Series: A Lavender Tides Novel Paperback: 336 pages Publisher: Thomas Nelson (January 23, 2018)
“Prepare to stay up all night with Colleen Coble. Coble’s beautiful, emotional prose coupled with her keen sense of pacing, escalating danger, and very real characters place her firmly at the top of the suspense genre. I could not put this book down.” –Allison Brennan, New York Times bestselling author of Shattered
After her husband, Jack, dies in a climbing incident, Shauna has only her five-year-old son and her helicopter charter business to live for. Every day is a struggle to make ends meet and she lives in constant fear of losing even more than she already has.
When her business partner is murdered, his final words convince Shauna that she’s in danger too. But where can she turn? Zach Bannister was her husband’s best friend and is the person she blames for his death. She’s barely spoken to him since. But right now he seems her only hope for protecting her son.
Zach is only too happy to assuage his guilt over Jack’s death by helping Shauna any way he can. But there are secrets involved dating back to Shauna’s childhood that more than one person would prefer to stay hidden.
In The View from Rainshadow Bay, suspense, danger, and a longing to love again ignite amid the gorgeous lavender fields of Washington State.
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author comes a powerful, emotionally complex story of love, loss, the pain of the past—and the promise of the future.
Sometimes the greatest dream starts with the smallest element. A single cell, joining with another. And then dividing. And just like that, the world changes. Annie Harlow knows how lucky she is. The producer of a popular television cooking show, she loves her handsome husband and the beautiful Los Angeles home they share. And now, she’s pregnant with their first child. But in an instant, her life is shattered. And when Annie awakes from a yearlong coma, she discovers that time isn’t the only thing she’s lost.
Grieving and wounded, Annie retreats to her old family home in Switchback, Vermont, a maple farm generations old. There, surrounded by her free-spirited brother, their divorced mother, and four young nieces and nephews, Annie slowly emerges into a world she left behind years ago: the town where she grew up, the people she knew before, the high-school boyfriend turned judge. And with the discovery of a cookbook her grandmother wrote in the distant past, Annie unearths an age-old mystery that might prove the salvation of the family farm.
Family Tree is the story of one woman’s triumph over betrayal, and how she eventually comes to terms with her past. It is the story of joys unrealized and opportunities regained. Complex, clear-eyed and big-hearted, funny, sad, and wise, it is a novel to cherish and to remember.
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Good morning, and a very happy Monday to you all :)
How was your weekend?
Mine was good, the usual homemaking, had family over for dinner on Saturday night and then yesterday just pottered around and finished up laundry, hung in my pajamas all day and enjoyed every single minute of it.
It is now Monday and the beginning of a new week. I sure do hope you all have a beautiful blessed week ahead :)
Breakfast time....what is on the plate this morning::::
I've had my cup of coffee with French Vanilla Creamer, but I have not yet had anything to eat. Not sure what I'll have to eat, but it will either be toast as always, or some Banana Nut Crunch Cereal.
On today's to do list::::
Laundry - Have a few comforters that need washing and going to get to that today.
Kitchen - Empty the dishwasher. On Sundays I don't usually cook dinner, we have leftovers or snacky bits, so my kitchen is actually clean this morning. I'll just give the counters a quick wipe down and sweep and mop the floor and that's it.
Living Rooms - Dust, vacuum and tidy up.
Currently reading::::
Finished The Family Tree by Susan Wiggs (review will be up this morning), and am reading The View from Rainshadow Bay by Colleen Coble.
On the TV this week::::
Jamestown Season 2
Coal House at War (you can watch on Youtube)
Medici - Masters of Florence
Lockup Season 6
The Frankenstein Chronicles
Catch up with Walking Dead
The weather outside is::::
Beautiful, blue skies with not a cloud in sight. After last week's horrid weather, I'm so happy to see a bit of sun and warmth coming through. We'll be in the 60's this week, but with some thunderstorms tomorrow and Wednesday. Rest of the week is sunny :)
On the menu this week::::
Monday - Oklahoma Fried Onion Burgers, Crispy Potato Rounds Tuesday - Lasagna, Salad Wednesday - Peixe de Caldeirada (Fish Stew) Thursday - Pan Seared Chicken with Garlic Gravy, Mashed Potatoes, Broccoli Friday - Crockpot Cubed Steak with Gravy, Rice,Peas Saturday -Cast Iron Pizzas Sunday -Leftovers, Snacky Bits
If I have a few minutes to myself, I will::::
Crack on with my outer squares for the Elements CAL.
What I'm sewing, crocheting, knitting or creating::::
I am on Part 10 of the Elements CAL. I need 24 outer squares and have only made 3. Y'all don't know how I'm struggling to push through with this part of the pattern, because I get easily bored making little squares of the same thing, over and over. I also just got more yarn on Saturday so couldn't do much of anything until then. The new and last part of the blanket CAL comes out on Wednesday, but I'll doubt I will be caught up with all 24 squares and sewed onto the blanket etc. We will see how far I get.
New recipe I tried, or want to try this week::::
Not a new recipe, but I made one of my favorite Portuguese dishes on Saturday and finally took some pictures. I am pretty sure I already have the recipe on the food blog, but never had a good picture so will update it today. I didn't forget about the Sheet Pan Crunchwrap, those were delicious, and I'll put the recipe up this morning as well.
Favorite photo from the camera::::
We had cancelled schools and work, pretty much all of last week, due to the icy conditions around here. I took this picture of one of the trees in the backyard. Just look at those icicles, insane.
Bible Verse, Devotional::::
I've been reading my devotionals on the Bible App, and I've finished quite a few and started a few more. I'm currently obsessed with Devotionals, just find them so helpful and interesting, so I thought I would share with you the ones I'm currently working through:
I was talking to you the other day, about the fact that I had stopped enjoying being a homemaker, had fallen off the wagon and only recently found that joy again.
I wasn't going to really talk about it much, but then I started thinking that maybe there are others out there going through the same. One minute you're a happy joyful homemaker, loving what you do, and the next you find yourself not only enjoying it but completely off in a different direction.
Not to say that we're all exactly the same, or the circumstances are identical. I think we all fall off the wagon for different reasons, at different times and due to different situations.
Paperback: 416 pages Publisher: Graydon House (February 6, 2018)
They think nothing can tear their bond apart, until a long-buried secret threatens to destroy everything.
Every year they have met up for a vacation, but their time away is much more than just a bit of fun. Over time, it has become a lifesaver, as each of them struggles with life’s triumphs and tragedies.
Sophie, Emily, Amy and Melissa have been best friends since they were girls. They have seen each other through everything—from Sophie’s private fear that she doesn’t actually want to be a mother despite having two kids, to Amy’s perfect-on-the-outside marriage that starts to reveal troubling warning signs, to Melissa’s spiraling alcoholism, to questions that are suddenly bubbling up around the paternity of Emily’s son. But could a lie that spans just as long as their friendship be the thing that tears them apart?
