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 …
A New Favorite: The Foxhole Victory Tour
Y’all know I love a novel that is set during World War II. You also know I particularly love it if it highlights a part of the war that I didn’t know well. I also love the glamour and glitz of black and white Hollywood and the USO tours of Bob Hope and other stars capture that. That’s why I …
The Ladies Rewrite the Rules Review
As y’all know, I love a good regency novel and I especially love one that makes me smile with a fun voice and great characters. The Ladies Rewrite the Rules fits that bill. What happens when a younger son writes a pamphlet highlighting the widows and heiresses with money? Those women find themselves the target of sudden attention of men …
Review: Calling on the Matchmaker
Jody Hedlund is an author I’ve known for years, but I haven’t read as many or her books as I’d like. Then I read one like this, and I want to find a week on an isolated island and inhale them all. Calling on the Matchmaker was filled with such vibrant characters that it pulled me into the pages and …
Review: A Winter by the Sea
I have long adored Julie Klassen’s books. I’ll never forget reading her first, Lady of Milkweed Manor, and realizing I loved the Jane Austen timeperiod after all. Since then I think I’ve read most of her books, and look forward to diving into the worlds she creates. While her early books were stand alones that independently told stories of the …