A Couple’s Dreams and Goals Don’t Have to Be Shared [Guest Post]

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When it comes to love, it’s all about compromise. (Photo courtesy Hallmark Publishing)

We love a good Hallmark Channel original movie. So when we heard that Lacey Baker was going to write a novel based on the happenings in the enchanting town of Evergreen, of course we were interested. We remembered Eliot and Hannah, the two protagonists featured in both the films and in her new book, so naturally we wanted to pick the author’s brain a little. Does Lacey think it is important to have a partner who has similar interests to our own? Also, how does having our own dreams and goals foster a healthy relationship? And how do these themes play into her novel and her own life? Find out in Lacey’s exclusive guest post! We hope you enjoy it. —J&H

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The Secret to Keeping a Relationship On Track [GUEST POST]

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A lasting relationship takes a certain key ingredient to make it work. Author Anna Belfrage shares what it is! (Photo courtesy Canva)

Any good romance has its fair share of complications. It starts out fairly straight forward: boy meets girl (or boy), sparks fly and if it’s a steamy romance, soon enough that interest swells into a wall of hot, sizzling attraction. Yup: those love birds end up entangled and hot and the less experienced romance reader may think that’s that. Ha! Those of us who’ve been around the block a few times know this is just the warm-up. Our happy couple are about to enter the area of turbulence. Continue reading “The Secret to Keeping a Relationship On Track [GUEST POST]”

Wily Grandma Has A Trick Up Her Sleeve in Denise Hunter’s ‘Summer by the Tides’ [REVIEW]

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In Denise Hunters Summer by the Tides, one woman hopes her family can finally make amends. (Photo by Malcolm Peacey, Flickr)

A family divided. Three sisters who can’t see eye to eye. One sassy old lady determined to let bygones be bygones. Will her granddaughters ever reunite and bury the past? Find out in Denise Hunter’s new novel, Summer by the Tides.   Continue reading “Wily Grandma Has A Trick Up Her Sleeve in Denise Hunter’s ‘Summer by the Tides’ [REVIEW]”

Susan Mallery’s ‘California Girls’ Take Us On A Life-Affirming Journey Toward Recovery [REVIEW]

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Three sisters get dumped in the same week in Susan Mallery’s California Girls. (Photo by Thomas Hawk, Flickr)

Three sisters. Three men who dump them in rather atrocious ways. Will these siblings be able to regain their footing or will pain cripple them for life? Find out in Susan Mallery’s insightful new novel, California Girls.  Continue reading “Susan Mallery’s ‘California Girls’ Take Us On A Life-Affirming Journey Toward Recovery [REVIEW]”

Learn How to Become a More Effective Leader in Warren Berger’s ‘The Book of Beautiful Questions’ [REVIEW]

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Questions are powerful tools that help us decide, create, connect and lead. (Photo by airpix, Flickr)

In an uncertain world plagued with inaccurate information and a rising number of people who have forgotten how to think about issues with a critical mind, it is difficult to get to the truth. But author Warren Berger is deftly skilled at rebooting our brains, and he does so with a tool we oftentimes fail to wield: questions. In his latest volume, The Book of Beautiful Questions, we discover what to ask and why, and how the eroteme has become the most underused punctuation mark today.  Continue reading “Learn How to Become a More Effective Leader in Warren Berger’s ‘The Book of Beautiful Questions’ [REVIEW]”