Author Bio:
Julie Lessman is an award-winning author whose tagline of “Passion With a Purpose” underscores her intense passion for both God and romance. A lover of all things Irish, she enjoys writing close-knit Irish family sagas that evolve into 3-D love stories: the hero, the heroine, and the God that brings them together.
Author of The Daughters of Boston, Winds of Change, Heart of San Francisco, Isle of Hope, and Silver Lining Ranch series, Julie was American Christian Fiction Writers 2009 Debut Author of the Year and has garnered over 21 Romance Writers of America and other awards. Voted #1 Romance Author in Family Fiction magazine’s 2012 and 2011 Readers Choice Awards, Julie’s novels also made Family Fiction magazine’s Best of 2015, Best of 2014, and “Essential Christian Romance Authors” 2017-20, as well as Booklist’s 2010 Top 10 Inspirational Fiction and Borders Best Fiction. Her independent novel A Light in the Window was an International Digital Awards winner, a 2013 Readers' Crown Award winner, and a 2013 Book Buyers Best Award winner.
Julie has also written a self-help workbook for writers entitled Romance-ology 101: Writing Romantic Tension for the Sweet and Inspirational Markets. Contact Julie through her website and read excerpts from each of her books at www.julielessman.com.
Julie Lessman
“Passion with a Purpose"
Daughters of Boston Series
A Passion Most Pure--ACFW Debut Book of the Year, Holt Medallion Merit
A Passion Redeemed--Inspirational Reader’s Choice Finalist
A Passion Denied--Borders Best: Your Favorite Fiction
Winds of Change Series
A Hope Undaunted--Booklist's Top 10 Inspirational Fiction 2010
Family Fiction magazine 2011 and 2012 Readers Choice Awards
#1 Romance Author of the Year
Heart of San Francisco Series
Surprised by Love--Family Fiction magazine Top Ten Novels of 2014
A Light in the Window
2013 International Digital Award
2013 Readers' Crown Award
2013 Book Buyers Best Award
Isle of Hope Series
Isle of Hope: Unfailing Love--Family Fiction magazine’s Best of 2015
Family Fiction’s “Essential Christian Romance Authors" 2017
A Wing and a Prayer
A Wing and a Prayer Back Cover Blurb
A Wing and a Prayer is Julie's 8th novel in her continuing Irish family saga about the close-knit O’Connor clan from The Daughters of Boston and Winds of Change series, kicking off a new stand-alone series about the O’Connor Cousins during WW2. Here’s the jacket blurb:
She’s dead-set on giving everything to the war overseas …
Even if it means losing everything in a war of the heart.
A street orphan abused and abandoned by an alcoholic father at age five, Gabriella (Gabe) O’Connor has never let a man stand in her way yet. So when a handsome flight officer thwarts her plans to become a Women Airforce Service Pilot, she’s determined to join the war effort anyway she can. Her chance comes when she “borrows” foreign correspondent credentials from the Boston Herald—where her father is the editor—to stow away on a medical ship to the front.
Lieutenant Reece Kincaid pegs Gabe O’Connor as trouble the moment she steps foot on Avenger Field as a WASP cadet. As the eldest brother of a boy whose jaw Gabe broke in grade school, Reece is familiar with her reputation as both a charismatic ringleader and a headstrong hooligan who’s challenged every male and nun from grade school to college. As her WASP flight instructor, Reece eventually expels Gabe when she pulls a dangerous stunt. But when he is an evacuation pilot in France eight months later, their lives intertwine once again, exposing them to a danger as perilous as the German tanks roaming the Reichswald Forest: a love that neither expects.
A WING AND A PRAYER TRAILER/VIDEO: https://bit.ly/2Vg0qGr
A WING AND A PRAYER BUY LINK: https://amzn.to/2RR0Cud
ENDORSEMENTS:
“A Wing and a Prayer is set against a thrilling stretch of time. Two characters at odds with each other … with an attraction so powerful it can't be resisted, though they certainly try.” —Mary Connealy, award-winning author of Brides of Hope Mountain Series
“A Wing and a Prayer isn't just a great novel, it's an epic story that follows star-crossed lovers through the dangerous times of World War II” — MaryLu Tyndall, award-winning author of Legacy of the King's Pirates.
“Julie Lessman is a masterful author. A Wing And A Prayer … is a powerful Christian historical novel that explores love and trust in God in times of war.” –The Christian Bookaholic
A Wing and a Prayer is a well-researched, captivating glimpse into life during World War 2 ... a fun but meaningful romance from the Kissing Queen herself, A Wing and a Prayer is a must-read for fans of Sundin, Breslin, and Gohlke! –Reading is my SuperPower Blog
Love's Silver Bullet
Love's Silver Bullet Back Cover Blurb
Love’s Silver Bullet is book 3 in is Julie's Silver Lining Ranch series, which are historical western novels in the lighter vein of Mary Connealy, Karen Witemeyer, and Margaret Brownley. Set in Virginia City, Nevada from 1860-1880s on the heels of the Transcontinental Railroad and the Comstock Lode era, Love’s Silver Bullet continues the “Bonanza” style family saga of the O’Shea and McShane families in which suffragist heroines butt heads and hearts with stubborn cowboy heroes during a time when women didn’t yet have the right to vote. Here’s the jacket blurb:
She’s targeting his love. He’s aiming to steer clear.
Till true love picks them off in a bull’s-eye of the heart.
Eighteen-year-old Sheridan Donovan has been in love with Jake Sullivan since the age of four, when she used to tag after him and her big brothers on the Silver Lining Ranch. From little on, Jake has been her hero, convincing her brothers to play school and wedding with her whenever she’d begged and cried. From horsey rides and tickle fests to his sweet willingness to be her pretend groom, Jake’s gentleness and affection had nurtured two dreams in Sheridan’s heart—becoming both a teacher and Mrs. Jake Sullivan. Preferably not in that order.
At the age of thirty, Jake figures he pretty much has everything he needs at the moment. A good job as the Assistant Foreman for Silver Lining Ranch, great friends in Blaze and Dash Donovan, and a true mentor in their uncle and owner of the ranch, Finn McShane, the man who’d given him a family to replace the one he lost. But when Finn’s niece, Sheridan—Blaze’s and Dash’s little sister to whom Jake became a big brother as well—turns eighteen, Jake discovers there’s one more thing he needs: distance and lots of it. From pinafores and bows at age six to overalls and dirt till age fifteen, the grown-up Sheridan looks nothing like the little girl who’d once been his constant shadow, now transformed into a young woman who races his heart. Painfully aware that Sheridan is determined to win his love, Jake is equally determined to keep a promise to her uncle, a promise that not only shoots a hole in his well-ordered life, but in his heart as well.
LOVE’S SILVER BULLET TRAILER/VIDEO: https://bit.ly/2XA7VYC
LOVE’S SILVER BULLET BUY LINK: https://amzn.to/2TGE3JQ
ENDORSEMENTS:
“I have loved Julie Lessman's writing for years, but I can't believe how great she writes cowboys. I love westerns and reading Julie's version is pure fun.” —Mary Connealy, award-winning author of Brides of Hope Mountain Series
“JULIE LESSMAN + WESTERN ROMANCE = GOLD RUSH! You heard it here, folks. I think Julie Lessman was created to write westerns." —Reading is my SuperPower Blog
“Whoa, Whoa, Whoa! If you think sparks were flying between characters in Julie Lessman's Daughters of Boston novels, then you have GOT to get a load of her new Silver Lining Ranch” novels.” —My Favorite Pastime Blog
Friends, I sure hope you enjoyed getting to know Julie Lessman and A Wing and a Prayer and Love's Silver Bullet. Julie is giving away an e-copy of A Wing and a Prayer or Love's Silver Bullet to 3 lucky winners! Winners will be selected Saturday night. Leave your comment and include your name and email address to be entered in the contest.
Below are links to buy A Wing and a Prayer and Love's Silver Bullet and to connect with Julie Lessman:
A Wing and a Prayer: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0848L5XLZ/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=a+wing+and+prayer+lessman&qid=1580223365&s=digital-text&sr=1-1
Love’s Silver Bullet: https://www.amazon.com/Loves-Silver-Bullet-Lining-Ranch-ebook/dp/B083G9SKMW/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2HU4RGOAE2QH2&keywords=love%27s+silver+bullet&qid=1580223451&s=digital-text&sprefix=LOVE%27S+SILVER+%2Cdigital-text%2C172&sr=1-1
Connect with Julie: www.julielessman.com
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