April Jensen's Blog
May 1, 2016
APRIL NEW RELEASES
I just wanted to announce two new releases for April. Both are in Amazon’s Kindle Unlimited program.
Cherishing Carina is my second Christmas novelette in the Overcoming Brides series.
Blurb: Fleeing danger, Carina Ward arrives at an out of the way train depot in rural Montana, just days before Christmas, determined to start afresh. But, as she embarks on a new life and marriage, lies and secrets surface that threaten to be her future’s undoing. As Christmas approaches, Carina’s struggle against the past intensifies, and she must fight to conquer the demons of the past forever.
Seeking Sylvia is the fourth novella in the Overcoming Brides series.
Blurb: At eighteen, Derek Stillwell fell in love with the girl next door, his best friend and confidante, Sylvia Antley. But youth, time, and circumstance separated them. Eight years later, Derek has the chance to make up for all the mistakes, all the lost chances, if he will only grab hold of the opportunity.
Sylvia Antley’s world crashed around her at eighteen, and she lost everything–her future, her love, her hope. Eight years later, a far more practical and cynical Sylvia knows to temper her expectations in life. Life offers up another chance at her forgotten dreams, and she must decide to embrace the chance or accept a girl’s dreams never do come true.
December 10, 2015
New Covers for the Overcoming Brides Series
Here are the updated covers for the Overcoming Brides series. Let me know how you like them in the comments.
Writing Updates: I’m currently working on the fourth novella in the Overcoming Brides series. It should be released this month.
December 8, 2015
NEW RELEASE: Treasuring Polly: A Christmas Novelette
Polly promised to save the child of the woman who once saved her. With little money and no job prospects, failure looms. Her only option is to travel two thousand miles west to a man she’s been writing a short time in the dead of winter. But how will her prospective groom react when his mail-order bride appears uninvited on his doorstep with a three-year-old orphan?
A Christmas release in the Overcoming Brides series.
November 21, 2015
New Release: Overcoming Brides Book 3 – Rescuing Cassie
New Release!
An orphan, Cassie knows the value of family. On the verge of becoming a mail-order bride and starting her own family, a person from her past reappears. And all her plans are jeopardized.
Worried about unresolved conflict between him and his fiance, Sam arrives at his future father-in-law’s Wyoming ranch. But instead of finding a chance to make things right with Cassie, he finds the ranch deserted except for a dead man shot between the eyes.
November 11, 2015
Cover Update: Saving Hyacinth
The cover for Saving Hyacinth has been updated. I’ve been meaning to do this for awhile but haven’t gotten around to it until now. Let me know what you think in the comments 
New Cover
Old Cover
SAVING HYACINTH: Amazon
November 7, 2015
New Release: Overcoming Brides Book 2 – Restoring Beth
Beth Arnett doesn’t want to be a burden, especially to the brother who took her in at fourteen. As she turns twenty-one, her family pressures her to marry, but a refused marriage proposal harms her reputation. Her chance of finding a husband in her hometown eliminated, she resorts to composing an advertisement to become a mail-order bride.
Her sister, Gertrude, learns of her intent and fears for her sister’s future happiness. Gertrude presents Mrs. Haseley, a recent widow, with a plan to match Beth with Mrs. Haseley’s son, Pete Haseley, who recently inherited the largest ranch around.
Since his father’s murder, Pete Haseley has been single-minded in his search for the killer. He has little thought of marriage, let alone to a girl he’s never met. But to please his grieving mother, he agrees. For he assumes, if he can run a ranch at twenty-two how hard can marriage be?
July 19, 2015
New Release: Saving Hyacinth-Book 1 of the Overcoming Brides series
Twelve years ago, Hyacinth swore to return to Montana. After betrayal and loss, she comes back as a mail-order bride. But, on her wedding day, bullets fly and her dream of living a simple life in the land she loves is in peril. While an outlaw with a personal vendetta pursues her new husband, a web of hidden connections and mistaken identities unfolds, and Hyacinth faces losing yet another person she loves to the grave.
Available exclusively at Amazon.
Free through Kindle Unlimited.
June 28, 2015
Updates for Summer 2015
Just wanted to give an update for 2015.
Regency: I am currently working on the first draft of the fourth book in the Egforne Park series. Originally, I planned to release in June, but I was forced to set aside the story for a few weeks. After my break (and a little distance), I’m much happier with my outline and vision for the story. I’m hopeful that the book will be finished with revisions and ready for release by the end of July. Books 5 and 6 are also slated for completion for 2015. I am also currently in the outlining stages for a second regency series.
My Regency Misses series was pulled from publication for edits and will be re-released in 2016/2017 (probably). After completing 90% of book 3 of this series, I realized I was going to have to discard the manuscript and start from scratch. I want to continue this series at some point, but I’m not sure when as the first two books require significant reworking.
Inspirational Western series: Book 1 will be released in the next few weeks.
Historic Florida: I have started research for a new project set in south Florida. First book in series will probably be released in early 2016.
All release dates/projects are tentative.
Hope everyone is having a great summer. It sure is hot down here in Florida.
