A Cowboy in Shepherd’s Crossing: blog blitz

Hi, reader friends! Today, it is my great pleasure to welcome back our author friend Ruth Logan Herne to celebrate new release, A Cowboy in Shepherd’s Crossing, with a JustRead blitz! I invited Ruthy to take the blog and run with it so this will no doubt be an unforgettable post!

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Oh my stars, it’s always a pleasure to come over here and bother Beth Erin… oops, I mean talk books with Beth! 🙂

I love writing.

I absolutely, positively love writing stories, and I’ve published just about 50 novels and novellas in the past nine years, so I’m livin’ the dream… And I love a touch of good old-fashioned real-life drama in a story.

Life is a tough entity at times. I have stood in churches for baptisms and funerals… we have cheered at baseball games and cried at gravesites. We have watched in sadness as people malign one another, as family values disintegrate and we’ve leapt and cheered when soldiers come home to their families… And cried when they come home flag-draped.

No romance escapes pain. No life toddles along without the fall, because it’s the falls and stumbles that teach us how to catch ourselves. How to put our chins in the air and muster on. How to take examples from the Eleanor Roosevelts (“No one can make you feel inferior without your permission.”), Ben Franklins (“Plenty of time for rest in the grave.”), and Yodas of this world (“There is no try. There is only do or do not.”) but while life is littered with unseen twists and turns, that sweet good Lord made us STRONG ENOUGH!!!

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We are indeed glorious, and it’s up to us to stay that way. Our choices, the bricks we lay along that yellow brick road we trod toward happiness. So when I write a beautiful book like A Cowboy in Shepherd’s Crossing, there are unexpected stumbling blocks just like the ones that happen in real life, because that’s how life is.

Our smokin’ hot cowboy hero Jace Middleton has resigned himself to a new path not by desire but by economic necessity. The last thing he wants to do is leave Shepherd’s Crossing, erasing the history his family brought to a rugged land a hundred years before, but there’s little opportunity to be found in the run-down town.

And then everything changes. In an instant, old secrets are revealed, secrets that don’t just change Jace’s choices: they change who he was. Who he thought he was. And therefore his very essence.

But the amazing workings of faith, love, and timing bring him to a host of new opportunities if he can come to terms with the new reality of being someone else. Someone else’s child, grandson, and heir. But first he must forgive the life of lies and he doesn’t know how to do that.

But he learns.

So much is put into Jace’s path that he has no choice but to learn… or walk away. And faced with the options before him, the choice to save two baby girls from foster care and raise them to be caring and wonderful young women or turn his back, he discovers that it’s not the biology of the situation that matters… it’s the example of the fine man and woman who raised him to be exactly what he is: A Cowboy in Shepherd’s Crossing.

I hope you love this book.

I loved writing it, I love the entire series, and what fun it’s been to tuck three Southern ladies, true steel magnolias into the hills of Western Idaho and show how they can hold their own with the best of them… and how that Southern gentility really does hold an edge of steel, used only as needed, of course!

about the book

Series: Shepherd’s Crossing #2
Publisher: Love Inspired
Release Date: January 1, 2019
Genre: Contemporary Romance

Cowboy bachelor Jace Middleton was ready to leave Shepherd’s Crossing for good – until he learns his family’s unspoken secrets.

Now Jace finds himself not only caring for his twin baby nieces, but working with beautiful, strong-willed designer Melonie Fitzgerald to renovate his grandmother’s run-down estate.

Love wasn’t part of the plan… but Jace soon finds himself wishing Melonie could become part of his unexpected family.

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about the author

Best-selling, multi-published, award-winning author Ruth Logan Herne is the author of nearly fifty novels and novellas through traditional publishers and her own independent works. She loves God, her family, country, coffee, chocolate and dogs, and wishes possums would leave the cat food on the side porch alone. And yet… they don’t. With over a million books in print, Ruthy is living her dream of touching hearts and souls by writing the kind of books she likes to read.

She lives on a pumpkin farm in Western New York where they grow all kinds of cool things for fall from sumptuous squashes and veggies to gorgeous stacking pumpkins. Ruthy’s farm is quickly becoming the place to be every September and October!

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tour giveaway

One winner will receive (US only): all 3 Shepherd’s Crossing books (Her Cowboy Reunion, A Cowboy Christmas, A Cowboy in Shepherd’s Crossing), bookmarks, a Seekerville notepad, and a bag of chocolate!

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Enter via the Rafflecopter giveaway below. Giveaway will begin at midnight January 4, 2019 and last through 11:59pm January 11, 2019. US only. Winners will be notified within a week of close of the giveaway and given 48 hours to respond or a new winner will be chosen.
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In my opinion, all good stories have conflict! What do y’all think about drama in your fiction, reader friends?

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