Thief of Glory Sigmund Brouwer Published by WaterBrook Press 0307446492 (ISBN13: 9780307446497) …A boy coming of age in a time of war …the love that inspires him to survive In the early 1940s, Jeremiah Prins was a 12-year-old living a content life as the son of a school headmaster in the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia). When Holland declared war on the Japanese in 1941, the situation changed swiftly. The Japanese army invaded, and Jeremiah and his family were placed in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp-a camp Jeremiah takes on the responsibility of caring for his younger siblings when his father and…

My Inspiration for Writing Middle South I have always loved to escape into a book. I still make time to read every night before I go to bed. Right before I started writing Middle South, I was reading a lot of funny women’s fiction and the movie version of Bridget Jones’ Diary had just come out. I thought, I can do that too! I had the novel brewing in my head for a while. One morning, sitting on my bed in my parents’, I opened up my computer and started writing. I was in graduate school, and I was annoyed…

Former marketing whiz Kennedy Lowell knows bar-tending isn’t her destiny. After derailing her life to epic proportions in one fell swoop, though, she’s content with the easy refuge of pouring drinks and keeping to herself. But the arrival of her sexy new boss and two wannabe friends who won’t take no for an answer throws Kennedy into a tailspin. Add the temptation of a homey new bakery desperately in need of a marketing genius and Kennedy begins to wonder if easy is all it’s cracked up to be. Easy is Hunter Clayborne’s middle name. Uncomplicated is what he expects when…