This Christian Women’s Fiction Novel Will Grip Your Heart!

 A long time ago, I suffered from an eating disorder.

Much closer to the present, I suffered from guilt and fear over whether I was “in God’s will” for my life.

My latest book in the “Pine Mountain Estates” series addresses both issues.

George and Rosa are back!

If you’ve read my “Texas Hearts” series, you’ll remember George Marima and Rosa Manriquez. The former was from Zimbabwe, and the owner of the M&M Motel in Fort Worth, Texas. The latter was a former strip club dancer who was freed from her life when…

Nope, sorry. That’ll spoil it for anyone who hasn’t read the story yet. 😉

Anyway. Guns and Rosa is the romance story between forty-year-old George and thirty-five-year-old Rosa.

They make a comeback in my latest “Pine Mountain Estates” story, Rediscovering the Mountaintop, which occurs over twenty years later.

The gist of things.

A couple of recent events have Rosa wondering if a couple of major decisions she made long ago didn’t send both her and George down the wrong path. Afraid she’s been out of God’s will for years, she flees her home and goes to Pine Mountain. There she intends to take a retreat at Peter and Liz Tanner’s (Grace on the Mountain) rental cabin to figure things out.

Then Dalia shows up at her front door, bearing a welcome basket that Allie Whitlock, who lives down the mountain, is too ill to deliver herself.

Severely underweight, she’s been insisting to everyone she knows that she has her health under control. She has an equally compelling reason for her self-abuse as Rosa does for leaving her husband in the lurch to struggle alone with a slowly failing business.

Only, in Dalia’s case, she’s doing what she can to stop herself from making the wrong decision in the first place.

The conflict.

Both women want to be left alone. Both women are sure they can figure things out for themselves.

Not only are they wrong, but it seems an invisible hand keeps guiding them to cross each other’s path. And it’s a good thing, because…

…one of them is playing with death and doesn’t know it.

Rediscovering the Mountaintop will be available for purchase on June 14, 2023, but you can click here to preorder the novel.

March 2023 Book of the Month: “Hatching The Nest Egg.”

A lot of young adults are hoping to achieve financial independence before they hit age fifty, some before they hit age forty. A lot of older adults wish they could quit their lifelong careers to do something different, or retire from the work force altogether, but are struggling with their finances. 

At the very least, many people in their fifties and sixties at this moment were hoping to retire within the last, or next, couple of years, but the recession has thrown a wrench into their plans.

Enter my book, Hatching the Nest Egg: Achieve Super-Early Retirement Without Side Gigs, Gambling, Or An Above-Average Income. In it, I talk about the two best ways to get out of debt, teach a financial management strategy that is superior to using a budget, and reveal the investment strategy that has kept my husband and I afloat since 2014 (my writing business currently doesn’t make nearly enough to pay the bills). 

Yes, we experienced a big dip in our assets like everyone else. Because, what else is going to happen when EVERY investment vehicle tanks at the same time? But we likely haven’t lost as much as many people. We are also now recovering (however slowly and gradually), and probably more quickly than a lot of people, thanks to this strategy.

And, if I do say so myself, it’s a better strategy than what Dave Ramsey recommends. 😉

Click here to check out the book. I keep the price low to make the decision to buy easy.

You're welcome. 😉

WORTH THE RISK: Book Of The Month For February, 2023

It’s February, the month of red roses, pink Valentines and, of course, romance. What better book to spotlight than a romance novel with a pink background on its book cover? ;)

Worth The Risk is a faith-based, opposites-attract story, portraying a small-town young woman who wants nothing to do with the limelight, and a world-famous rock star who’s convinced that she is his God-ordained soul mate.

What prior readers have said about this novel.

 What did I like? Everything! The plot is unique and the characters are knowable. 

This was worth staying up late for.

 A wonderful love story full of twists and turns without all the smut!

Awesome story Emily.

A caution.

I realize that some readers don’t enjoy novels that smack of any kind of agenda. So, fair warning: The female protagonist, Rachel, is a vegan, and the male protagonist’s sister, Danita, is an even stauncher vegan.

I did my best to write the story so that the vegan element isn’t in-your-face, but people who have a huge bias against that philosophy may nevertheless be offended.

On the other hand…

If you’re either a Christian vegan, a Christian who is looking for motivation to eat more plant-based, or a non-Christian vegan who’s okay with mentions of God and prayer in your sweet romance reads (the story isn’t “preachy”), I believe you’ll find this story to be delightful.

At the date of publication of this blog post, the novel is free, the first novel in my “Rock Star Husband” series. Click here to download Worth the Risk. Click here to check out the entire series.

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