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Lyn’s Third Free Ebook for 2024!

booksbylyncote.com Posted on June 30, 2024 by Lyn CoteJune 30, 2024

A Heart of Stone

A HEART OF STONE-Free Ebook Sale Ends July 3rd—

A baby girl’s future hangs in the balance and sparks a heart-rending family mystery~

After Cash’s sister dies, she leaves her infant in her best friend Jane’s care. Cash asks why but to avoid a legal custody battle, grudgingly agrees to raise his young niece alongside Jane. Can the two overcome their differences–and build a new family together? Only if his heart of stone can be softened. A faith-filled, second chance romance with a touch of mystery. “What a scenario for a custody battle. Expected a different kind of mystery. Was surprised but certainly not disappointed. Kept me on the edge of my seat at times following Jane, Angie, and Cash as they struggled with their new reality. Jane leaned on God for guidance while Cash depended on himself. Could they work things out for Angie’s best?”

“Good, Clean, Edge of your seat read.” Click here for more info. And why not tell a friend?–Lyn

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Lyn Reviews Heather Haven’s Iced Diamonds!

booksbylyncote.com Posted on June 30, 2024 by Lyn CoteJune 30, 2024

Iced Diamonds (Persephone Cole Vintage Mystery, #2)Iced Diamonds by Heather Haven
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I have enjoyed the first 3 the Persephone Cole vintage mysteries by Heather Haven. I love the characters. Persephone is interesting, unusual and smart! I love her family, her dysfunctional family, and how they love each other. Her little boy Oliver is just a treat. I also love the WW2 historical setting-done so well. A NYC of long ago I’m sure. And of course all of her mysteries are so intricate and I love that I can’t figure out who the villain is till the end–the surprising end! I can’t wait to dive into the next one, Hot Shot Shamus!

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Does This Tagline Catch Your Interest?

booksbylyncote.com Posted on June 24, 2024 by Lyn CoteJune 24, 2024
Loving Against All Odds

Loving Against All Odds is live on Amazon! I’ve told you about this, my newest book, the first in my new “Lone Star Courage” series.

And I’ve just written a new tagline (or pithy slogan of what the series is about). What do you think of

Strong women who stand for what’s right and the brave men who love them~

Does that cause you to take interest in the series? I’m hoping so.

Please tell a friend about the new book. I hope you’ll take a look at it and hope you’ll enjoy it! Click here for more info.

 

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Lyn Asks the June Question

booksbylyncote.com Posted on June 17, 2024 by Lyn CoteJune 9, 2024

Lyn Asks: Does Your Pet Do This?

As most of you know, I have two brother kitties, rescued from the shelter. Anyway, they are maturing (2 years old in Feb) and changing. But they are doing something I’ve never had a pet do. They no longer ask me to play with them. Now they play with little fluffy mice and other soft little toys. Their fave? A small bedraggled stuffed heart. Anyway they sleep with us now; I enjoy having a cat cuddled near me. But in the morning I find that they’ve brought one of their “toys” to bed with them like a child and a stuffed animal! Do yours to something like this? That’s the FUN question for this month. Please leave your reply here. I want to know! How special AKA different are my two!!-Lyn

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Here’s a new book filled with SUSPENSE by a friend: Laura Scott

booksbylyncote.com Posted on May 15, 2024 by Lyn CoteMay 15, 2024
Raelyn

  Another Wisconsin author, Laura Scott! Laura Scott is a retired nurse turned full time author. She has written more than 100 books and has more ideas than time to write. Laura lives in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin with her husband of … Continue reading →

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Lyn Asks the June Question

booksbylyncote.com Posted on May 13, 2024 by Lyn CoteMay 6, 2024

Well, what’s the June question? 

I’m thinking back to when Westerns were popular on TV and in movies. Not so much in the recent past. Trends go in and out. Anyway, do you have any favorite Western stories either on TV, movies or books? 

I loved to read the late Louis L’Amour. His grandfather lived in the end of the old West and many authors use his books as research for how people in the West lived. Interesting. Anyway my favorite story of his is Conagher, a rather strange title, right? Conagher is a hero and this is a real life slice of the Old West and a heartfelt romance. I’ve read it many times and it was made into a TV movie. So do you have a favorite book or movie or TV series that takes place in the West? Please share here.

Loving Against All Odds

 Book 1 of my “Lone Star Courage” series, Loving Against All Odds is available now for pre-order for $1.99 till release on June 18th!

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Lyn Says Look at My New Book!

booksbylyncote.com Posted on May 8, 2024 by Lyn CoteMay 8, 2024
Loving Against All Odds

New Historical Series debuts June 18th!

Loving Against All Odds

Loving Against All Odds,

Book 1

of “Lone Star Courage” series

From fashionable New Orleans society, Miss Della Mott is now bound for frontier Spanish Texas where anything might happen. At twenty-five and never interested in marriage, she is glad finally to be considered “on the shelf.” But her plans for independence in Louisiana have failed and now her very life may be in danger.

The panic of 1819 destroyed many fortunes, including Della’s stepfather’s plantation. When he hears of Stephen Austin’s agreement with Spain to allow angloamericanos to settle on free land in colonial Texas, the impulsive man packs up the family, slaves, and their remaining possessions in wagons, traveling north along the trading route to Texas. Della, the realist, knows she can’t depend on her inept, volatile stepfather. Who will provide the protection and guidance they will need to survive? 

Quinn, son of an American scout and a Cherokee mother, is heading home to Texas. He has failed in obtaining a thoroughbred colt in New Orleans. Along the way he meets with Della’s family. He is struck by her dignity and strength. But he has decided not to marry. Both his parents died before they reached forty. The frontier is too dangerous to start a family. And he is of mixed blood.

But he also recognizes that Della’s stepfather will lead them into disaster and perhaps death. He can’t ignore her need. And so begins their unspoken alliance into wild frontier Texas. 

Unfortunately someone else’s twisted agenda will endanger them all.

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Lyn Asks the April Question

booksbylyncote.com Posted on April 14, 2024 by Lyn CoteApril 12, 2024

 

 

So what will be the April question? I don’t know if you realize this, but I write in what’s called three different subgenres. My main genre is Christian romance. (BTW some other genres are fantasy or mysteries or suspense.) My three subgenres:

  • I write contemporary romances such as my “The Preacher’s Daughters” and “New Neighbor Lane” series. 
  • I write romantic suspense, such as my “Northern Intrigue,” “Northern Shore, Intrigue” and “Opposites Attract” series. 
  • And I also write historical romance with an emphasis on true events. 

April Quesion: I’m interested. Which one of these three do you enjoy most and why? Do you read two or all three or only one? Please click here and let me know. I am interested.–Lyn

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Lyn Reviews Heather Haven’s The Dagger Before Me

booksbylyncote.com Posted on April 12, 2024 by Lyn CoteApril 12, 2024

The Dagger Before Me (Persephone Cole Vintage Mystery, #1)The Dagger Before Me by Heather Haven
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

The Dagger Before Me, by Heather Haven was the first book I have read by this author. The subtitle for the 3 book box set of the first three in the series is “Blazing a Trail as one of Manhattan’s first female gumshoes.” Percy, short for Persephone, Cole, lives on the lower East side of New York City in the early 1940s. Miss Haven has the period hard-nose PI down to a T (despite the fact that Percy is plump, 5’11” and is a single mom). Despite these factors, Percy is so much like the early Perry Mason—so audacious and always skating close what’s legal and what isn’t. (If you’d like to read an early Erle Stanley Gardner try The Case of the Shoplifter’s Shoe.) Altogether this first book in the series really charmed me, entertained me. And kept me guessing! I’m now reading book 2 Iced Diamonds. I’m so glad that she offered this 3 book box set on sale-one the ways I discover new authors!

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Lyn Shares My Friend’s Jean C Gordon’s New Book!

booksbylyncote.com Posted on March 23, 2024 by Lyn CoteMarch 23, 2024

 

Jean C Gordon

USA Today Bestselling author Jean C. Gordon’s stories of small-town love—whether it’s love at first blush, old flames reuniting, or second chance romance, you’ll satisfy your craving for sweet, wholesome romance. She and her husband share a 175-year-old farmhouse just south of Albany, NY, with their daughter and son-in-law, two grandchildren, and a menagerie of pets. While Jean creates stories, her family grows organic fruits and vegetables and tends the livestock de jour.

Here’s her book!

Falling for the Guitar Man: A Small-Town Southern Romance

Can their book boyfriends lead a book club of hopeless romantics to a real happily ever after?

Fiona Campbell can’t believe that her Hopeless Romantics of Willow Ridge book club is reading a romance with a rock star hero. Let alone a story that mirrors her younger years in Scotland. Younger years that the friends she’s made since moving to the States and taking on a partnership in Euans’s Distillery know nothing about. Moreover, she’s recently learned “her” rock star is a hometown boy.

Kyle McCabe is about to do something he’d vowed never to do: bring back his band, the one he destroyed with his personal downward spiral 15 years ago – Rebel Picts. It’s for a good cause, a benefit concert at the Willow Ridge summer festival to help the family of his deceased best friend and bandmate. Little did he know when he agreed to the concert that the cause of that spiral, Fee Campbell, now lives in Willow Ridge.

Will they overcome the shadows of their past mistakes to embrace a future together? Uncover the magic of forgiveness and second chances in this heartwarming tale of love rediscovered.

The Hopeless Romantics of Willow Ridge series are sweet, small-town contemporary romances. Each book is a standalone and can be read individually or as part of the series. Why not share this with a friend?–Lyn
Click Buy Link: On Kindle/ and available in Kindle Unlimited 

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