ThrowBACKLIST Thursday: HERITAGE

Rachel Coe longs for a heritage.
By marrying into a wealthy Boston family, she hopes to inherit just that. Then a strange letter names her the heir of her alleged grandfather's home on Mackinac Island. But, as she sorts through the past, she learns her true legacy may leave her more alone than ever. When the beautiful Rachel moves in across the street to finish the family tree her Ojibwa grandfather started, Will Tobin is more than happy to assist her. His heart gets ahead of his head, though, and before long he finds he's fallen in love with an engaged, unsaved woman. Can Will offer his friendship and guard his heart while Rachel struggles to reclaim her lineage? Can the love of a family, a man, and a Savior be found on one tiny island?

Does the clay say to the potter, "What are you making?" — Isaiah 45:9

Heritage is book 4 in my contemporary Mackinac Island series.

When researching Mackinac Island for this series, it never crossed my mind what the island might be like in the off-season. The Grand Hotel opens in the mid to late spring and closes in the fall. The main street shops were much the same way. I thought of it as a summer resort island. Though it is, it is also so much more.

I was pleasantly surprised to learn that people reside on the island year-round. They have school and everything.

So, I naturally wanted to include a story in this series that took place in this off-season. I learned about the ice bridge that forms across the Straight of Mackinac connecting the island to the upper peninsula and about designated roads approved for snowmobiles in the winter. I also learned that people plunked their used Christmas trees along the safe route of the ice bridge. I understand a snowmobile or two have ended up in an icy, watery grave when the bridge is being tested before the ice is thick enough to traverse, but someone has to be brave enough to test it. This ice bridge gives the residents a freedom they don’t have the rest of the year.

Rachel thought she knew who she was, but when she learned about her heritage, she had to rethink not only who she was, but who she wanted to be.

In this story, I enjoyed bring Lorelei and Garth back from the first book in the series so readers could see how they were doing.

I love Mackinac Island and hope to write many more stories set there. I have a historical series in mind with one of the stories connecting directly to one in this series.

LAKESIDE, THE ISLAND, & THE GRAND HOTEL are included in MICHIGAN WEDDINGS

Contemporary Romance: Michigan's Mackinac Island offers a safe harbor for wounded hearts seeking retreat. Lorelei returns to the island carrying a secret that has stolen her joy, but an old acquaintance is waiting to try to restore it. Haley's job on the island hides her from family conflict and the fear of being used by others until a handsome customer arrives asking for her help. Aimee seeks family treasure and adventure at the Grand Hotel, but one of the assistant manager's adherences to routine threatens her goals. Will God's guidance lead these women down the path of forgiveness and romance?

Book 4, HERITAGE is available in a separate volume, as are books 1-3.

THE WIDOW'S PLIGHT ~ A sweet historical romance that will tug at your heart. This is book 1 in the Quilting Circle series.

Washington State, 1893
     When Lily Lexington Bremmer arrives in Kamola with her young son, she’s reluctant to join the social center of her new community, the quilting circle, but the friendly ladies pull her in. She begins piecing a sunshine and shadows quilt because it mirrors her life. She has a secret that lurks in the shadows and hopes it doesn’t come out into the light. Dark places in her past are best forgotten, but her new life is full of sunshine. Will her secrets cast shadows on her bright future?
     Widower Edric Hammond and his father are doing their best to raise his two young daughters. He meets Lily and her son when they arrive in town and helps her find a job and a place to live. Lily resists Edric’s charms at first but finds herself falling in love with this kind, gentle man and his two darling daughters. Lily has stolen his heart with her first warm smile, but he’s cautious about bringing another woman into his girls’ lives due to the harshness of their own mother.
     Can Edric forgive Lily her past to take hold of a promising chance at love?
THE WIDOW'S PLIGHT releases in ebook on July 1, and will be out in paperback by mid-June.

#ChristianRomance #HistoricalRomance #Romance

MARY DAVIS is a bestselling, award-winning novelist of over two dozen titles in both historical and contemporary themes. She has five titles releasing in 2018; "Holly & Ivy" in A Bouquet of Brides Collection in January, Courting Her Amish Heart in March, The Widow’s Plight in July, Courting Her Secret Heart September, & “Zola’s Cross-Country Adventure” in MISSAdventure Brides Collection in December. She is a member of ACFW and active in critique groups.

Mary lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband of over thirty-three years and two cats. She has three adult children and one incredibly adorable grandchild. Find her online at:

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Wordy Wednesday: DORD

DORD (noun) Physics & Chem. Density. 

 I will venture to guess that most haven’t heard of this word.

Can you guess why?

Though it appears to be a simple enough word, it has a complex history.

DORD first appeared in Webster’s New International Dictionary Second Edition in 1934. The reason you likely haven’t come across DORD before is because it isn’t a real word.

Say what?!

If DORD was in the dictionary, it must be real, right?

DORD is what’s called a ghost word. A fake. A phony. Bogus. How could a fake word end up in a dictionary? Possibly, facts that weren’t double checked? Clerical error? Misunderstanding? Whatever the reason, it happened, and I find it quite entertaining.

I’m all for made-up words. We do it in our household all the time. Some of them we have used so much over the years that I can’t remember if they’re real or not—or DORD!

In 1931, a 3x5 slip of paper with a new word to be added to the dictionary was created. All the information about the new word would be add to this slip . Then it would pass through many hands for checking and polishing before being added to the next edition of the dictionary.

This is DORD’s slip.

See the D or d? When creating these, spaces were required between all the letters of a word so pronunciation and syllable marks could be added. The person who received this slip must have assumed that the author of this one forgot the space between the “o” and the “r”. In reality, it was for the letter “D” as an abbreviation for “density.” D? Or d?

The error was discovered in 1939, and DORD was slated to be removed from the dictionary.

But DORD wouldn’t give up so easily. It held on for several more years. From 1934-1947, DORD had a fourteen-year run in the real world.

This whole misunderstanding could have been avoided with a little punctuation. Instead of D or d, what if the person had put “D” or “d”? That is much clearer. Not as much room for misinterpretation. Personally, I’m glad they didn’t, or we never would have had DORD.

I’d like to bring DORD back but with a bit of a different definition.

DORD (noun) 1. A ghost word; 2. Something or someone that isn’t real.

DORD (verb) (DORDING, DORDED, DORDS) to ghost or shadow someone or something.
Derivatives: DORDLY, DORDNESS, DORDLINESS, DORDEDLY

So if I can use it in a sentence, does that make it a real word?
He DORDEDLY followed me.
He followed me in a DORDLY fashion.
DORD is a DORD.

If myself and other DORD-minded people use DORD enough, will it get put back into the dictionary because of usage? That’s how other DORD words made it into the dictionaries to begin with. Someone had to start using them.

This just goes to prove that you really can't believe everything you read.

Have you heard of any other DORD words?

THE WIDOW'S PLIGHT ~ A sweet historical romance that will tug at your heart. This is book 1 in the Quilting Circle series.
Washington State, 1893
     When Lily Lexington Bremmer arrives in Kamola with her young son, she’s reluctant to join the social center of her new community, the quilting circle, but the friendly ladies pull her in. She begins piecing a sunshine and shadows quilt because it mirrors her life. She has a secret that lurks in the shadows and hopes it doesn’t come out into the light. Dark places in her past are best forgotten, but her new life is full of sunshine. Will her secrets cast shadows on her bright future?
     Widower Edric Hammond and his father are doing their best to raise his two young daughters. He meets Lily and her son when they arrive in town and helps her find a job and a place to live. Lily resists Edric’s charms at first but finds herself falling in love with this kind, gentle man and his two darling daughters. Lily has stolen his heart with her first warm smile, but he’s cautious about bringing another woman into his girls’ lives due to the harshness of their own mother.
     Can Edric forgive Lily her past to take hold of a promising chance at love?
THE WIDOW'S PLIGHT is now available at a low, pre-order price. This book releases in ebook on July 1, and will be out in paperback by mid-June.

#ChristianRomance #HistoricalRomance #Romance

MARY DAVIS is a bestselling, award-winning novelist of over two dozen titles in both historical and contemporary themes. She has five titles releasing in 2018; "Holly & Ivy" in A Bouquet of Brides Collection in January, Courting Her Amish Heart in March, The Widow’s Plight in July, Courting Her Secret Heart September, & “Zola’s Cross-Country Adventure” in MISSAdventure Brides Collection in December. She is a member of ACFW and active in critique groups.

Mary lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband of over thirty-three years and two cats. She has three adult children and one incredibly adorable grandchild. Find her online at:
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Tuesday Tidbits: TOP TEN THINGS I LIKE TO BUY AT A DOLLAR STORE

Everyone has their opinions about dollar stores. I know that some chain stores with dollar in the name don’t exclusively have everything for a dollar or less. The dollar stores I like to shop at are the ones where things are a dollar or less.

I like going to them for a couple of reasons. One, it’s easy to do the math for how much I’m spending. Number of items times one (dollar) plus a guestimation on the tax and I can come close. Two, I don’t like paying more for items than I have to. Why should I spend three or four dollars on an item that I can purchase for one dollar?

But I won’t buy just anything there. Not everything they carry is worth a dollar.

So here are the top ten things I like to purchase at my local dollar store.

10. Seasonal Décor
I can save a lot of money buying seasonal decorations at a dollar store. They have something for every season, so every month I could put something festive up without breaking the bank. For just a dollar each, I can afford to decorate the whole house.

9. Health & Beauty SuppliesThere are a surprising number of health and beauty products at a dollar store that are similar to the expensive brands.

I’m picky about which medication I’ll buy,
but I’ve been happy with the cough drops,
ibuprofen, sleep aide, and a few others.

I love being able to get some makeup there to test.
Sometimes, they even have expensive brand names.

I also like buying their nail polish and powdered eyeshadow
for craft projects. I can buy several colors
for the price of one at a discount store.

8. Hair Accessories
I also like buying hair supplies like clips and hair elastics. For four dollars plus tax, I bought my granddaughter a bunch of hair elastics, clips, a small hairbrush, and a mini drawer set to keep them in. I wanted her to have her own things so she could begin to learn to take care of her own hair. Face it, kids loose things but when I get them at a dollar store, I don’t feel bad about it.

7. Party Supplies
Unless I MUST have a particular favorite character theme (which sometimes they do have) I get all my party paraphernalia at a dollar store. Plates, napkins, cups, plastic table covering, plastic silverware, party favors, balloons, streamers, trays & bowls for food, and so much more. If I get one or two expensive items in a particular theme and get the rest in coordinating colors at a dollar store, I’m all set.

And I mustn’t forget the helium balloons!

6. Gift Wrap
This is closely related to party supplies. I can buy a huge gift bag, tissue paper, and a bow for less than any one of those things at a regular priced store.

5. Greeting Cards

Greeting cards are related to the previous two item. It always bothered me to spend $3-$6 on a card when I could have have put that money toward a nicer gift. And let’s face it, children don’t care about cards unless they have money in them. After all, the message inside the card matters most, so why not spend less on the card stock it’s printed on. I’ve found cards for all occasion and holidays. It’s great when I can pick up a box of 10 or 12 Christmas cards for a dollar.

4. Office Supplies
Paperclips, sticky notes, foam board, trifold display boards, some pens (I’m a little pick about those. Not all write well.), note cards, teacher supplies (not exhaustive, but they have a few things.), note pads, small journals, envelopes and some shipping supplies, etc.

 

3. Cleaning Supplies
Most cleaning products contain basically the same ingredients. We have had great success with the Awesome brand laundry soap. I can also get rubber gloves, sponges, toilet brush, broom, and so much more.

And on a related note, trash bag, ziplock bags, plastic wrap, and aluminum foil.

2. Crafting Supplies
Craft supplies can be expensive. I’m all for excellent quality supplies, but when I’m experimenting or want a variety of general craft supplies for kids to play with, a dollar store is a great place to stock up. Pompoms, paint, glitter, glue, beads, buttons, clay, craft sticks, wash tape, flat-backed glass stones, and so much more can all be found at a dollar store.

1. Glasses, Both Reading and Sun
I love buying reading glasses at a dollar store. Often they have cute styles, and for a dollar each, I can have a pair in every room in the house and one in the car. If I loose or break a pair, I don’t fret about it.

And sunglasses? Where did I leave those this time? I set them down to try on that hat. I bet they are still at that festival booth. Oh well, they were only a dollar.

I also love the eyeglasses beaded holders so I can hang my glasses around my neck. I’ll take one of those in every color, please.

That’s it for my top ten list. What do prefer to purchase at a dollar store?

THE WIDOW'S PLIGHT ~ A sweet historical romance that will tug at your heart. This is book 1 in the Quilting Circle series.
Washington State, 1893
     When Lily Lexington Bremmer arrives in Kamola with her young son, she’s reluctant to join the social center of her new community, the quilting circle, but the friendly ladies pull her in. She begins piecing a sunshine and shadows quilt because it mirrors her life. She has a secret that lurks in the shadows and hopes it doesn’t come out into the light. Dark places in her past are best forgotten, but her new life is full of sunshine. Will her secrets cast shadows on her bright future?
     Widower Edric Hammond and his father are doing their best to raise his two young daughters. He meets Lily and her son when they arrive in town and helps her find a job and a place to live. Lily resists Edric’s charms at first but finds herself falling in love with this kind, gentle man and his two darling daughters. Lily has stolen his heart with her first warm smile, but he’s cautious about bringing another woman into his girls’ lives due to the harshness of their own mother.
     Can Edric forgive Lily her past to take hold of a promising chance at love?
THE WIDOW'S PLIGHT releases in ebook on July 1, and will be out in paperback by mid-June.

#ChristianRomance #HistoricalRomance #Romance

MARY DAVIS is a bestselling, award-winning novelist of over two dozen titles in both historical and contemporary themes. She has five titles releasing in 2018; "Holly & Ivy" in A Bouquet of Brides Collection in January, Courting Her Amish Heart in March, The Widow’s Plight in July, Courting Her Secret Heart September, & “Zola’s Cross-Country Adventure” in MISSAdventure Brides Collection in December. She is a member of ACFW and active in critique groups.

Mary lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband of over thirty-three years and two cats. She has three adult children and one incredibly adorable grandchild. Find her online at:
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Wordy Wednesday: BLOG

With yesterday’s post on guest BLOGGING, I though I’d explore the word BLOG and where it came from. Most of us know that a BLOG is an online journal/diary/LOG type thing where one can write their thoughts and various other things they wish to.

Noun — a personal website or web page on which an individual records opinions, links to other sites, etc. on a regular basis.

“On a regular basis” That’s what always gets me. It’s hard to be consistent. I’ve been maintaining pretty well this year. It hasn’t always been easy, but I’m working at it.

Verb — [no object] add new material to update a BLOG. [with object] write about (an event, situation, topic, etc.) in a BLOG.

Did you know that the term BLOG has been around much longer than how we use the word today with other definitions?

Circa 1969 (British-Joe BLOGGS) a term used to indicate any hypothetical person like Americans would use “Joe Blow,” the average person on the street.

Let’s go back even farther, circa 1860, “a servant boy” in one of the college houses.

But I wanted to explore the Internet BLOG variation. A LOG (besides the wood variety) is a place to record things, like a LOGbook. I got to thinking what the “B” in BLOG stood for. I knew it was something to do with online, and I’d known what it stood for once upon a time, but I couldn’t pull it out of my brain. I know a VLOG is a video BLOG, but the “B” was eluding me. Then I came across it, WEBLOG. Makes total sense.

Sort of.

If a video log is a VLOG, why isn’t a WEBLOG a WLOG? But because these are personal logs why not PLOG?

But to make it more personal my LOG (Mary’s LOG) should be MLOG and someone whose name starts with a “G” or “Q” or “Z” should be a GLOG, QLOG, and ZLOG. Even I would be confused. People would just shorten it to LOG. And how would we distinguish it from a paper LOG? So, why wasn’t it ONLINE LOG or ONLOG? Both are a little cumbersome, and even I would want to shorten it. An O-L? Nope.

WLOG is also a bit hard to say. PLOG just sounds ridiculous. And MLOG is impractical because there would be 26 different monikers, one for each letter of the alphabet. Confusing. One central term is definitely the best, and BLOG just rolls off the tongue.

THE WIDOW'S PLIGHT ~ A sweet historical romance that will tug at your heart. This is book 1 in the Quilting Circle series.
Washington State, 1893
     When Lily Lexington Bremmer arrives in Kamola with her young son, she’s reluctant to join the social center of her new community, the quilting circle, but the friendly ladies pull her in. She begins piecing a sunshine and shadows quilt because it mirrors her life. She has a secret that lurks in the shadows and hopes it doesn’t come out into the light. Dark places in her past are best forgotten, but her new life is full of sunshine. Will her secrets cast shadows on her bright future?
     Widower Edric Hammond and his father are doing their best to raise his two young daughters. He meets Lily and her son when they arrive in town and helps her find a job and a place to live. Lily resists Edric’s charms at first but finds herself falling in love with this kind, gentle man and his two darling daughters. Lily has stolen his heart with her first warm smile, but he’s cautious about bringing another woman into his girls’ lives due to the harshness of their own mother.
     Can Edric forgive Lily her past to take hold of a promising chance at love?
THE WIDOW'S PLIGHT releases in ebook on July 1, and will be out in paperback by mid-June.

#ChristianRomance #HistoricalRomance #Romance

MARY DAVIS is a bestselling, award-winning novelist of over two dozen titles in both historical and contemporary themes. She has five titles releasing in 2018; "Holly & Ivy" in A Bouquet of Brides Collection in January, Courting Her Amish Heart in March, The Widow’s Plight in July, Courting Her Secret Heart September, & “Zola’s Cross-Country Adventure” in MISSAdventure Brides Collection in December. She is a member of ACFW and active in critique groups.

Mary lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband of over thirty-three years and two cats. She has three adult children and one incredibly adorable grandchild. Find her online at:

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Tuesday Tidbits: WHERE IN CYBER SPACE IS MARY?

Guest Blogging

Wow! This has been challenging but a great exercise. I’ve been scheduled on a blog tour for my upcoming release, and I’ve spent the past week and a half writing multiple guest posts, the monthly post to a group blog, and my regular blog posts.

This tested my abilities and stretched me as a writer. I’m not using any of the posts more than once throughout this tour. It was important to me that they all be different. A few of them I’ll repost to my blog 6-12 months down the road but not all of them.

One of the hardest parts of blogging for me is the images. I know there are sites with royalty-free images, but I like to limit my use of those. I feel as though I’m taking advantage of those photographers. I have used my own pictures, but I don’t always (most often not) have pictures that will work for many of the blog topics I wish to explore, so it limits the topics I can use. I have an author friend (Waving at you, Suzanne.) who draws pictures for her blog. That opens up her options tremendously.

I wish I could draw, but I can’t. When my middle child was about four, he asked me to draw him a picture of horse for him to color in. I drew him a horse, to which he remarked that it didn’t look like a horse, and he never asked me to draw him anything else ever again. Smart boy.

So if I want to limit my use of free images, have limited photos I’ve taken, and I can’t draw, what is a girl to do?

Simple, I need to take more pictures. But not just any pictures. Pictures with purpose. So, I’m working on that and looking at things around me differently.

Hmm . . . Can I create a post out of a weed growing up out a sidewalk crack? I’ll have to think about that.

For now, here’s where you can find me in the coming weeks.

June 15th on Debbie Lynne Costello's Blog: “Where in the World is Kamola?”

June 25th on Christian Shelf Esteem: “Designed For Story”

June 26th & 29th on Shannon Vannatter’s Inkslinger Blog: “The Week That Almost Kept Me From Getting Married” & “THE WIDOW’S PLIGHT Character Interview & Excerpt”. I don’t know which one will be on which day.

July 2nd on Seriously Write: “Foundation of a Novel Series”

July 6th on Petticoats and Pistols: “Quilting Myths”

July 16th on Kimberly Rose Johnson's Blog: Author Spotlight

July 30th on Trish Perry’s Blog: Topic TBA

I’m a regular blogger the 23rd of each month on Heroes, Heroines, & History. June 23rd: “The War That Wasn’t—a.k.a. The Pig War”; July 23rd: “TBA”

And obviously, here on my blog for Tuesday Tidbits, Wordy Wednesday, and once a month ThrowBACKLIST Thursday.

See you in cyber space!

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THE WIDOW'S PLIGHT ~ A sweet historical romance that will tug at your heart. This is book 1 in the Quilting Circle series.
Washington State, 1893
     When Lily Lexington Bremmer arrives in Kamola with her young son, she’s reluctant to join the social center of her new community, the quilting circle, but the friendly ladies pull her in. She begins piecing a sunshine and shadows quilt because it mirrors her life. She has a secret that lurks in the shadows and hopes it doesn’t come out into the light. Dark places in her past are best forgotten, but her new life is full of sunshine. Will her secrets cast shadows on her bright future?
     Widower Edric Hammond and his father are doing their best to raise his two young daughters. He meets Lily and her son when they arrive in town and helps her find a job and a place to live. Lily resists Edric’s charms at first but finds herself falling in love with this kind, gentle man and his two darling daughters. Lily has stolen his heart with her first warm smile, but he’s cautious about bringing another woman into his girls’ lives due to the harshness of their own mother.
     Can Edric forgive Lily her past to take hold of a promising chance at love?
THE WIDOW'S PLIGHT is now available for pre-order at only $2.99--the low price for pre-orders...later it will go up. A sweet historical romance that will tug at your heart. This book releases in ebook on July 1, and will be out in paperback by mid-June.

#ChristianRomance #HistoricalRomance #Romance

MARY DAVIS is a bestselling, award-winning novelist of over two dozen titles in both historical and contemporary themes. She has five titles releasing in 2018; "Holly & Ivy" in A Bouquet of Brides Collection in January, Courting Her Amish Heart in March, The Widow’s Plight in July, Courting Her Secret Heart September, & “Zola’s Cross-Country Adventure” in MISSAdventure Brides Collection in December. She is a member of ACFW and active in critique groups.

Mary lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband of over thirty-three years and two cats. She has three adult children and one incredibly adorable grandchild. Find her online at:

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Wordy Wednesday: KABLOOEY!

Adjective
1. Used to indicate an explosion.
2. Destroyed or ruined.

3. What my computer’s hard drive did last week. (Yesterday’s post)

I’m not sure how someone came up with such a silly word to indicate destruction.

I can’t say the word without giggling inside. KABLOOEY!

Tee Hee Hee!

It reminds me of the old Batman TV show in the sixties. Any time Batman, Robin, or Batgirl hit one of the bad guys, a silly word would pop up on the screen.

It fits right in.

And KABLOOEY is just what my hard drive did. Not a physical explosion but an internal one. That was just as destructive.

But my anti-KABLOOEY master, unKABLOOEYED it.

COMING SOON

THE WIDOW'S PLIGHT ~ A sweet historical romance that will tug at your heart. This is book 1 in the Quilting Circle series.
Washington State, 1893
     When Lily Lexington Bremmer arrives in Kamola with her young son, she’s reluctant to join the social center of her new community, the quilting circle, but the friendly ladies pull her in. She begins piecing a sunshine and shadows quilt because it mirrors her life. She has a secret that lurks in the shadows and hopes it doesn’t come out into the light. Dark places in her past are best forgotten, but her new life is full of sunshine. Will her secrets cast shadows on her bright future?
     Widower Edric Hammond and his father are doing their best to raise his two young daughters. He meets Lily and her son when they arrive in town and helps her find a job and a place to live. Lily resists Edric’s charms at first but finds herself falling in love with this kind, gentle man and his two darling daughters. Lily has stolen his heart with her first warm smile, but he’s cautious about bringing another woman into his girls’ lives due to the harshness of their own mother.
     Can Edric forgive Lily her past to take hold of a promising chance at love?THE WIDOW'S PLIGHT is now available for pre-order at only $2.99--the low price for pre-orders...later it will go up. A sweet historical romance that will tug at your heart. This book releases in ebook on July 1, and will be out in paperback by mid-June.

NEW RELEASES
“Holly & Ivy,”my #HistoricalRomance novella in A BOUQUET OF BRIDES COLLECTION, takes place in 1890, in Washington State. It’s about a young woman who accompanies her impetuous younger sister on her trip across the country to be a Christmas mail-order bride and is helped by a gallant stranger.  #BouquetOfBrides

COURTING HER AMISH HEART is a contemporary romance, the first in the Prodigal Daughters series.
A doctor or an Amish wife? She can choose to be only one…Kathleen Yoder comes home after fourteen years in the Englisher world. Practicing medicine means sacrifice—no Amish man will want a doctor for a wife. Widowed Noah Lambright offers a cottage as her new clinic, seeing how much Kathleen’s skills can help their community. But as their friendship deepens, could love and family become more than a forbidden dream?
#ChristianRomance #HistoricalRomance #Romance

MARY DAVIS is a bestselling, award-winning novelist of over two dozen titles in both historical and contemporary themes. She has five titles releasing in 2018; "Holly & Ivy" in A Bouquet of Brides Collection in January, Courting Her Amish Heart in March, The Widow’s Plight in July, Courting Her Secret Heart September, & “Zola’s Cross-Country Adventure” in MISSAdventure Brides Collection in December. She is a member of ACFW and active in critique groups.

Mary lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband of over thirty-three years and two cats. She has three adult children and one incredibly adorable grandchild. Find her online at:

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