Let’s Catch Up
So much and so little time. Now that the world has begun to open its doors once again, so I have begun to reopen my life. Like so many of you out there who are slowly getting back into a routine.
Mine has started with getting back to keeping this blog and my newsletter up to date. Both fell to neglect since the passing of my heart’s love in 2018. After three years, I finally feel like I can rejoin my writing life once again.
In 2019 I finished the second of Widows of Blessings Valley series, Vera. It was published in January of 2020, and there are five more books in the series to go. I just need a break from these grieving widows.
I am also involved in the contemporary Christmas at the Inn series that will be available at Christmas 2022. Gingerbread Inn with be all about “second chapters” for the hero and heroine. More on that at a later date.
I am not planning too far ahead. But I do know that I will want to write the third book in the Men of the Double K series, Game of Chance for publication in 2022. And then hopefully back to the next book in the Widows of Blessings Valley series, Stella.
For now, I have started the second book in the Men of the Double K series, Winds of Change. It should be available late summer/early fall. This story is about the youngest of the Kennedy brothers.
A wonderful blessing came on New Year’s Eve when I became a great-grandmother! My darling great-granddaughter is growing like a weed, and she has the absolute best mommy and daddy. Check out my latest newsletter for a picture of Miss Addison.
A sad note was that last summer (2020) I lost my dog, Missy, to cancer. She was never quite the same after my husband’s passing and looked for him every day at the back gate. I know that she is now running beside him. I also lost my beloved mother-in-law during the COVID lockdown.
On the flip side, I gained a wonderful, it not sometimes needy, kitten shortly before Missy’s passing. Simon is two years old this September and loves to assist me whenever he can. Meaning when I let him up on the desk. Also, Red River Crossing, Book 1 of Men of the Double K series, was the 2019 IDA Winner in the Historical Short category.
That’s about it for now. Watch for posts in the future.
Thank you for your support, you are deeply appreciated.
Have a safe and fun summer!
Hugs,
Maxine
When Cordell Kennedy’s young wife dies, his life falls apart and he leans on family members to care for his daughter and maintain his focus on running the Double K Ranch. After a year of juggling fatherhood and work, he believes the time has finally come for him to hire a woman to care for his daughter and his home. Before he can enlist the help of his family to find an older, grandmotherly-type woman, he learns his family has already solved the matter for him when a beautiful young nanny unexpectedly shows up at his front door.
Mollie Sheffield has
lived most of her childhood in a New York City orphanage until the age of fourteen
when the Brown family secured her services to act as a companion to their
invalid daughter. When her charge passes, the Browns allow her some time to
find another position. Even though she would much rather stay in New York, it
becomes apparent that her time has run out and she reluctantly accepts an offer
to travel to Texas to care for a widower and his young daughter.
Now that Cordell and Mollie have been thrown together by the Kennedy clan, can Mollie fulfill her desire to become a mother and wife when she falls in love with a man who doesn’t believe he can share his heart again? And can Cord see past his pain to find the love in Mollie’s heart?
Vera
A late morning mining accident casts a gloom over the town of Blessings Valley. Over twenty souls were lost in an excavating explosion that has left several widows, friends and townspeople mourning. The explosion occurred as the miners were coming out for lunch. A rescue force was sent out immediately to recover the bodies. Services are currently being arranged. Pray for these lost souls and their families.
Recently widowed, laundress Vera Baldwin is pregnant and terrified of how she will provide for her unborn child. She has no family to turn to, neither her’s nor her late husband’s.
Assigned to investigate the mining accident that killed several men in Blessings Valley, undercover agent, Jack Daniels is torn between duty and family when he learns Vera Baldwin is carrying his estranged brother’s child.
Can two strangers with broken hearts find love for the sake of an unborn child?
Here continues the stories of Elizabeth, Vera, Stella, Fannie, Vivian, Charlotte, Violet, and Willa herself, they are the Widows of Blessings Valley.
