August 2018 favorites on Faithfully Bookish
List, Spotlight

August 2018 favorites

Hello, reader friends! We are busy painting the walls of our main living area this weekend (kitchen/dining/living areas with a vaulted ceiling). Times like these make me especially thankful for audiobooks! Today's recap will be short and sweet since I lost a couple of weeks to sickness...

Caught by Surprise by Jen Turano
Historical Fiction, Review

Caught by Surprise by Jen Turano

Miss Temperance Flowerdew is on her way to work when a stranger suddenly grabs her off the street and sends her on a Chicago-bound train before she can figure out what happened. When Mr. Gilbert Cavendish is called upon to rescue a missing woman, he follows the trail to Chicago only to discover that the woman is his good friend Temperance.

Contemporary Fiction, Historical Fiction, Review

The Reckoning at Gossamer Pond by Jaime Jo Wright

For over a century, the town of Gossamer Grove has thrived on its charm and Midwestern values, but Annalise Forsythe knows painful secrets, including her own, hover just beneath the pleasant faรงade. A century earlier, Gossamer Grove has been stirred into chaos by the arrival of controversial and charismatic twin revivalists. Two women, separated by a hundred years, must uncover the secrets within the borders of their own town before it's too late and they lose their future--or their very souls.

The Sea Before Us by Sarah Sundin featured on Faithfully Bookish for First Line Fridays hosted by Hoarding Books
Bookish, Spotlight

First Line Friday: The Sea Before Us

Hi, reader friends and happy weekend to you! Around here weekends have been few and far between due to my husband's work schedule and overtime. On the rare occasion that we actually get the chance to enjoy a weekend (usually because he has taken a vacation day), we embrace it wholeheartedly! I think y'allย can figure out where I'm going with this, yes?!ย 

Sons of Blackbird Mountain by Joanne Bischof
Historical Fiction, Review

Sons of Blackbird Mountain by Joanne Bischof + video

Hi, reader friends! Today, we welcome back our author friend, Joanne Bischof, as part of a book tour for herย new novel! After the tragic death of her husband, Aven Norgaard is beckoned to give up her life in Norway to become a housekeeper in the rugged hills of Nineteenth-Century Appalachia...