Butterfly Cottage Book Club Questions for Readers

 Butterfly Cottage Book Club Questions for Readers

 

1.        Tamara lost her dear friend, Ruby, to Pancreatic Cancer after she’d suffered through the terrible Whipple procedure and died. What do you think some of her motivations were for not telling her family about her diagnosis?

2.        Would you tell your family if you had a terminal diagnosis that had no truly viable treatment? Why or why not?

3.        Have you known any young alcoholics like Parker and did his personality change from the alcoholism surprise you?

4.        Have you ever had a multi-generational summer at a cottage? A week somewhere? And how did that go?

5.        Have you ever had your faith tested like Jaycie, by friends or acquaintances, who were pushing worldly ways of thinking on you? If so, how did the Holy Spirit help you to combat those influences?

6.        Dawn and her husband have a long and strong marriage. Were you surprised that he’d urged her to go spend this time up North on her own? If you were in a similar situation, would your husband do that for you—why or why not?

7.        There are two Butterfly Cottages in this story. One is on the mainland in Mackinaw City, Michigan, which Dawn and her family own. But the original Butterfly Cottage is on the East Bluff on Mackinac Island and is adjacent to the Parker family’s resort. If you’ve read My Heart Belongs on Mackinac Islandand the Mackinac Island Romances Series (Anchored at Mackinac, Mackinac Island Beacon, and associated novel Behind Love’s Wall) the original Butterfly Cottage belonged to Jack Welling—the boy in those stories. Jack Welling was Dawn’s grandfather and Jack’s son, Jack Jr., had only daughters. I thought it would be fun to have a wild boy like 12-year-old Jack from My Heart Belongs on Mackinac Island have these women be his descendants!

The actual cottage I used for Butterfly Cottage exists in Mackinaw City on Huron Street but the cottage on the island was fictional. Do you like to go visit places where a story is set and have you visited Mackinac Island?

 

Lilac Cottage, Mackinac Cottages Series Book 2 -- Celebrate Lit Tour

My new release in Christian Fiction, a Contemporary Women's Fiction novel, Lilac Cottage, is now on tour with Celebrate Lit! There's a giveaway, so be sure to stop at the blogs as they go live. Please allow up to 24 hours after the date for each post to appear on the blogs. Click on the link and scroll down for the links to each review.

 https://www.celebratelit.com/lilac-cottage-celebration-tour/

Bonus giveaway: Choose either a copy of Butterfly Cottage (Book 1 in the Mackinac Cottages Series) or Lilac Cottage (Book 2) or Behind Love's Wall (Associated story) in either kindle, paperback or for Behind Love's Wall also in audiobook! Leave a comment on this post to enter!

Anchored at Mackinac Releases!

 

Anchored at Mackinac is now published! This is a Free Read if you have Kindle Unlimited!


Gilded Age on Beautiful Mackinac Island, 1895

Two women, Sadie Duvall, a young maid, and Ada Fox, the mature Housekeeping Manager, at the Grand Hotel must make life-changing decisions involving their work and the men in their lives. As 1895 comes to a close, will hearts be broken when choices are made—or will all hoped-for wishes be fulfilled?
With her father missing and her mother dead, impoverished Sadie scrabbles to provide for her sisters. She has known wealthy bachelor Captain Robert Swaine most of her life--he's her best friend's young uncle. When he returns to the island, she doesn't believe his interest in her is sincere, despite all the assistance he's given her and her sisters because he's frequently in the company of a beautiful actress staying at the hotel. Sadie wishes to pursue her own path--a position as a nursing student at a new asylum in the Eastern Upper Peninsula.

Having endured a traumatic early childhood, Ada Fox entered into marriages with very successful, wealthy, much older men after the mother of her first, and only true, love sends her away from the nearby Poor House and to a secretarial school. Secretly the wealthiest woman in the world, Ada Fox has taken on a Housekeeping Manager position so that she can be closer to her first love, widower and innkeeper Peter Welling.

This new novel goes with My Heart Belongs on Mackinac Island and Behind Love's Wall.

Nine Year Book Anniversary -- Return to Shirley Plantation!!!

This is the beautiful new cover by Roseanna White, in ebook and paperback format, which released six years ago.The Ebook on Kindle is on SALE this week for only 99 cents in celebration of my book baby's anniversary and my Debut in Christian Fiction anniversary!!! 

Here's my original cover from my debut in Christian Fiction Nine Years ago!!! This novella was part of the Cry of Freedom American Civil War Series and it's my only fiction book actually set during the Civil War. 

The Return to Shirley Plantation audiobook, narrated by the amazing Cecily White, released only four years ago this coming June. 

This novella now has some other brothers and sisters in the James River Romances series!!! Love's Escape was recently re-released in expanded form and is available in ebook and paperback formats! Dogwood Plantation and The Steeplechase are both available in audiobook as well as ebook and paperback formats!

Giveaway: Winner's choice: An audiobook code for any one of the three on audiobook, ebook or paperback on any of the books. Answer this question: Where is the James River located? (No cheating by googling or asking someone else!!!)

New Release from Kathleen L. Maher -- The Meddlesome Maverick

 Cowboy Cousins is a novella collection by Scrivener Press which includes three novellas from: Molly Noble Bull, Kathi Macias, and our featured author, Kathleen L. Maher. This book is a FREE read for Kindle Unlimited subscribers! Available in ebook and paperback through Amazon.

Kathleen's novella, The Meddlesome Maverick,  was adorable. I had the blessing of critiquing this novella so I got to read the story before it released. I highly recommend this fun, sweet, and enjoyable story! What a spunky heroine and what a heartthrob of a hero!

Here's the blurb:

The Meddlesome Maverick by award-winning author, Kathleen L. Maher: A new job as a bronco buster on a Lincoln, Nebraska ranch offers Boyd Hastings a fresh start. Cured of romance after a kiss-and-tell flirt falsely accused him, he must flee his hometown and cousins who have been like brothers. Banjo picking for a music show would lure him to the big city, but an opinionated tomboy with a heart of gold makes grand plans for him. Can he trust a meddlesome maverick to steer him true, or will she lead him into a briar patch of trouble?


Congratulations to Kathleen on this new release!!!

Giveaway: Answer this question: What do you enjoy about cowboy stories? --  for a chance to win your choice of an ebook or paperback copy of this new release, Cowboy Cousins,  in Christian historical romance! Bonus points if you Like/Follow Kathleen on her author Facebook page!

Love's Escape -- New Release & Giveaway

Endorsement from award-winning author Kathleen L. Maher:

"Have to share my wow!"
Sweet romance with a flavor of suspense and historical drama. Wonderful storyline, memorable characters and intriguing plot twists. A winning, quick read, but you’ll want to take your time and savor every scene.

Thank you, Kathy!!!

My new release in Christian Historical Fiction is Love's Escape. This novella is part of my James River Romance series now! This is an expanded version of the novella that originally released in Barbour's Captive Brides collection. 

One liner: The son of a funeral home owner and his friend, a sea captain, transport the women they love, two enslaved women from Virginia plantations, North.

Blurb: Letitia, a light-skinned house slave of the prominent Burwell family, learns that her father is the master of the plantation. As she helps them dress and fetches tea for the Burwell women, including her half-sister by blood, Lettie becomes more determined that she’ll not live out her days in servitude. But she's afraid of what could happen. When her mother dies from a beating that Burwell sanctioned, Lettie seeks any means of escape.

Nathan Pleasant, a bookkeeper and son of a well-respected Richmond funeral home owner, is smitten with the Burwells' slave. He meets secretly with Letitia. Nathan begins transporting slaves from Virginia and onto the Underground railroad. His dear friend, a ship captain, has also lost his heart to an enslaved woman. When the women's lives are at stake, the two men risk all by transporting them North. Can they get them to freedom? Who is pursuing them? Once they can shake their shackles of slavery, would the two women even welcome romance with their Underground Railroad conductors? Or will the two men find themselves alone and far from the James River, where they grew up and where their families still live?

Love's Escape is FREE on Kindle Unlimited, if you have that subscription on Amazon! Available for purchase in ebook and paperback versions!

Giveaway: A copy of Love's Escape in either ebook or paperback! Leave a comment to enter.

Song for the Hunter by Naomi Musch

Available through Barnes & Noble, Lifeway, Christian Book Distributors, Amazon, and others.

Tragedy brought them together. Now truth might tear them apart.

Wed to a trading company partner to escape life in Montreal under her harsh father's thumb, Camilla Bonnet finds herself widowed and pregnant in the Upper Country frontier. When her brother fails to return for her from Fort William, she is cast on the mercy of the trading post owner's family. She also draws comfort from Bemidii Marchal, a Métis hunter who soothes away her misgivings as he finds his own refuge on Lake Superior's Madeline Island.

Bemidii’s thoughts of courting a maiden are cut short when he raises his knife against a company man at Fort William’s Great Rendezvous. No one will believe he killed to protect his sister—least of all the beautiful Frenchwoman on Madeline Island who stirs his affections—not when she learns that her brother is dead and Bemidii stands accused of his murder. As the sharp blade of truth divides them, will Bemidii survive the justice of powerful men who are a law unto themselves?

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I had the opportunity to read this novel for endorsement. I loved the fact that it was set in the area where my MIL grew up and I've been there to Madeline Island in Wisconsin. The setting, the time frame, and the characters are unique and compelling. This is a strong historical Christian fiction book that fans of Lori Benton, Pegg Smith, and Shannon McNear will love! In fact, Benton and McNear both offered endorsements for the book:

"What a beautiful tapestry Musch weaves of loss and longing, risk and reward!"

~Shannon McNear
Award-winning author of The Blue Cloak and Daughters of the Lost Colony: Elinor

"Hope triumphs in this latest offering from gifted wordsmith and lover of history, Naomi Musch."

~Lori Benton
Christy Award-winning author of Burning Sky

Giveaway: Choice of ebook or paperback copy of this new release by the talented Naomi Musch!