You've seen Faith Blum on my blog before, and here she is again! :) I was privileged to read The Solid Rock as a beta reader and it sure is full of excitement! Do you want to see the cover? Oh wait...you must gather all fifteen clues first!
About the Book
Joshua woke with a quiet groan. As his senses woke up one at a time, he cracked his eyelids open. Sure enough, there was a silhouetted form standing at the foot of the bed. From the smell, the person was either from the brothel down the street or had recently left one.He forced himself to breathe evenly and reached for the knife in his thigh holster. With as tough and evil a voice as he could imitate, he spoke, “State your intentions.”
Pinkerton detective, Joshua Brookings, is sent on a job that seems simple on the surface. His fellow detective has been kidnapped and his boss, William Pinkerton senses foul play. Joshua is sent to investigate Edward's case in hopes of finding the kidnapped detective and helping solve the case that has taken over ten years to investigate.
Arriving in Cheyenne, Joshua finds much more than a simple kidnapping. Yet again, he must go undercover, something he made his boss promise never to make him do again. The only Christian in the outlaw group, Joshua falters and almost loses faith in God’s providence. Will he stand on the solid Rock or drown in the sinking sand?
About the Author
Faith Blum started writing at an early age. She started even before she could read! She even thought she could write better than Dr. Seuss. (The picture doesn't show it well, but there are scribblings on the page of Green Eggs and Ham). Now that she's grown up a little more, she knows she will probably never reach the success of Dr. Seuss, but that doesn't stop her from trying.
When she isn't writing,
Faith enjoys doing many right-brained activities such as reading, crafting,
writing, playing piano, and playing games with her family. One of her dreams is
to visit Castle City, Montana someday to see the ghost town she chose for her
characters to live in. She currently lives on a hobby farm with her family in
Wisconsin.
Clues
In order to gain access
to the blog
page that has the full cover on it, you need to hop over to the __ other
blogs to gather the clues. Each blogger will have a clue number and one
character of the clue. Each clue is either a number, letter, or symbol. What
you need to do is gather the clues and put them in the correct order. Once this
is done, type in the password (no spaces) on the protected page (found here) and
you will find the full cover in all its glory.Here's clue #14
Visit these other blogs to get the other clues! While you’re on each blog, be sure to read the excerpts and I’m sure each blogger would appreciate a comment. Happy sleuthing!
Giveaway
All the books in the giveaway are either Christian, Mystery, or Western. I have not read all of them, so I cannot vouch for what they are like inside. There will only be one winner (sorry), and since they are all ebooks, we can open the giveaway up internationally as well! Here is the list of the ebooks. To find out more about each book, please click on the title and read the Amazon description.Enter Giveaway: https://www.rafflecopter.com/rafl/display/991224809/
Dangerous Illusions by Barb Goss
A Box of Dreams by James
DiBenedetto
Heartfelt Cases by Julie C.
Gilbert
Pride and Butterflies by
Franky A. Brown
Guardian (Guardian Trilogy #1)
by Robin Helm
SoulFire (Guardian Trilogy #1)
by Robin Helm
Legacy (Guardian Trilogy #1) by
Robin Helm
Finding Hope by Elizabeth Diaz
Lily of the Valley by Faith Blum
Life and Salvation by Faith
Blum
Special
Me: What lesson do you most hope and pray readers will be able to learn from "The Solid Rock?"
Special
To celebrate the cover reveal, Faith also has
the third book in her series on sale! It will be $0.99 through 11am tomorrow and
then will go up to $1.99 until Monday evening
when it will be back at full price. Here's a short description of Amazing
Grace: A doubting man agrees to wed a widowed
mail-order bride, but he struggles with whether or not he can be a father to
the woman's daughter who desperately wants a father's love.
You can purchase
this book here: getBook.at/AmazingGrace.
Interview
Me: How long have you known that "The Solid
Rock" would be a part of the Hymns of the West series?
Faith: This is a great question! I
haven’t always know the title or the exact plot of The Solid Rock, but the first inklings of the idea came when one of
my beta-readers for A Mighty Fortress
asked if there would be a sequel. My immediate response was, “I wasn’t planning
on one.” But then my brain started working and I came up with an idea that
Joshua, the main character in both books, becomes a Pinkerton detective and
solves some sort of crime. Then I got ideas for the other three books and the
timeline worked best to put this book off for last.
Me: What lesson do you most hope and pray readers will be able to learn from "The Solid Rock?"
Faith: No matter what is happening
in your life, or how far away God seems, God is always with you and will always
be there for you to lean on if you’ll just let Him be your rock and foundation.
Faith: It’s kind of nice and kind of
strange at the same time. I’m sad to leave the characters, but I’m also excited
about the next series I’m working on. And since the next series will have some
of the characters from the Hymns of the West series, I’m not completely leaving
them behind. I’m looking forward to where God leads me next.
My brothers and I went on a kick of reading a lot of Tom Swift and the Boxcar Children when we were younger. I don't read a whole lot of them now though. Do those count as mystery? :)
ReplyDeleteHow exciting!! :) I love giveaways. I think my favorite mystery reads would be one of Dee Henderson's!
ReplyDelete@ Salinn - hadn't heard of Tom Swift, but yes, my cousin had a ton of Boxcar Children books and I enjoyed reading those when I was younger. :)
ReplyDelete@ Olivia - I'm there with ya on the giveaways! :D Haven't read Dee Henderson yet, though I've seen her name around. I'm going to eventually get reading more diverse authors. ;)
I love a good mystery book. One of my new favorites is The Inn at Ocean's Edge by Colleen Coble.
ReplyDeleteLooks like a good book They all do Thanks for sponsoring in the blog hop and the chance to win
ReplyDelete@ LeAnna - another author I've not read yet. :)
ReplyDelete@ Linda - I've had the opportunity to beta read "The Solid Rock" and really enjoyed it. :)