I am super excited to share with you the cover for Dreams on the Horizon, set for release next month on June 25. It is available for preorder here. Below is the blurb: Can love overcome all obstacles? Mae Shepherdson’s dream of a school for the deaf has finally come to fruition. All is going well until she receives devastating news: the railroad wants to build a spur through the property where the Horizon School for the Deaf is located. What will become of the children who attend the school and the employees who so tirelessly commit their time and resources? Mae questions why God would allow ..read more

Have you ever met someone and were astounded to discover that they were a Believer? Perhaps they live a life contrary to that of a Christian. Or perhaps they act flippant about Christianity in the presence of unbelievers. To be clear at the outset: our actions are not what makes us Christians. Rather, the only way we can become a Christian is to put our full faith and trust in the Lord Jesus Christ, believe that He died for our sins, and repent and turn from our sins. (Romans 10:9-10; John 3:16; Ephesians 2:8-10; Romans 10:13; Acts 2:38-39; Romans 6:23; 1 John 1:9, etc.) However, actions are ..read more

Applications for the Dreams on the Horizon Launch Team are now open! If you love reading Christian romance and are enthusiastic about sweet and wholesome Christian romance and are reliable, I’d love to have you on the team! Please go here for all the details. I look forward to hearing from you ..read more

I recently read an article with troubling statistics about children, teens, and young adults and their addiction to social media. It spoke of the influence social media has on them and how many are finding their identity, their value, and direction for their lives in posts online. While I wasn’t overly surprised by the article’s findings, something did occur to me while reading it. Children, teens, and young adults are not the only ones addicted to social media, and more so, they aren’t the only ones finding their worth in reactions to their posts or in what they read on these platforms. Adul ..read more

You wake in the morning and fling open the curtains to find another beautiful sunshine-filled day. Perhaps you reach for a cup of coffee or head to the shower before tending to your job as a wife, mom, dad, grandparent, young adult, teen, employee, or all of the above. Whatever your plans, be sure to do the following to start your day off right. Here are five ways to do just that. Spend time with God. Even before I open my eyes, I spend time in prayer thanking Him for giving me another day and praising Him that everyday His mercies are new. I ask Him to help me to be a blessing to others and ..read more

Check out these new April releases by members of American Christian Fiction Writers (ACFW). More in-depth descriptions of these books can be found on the ACFW Fiction Finder website Contemporary Romance: Love in Tandem by Becca Kinzer — She’s perfectly content leading a quiet life in her small hometown. He’s an adventurer with unquenchable wanderlust. The two couldn’t be any more opposite if they tried. But a tandem bicycle and a 500-mile road trip just might change all that. (Contemporary Romance from Tyndale House) Playing For Keeps by Deborah Raney — The love story of Art and Maddie conti ..read more

Today we celebrate Easter…the day that Jesus Christ rose from the grave and gave us hope. Hope for eternal life spent with our Lord forever. After Jesus was crucified, thankfully, He did not stay dead. He rose again and is alive! This world is but a pit stop, a blink of an eye, as we journey through on our way to an eternity spent with Him. As I contemplate what He did for me—the sacrifice He made, my sins He took upon Himself, I am beyond humbled. Thank You, Jesus, for what You did for me. While I was yet a sinner, Christ died for me (Romans 5:8). May I humbly remember Your sacrifice every d ..read more

Usually writing comes fairly easily to me. But on this Good Friday, I’m struggling to find the words that can adequately express my gratitude to my Savior. A Savior who was severely beaten and brutally killed for my sins and the sins of all mankind. I’ve always been a moral person and, in the eyes of the world, a “good person”, but I’ve not always walked with the Lord, and I for sure haven’t always lived for Him. But at the end of the day, being a moral citizen isn’t something that will last for eternity. Being a “good person” will not get me into heaven. That will come only by surrendering m ..read more

The day has finally arrived…I’m excited for you to meet Silas and Amaya in the latest and final installment of the Wyoming Sunrise Series. If you’ve read Dreams of the Heart, you may remember Silas as one of John Mark Eliason’s closest friends and a member of the Poplar Springs sheriff’s posse. Purchase the ebook Here purchase the paperback here Read on for the blurb and for some fun quotes from the book. Can one man’s love win a fragile woman’s heart? After Amaya Alvarado lost her fiancé to a senseless tragedy, she vows never to love again. Two years later, at her grandmother’s request, s ..read more

I recently had a conversation with a young relative who works in an office where profanity, nasty jokes, and bizarre religions abound. Every day as she sits behind her desk and diligently does her work, she struggles with the atmosphere. While she enjoys her job and her boss is easy to work for, the days can wear on her. This young person asked for prayer that she would not become like her culture as it can be tempting at times to just give in and adhere to it. She also asked for prayer that she would be a “light” in an increasingly dark world where she is the only Believer in her office. My ..read more