by Ruth Schmeckpeper | Dec 17, 2025 | Book Recommendations
Are you looking for a heartwarming, small-town Christmas romance? A Very Chapel Falls Christmas is the delightful story of Noelle Clark’s new job promoting the city just in time for Christmas season. But the plot thickens when her former fiancé, Nik Forrest, is the...
by Ruth Schmeckpeper | Dec 17, 2025 | Book Recommendations
When Noah, a gifted preacher, is sent to a small-town congregation for a short visitation assignment, he’s certain he’s reached the edge of the world. Emily, the town’s new doctor, is his complete opposite in so many ways—yet from the start, they feel surprisingly...
by Ruth Schmeckpeper | Nov 26, 2025 | Book Recommendations
The Song of Sourwood Mountain is a beautifully crafted tale of courage, calling, and steadfast faith. Set in 1910, the story follows Mira Dean, a young woman whose quiet life is upended when a visiting preacher proposes marriage and invites her to join his mountain...
by Ruth Schmeckpeper | Nov 22, 2025 | Book Recommendations
The Pride of Babylon is a richly crafted historical novel set in 1917 at an archaeological dig site—a backdrop so vivid and unique that it immediately transports you into another world. Carolyn Jacobs weaves a compelling story of a young woman torn between rigid...
by Ruth Schmeckpeper | Nov 21, 2025 | Book Recommendations
Speculative fiction isn’t usually my go-to, but Message Sent Through Time by Pamela Baker captivated me from the very beginning. When a time-machine accident thrusts Cassie back to her own neighborhood in 1870, she suddenly finds herself in a world that feels both...
by Ruth Schmeckpeper | Nov 21, 2025 | Book Recommendations
Francine Rivers delivers another unforgettable story in The Masterpiece, a novel layered with brokenness, beauty, and the relentless grace of God. Roman, a world-famous artist haunted by a painful past, wears confidence like armor, but inside he is barely holding...