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To Hope-Inspired Stories, for anyone who'd like to discover more about books and stories that uplift and encourage.

Several years ago, while teaching high school art, I was as excited as my students when they won awards or were acknowledged for their accomplishments, and that encouraging other people's good works was very gratifying. 

So it is my hope you are blessed with a message of grace as I was, through the words of authors featured here. Please join me in welcoming writers of fiction, nonfiction, and devotionals; of romance, mystery, historical and contemporary stories as they share their work. 

Autumn and Thanksgiving 2020 will soon be a fleeting memory, but I still think of curling up with a cup of hot tea or cocoa, and delving into a good book. 

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To complete this November's family reading series I'd like to welcome author Melissa Lea Leedom with her Christian romance, "To Forgive, Divine"...

To Forgive, Divine

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Melissa Lea Leedom

Publisher : iUniverse, Inc. (October 27, 2003)

Since the accident that killed her husband two years ago, Bonnie Callaway has had no room in her heart for new love. She certainly didn’t plan to fall for her also-widowed pastor!

Jeff Wells can’t wait to see Bonnie again. But nosy neighbor Clara Adkinson informs him that he isn’t the only man in Bonnie’s life! Who is this other guy?

As their story unfolds in To Forgive, Divine, close friends (and closer enemies!) realize that things aren’t always as they appear. Even when they discover the truth, feelings of betrayal and distrust seem to destroy any hope of rekindling the love Bonnie and Jeff had started to feel for each other.

Enter a young boy who desperately needs help that only Bonnie and Jeff can give him, an embittered young woman who learns about forgiveness from these two people who can’t seem to forgive each other, and an estranged couple who need just a little push from reluctant lovers Bonnie and Jeff to re-write their own ill-fated love story. Bonnie and Jeff can’t avoid seeing each other even when they try!

As Bonnie and Jeff watch lives transformed all around them by the love and forgiveness of Jesus, they must confront their own failure to forgive. How can they recommend Christian love to everyone else and deny it to each other?

Melissa Lea Leedom ~ Author

And if you enjoy cooking or needle work of any kind, visit her website for a lot of fun and prizes during the holiday season...

~ Melissa's Website - www.forgive490.com - has a page with discussion questions for book club group and a page of recipes for dishes that appear in the story.

~ There's both a free knitting and crochet baby blanket pattern on the "Blankets for Romania" page.

~ Kindle Edition will be 99c until the end of the year. Also, Melissa will be the author guest host on the "Loves to Read" Facebook group page on Dec. 25. There will be a To Forgive, Divine trivia contest (with questions from the story), with the questions being posted on Christmas Eve. Prize to the first person to get all answers correct is a $25 Amazon card.

Twitter @MelissaLeedom and Goodreads - if you are inclined to leave a review, Melissa would appreciate it if you leave them on Amazon AND Goodreads.

...And if you become a Follower of Hope-Inspired Stories, your name will be added to a prize drawing at the end of this month: A 25.00 gift card and your choice of one of the books featured in November! (Drawing for U.S. addresses only, please).

• Hope-Inspired Stories Photo:  The beautiful photo of Charlotte Lighthouse, Rochester N.Y. at sunrise was taken by photographer and sister in Christ, Ginger Strom. 
  
  
  “Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable — if anything is excellent or praiseworthy — think about such things and the God of peace will be with you” (Philippians 4:8).  
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                                        Thank you...May you all be blessed and inspired!