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Romantic Suspense Book Review: The Crushing Depths

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About the Book Title: The Crushing Depths   Series: Coastal Guardians (Book 2)   Genre: Romantic Suspense/Mystery   Author: Dani Pettrey   Publisher: Bethany House Publishers   Release Date: June 30, 2020   Click here to purchase a copy of this book for yourself. Publisher's Description “When an accident claims the life of an oil-rig worker on the first drilling platform off the North Carolina coast, Coast Guard investigators Rissi Dawson and Mason Rogers are sent to take the case. Tensions surrounding the oil rig are high and the death has everyone on edge. Environmental activists are threatening to do whatever it takes to stop the structure from being completed, while rumors are being whispered about ancient curses surrounding this part of the ocean.      Mounting evidence shows the death may not have been an accident at all. Was he killed by one of the activists or, perhaps more frighteningly, a member of his own crew? Ris

Historical Fiction Book Review: If I Were You

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About the Book Title: If I Were You   Author: Lynn Austin   Genre: Historical Fiction   Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.   Release Date: June 2, 2020   Click here to purchase a copy of this novel for yourself. Publisher's Description “From bestselling and eight-time Christy Award–winning author Lynn Austin comes a remarkable novel of sisterhood and self-discovery set against the backdrop of WWII.     1950. In the wake of the war, Audrey Clarkson leaves her manor house in England for a fresh start in America with her young son. As a widowed war bride, Audrey needs the support of her American in-laws, whom she has never met. But she arrives to find that her longtime friend Eve Dawson has been impersonating her for the past four years. Unraveling this deception will force Audrey and Eve’s secrets—and the complicated history of their friendship—to the surface.     1940. Eve and Audrey have been as different as two friends can be

Historical Fiction Book Review: The White Rose Resits

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About the Book Title: The White Rose Resists   Author: Amanda Barratt   Genre: Historical Fiction   Publisher: Kregel Publications   Release Date: May 26, 2020   Click here to purchase a copy of this novel for yourself.   Publisher's Description “Inspired by the incredible true story of a group of ordinary men and women who dared to stand against evil.   The ideal of a new Germany swept up Sophie Scholl in a maelstrom of patriotic fervor--that is, until she realized the truth behind Hitler's machinations for the fatherland. Now she and other students in Munich, the cradle of the Nazi government, have banded together to form a group to fight for the truth: the White Rose. Risking everything to print and distribute leaflets calling for Germans to rise up against the evil permeating their country, the White Rose treads a knife's edge of discovery by the Gestapo.   Annalise Brandt came to the University of Munich to stu