I interrupt your weekend to . . . tell you I have some books on sale

I’m not a fan of sending out two posts in a week through Substack but I totally forgot to mention in my post the other day that my Spencer Valley books will be on sale this weekend.

They are all $1.99 on Amazon this weekend and are on Kindle Unlimited all the time.

I’m providing you with descriptions of each of the books, along with their links and at the bottom of the page you’ll find a small excerpt from the first book in the series, The Farmer’s Daughter.

The Farmer’s Daughter (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08TVHHL4B)

Will the desire to change their lives bring two people together and will the Tanner family be able to save their family farm?

Molly Tanner thought she'd be further in life by now, but, no. At the age of 26, still living on her parent's dairy farm in rural Pennsylvania, she’s wondering if there is a life for her somewhere other than little Spencer Valley. At the same time her family is facing financial struggles, her best friend had fallen into a deep depression, and her brother's best friend starts acting weird around her. Weird as in -- is attractive Alex Stone flirting with her?

Alex has his own challenges to face, mainly facing past demons that make him feel like he's not worthy of the love the Tanner family has already shown him, let alone the love of the woman he's fallen for while working side-by-side with her in the barn each day.

Harvesting Hope (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08TVHHL4B)

Can she forgive him for what he can’t forget?
The last year has been a whirlwind of trials and triumphs for the Tanner family.

With injuries, near foreclosures, and a family tragedy behind them, Jason Tanner, the oldest of the Tanner children is facing his own struggle after his longtime girlfriend, Ellie Lambert, overhears the secret he’d planned to tell her himself.
Now, in addition to trying to keep his family’s dairy farm sustainable during a hard economic season, Jason is dealing with the heartbreak of Ellie’s decision to end an almost 10-year relationship.

In an effort to bury his feelings, he throws himself into his work on the farm and into volunteering with Spencer Valley’s small volunteer fire company, where tragedy strikes the foundation of his faith during an already vulnerable time.

Beauty From Ashes (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09T2P69XV)

Can two women figure out their chaotic, confusing lives together? And how will the men in their lives fit in their journey?

Liz Cranmer feels trapped in a prison of shame. Now a single mother at 27 she feels like the whole town, especially her church-going parents, view her as a trashy woman with no morals. That’s not how she used to think of herself but — could they be right? And if they think that, then what does God think of her?

Ginny Jefferies, 53, has hit a few snags of her own in life. Her husband, Stan, barely acknowledges her, her job as the town’s library director has become mundane and stagnant, and her youngest daughter is having some kind of identity crisis. Pile on the return of a former boyfriend and you have the makings of a potential midlife crisis.

Shores of Mercy (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BK5CQDVZ)

Can two people find redemption and a new life from a past that haunts them?

There was a time in Ben Oliver’s life when his career was more important than anything — including his girlfriend, Angie, whom he walked away from when she told him she was pregnant. He’d been drinking too much already, but after he left, the drinking got worse

That was four years ago. Now he’s sober and opened a law office half an hour from where he grew up. He stayed away from Angie and the little girl he never met believing their life would be better without him, but when her family moves back to the area his past catches up with him.

Judi Lambert has battled her own demons and is now fighting for sobriety. She's well on her way to kicking her party-girl lifestyle to the curb. Not far into the journey to get her life back on track, though, she’s forced to relive a traumatic experience with a man she’d once thought was simply her ticket to a good time.

When Judi and Ben’s worlds collide, can they work together to get their lives back on track? And can Judi work to help Ben reunite with Angie and his daughter?

The Farmer’s Daughter (an excerpt):

Molly Tanner’s life was at a messy, soul-crushing standstill.

And now, as if she needed more proof of that, here she was, lying face down in manure with a stubborn Jersey cow named Cinnamon standing above her.

“Hey! Whatchya laying down for? We’re ready to start the milking!”

Closing her eyes against the voice coming from the barn a few hundred feet up the hill behind her, Molly pushed herself up out of the mud and sat back on her heels.

Couldn’t Alex Stone see she was in no mood for taunting? Of course he couldn’t because just like her brother, Alex was incredibly clueless.

Dealing with an annoying brother for her entire life was one thing, but five years ago her older brother Jason had invited his college roommate to come work on the family farm. Now it was like she had two annoying older brothers to deal with.

She stood, setting her jaw tight. She was not about to give Alex the satisfaction of reacting to such obnoxious questions. He knew perfectly well what had happened, and she knew perfectly well that neither he, nor Jason, intended to help her. She could hear their laughter behind her, adding fuel to the fire of indignation already burning.

This cow apparently had never been told she was supposed to enjoy being milked. This was the third time in less than a week she’d refused to move from the pasture to the barn and today she’d yanked her head back hard enough to rip the rope from Molly’s hand and send her flying into the mud.

If Cinnamon felt any remorse for her obstinance, she wasn’t showing it. She turned her head toward the empty field behind her, chewed her cud, and swished a fly off her backside with a flick of her tail.

Molly glanced over her shoulder, bristling at the sight of Alex smirking, casually leaning against the faded red door of the barn, one leg crossed over the other, thumbs hooked in his belt loops. He raised his hand, nodded, and propped a piece of sweet grass in one corner of his mouth.

She grabbed the rope again, shouting over her shoulder, “If you’re so impatient, then you get this cow moving!”

Tugging on the rope, she silently pleaded for Cinnamon to move, to not give Alex more reason to laugh at her on what was already a miserable day, wrapped up in a miserable week, tacked into the middle of a miserable season of her life.

She had been sure that by now, eight years after graduating high school, she’d be out on her own, experiencing a life far removed from what she’d grown up in. Instead, here she was  still living on her parents’ farm in rural Pennsylvania, still sleeping in her old room, still having meals cooked for her by her mother, and still, obviously, slogging through manure.

Working on a farm was all she’d ever known and all she’d ever wanted, at least until a few months ago when she’d started to wonder what else life might offer a 26-year-old woman little knowledge of the world other than how to work on a farm and sell produce at her family’s small country store.

She huffed out a frustrated breath at the sound of footsteps thudding in the mud behind her, not even bothering to look over her shoulder and see who it was. She knew who it was. When a masculine hand snatched the rope from hers in one quick move, Cinnamon dutifully dropped her head and walked forward.

Molly scowled as Alex walked away, Cinnamon close at his heels.

“Are you kidding me?! I’ve been trying to get her to move for half an hour!”

Alex looked over his shoulder and smirked. “Ladies like me.”

“You wish,” she mumbled, but she knew it was true.

Molly had watched more than one woman follow Alex like a cow looking for her feed. She wasn’t one of them, however.  Sure, she admired his good looks from time to time — well, more than from time to time — more like every day in the barn, but that admiration didn’t mean she planned to tag along after him begging for attention.

She plodded through the open door of the barn, frustration seething through her. Looking up, she stiffened at the amused smile tugging at the corners of her father’s mouth as he walked from the back of the barn, Jason close behind him.

If you do read The Farmer’s Daughter soon and enjoy it, I’d love it if you would share a review. I’m so close to reaching the “elusive 50” reviews that some authors say gives books more of a boost on Amazon.

If you don’t know how to leave a review on Amazon, you can ask me or you can simply tell me if you liked the book because hearing positive reviews about the book means a lot to me no matter where they are placed or how they are shared.

I also wanted to let readers know that the two books in my Gladwynn Grant Mystery series are back in Kindle Unlimited for now.

You can find Gladwynn Grant Gets Her Footing here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C1KSQJXP

Also, sneak peeks of the third book in the Gladwynn Grant series will be coming to paid subscribers soon. I am still offering a 50 percent off annual subscriptions for the summer or you can subscribe for $5 a month.

To sign-up under the summer discount click here:

https://lisarhoweler.substack.com/3809a83a

I hope you all have a great weekend. What are you reading? I’d love to know! (Even if it isn’t one of mine! Haha!)