This Time For Keeps by K. Dawn Byrd

India McGuire’s peaceful life is shattered when on the night of her engagement to David Richards, she comes face to face with Chase Porter, a long lost love. India must come to terms with her overpowering feelings for Chase and choose between David, the neighbor who says he loves her, and Chase, the man who broke her heart. 


Chase’s plans of leaving quietly turn to disaster when he finds that it’s impossible to disappear without seeing India one last time. Feelings begin to surface that he believed buried forever and he finds himself fighting to win her back even as David struggles to hold onto her.

India longs to follow her heart, but she’s been hurt too deeply. Who will she choose? The neighbor who can provide stability or the man she vowed to love forever who may once again heed to the call of the open road?

K. Dawn Byrd is an author of inspirational romance and romantic suspense. This Time for Keeps is her fourth release in two years with four more books to follow in 2012. Mistaken Identity, her first young adult romance released on June 15 from Desert Breeze Publishing. She enjoyed writing it so much that she’ll have four more young adult releases in 2012. The sequel to Mistaken Identity, Shattered Identity, will release in June and a college-age romance/mystery series, The Zoe Mack Mystery Series, will release in January with others to follow in June and December.
K. Dawn is an avid blogger and gives away several books per week on her blog at www.kdawnbyrd.blogspot.com, most of which are signed by the authors. She’s also the moderator of the popular facebook Christian Fiction Gathering group at http://www.facebook.com/#!/group.php?gid=128209963444.
When not reading or writing, K. Dawn enjoys spending time with her husband of 16 years while walking their dogs beside a gorgeous lake near her home and plotting the next story waiting to be told.
Links:
Young adult blog: www.zoe-mack.blogspot.com  
She’s also on Twitter (kdawnbyrd) and facebook (K Dawn Byrd.) She is the moderator of the Christian Fiction Gathering facebook group (http://www.facebook.com/#!/group.php?gid=128209963444

I.Don’t.Have.Time. by Sandra Ardoin

Who do I see about adding a few hours to my day? Sometimes twenty-four is only enough to get me warmed up.
There are certain daily “musts” for each of us—things like work, sleep, and the consumption of food. I’m at that point in life when rest is no longer a matter of beauty but necessity; food is not always a necessity but a habit; and much of my work is habitual pleasure.  
On most weekdays, I’m sitting at the computer by seven-thirty a.m. By the time I get through my emails, social media and the blog posts I read, it can be nine-thirty and I’m wondering where the time went. How am I going to get in my word count for the day? I get down to business and the next thing I know, it’s time for lunch. Not much seems to have been marked off my to-do list. Later, I look at the clock and it’s time to close up shop and start dinner. (Have you noticed how my days seems to revolve around eating?)
Peter said that with the Lord “a day is like a thousand years and a thousand years are like a day.”
Wow! God has some calendar. With Him, everything is seen from the perspective of eternity. Shouldn’t I see it that way, too? How is what I’m doing today going to affect the time someone else spends in eternity?
Although I may complain about not having enough time to accomplish all I’d like to do, I’m blessed. God has given me something I truly enjoy: writing fiction that (I hope) makes a difference in someone’s else’s life.
So, what makes your twenty-four hours fly past like an Amtrak train on a mission? Is it useful in pointing others to Christ?
BIO: 
Sandra Ardoin loves history and fiction, so how could she help but put the two together? Her work has been published in various forms, but fiction allows her to share the stories that run through her imagination. She is a member of American Christian Fiction Writers. Contact Sandra through her website at www.sandraardoin.com. Follow her on Twitter, Google+, and Goodreads.       

Oooh, don’t you love libraries?

Books. Books. Books.

Where else can you catch a whiff of that “old” book smell? 
Or glimpse rapt faces caught up in a story?
A library is a quiet haven, a resting place, somewhere you could lose yourself for hours.

Swing by the Kannapolis Library
on Tuesday, 10/25
850 Mountain Street, Kannapolis, NC
from 6:00 – 7:00 pm
I’ll share my journey to publication and why I write 
Heart-racing, God-Gracing romance.
Thinking about writing a book or want to learn more about the publishing process? 
Now’s a good time to get some answers…
and a signed copy of Journey’s End, my first inspirational romance published with White Rose Publishing.

Thank you to Emily and Terry for inviting me and to the Friends of the Kannapolis Library for sponsoring this event. 
Copies of Journey’s End will be on sale after the program.
I hope to see you there!
And a GIANT thank you to PARK ROAD BOOKS for hosting my first book signing yesterday! You guys rock!