ABOUT THE BOOK

After her father’s death, Lizzy Brookstone, a trick rider in the all-female Brookstone Wild West Extravaganza, wants nothing more than to quit her role as the star of the show and live a quiet life on her family’s ranch. But returning home would bring Wesley DeShazer, the ranch’s foreman and the man who broke her heart, back into her life. In addition, the Brookstones’ new manager fears that Lizzy’s departure could doom the already cash-strapped show.

Hope grows in Lizzy during a stopover at Fleming Farm. Ella Fleming not only has a natural talent for trick riding and could easily replace Lizzy, but she’s eager to join the show to flee a forced betrothal. However, while there, one of the show’s wranglers is killed in a manner Lizzy finds suspicious. And during her escape from the farm, Ella stumbles across a secret that could affect all of their lives, as well as the future of the Brookstone Extravaganza.

Book: When You Are Near Author: Tracie Peterson

Genre: Christian Historical Romance. Release Date: March 5, 2018

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MY BOOK REVIEW:

Tracie Paterson takes you back to the Wild West in the 1900s and shows us what friendship and love looks like. After Lizzy's, 28-year-old, father passed away, she and her mother promised him they would keep running the Brookstone WIld West Extravaganza for the rest of the year. She finds out her father's brother, Oliver Brookstone mismanaged the finances and sold the show to Henry Adler. Henry hires his son, Jason, to help with the show. Jason finds himself attracted to Lizzy, but Lizzy is in love with Wesley Dashazer who is twice her age. Recently, Wesley's wife passed away making Lizzy think she can win his heart. Ella Fleming turns to Lizzy for help. She ran away from her father because he wants her to marry Jefferson Spiby. He has a reputation of being a womanizer and abusive. Mary Reichert arrives back at the Brookstone Wild West show in hopes of finding the answers on who killed her brother, August.
Lizzy, Ella and Mary become close friends.
Wil Lizzy's get her crush and be able to love again?
Will Ella end up not having to marry Jefferson?
Will Mary find the answers on the death of her father?

Peterson created a wonderful faith-filled story of life. She didn't make it preachy. Every page is a page-turner and rich historical detail. All of the rich details Peterson wrote allowed me to easily escape into Lizzy's life. You can see she did her research on the wild west, trick riding, traveling shows, the 1900s and what women had to go through at that time. This book contains many plot twists.Some of them surprised me. "When You Are Near" contains many topics one of them being the fear of losing someone or something you love and loyalty to friendships. This book contains a mixture of people and very smart women. These characters are relatable. I would highly recommend reading this book. I enjoyed all the characters, even the ones I disliked (bad guy).

I can see this book being made into a Hallmark book mini-series. This book would be a great book for a faith-based book club.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Tracie Peterson (www.traciepeterson.com) is the bestselling, award-winning author of more than 100 novels. Tracie also teaches writing workshops at a variety of conferences on subjects such as inspirational romance and historical research. She and her family live in Montana.

GUEST POST FROM TRACIE

Introducing…When You Are Near!

I’m excited about the new Brookstone Brides series and had so much fun researching for the various characters and locations. This is a story about a fictional Wild West show with all female performers. Prior to the rodeos we see today, the Wild West shows traveled throughout America and Europe to entertain people and give city dwellers a taste of what the American frontier was like. At least their version.

Buffalo Bill Cody was famous for his shows, which brought Native Americans and their culture into the world of people who might otherwise never have even seen an “Indian.” Pawnee Bill was another entertainer who sought to keep these shows alive.

For the fictional show in my novels, I wanted to focus on three female characters who became a part of the Brookstone Wild West Extravaganza for varying reasons. Lizzy Brookstone is the heroine in book one, When You Are Near, and as the daughter of one of the show’s owners, she has enjoyed a starring role as a trick rider.

For research, I went to Pueblo, Colorado to the ranch of Karen Vold, a famous trick rider and rodeo star. Linda Scholtz, a famed trick rider, was teaching a clinic there along with Karen at the Red Top Ranch Trick riding School.

These are two remarkable Christian trick riders who have long worked to keep the sport alive. I spent three days getting to know them and what they do and learned so much. And just to prove that we weren’t all work and no play, I thought I’d share my attempt at trick riding. What I won’t do for research!

The series will have three books, as usual, and each book will focus on a different lady and her skills. Mary is a trick shooter like Annie Oakley, and Ella is a Roman rider who stands on the backs of two horses for her part in the act. It was so interesting learning about each of these types of performers, and I hope you’ll get a chance to read all three and enjoy the stories of the Brookstone Wild West Extravaganza.

GIVEAWAY

To celebrate her tour, Tracie is giving away a grand prize of When You Are Near, Tracie’s

A $25 Barnes and Noble Gift card, and the three books in The Heart of Alaska series and three other winners will receive a copy of When You Are Near!!

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