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Chautona Havig

Chautona Havig

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Meet the Characters

Grace Busher –  (Sister to Craig and Melanie)You’ll find her in Oh, Gracious!, Thirty Days Hath…, and Introductions.

Nolan Burke-  (Grace’s Neighbor)You’ll find him in Oh, Gracious!, Manuscript for Murder, and Introductions.

Paige Matthews-  (Grace’s best friend) You’ll find her in Oh, Gracious!, and None So Blind.

Chuck Majors- (Foot-in-his-mouth buffoon that shows up randomly for comic relief) You’ll find him in Oh, Gracious!, Discovering Hope, Introductions, Speak Now (mentioned in passing), and Past Forward

Hope Senior – (Friend of Matt Rushby) You’ll find her in Discovering Hope, Captured!, Past Forward, and Argosy Junction

Sanjay Brown- You’ll find him in Discovering Hope and Past Forward

Bentley Girard–  Blessing Bentley, Thirty Days Hath…, Past Forward, Tarnished Silver, Tempting Tait, and Charming Chloe (not in print).

Chad Tesdall-  (Cousin of Luke, nephew to Olivia/Libby Sullivan and Zeke Sullivan and officer in Fairbury) You’ll find him in Discovering Hope, For Keeps, and Past Forward

Aggie Milliken-  (Aunt to the “clan” and friend of William and Tina) You’ll find her in Ready or Not, For Keeps, Here We Come, Not a Word, and Past Forward

Luke Sullivan-  (Cousin to Chad and friend to Mac—Nephew to Zeke) You’ll find him in Not a Word, Ready or Not, For Keeps, Here We Come, and Past Forward.

Zeke Sullivan-  (Uncle to Chad, Luke, and Libby/Olivia) You’ll find him in Not a Word, Ready or Not, For Keeps, Here We Come, and Past Forward.

Olivia Sullivan- (Aunt to Chad, mother to Luke) You’ll find her in Ready or Not, For Keeps, Here We Come, and Past Forward

William Markenson- (Friend to Aggie and deputy to Brant’s Corners) You’ll find him in Ready or Not, For Keeps, Here We Come, and Dead Limb Walking.

Marcus Vaughn-  (Minister in Brant’s Corners) You’ll find him in Not a Word, Ready or Not, For Keeps, and Here We Come.

Willow Finley-  (“Wow” darling of Fairbury) You’ll find her in Past Forward, For Keeps, Here We Come, Thirty Days Hath…, Confessions of a De-Cluttering Junkie, and HearthLand.

Chief Varney-  (Chief of Police in Fairbury) You’ll find him in Manuscript for Murder, Crime of Fashion, Two O’clock Slump, A Man and a Mouse, Thirty Days Hath…, Eden’s Gate, Bentley, Past Forward, Mismatched, A Bird Died  and pretty much anything else that happens in Fairbury.

Darla Varney-  (Chief Varney’s Wife) You’ll find her in Manuscript for Murder, Past Forward, and Bentley

Tom and Lily Allen-  (Minister and his wife in Fairbury)  You’ll find them in Past Forward, Manuscript for Murder, Thirty Days Hath…, Bentley, and possibly Mismatched

Alexa Hartfield-  (Fairbury’s famous murder/suspense authoress) You’ll find her in Argosy Junction, Manuscript for Murder, Crime of Fashion, Two O’clock Slump, Thirty Days Hath…, Bentley, Past Forward, Mismatched, oh, and maybe Eden’s Gate.

Jordan (Joe) Freidan- (Fairbury’s favorite officer) You’ll find him in Manuscript for Murder, Crime of Fashion, Two O’clock Slump, Past Forward, Regression, Mismatched, Thirty Days Hath…, A Man or a Mouse,

Lane Argosy–  (Singer with her brother Tad, Lane still bears the scars of a cult on her soul) You’ll find her in Argosy Junction, Reluctant Shepherd, Past Forward, and Advent

Matt Rushby- (Inner city man) You’ll find him in Argosy Junction, Reluctant Shepherd, Advent, and Past Forward

Adric Garrison- (Fairbury’s newest and favorite mechanic) You’ll find him in Thirty Days Hath…, Mismatched, Past Forward, and Not a Word

Allison Wahl-  (One of “Adric’s girls”) Substitute teacher around the Loop) You’ll find her in Thirty Days Hath… and Mismatched

Christine Dawson- (One of “Adric’s Girls”) You’ll find her in Thirty Days Hath… and in her own book

Becca Jacobs- (One of “Adric’s girls”) You’ll find her in Thirty Days Hath… Past Forward, and HearthLand

Jael Higgenbotham- (Friend of Christine and Grace and one of “Adric’s Girls)  You’ll find her in Thirty Days Hath… and in Mismatched

Todd “Mac” Mackenzie-  (Loner and social outcast of Brant’s Corners) You’ll find him in Not a Word

Savannah Forrester- (Darling of Brant’s Corners)  You’ll find her in Not a Word

Cara Laas-  (Cousin to Hope’s best friend Kirky) You’ll find her in Speak Now, Two O’clock, Slump, Advent, and mentioned in Thirty Days Hath…

Lita Cathey- (Bright, young advertising agent) You’ll find her in Advent

Curtis Brighton- (Delta Advertising’s biggest Agent)  You’ll find him in Advent

Jonathan Lyman-  (Heir to the Delta Advertising Company)You’ll find him in Speak Now and Advent

Chessie Jorgensen- (Outspoken child lover) You’ll find her in 31 Kisses and “Boone’s Book”

Carson Holbrook–  (Dairyman’s son and athletic coach) You’ll find him in 31 Kisses and “Boone’s Book”

Boone Holbrook- (Carson Holbrook’s brother) Introduced in 31 Kisses, he’ll also be “starring” in his own novel eventually.

Erika Polowski- (Kidnapped by The Agency, friend of Keith) You’ll find her in Justified Means, Mismatched, and Effective Immediately—possibly A Forgotten Truth

Keith Auger- (Best agent in The Agency) You’ll find him in Justified Means, Mismatched, Effective Immediately and possibly A Forgotten Truth

Ralph Myner-  (Starter of a planned community) Past Forward and Hearthland

Charity Stafford-  (Runs Stafford House—boarding house.  Introduces guest to “her friends”) You’ll find her in Oh, Gracious!, Introductions, Argosy Junction, None So Blind

Daniella “Ella” Weeks- (Lost memory in unexplained event) You’ll find her in Past Forward (mentioned in passing) and in her own book, None So Blind (Book One of Sight Unseen) as well as Will Not See and Ties that Blind (Books Two and Three of Sight Unseen)

Todd Bryant –  Son of Bookends and Lil’ Darlin’s owners Karen and Dale Bryant

Audrey Seever-  Owner of the Confectionary.  You’ll find her in A Bird Died, Tarnished Silver, and HearthLand.

Zain Kadir- Audrey’s husband.  Appears in Tarnished Silver and HearthLand.

Kelly Cox-  Mother of Aiden, Nathan, and Anne Cox.  Wife of Jon Cox.  Main character in A Bird Died and in Tarnished Silver.

Jon Cox-  Father of Aiden, Nathan, and Anne Cox.  Husband of Kelly.  Appears in A Bird Died, Past Forward Volume 6, and Tarnished Silver.

The Homstad Family–  Kelly Cox’s family.  Also includes Keith, Dee, Lorena, Breanne, Lila, Drew, Jamie, and Logan.

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The Because Fiction Podcast

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Taking the pulse of Christian fiction

Episode 553: A Chat with Chris Underwood
byChautona Havig

A chilling read from Chris Underwood… literally. What happens if you’re in the Midwest in winter and the power goes out? Listen in as I chat with Chris Underwood about his Cold Winter series.

Content warning: While these books do have characters who are Christians and live their faith, the first book (not sure about the rest) does include a few instances of foul language in the first few chapters. I’m switching from audio to print to finish.

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Talking about all the research he did for this series was a blast. I loved hearing about his travels with the crew and the prepper side–everything.

The Cold Winter Grid-Down Series by Chris Underwood

The Cold Winter Series begins with a power grid failure at Niagara Falls three days before Christmas, as a snowstorm approaches.

Welcome to The Cold Winter. It follows a group of families in Central Ohio who want to help stranded motorists who end up on their porch. Even when doing the right thing doesn’t work out, they keep on trying. There is a sense of morality and faith as the emergency continues to worsen.

In the second book, they learn that the power outage is an attack on the nation, and join a civilian minuteman militia to fight back.

The third book of the series ramps up the action and features the first major battles of the minutemen militia. Since modern machinery cannot be trusted, vintage military equipment is utilized by the militia, such as a Huey Helicopter and a WWII Landing Ship, the LST-325.

This ship is an actual floating museum on the Ohio River and is used by this militia to go upstream to rescue a VIP and bring him to safety. River locks are liberated from the enemy, and a dramatic battle is staged on Wheeling Island, where the landing ship performs much as it did on D-Day in Normandy: Landing aground with troops and equipment pouring out the front for battle!

The fourth installment of the series introduces more vintage equipment, including a Cobra Attack Helicopter and a P-47 Thunderbolt, to fight modern naval ships in an effort to liberate the Niagara Falls power station from the enemy.

Even the WWII Destroyer, USS The Sullivans, in its current engineless state at the Buffalo Naval Museum, is somehow used in the battle! It’s an epic showdown of antique airpower against modern naval might!

Learn more on Chris’s WEBSITE and follow on GoodReads and BookBub.

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Episode 553: A Chat with Chris Underwood
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June 20, 2026
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June 17, 2026
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June 15, 2026
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Episode 550: A Chat with Joan Lovestrand Farley
June 13, 2026
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Episode 549: A Chat with Laura DeNooyer
June 8, 2026
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Episode 548: A Chat with Sarah Heatwole
June 6, 2026
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Episode 547: A Chat with Terri McAdoo
June 1, 2026
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Episode 546: A Chat with Chuck Richardson
May 30, 2026
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Yeah. It's a thing. Which is weird because I rarel Yeah. It's a thing. Which is weird because I rarely call a book by its title.  Past Forward is "Willow." Ready or Not (and the rest) are all "Aggie" (I add 1, 2, 3, 4 etc). None So Blind is "Ella."
The New Cheltenham books are all whatever word changes that year.  So I'll talk about "Stars" or "Ghosts" or "Bells." But if I don't have a title I could put on the cover of the book (even if it changes--rarely but it happens--) I can't even write the first sentence.  It's dericulous.  Um... Ridiculous. Same smell.
Grammar wise, I'd say it's my stupid habit of not bothering to add question marks at the ends of questions.  My poor editors.  I THINK it's because I get interrupted in the middle of the sentence, come back, and forget it was supposed to be a question.  Dont' quote (or question) me on that, though.
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Reposted from @janelleleonard.author It's time for Reposted from @janelleleonard.author It's time for another WhiteCrown cover reveal!!! The Promise of a Princess, the third and final book in the Royals of Andelar series by Joy Crain, releases November 2026 and is available for preorder now. 
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Princess Genevieve’s life seems like a dream. She has a loving family, a devoted fiancé, and a future set in stone. But beneath the perfection lies a secret she has guarded for years, one that could shatter everything if it were ever revealed. When an ancient doctrine resurfaces and threatens the very foundation of the monarchy, Genevieve is forced to face a choice that will cost her more than she ever imagined.

DePeaux men love for life. They only ever give their heart away once. Julian knows his father’s oft-quoted words to be true, because his heart belongs to a woman too. A woman who long ago stole his heart, captured beneath the oak tree as they painted and grew up together. But he can never have her. Because another man’s ring lies on her finger.

With time running out and the truth impossible to ignore, Genevieve and Julian are drawn together in ways that challenge everything they have ever believed. In a world bound by tradition and expectation, they must decide if love is worth the risk of losing their future, their duty, and each other.

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Love flawed characters, redemption, and free books Love flawed characters, redemption, and free books? Well... gotcha covered. Through June 18th, anyway. OR, read Not a Word "free" on Kindle Unlimited anytime (but now's a great time. Just sayin'). One of my favorite books, I LOVED this story so much.
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Reposted from @catheswanson Charlea Evans thought Reposted from @catheswanson Charlea Evans thought she had finally put her unconventional past behind her.

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Reluctantly, she returns to the farm she thought she'd escaped forever, trading independence for her childhood bedroom, milking goats, tending chickens, and counting the days until she can afford a place of her own. Then an accident lands her mother in the hospital, leaving Charlea responsible for managing the property and overseeing an ambitious new venture.
Her mother and daughter have plans of their own. Big plans. Plans to transform Serenity Hill into a seasonal market and destination for workshops, events, and community gatherings. Helping bring the vision to life is Drew Wallace—the man who stole her heart on a single unforgettable date fifteen years ago.

As she works to keep the project moving forward, Charlea finds herself confronting old hurts, long-held assumptions, and the family history she's spent years trying to leave behind. With old dreams awakening and new possibilities taking root, she begins to wonder if Serenity Hill holds the answers she's been searching for. She must decide whether she's willing to risk her heart again—and whether the future she carefully planned can compete with the one God may have been preparing for her all along.

Coming home is the last thing Charlea wants—but it may be the beginning of everything she's been searching for.

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