THE ELEMENT OF LOVE - Mary Connealy - One Free book

Bio: Mary Connealy writes romatic comedy with cowboys. She is a Carol Award winner, and a Rita, Christy, and Inspirational Reader's Choice finalist. She is author of the best-selling Kincaid Brides Series, Lassoed in Texas Trilogy, Montana Marriages Trilogy, and Sophie's Daughters Trilogy. Mary is married to a Nebraska rancher and has four grown daughters and two spectacular grandchildren.

Welcome back, Mary. What are some of the spiritual themes you like to write about? Something I come back to a lot is courage. Greater is He who is in me, than He who is in the world. Whom shall I fear? To live is Christ, to die is gain. I put my characters in a great deal of danger and thrust them into the middle of an adventure. They have to be brave and trust God to take care of them.

What other books of yours are coming out soon? My most recent release, The Element of Love is book #1 of The Lumber Baron’s Daughters Series. Book #2, Inventions of the Heart, comes out in July and book #3, A Model of Devotion, releases in October. So, a whole series in one year’s time. I’m excited for them to release so close together.

If you could spend an evening with one contemporary person (not a family member of yours), who would it be and why? Lena, why don’t I spend an evening with you? I could think long and hard and not come up with anyone I’d have a better time with.

I’d enjoy that a lot. What historical person would you like to meet (besides Jesus) and why? I think I’d love to talk to Kit Carson. Hear his firsthand accounts of his explorations of the west. I love all those old mountain men I call Pathfinders, and I think he was the best of the lot.

How can you encourage authors who have been receiving only rejections from publishers? It’s such a different world than when I was wallpapering my house with rejections. No one needs to do that these days. I’d encourage them to enter contests for unpublished authors. Join a critique group and then, well if they decide to self-publish and so many authors start that way these days, I’d encourage them to not pay a fortune to someone to do the publishing for them.

Very good advice. Tell us about the featured book. The Element of Love is book one of the Lumber Baron’s Daughters Series. These books focus on three extremely smart siblings as they try to escape their greedy stepfather and save their late father’s company from being run into the ground. Raised to run their family business, the Stiles sisters are each prodigies in their own right, and book one is Laura Stiles’ story.

With their sharp engineering minds, Laura Stiles and her two sisters have been able to deal with their mother's unfortunate choice in husband until they discovered his plans to marry each of them off to his lecherous friends. Now they must run away—far and fast--to find better matches to legally claim their portion of their father's lumber dynasty and seize control from their stepfather.
During their escape, Laura befriends a mission group heading to serve the poor in California. She quickly volunteers herself and her sisters to join their efforts. Despite the settlement being in miserable condition, the sisters are excited by the opportunity to put their skills to good use. Laura also sees potential in Caleb, the mission's parson, to help with gaining her inheritance. But when secrets buried in Caleb's past and in the land around them come to light, it'll take all the smarts the sisters have to keep trouble at bay.

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Thank you, Mary, for sharing this new book with me and my blog readers. You know I always love your novels.

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