The Cautious Maiden (GIVEAWAY!!!) - The Everstone Chronicles Book 4 - Dawn Crandall

My Rating

★★★★ - You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you. (More Info)

About the Book

Violet Hawthorne is beyond mortified when her brother Ezra turns their deceased parents' New England country inn into a brothel to accommodate the nearby lumberjacks; but when Violet's own reputation is compromised, the inn becomes the least of her worries. In an effort to salvage her good name, Violet is forced into an engagement with a taciturn acquaintance; Vance Everstone. 

As she prepares for a society wedding, Violet learns that her brother had staked her hand in marriage in a heated poker game with the unsavory Rowen Steele, and Ezra had lost. Now Rowen is determined to cash in on his IOU. With danger stalking her and a new fiance who hides both his emotion and his past, Violet must decide who to trust and who to leave behind.

First Line Fridays - 9/30/16 - The Cautious Maiden

Who is excited for Friday??? I sure am! This weekend we have have cousins coming from across the state to visit us! Yay!!! 

This week Dawn Crandall's fourth book in The Everstone Chronicles releases! I am so excited for this book! Now being that it is the fourth book and releases on October 4th...I am going to share the first 4 lines with you...Because they are short and I want to give you a taste of the wonderful words within this book!

The Captive Imposter - The Everstone Chronicles Book Three - Dawn Crandall

Hiding her true identity may be the key for Estella Everstone to discover who she truly is. 

My Rating

★★★★★ - You have bewitched me, body and soul. (More Info)

From the back of the Book

Sent away for protection, hotel heiress Estella Everstone finds herself living undercover as a lady’s companion named Elle Stoneburner at one of her father’s opulent hotels in the mountains of Maine—the one she'd always loved best and always hoped to own one day, Everston. The one thing she doesn't like about the situation is that her ex-fiancé is in the area and is set on marrying someone else. Reeling from her feelings of being unwanted and unworthy, Estella reluctantly forms a friendship with the gruff manager of Everston, Dexter Blakeley, who seems to have something against wealthy young socialites with too much money, although they are just the kind of people Everston caters to. 

The Bound Heart - The Everstone Chronicles Book Two - Dawn Crandall

Bound to her past, will Meredyth be chained to a man she doesn't love and forever barred from the one her heart desires above all others?

From the Back of the Book

One accidental kiss from Lawry Hampton. That was all it took to throw Meredyth Summercourt's world upside-down. Determined to marry the ever-elusive Vance Everstone, she simply doesn't have the time or the desire to fall for her best friend. But with Vance out of the country, and with Lawry at her side nearly every day, teaching her what the world is like through the eyes of a little orphan girl named Wynn--Meredyth can't deny that what's holding her to Vance is nothing more than a desire to redeem herself from her past. 

Will she marry Vance once he returns from Europe? Or will she be strong enough to break free from the tangled web she's convinced she deserves, and accept that God's plan for her life includes redemption...and, quite possibly, Lawry Hampton?

The Hesitant Heiress - The Everstone Chronicles Book 1 - Dawn Crandall

Amaryllis Brigham has been full of fear and full of guilt, but when one man enters her life, everything changes. Faced with a decision that will shape the rest of the future, will she be able to let go and follow her heart? Or will she follow practicality at the expense of true love?

"He alone had that amazing effect on me, making me more courageous than I ever thought I could be." 

Dawn Crandall, The Hesitant Heiress

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From the Back of the Book

After being unjustly expelled from the Boston Conservatory of Music, Amaryllis Brigham sees her dreams of founding a music academy in her hometown of Seattle, Washington, disappearing before her very