hours to respond or risk forfeiture of prize. US only. Void where prohibited by law or logistics.
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About the Book
In this poignant capstone to The Barabbas Trilogy, the man called Barabbas—infamous former thief, murderer and prisoner turned Christian—and his wife Chanah continue their mission of spreading the gospel across the known world as cauldrons of political and military chaos boil across the Roman Empire.
Nero is increasingly erratic, and it’s only a matter of time before the sharp knives of imperial politics finish him off. Various successors vie for position. Who will strike first, and who will come out on top?
Meanwhile, the rebellion in Judea has intensified, the Jewish zealots exerting great influence over the minds of the people. General Vespasian and his son Titus aim to put a permanent end to the insurrection. How many lives will ultimately be sacrificed on the great altar of Jerusalem? Can the Jewish nation survive the fulfillment of Jesus’s prophecy? What will become of the Jewish Christians and the apostles and sisters who lead them? And where will Barabbas and his family find lasting peace?
The Barabbas Legacy once again brings the early years of the church into vivid detail, concluding the journey of those first saints who sacrificed everything to bring Christ’s message to the world.
Excerpt
From Chapter 11, the perspective of Marian, daughter of Barabbas and Chanah
“Fourteen today? Again?” Terisa, the amazingly gracious woman who, with her farmer husband Paerin, had kindly offered to give Marian a place to stay, admired the harvest gathered in Marian’s apron. She stared at Marian, shaking her head and smiling. “Those chickens really like you. They’ve never produced this much for me.”
Marian didn’t know quite what to say. “Oh, I don’t know. I think they’ve just had a couple of good days.”
Terisa clearly didn’t believe that. “Well, keep letting them see you a few times a day. The community could use the extra eggs. And we may have to increase the flock.” She winked, then turned to find a bowl in which to place the eggs. When she located one, Marian helped her unload, then smoothed her apron.
“Is there any mending I can do this morning? I’d start on some new children’s clothes, but I’m waiting on material.”
Terisa thought a moment. “No, I don’t think so. You can check with Catherine, though, when she gets back from visiting some farms a few miles north with her husband. You have time to do some writing. I know you enjoy it, and you’re good at it. I’ve already heard people talking about the stories you’ve completed. You have quite an imagination, grounded in faith.”
Marian lowered her eyes, embarrassed at the compliment. “I’m trying to follow my mother’s example. She inspired a lot of what I write. The apostle Paul, too.”
“I’d love to meet Paul,” said Terisa wistfully. “I doubt he’ll ever come here, but that’s okay. Apostles and sister leaders have visited before, and I’m sure more will in the future. We saw Joanna give a sermon once but didn’t get to talk to her. She was breathtaking. What a powerful woman she was … well, still is, on the other side now.”
Marian nodded agreement as she sat on a stool at their small table in the kitchen. Unsure of how Terisa would handle the revelation, she didn’t mention she had met Joanna, too. Terisa was preparing to make a stew, but Marian wouldn’t be much help at this point, as most everything was ready. It would simmer most of the day.
“Thank you for being so kind to me.”
Terisa looked up from the pot she was filling with ingredients. “You can quit thanking us so often. You’re a blessing. We’re happy to have you. And even if you want to wait a while to get married, that’s fine with us.”
Marian blushed. “It’s not that I don’t want to get married … well, maybe it is a little. I don’t know if I’m ready yet, and frankly, it frightens me to contemplate how I should go about finding a good husband.”
Terisa nodded knowingly. “Well, the really good ones are hard to find. I got lucky, I suppose. The Lord helped, too, I’m sure of that, even though we weren’t Christians yet. Just keep praying and doing good things. He’ll help you figure it out.” She started humming as she continued chopping up vegetables for the stew.
“Yes, I’m sure he will … but part of me wishes I knew the timing, while the other part is afraid to find out.”
Terisa gave her a kind smile. “Don’t overthink it. I know you writers tend to do that sometimes. Be happy, and let it come.” She winked, then turned back to humming and filling her pot.
“Thank you,” said Marian, rising. “You’ve just given me a couple of ideas. I need to write them down.”
Terisa laughed as Marian left the kitchen and headed for her room, where she had a small desk and a chair. Ink and parchment were a little harder to come by in Nazaretum than she was accustomed to, but she was making do. She sat down and began taking a few notes in tiny script. Overthinking things. She would write a story about a young woman who did that in humorously exaggerated ways … a young woman very much like herself.
About the Author
M.D. HOUSE is the author of The Barabbas Legacy, as well as the first two volumes in The Barabbas Trilogy, I Was Called Barabbas and Pillars of Barabbas. He also authored the science-fiction novel, Patriot Star. Before beginning his second career as a writer, he worked for twenty-five years in the world of corporate finance, strategic planning, and business development. Now, Michael lives in Utah with his wife, where he spends his time writing and enjoying his children and grandchildren. Learn more about Michael and his work at www.mdhouselive.com.
Learn more about M.D. House and The Barabbas Legacy at www.mdhouselive.com. The Barabbas Legacy is available on Amazon.
About the Book
From USA TODAY bestselling author Kathryn Springer comes a tale of starting over when life takes an unexpected turn.
Winsome Lake, Wisconsin, is postcard-pretty, but for chef Jessica Keaton it’s also a last resort. Fired from her dream job, Jess is starting over as a live-in cook and housekeeper. When she arrives, she finds her new employer is in rehab after having a stroke, and Jess expects she’ll be all alone in Elaine Haviland’s quaint house. A chef with no one to cook for.
But instead, she encounters a constant stream of colorful visitors who draw her back into the world. As Jess contends with local teenagers, a group of scrappy women and a charming football coach, Elaine faces some battles of her own that extend past her physical challenges. For both of them, all the ingredients for a fulfilling life are within reach, if they’re willing to take a leap. And maybe Jess will start to see that it’s not just what’s on the table that matters—it’s the people gathered round it.
A must-read novel from Love Inspired: Stories to Uplift and Inspire.
Excerpt
She might have lost her reputation and her career and the keys to the Audi, but she’d worked too hard to let go of her name.
The fairy godmother exchanged a quick look with the others and then silently passed the verbal torch to the next one in line.
The two women appeared close in age, Jess guessed early-to midsixties, but a sleek helmet of copper hair accentuated every angle and plane of her companion’s exotic features. Spandex workout clothes did the same for her statuesque frame. When she extended a hand, Jess half expected her to strike a warrior pose.
“Nita.” The brisk catch and release matched the woman’s tone. “Elaine isn’t here. We think she might have had a relapse.”
Elaine. As in Elaine Haviland? The woman who’d offered Jess a place to live and a steady paycheck?
“I just spoke with Ms. Haviland a few days ago.” Jess struggled to make sense of the words. “What do you mean…a relapse?”
“From the stroke, I imagine.” The third member of the mismatched trio joined the conversation. In khaki cargo shorts and an oversize T-shirt with an equally oversize photo of a French bulldog silkscreened on the front, she was still the most ordinary-looking one in the bunch.
“We don’t know any details. My cousin’s best friend’s aunt is a patient at the rehab center and she told me that whatever happened caused quite a stir in the wing.” The woman’s voice picked up steam as she rolled on. “I called a few hours ago, but Vanessa, she’s the social worker, was in a meeting and the receptionist wouldn’t tell me a thing. Those Hippo laws, you know. Pain in the neck if you ask me.”
Jess might have laughed if the diet soda and energy bar she’d eaten for breakfast hadn’t started burning holes through the lining of her stomach.
About the Author
About the Book
For readers of Lilac Girls and The Lost Girls of Paris comes a captivating novel of resilience, as three generations of women battle to save their family’s vineyard during WWII.
Champagne, 1939
Gabrielle Leblanc Dupree is taking her family’s future into her hands. While she should be preparing for a lavish party to celebrate two centuries of champagne making, she secretly hides Chateau Fouché-Leblanc’s most precious vintages behind a fake wall in the cellar in preparation for the looming war. But when she joins the resistance, the coveted champagne isn’t the most dangerous secret her cellar must conceal…
A former Parisian socialite, Gabrielle’s mother, Hélène, lost her husband to another war. Now her home has been requisitioned by the Germans, who pillage vineyards to satisfy the Third Reich’s thirst for the finest champagne. There’s even more at stake than Hélène dares admit. She has kept her heritage a secret…and no one is safe in Nazi-occupied France.
Josephine, the family matriarch, watches as her beloved vineyard faces its most difficult harvest yet. As her daughter-in-law and granddaughters contend with the enemies and unexpected allies in their midst, Josephine’s deep faith leads to her own path of resistance.
Across years and continents, the Leblanc women will draw on their courage and wits, determined against all odds to preserve their lives, their freedom and their legacy…
Excerpt
It was moments like these when she missed Benoit most. Her husband had taught her to love the process of growing grapes. Even now, as she stared out over the sodden vines, his favorite phrase came to mind. “August makes the must.” The must—juice from the grapes—was the first and most important step to making champagne.
A dry hot August was always better than a cold wet one.
She exited her bedroom on a sigh and hurried toward the back stairwell that emptied into the château’s kitchen. Marta, the family’s housekeeper, would already be on her way to town. A devout woman, she honored the Sabbath with as much dedication as she served Gabrielle’s family. One more person Gabrielle must protect now that the men in her family were gone and her grandmother was succumbing to old age.
Hesitating outside her sister’s room, she debated a moment, then, as quietly as possible, pushed open the door and smiled at the sleeping form. Paulette would turn seventeen next month. The girl hadn’t a care in the world, beyond what dress to wear or which boy to flirt with next.
So unlike Gabrielle.
Paulette had arrived after their father returned from the Great War, the child that would save their parents’ failing marriage. She’d been born out of false hope. Étienne LeBlanc had come home too damaged by his experience, while his wife had remained too unchanged by hers. Hélène hadn’t really tried to make the transition smooth for either of them, favoring her baby over the empty shell of a man her husband had become.
Étienne’s wounds hadn’t shown on the outside. The mercurial temper, the inability to enjoy life, these were only a few of the demons that had tortured him. He’d died a wretched man. Gabrielle’s husband had suffered similarly, though Benoit’s illness hadn’t been caused by war.
A pang of grief whispered through her, dark and consuming. And she was wasting precious time. With a noiseless click, she shut her sister’s door. By the time she reached the kitchen, Gabrielle felt weary and worn to the bone, the sort of exhaustion that would take a thousand years to sleep off.
She stepped into the scent of coffee. And froze.
Her heart took an extra hard beat. Her grandmother sat alone at the scarred table in the center of the room, head bent over a single sheet of paper. In the gray morning light, Josephine Fouché-LeBlanc looked somehow smaller, frailer and every bit of her seventy-seven years.
The need to protect came abrupt and fierce. Widowed at thirty, Josephine had dedicated her life to turning Château Fouché-LeBlanc into one of the premier champagne houses in the world. She claimed her success was due to the rosé recipe she’d created by blending pinot noir wine with white champagne instead of the usual elderberry juice.
Gabrielle knew better. Château Fouché-LeBlanc thrived because of Josephine’s dedication to preserving her husband’s legacy. The two had been united in their collective vision until the day Antoine died unexpectedly from a ruptured appendix.
It seemed the LeBlanc women were destined for heartbreak, all of them widowed too young. God had spoken, leaving them to face the world without their husbands. For her part, Gabrielle would not feel sorry for herself. She would accept her lot in life and follow in her grandmother’s footsteps. She, too, would dedicate the rest of her life to the champagne house.
It was not so terrible a fate. Remarkable, actually. A noble duty, but also a labor of love.
Josephine made a notation on the paper. The slight shake in the older woman’s hand was new, as was the soft mumbling. Josephine never mumbled to herself—until recently.
Gabrielle cleared her throat.
Her grandmother didn’t look up.
About the Author
After graduating college, with a degree in Economics and Religion, she explored various career opportunities at a Florida theme park and a modeling agency. She moved on to teach high school Economics, American Government and Latin while coaching award-winning cheerleading teams.
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Welcome to the Blog Tour for Make You Feel My Love by Robin Lee Hatcher, hosted by JustRead Publicity Tours!
ABOUT THE BOOK
Title: Make You Feel My Love
Author: Robin Lee Hatcher
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Release Date: July 13, 2021
Genre: Christian, Contemporary Romance
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Excerpt
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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(3) winners will receive a print copy of Make You Feel My Love by Robin Lee Hatcher!
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comes the opportunity for new beginnings.”
EXCERPT
“Have a seat.” Once Ethan was seated, the captain continued. “Thank you for keeping me updated on your recovery progress. You’ve done well in such a short amount of time.” The captain’s serious gaze met his. “But don’t forget, it could have been a lot worse.”
“Yes, sir.”
Cap’s chair groaned as he leaned back in it. He steepled his fingers together. “I just received your work release forms.”
Ethan rubbed his palms on his jeans. “About that, sir, I was wondering if I could take some vacation time?”
The captain’s brows scrunched together as his brown eyes probed him. “Are you still having issues?”
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