Karen Sue Hadley

         Just wanted to drop in and say Hi! How is everyone? I've been feeling sorry for myself, so much has hit me this year and seems to keep piling up. Life is unpredictable, emotions are unpredictable, I want control even when I know I'm not in control, circumstances happen and so many more reasons. Yet, sometimes its not just that I feel sorry for myself in which God will remind me of others that have it a lot worse than I do. It's that feeling when something just breaks within myself, my personality changes from being friendly and talkative to one of quietness and the desire to not let myself get close to anyone. It's fear, if I let it take root then my heart fills with bitterness,  I build a wall so I can't be hurt by others and circumstances. But, see I don't want that wall around my heart nor do I want it filled with bitterness. So, how do I cope with it? You see, this has been a struggle for 15 years.        I've noticed that w...

  When a deadly yellow fever outbreak draws Cornelia Gill back home, her new independent life must be abandoned. Injured veteran, Carter Williams, likewise must return to Dogwood Plantation when he suffers grievous family losses. Both become caretakers to younger family members. As the War of 1812 heats up, two wounded hearts begin to heal. But can they manage all that life has handed them? MY THOUGHTS: Happy Friday ya'll!! Carrie Fancett Pagels is an author that should be on your list of favorite authors. She is an amazing writer. Her book "Dogwood Plantation" is a sweet and quick read. I loved the characters except at the beginning when a cousin shows up but even I couldn't dislike him but eventually fell for his charm. This book also shows depth with her characters, real life challenges of disability, striving to do the right thing, working hard to survive when you've lost so much to an illness that strikes without warning. Cornelia and Carter are from differen...

  Can two lonely people find more than a fleeting friendship or will a prejudiced town keep them apart?   When Ivory Bledsoe left the city to minister to the  people of the rural mountain town of Willow Hollow, she never expected to be shunned rather than welcomed. Seeing the town as a lost cause, she’s eager to return home, but when the bridge leading out of town is washed away during a flood, she finds herself stranded in the last place she wants to be. Ben Thrasher was content with his quiet life until he met the new librarian. He can’t help but be drawn to the friendly and lively Ivory Bledsoe, despite her being at the center of the town’s latest superstition. It’s only a matter of time until she captures his heart, turning his world upside down in the process. Has Ivory gotten God’s plan for her all wrong or is there still a way she can serve these people? And can Ben ask her to stay in a place where so few are willing to embrace her? ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Besides being ...

About the Book   The Black Midnight     Author: Kathleen Y’Barbo    Genre: Christian Historical Suspense    Rele ase Date: August, 2020            Death Seems to Follow Harriet’s New Friend           Book 7 in the True Colo rs series—Fiction Based on Strange-But True History Three years before Jack the Ripper began his murderous spree on the streets of London, women were dying in their beds as The Midnight Assassin terrorized the citizens of Austin, Texas. Now, with suspicion falling on Her Majesty’s family and Scotland Yard at a loss as to who the Ripper might be, Queen Victoria summons her great-granddaughter, Alice Anne Von Wettin, a former Pinkerton agent who worked the unsolved Austin case, and orders her to discreetly form a team to look into the London matter. The prospect of a second chance to work with Annie just might entice Isaiah Joplin out of his comfortable life as ...