Happy Wednesday !

Have you seen the paint your spouse viral trend on social media, where couples sit across from one another with a canvas and paint each other? Labor Day weekend, we vacationed in Pigeon Forge with my husband's family, and we did this challenge. Several couples sat across the table from each other with an easel, paint, paintbrushes, and were given 30 minutes to paint each other. I haven't laughed so hard in a long time. My husband claims he was an art major in college, but I've yet to see any of that talent in our 29 years of marriage, and this viral challenge proved he still has yet to show me he's an "artist." But it made for great family fun and lots of belly laughs. Here's a photo of my husband and me and our "portraits" of each other. 🤣

From the looks on the faces of others who were observing this event, I knew it was going to be comical when the reveal happened. Words like "manly" and "monkey-ish" were being used, so I was very curious about the finished product. Needless to say, we all had a blast and added a few years to our lives from all the shared laughter.

Speaking of viral trends, my new book, The Thing About Blind Dates, was inspired by a viral trend I saw on social media several years ago. The blind date photo shoot idea was inspired by a trend I saw on social media, where photographers pair strangers, blindfold them, and capture the moment they turn to see each other for the first time, hoping to catch genuine sparks on camera.

If you haven't read Blind Dates yet, I hope you will get a copy on Kindle or in paperback today and see what all the virtual fuss is about!

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When a widow's broken sink leads to a mended heart, two souls discover that love doesn't replace the past—it redeems it.

In the golden glow of an Appalachian autumn, widowed librarian Megan Miller never imagined that a simple plumbing disaster would change everything. But when her kitchen catastrophe sends her rushing to Earl's Hardware, she comes face-to-face with Matt Smith—her late husband's best friend and fellow Marine, now a man whose quiet strength and gentle hands can fix more than just broken pipes.

Seven years after losing the love of her life, Megan has built a safe, predictable world around her daughter, Lauren, and her work at Laurel Ridge's library. Matt has just returned from twelve years of military service, carrying invisible wounds of survivor's guilt and searching for purpose in civilian life.

What happens when honoring the past collides with embracing the future?

Through the warm embrace of their small-town community and the meaningful work of their church's Hands of Grace Ministry, Megan, and Matt discover that some connections transcend time and tragedy. But as the anniversary of David's death approaches, they must choose between cherishing what was and claiming what could be.

Teamwork makes the dream work.

Three women with the same goal.

Tomasina, aka Tommy, Lombardi has spent her life trying to be the son her dad always wanted. As the special teams coach of the Bolton College Bulldogs football team, she hoped to make him proud when her team won the division championship. Then her head coach assigned her to work with the neurologist from the town’s hospital on his grant-funded study of concussions. She can’t avoid handsome but infuriating Dr. Wu, but she can’t allow him to derail her career.

Tommy’s not the only woman on staff with man troubles. Motorcycle-riding Sandrina Tutko interned at the library at Stratford-upon-Avon, yet it’s a stuffy English professor who was chosen to head the study abroad program, not her. He may be an expert on Shakespeare, but he’s never even been to Great Britain.

Nichelle Washington is the first African American woman Dean of Students at the college. Opposing the town’s popular fast-food hangout isn’t winning her points with its charismatic owner, but she refuses to allow her students to risk the obesity she faced as a child before she became a vegan.

When Tommy discovers Sandrina and Nichelle, whom she hadn’t seen since high school, are now her colleagues, they join forces to navigate the halls of academe. Maybe it’s not a man’s world after all.

What if the accident that shattered her body also reshaped her heart?

Willow was a woman with a clear path until a devastating car accident left her unable to walk and uncertain of who she is anymore. Though her best friend Paige and her fiancé Mason offered their unwavering support, Willow felt that she’s become a burden. Hoping to ease the weight she believes she’s placing on their lives, she makes the painful decision to seek help away from her loved ones.

Determined to find healing and rediscover herself, Willow enrolls in a rehabilitation program 243 miles from home. There, she meets Tyler, the son of her carer, grounded in the quiet rhythms of country life. He’s nothing like Mason, yet his calm presence and unfiltered honesty stir something in her. With Tyler, Willow begins to reconnect with parts of herself she thought were lost, beyond the artist, beyond the bride-to-be.

As her body strengthens and her spirit stirs, Willow is pulled between the future she once envisioned and the unexpected life that now calls to her.

When love, identity, and loyalty collide, she must ask herself the hardest question of all: is it braver to hold on or to let go?

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