Welcome to the Blog Tour for I’ll Be Home by Sara Davison, Darlene L. Turner, Helena Smrcek, and Melanie Stevenson, hosted by JustRead Publicity Tours!

About the Book I’ll Be Home

Title: I’ll Be Home
Authors: Sara Davison, Darlene L. Turner, Helena Smrcek, & Melanie Stevenson
Publisher: Independent (Fab Four Press)
Release Date: October 29, 2024
Genre: Contemporary Christmas anthology

With chaos and confusion all around them, can they find their way home this Christmas?

The people in these four stories are all searching for something—an escaped convict, a job promotion from a love interest, connection to a lost parent, or answers across time.

Christmas should be a time of wonder and celebration, but the obstacles each faces seem insurmountable. Even, at times, life-threatening.

Perhaps they will find what they are seeking during this season of miracles and hope. Or maybe, with God’s help, they will discover that the longing of their hearts takes them to places—and people—they didn’t even know they’d been searching for.

I’ll Be Home is a collection of four stories of faith, hope, love, (and trains) that will warm your heart, encourage your soul, and draw you home this Christmas.

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About the Authors of I’ll Be Home

Sara Davison

Sara Davison is the author of The Night Guardians, The Rose Tattoo, Two Sparrows for a Penny, and In the Shadows series, as well as the standalone, The Watcher. A finalist for more than a dozen national writing awards, including the Christy Award, Davison is a Holt Medallion, Cascade, and two-time Carol Award winner for romantic suspense. She lives in Ontario with her husband, Michael. Like every good Canadian, she loves coffee, hockey, poutine, and apologizing for no particular reason.

Connect with Sara by visiting saradavison.org to follow her on social media or subscribe to email newsletter updates.

Darlene L Turner

Darlene L. Turner is an award-winning and Publishers Weekly best-selling author and lives with her husband, Jeff in Ontario, Canada. Her love of suspense began when she read her first Nancy Drew book. She’s turned that passion into her writing and believes readers will be captured by her plots, inspired by her strong characters, and moved by her inspirational message.

Connect with Darlene by visiting darlenelturner.com to follow her on social media or subscribe to email newsletter updates.

Helena Smrcek

Helena Smrcek is an award-winning author, screenwriter, public speaker and writing coach. She is known for her thrilling and heartwarming stories. Her career began as a high school freelancer, leading to three decades in publishing. She co-founded Write!Canada and The Word Guild and has graduated from multiple writing programs.

Connect with Helena by visiting helenasmrcek.com to follow her on social media or subscribe to email newsletter updates.

Melanie Stevenson

Melanie Stevenson is an award-winning author and lives in Ontario, Canada, surrounded by her husband and four children. She attended the University of Waterloo and obtained her Bachelor of Fine Arts. Melanie’s first book, One More Tomorrow, was shortlisted in the Word Alive Press publishing contest out of over two hundred entries across North America and was published in 2019. In 2020, she won Best Romantic Fiction for One More Tomorrow and Best New Canadian Author at The Word Awards—Canada’s top Christian literary awards. Her mission is to create stories of excellence that impact hearts and lives. Paper, canvas, and dirt are her favourite blank pages.

Connect with Melanie by visiting melaniestevenson.com to follow her on social media or subscribe to email newsletter updates.

My Thoughts on I’ll Be Home

I love these types of books!  Where you get to read from more than one author and check in on characters that maybe you met in another book before and wanted to know more about. 

I’ll Be Home is a wonderful compilation of novellas by four different authors but they all are connected by the theme of home for Christmas.  Let’s be honest.  Most people want to be home for Christmas.  Whether that is a physical home like the one they grew up in or a home as in being with people that make you feel like you’ve come home. 

The stories in this novella are sweet. 

They’re clean fiction, they’re Christian fiction, and they’re romantic fiction.  I will say that the novella by Sara Davison does follow her path of some hard topics but handled super well so you almost don’t know they’re there.  She’s one of my favourite authors and her name on this novel made it a must-read for me.

Darlene Turner is a favourite suspense novelist of mine so of course I knew this book with both of them was going to be amazing!!  Her contribution definitely has the suspense thrown in there and it read super fast because I could not put it down.

I loved the story of the WWII nurse which was a split time with a real estate agent of today.  Those types of novels always get me.  Partly because I love historical fiction novels, and partly because WWII is one of my favourite time periods.  

The last novella was about a girl who wanted to impress her boss so she volunteered to give a presentation in French.  She hasn’t spoken French in like ten years so that’s a bit ambitious of her.  She wants to impress him for a promotion but also she really wants to date him.  Dating in the workplace is normally frowned upon.  But later on, she meets another guy too.  

It’s a good little novella but I would say my least favorite because it is strictly a romance novella.  And I was into all of the suspense and mystery of the other three.  

I have voluntarily reviewed a complimentary copy of this book which I received from JustRead Publicity Tours. All views expressed are only my honest opinion. I was not required to write a positive review nor was I compensated in any other way. All opinions expressed are my own. I am disclosing this in accordance with the FTC regulations.

Tour Giveaway for I’ll Be Home

(1) winner will receive a $25 Amazon card plus a paperback copy of I’ll Be Home!

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The giveaway begins at midnight on October 29, 2024, and will last through 11:59 PM EST on November 5, 2024.

Winners will be notified within 2 weeks of the close of the giveaway and given 48 hours to respond or risk forfeiture of the prize.

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