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This week I'm chatting with readers on this new group of inspirational authors and readers who read and/or write for the Love Inspired romance line. This month my last Love Inspired Historical came out, SUDDENLY A FRONTIER FATHER, a story very dear to my heart.

His Ready-Made Family

Mason Chandler is home to meet his mail-order bride—six months too late! Little wonder Emma Jones wants to honor his letter releasing her from their agreement, especially when Mason has returned from his father’s deathbed with two adopted girls in tow. And the dark secret he’s hiding makes the homesteader feel unworthy to woo anyone. 

As the new schoolteacher in Pepin, Wisconsin, Emma can support herself without a husband. Yet she’s touched by Mason’s kindness to his half sister and her orphaned companion. Taking the little girls under her wing comes naturally to Emma—and they dearly want her for their mama. Can Mason break free of his past to fight for their surprise family?

To purchase click here, Suddenly a Frontier Father

The historical line is ending this June but I don't want my "baby" to be ignored! So drop by and leave a comment in our lively discussion about everything and anything--I just posted my new recipe Taco Casserole. I made it up and it's easy and got two thumbs up from my dh! Here's the link https://www.facebook.com/groups/LIAuthorsandReaders/?ref=bookmarks

Lyn Cote's Latest Historical Romance Debuts TODAY!

 Frontier Want Ad Bride, August Love Inspired Historical

If you've enjoyed my "Wilderness Brides" series, here's another book set in Pepin, WI, birthplace of Laura Ingalls Wilder and the setting of Little House in the Big Woods. I really tried to capture that "Little House in the Prairie" feeling with these books. And these books inspired me to write this series.

 Here's a link to a video about Laura Ingalls Wilder. http://booksbylyncote.com/SWBS/video/author-laura-ing…lder-inspiration

  What do you think of TWIN MAIL ORDER BRIDES? Interesting???? AND DID YOU READ THE LITTLE HOUSE BOOKS? I did many times. :-)

Here are the buy links for all online retailers in print and ebook. for Frontier Want Ad Bride:

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Frontier-Want-Bride-Wilderness-Brides-ebook/dp/B01MS81AYN/
 Nook: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/frontier-want-ad-bride-lyn-cote/1125453893?ean=9780373425358
 IBooks Link: https://geo.itunes.apple.com/us/book/frontier-want-ad-bride/id1195540291?mt=11
Kobo https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/frontier-want-ad-bride
 Google Play https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Lyn_Cote_Frontier_Want_Ad_Bride?id=wnTpDQAAQBAJ&hl=en  

Lyn Cote Reviews Winnie Griggs' The Proper Wife

I'm happy to share another special Sweet Romance.

The Proper Wife by Winnie Griggs

 My rating: 4 of 5 stars

 This wasn't my first Winnie Griggs' Love Inspired Historical. Winnie appears to excel with stories where a free-spirited heroine meets an uptight hero or vice versa. This book is a story of the former romance.

Sadie Lassiter is the free-spirited heroine and Eli Reynolds is the uptight hero. Eli wants and thinks he needs to find a proper wife who will be a good step-aunt to the little sister in his care. And Sadie is not even on his long list much less his short list. She's too carefree and too casual and not the least interested in housekeeping.

Then a storm strands them together for a night and the gossips put their heads together. Eli's plans and Sadie's plans go out the window when Eli proposes marriage to avert scandal. However, it seems that this marriage might be in God's plans for both of them.

 A fun read with a delightful heroine who is a match for the very proper Mr. Reynolds!


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  QUESTION: Do you like free-spirited heroines? Why or why not?--Lyn

Lyn Cote Reviews Winnie Griggs' Her Holiday Family

I'm here again to point you toward a Sweet Romance for the Holidays.

 Her Holiday Family by Winnie Griggs

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

 Once again Author Winnie Griggs did not disappoint me. A very sweet holiday romance, set in Texas. This time we have a woman who has lived one decption and then another but a good man and ten orphans land on her doorstep and nothing in her life will ever be the same again! (Children have a way of changing things, don't they?)

 Ellen Pierce is the heroine, a widow who has felt cut off from the town after her husband's death. Simon Tucker is the hero who was merely helping a woman move her orphans to a new house. But the woman falls ill and he has to make some fast decisions and the first one is to ask the local church for help. And Ellen who has never thought of herself as motherly is suddenly mother of ten!

 I've come to depend on a sweet romance from Winnie and this is a good one about love and how it stretches one to do the impossible!

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  QUESTION: What's your favorite Christmas story?--Lyn

Lyn Cote Reviews Winnie Grigg's The Proper Wife

Here's another excellent sweet romance for you!

The Proper Wife by Winnie Griggs
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

This wasn't my first Winnie Griggs' Love Inspired Historical. Winnie appears to excel with stories where a free-spirited heroine meets an uptight hero or vice versa. This book is a story of the former romance. Sadie Lassiter is the free-spirited heroine and Eli Reynolds is the uptight hero.

Eli wants and thinks he needs to find a proper wife who will be a good step-aunt to the little sister in his care. And Sadie is not even on his long list much less his short list. She's too carefree and too casual and not the least interested in housekeeping.

Then a storm strands them together for a night and the gossips put their heads together. Eli's plans and Sadie's plans go out the window when Eli proposes marriage to avert scandal.

However, it seems that this marriage might be in God's plans for both of them.

A fun read with a delightful heroine who is a match for the very proper Mr. Reynolds!

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QUESTION: Do you like romance set in small towns? Why or why not?--Lyn

That All Important Element of a Good Romance-THE MEET by Lyn Cote

Today I’m blogging about written romance and real romance. As an author, a compelling MEET for my hero and heroine is a challenge. And in my own life I know I’ll never forget MEETING my husband. (He's the guy grinning in the photo!)

So let’s talk reality first. Initially met my husband at a church singles New Year’s Eve Party. I did not feel drawn to him that night. But a few weeks later, he visited our church again for a Sunday evening service and WHOA! Everywhere I looked in our church’s fellowship hall, it was like a bright light shone behind him. Not anyone else. Just him. I kept blinking and looking around but the bright light was only around him. I took it as a sign. I’ve never experienced anything like it before or since.

Needless to say we connected that night and were secretly engaged a month later and married nine months later. We did it the old fashioned way—fell in love, got engaged and then married within a year. And we’re still together over 35 years later. We recently visited my dh’s friend who invited him to that singles New Year’s Eve Party and who subsequently was our best man. Lovely memories. If you’d like to read more stories like this, click here for a free Kindle ebook titled: How I Met My Husband. Two dozen romance authors share their MEET stories.

So how did you MEET your true love? Or do you have a classic MEET in a favorite romance? DO TELL!

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Since her first Love Inspired romance debuted in 1998, Lyn Cote has written over 35 books. A RITA finalist and a Carol Award winner, Lyn writes contemporary romance and historical. Her brand is "Strong Women, Brave Stories." Visit her website/blog at http://www.LynCote.net and find her on Facebook, GoodReads and Twitter.

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Lyn's latest release, Heartland Courtship, debuts on February 4th from Love Inspired Historical.

About writing meets in fiction, Lyn says: "When I write a romance, I try to come up with a unique and also a very personalized MEET. I want it to showcase their personalities and coming conflict. In my newest release, my heroine arrives in a frontier town by river boat and is shocked when the captain abandons an unconscious and feverish man on shore. In a town without a doctor, she with the help of her cousin take him home in hopes of saving him."