Ready for a madcap, Gothic novel that reminds me of a classic Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn movie? A Lesson in Propriety has overtones of Bringing Up Baby with goats and a goose running wild along with three somewhat trained ferrets. But the ghosts and walking suits of armor give this book a decidely Gothic flavor. When the author was …
Austen at Sea: Review and Giveaway
I often have the pleasure of being part of book tours and instagram reveals. I love sharing the word about other authors and their books. It’s truly a joy to help people discover others’ books, in part because I know how much love and labor goes into each page and word. Maybe that’s why Natalie Jenner’s book Austen at Sea …
Christian Fiction Scavenger Hunt Stop #26
Welcome to the Christian Fiction Scavenger Hunt! If you’ve just discovered the hunt, be sure to start at Stop #1, and collect the clues through all the stops, in order, so you can enter to win one of our top 5 grand prizes! The hunt BEGINS on 4/10 at noon Mountain with Stop #1 at LisaTawnBergren.com. Hunt through our loop …
Meeting Her Match: A blog tour review & Giveaway!
I am delighted to be the first stop on the book tour for my friend Jen Turano’s latest novel, Meeting Her Match. If you’ve been by my blog before, you know that Jen’s book often make me laugh out loud, to the point she has a reputation with my husband. There’s something about her Gilded Age romances that have a …
The Elusive Truth of Lily Temple
Since 2017, Joanna Davidson Politano has entertained readers with her immersive novels steeped in history, intrigue, and romance. In her newest narrative, The Elusive Truth of Lily Temple, Politano once again whisks readers away to Edwardian England, where an unlikely duo—an underground investigator and a silent-film actress—join forces to uncover secrets and solve cases. But the most baffling case still …
What the Mountains Remember Blog Tour & Review
What the Mountains Remember is a gripping story of one woman’s journey to find herself in the place in between her past and her future. When her father died, her mother made the desperate decision to turn her back on everything they had known in an effort to survive. As a result they moved from the mountains of West Virginia …
Christian Fiction Scavenger Hunt Stop #2: The Vanished
Welcome to the Christian Fiction Scavenger Hunt! If you’ve just discovered the hunt, be sure to start at Stop #1, and collect the clues through all the stops, in order, so you can enter to win one of our top 5 grand prizes! The hunt BEGINS on 3/14 at noon MST with Stop #1 at LisaTawnBergren.com. Hunt through our loop …
Hidden Yellow Stars: A Book Tour & Review
You know I love a book that’s set during World War II, especially when it brigns to life real events. That’s why I was intrigued by Hidden Yellow Stars from the first moment I started seeing about it. In this novel the author has created a compelling story that brings to life the fight to save Jewish children in Belgium. …
The Berlin Letters: A Review
On my first trip to Berlin I had the privilege of listening to stories of people who experienced the wall going up and the wall going down while sitting at a breakfast table. One of the transformative experiences of my young adulthood was when the wall collapsed. The woman we stayed with was my age, and the night the wall …









