A MUST Read!

I am very excited about today's blog. One late evening early this week I was floating around in the swimming pool when I decided to just check Facebook on my phone. I had one new friend request from a woman named Jean Beatty, and I thought "Who is this? Do I know this person?" She had sent me a message stating that she was a new author, and had just recently published her second book. She had seen the authors and books I had listed among my favorites, and wanted to know if it would be too presumptuous of her to ask me to read her new book. Being the voracious book worm I am, I thought "Why not? If I don't like it, then it won't be a big deal, but you never know."

I have since communicated with Jean several times, and I asked for permission to write about her book on my blog. It is called Stoney Beck, by Jean Houghton-Beatty and you can purchase it on http://www.amazon.com/ in paperback or have it sent to your Kindle (if you have one) in a matter of minutes. I don't want to give anything about it away, but I will share with you the product description from amazon.

"When Jenny Robinson's father dies of Huntington's disease, she tells her mother she will never marry out of fear that she might have inherited the disease. Jenny's mother, filled with grief over her husband's death and guilt over secrets she never told her daughter, dies from an overdose of prescription pills. She leaves an unfinished note along with a snapshot of Jenny's biological father, a man she met in England's Lake District-that secret alone neither Jenny nor anyone in her family could have guessed. Jenny is led irresistibly from Charlotte, North Carolina to Stoney Beck, a village in Northwest England. In Stoney Beck, Jenny rents a cottage on the grounds of the Hare and Hounds Inn, the same cottage that her mother occupied when Jenny was conceived. On her first day, Jenny meets Biddy Biggerstaff who threatens to drive her away, saying that she knows who Jenny is, why she has come, and has even seen her photograph.Unforeseen connections leading to mortal danger-and romance- await Jenny in the quiet village of Stoney Beck."

The author Jean is from Liverpool England, but she now lives in Charlotte, North Carolina with her American husband. The book is one of the best I've picked up in a long time! Once you start reading it you won't want to put it down! I totally believe she has the potential to be as "big" as LaVyrle Spencer, Nicholas Sparks, or Rosamunde Pilcher. Her writing style will hook you in, and you won't want it to end! She is going to send me a copy of her first book Different Drummers. I can hardly wait to get my hands on it! It is currently out of print, but they will be printing more soon, and I'll be sure to let you know when it becomes available! :)