{"id":19443,"date":"2015-10-05T21:13:45","date_gmt":"2015-10-06T02:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/?p=19443"},"modified":"2015-10-05T21:13:45","modified_gmt":"2015-10-06T02:13:45","slug":"firefly-summer-by-kathleen-ybarbo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/?p=19443","title":{"rendered":"Firefly Summer by Kathleen Y’Barbo"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This week, the<\/span><\/center>
Christian Fiction Blog Alliance<\/span><\/a><\/center>
is introducing<\/span><\/center>
Firefly Summer<\/a><\/span><\/center>
Redbud Press (June 23, 2015)<\/center>
by<\/center>
Kathleen Y’Barbo<\/a><\/span><\/center>ABOUT THE AUTHOR:<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n
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RITA and Carol award nominee Kathleen Y\u2019Barbo is the best-selling, award-winning author of more than forty novels, novellas, and young adult books. In all, more than one million copies of her books are currently in print in the US and abroad, and her books have been translated into Dutch, German, and Spanish, to name a few.<\/p>\n

Kathleen is a member of American Christian Fiction Writers and Romance Writers of America. She holds a BBA from Texas A&M University\u2019s Mays Business School and a certification in Paralegal Studies, and is a former member of the Texas Bar Association\u2019s Paralegal Division.<\/p>\n

A tenth-generation Texan, Kathleen Y\u2019Barbo has four children of her own as well as seven bonus kids she gladly inherited when she married her own hero in combat boots (read about their real-life romance here<\/a>!). Kathleen is proud to be a military wife, even if it did mean giving up her Texas drivers license.<\/p>\n

Learn more about Kathleen and her books on her Website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

ABOUT THE BOOK:<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

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A new cowboy romance from award-winning author Kathleen Y’Barbo.<\/p>\n

Trey\u2019s biggest challenge isn\u2019t performing surgery\u2026it\u2019s restoring Sessa\u2019s heart!<\/p>\n

Artist Sessa Chambers may never recover from losing her prodigal son. Even as she grieves the tragic decisions that led to his death, and left her with a toddler to raise, she\u2019s asked to work on her dream project\u2014restoring carousel horses for the Smithsonian. But she can\u2019t do it on her own\u2026<\/p>\n

Dr. Trey Brown can\u2019t pick up a scalpel again. Yes, he acted in self-defense, but the events of that awful night haunt him. He was trained to save lives, not take them. When he goes to the young man\u2019s widowed mother to apologize, she\u2019s not at all what he expected. For one thing, she\u2019s not as alone as he thought\u2014not with the fearsome ladies of the Pies, Books, and Jesus Book Club in her corner. For another, she\u2019s beautiful, and being in her presence is more jolting than any eight-second bronco ride from his former rodeo days. Before he knows it, she\u2019s captured his heart as easily as they capture the fireflies gracing Sessa\u2019s Texas ranch.<\/p>\n

How can they overcome their past to embrace a future together?<\/p>\n

If you would like to read the first chapter of Firefly Summer<\/a>, go HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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MY REVIEW:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Because I have enjoyed other novels by Kathleen Y’Barbo so much, I purchased an ebook copy when “Firefly Summer” was first available. I liked it so much that I was thrilled when offered a paperback for review. This book is a keeper and I am so happy to have a copy for my book shelves.<\/p>\n

“Firefly Summer” is a contemporary romance with a Texas setting (one of my favorites) but this book is about so much more than just romance. A story about a woman who has suffered so much pain and loss in her life, this book deals with some difficult situations that would try most people’s faith. What happens when the past collides with the present and what does a woman do when she falls in love with the man responsible for her son’s death?<\/p>\n

Strong characters inhabit the pages of “Firefly Summer” and the story is one that stayed with me for awhile. Both poignant and hopeful, it is a story of love and forgiveness for self as well as for others. I cannot recommend this novel enough. The gorgeous cover is just a taste of the wonders inside.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This week, theChristian Fiction Blog Allianceis introducingFirefly SummerRedbud Press (June 23, 2015)byKathleen Y’BarboABOUT THE AUTHOR: RITA and Carol award nominee Kathleen Y\u2019Barbo is the best-selling, award-winning author of more than forty novels, novellas, and young adult books. In all, more than one million copies of her books are currently in print in the US and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,60,41,106,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-contemporary-fiction","category-romance","category-texas","category-western"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19443"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19443"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19446,"href":"https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19443\/revisions\/19446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}