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J.M. Kirkley is an Artisan Book Reviews Book Excellence Award Winner and a faith-based grief and trauma counselor. Her debut novel, A Writing Upon the Sand, was awarded Best Christian Historical Romance in 2024.

By trade, she's a storykeeper, listening to clients tell of loss, faith, and reslience. By night, she researches and writes historical fiction with emotional depth, merging page-turning true historical events with inspiring faith and clean romance.

For two decades she researched the Galveston 1900 Storm, which remains the deadliest natural disaster in US history. Combining painstaking research with clinical experience, she brought authenticity to a Texas historical tragedy and explored healing and coming to peace with the past in wa ...more

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What a wonderful read! I loved this book down to the very last line! Like all things written by Laura Frantz, the narrative rang with historical auhenticity, the plot remained tight without feeling strained with suspense, and the faith thread was insp ...more
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Susan Pope Sloan is a new-to-me author that I discovered through our participation in CelebrateLit's Summer Book Giveaway. She writes sweet historical romance with a faith thread. This post-Civil War marriage of convenience book was the fifth in the ...more
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As it turned out, I reread the 2026 encore edition of Irene Hannon’s 2009 published novel about an FBI Hostage Rescue Team assigned to protect a foreign diplomat’s daughter who received terrorist threats. Admittedly, the reread reduced the element of ...more
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I loved reading Meet Me at the Starlight by Rachel Hauck, so revisiting this charming Florida coastal town by the sea made me smile. This heartwarming story with a faith thread is about second chances with love amid loss, and finding and claiming a p ...more
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"Some stories are lost to time. Some ar rewritten. and some--broken, imperfect, and true--continue to echo, even in minds that have forgotten the details." I knew I had to read Joanna Davidson Politano's book based on the brilliant plot and Cornwall s ...more
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