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The Next Exciting Installment in the Last Chance County Series Is Coming!

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Expired Vows releases by Laura Conaway releases on September 12 and continues the exciting romantic suspense series! via @chautonahavig

Let’s face it, grief comes in many forms and hits people in unique ways, but when you lose your wife and her best friend needs protection, and you need her counseling skills… and someone is out to cause havoc… well, that’s just riveting fiction right there!  Listen in to see what Laura Conaway is bringing to Last Chance County Fire and Rescue in Expired Vows… and to romantic suspense in general!

Expired vows

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The Next Exciting Installment in the Last Chance County Series Is Coming!

Grief is a tough one, but add in someone out to get your wife’s best friend, and talk about a sucker punch.  Oh wait, maybe you’re falling for your wife’s best friend? Let’s just throw some guilt on there!

Laura Conaway chats with me about her debut novel, Expired Vows, and how she got started with Lisa Phillips and Sunrise Publishing. She also agrees with me that we need Last Chance Christmas, so readers… we need your support.  So, let’s all hound the publisher and pray.

Expired Vows by Laura Conaway

Fire. Family. Faith.

Last Chance Fire and Rescue

She sees the promise of freedom. He vowed to always be the hero.

EMT Trace Bently came back to Last Chance County to escape his past. After the loss of his wife, he gave up a promising career as a police officer for the chance to save lives every day as part of the Fire Department. When a hostage situation demands the help of a local counselor, Trace realizes the past he left behind has found him. He’s being given a second chance to save the life of someone he cares about.

If he can face the grief he buried.

Family Counselor Kelsey Scott has to secure this grant or admit failure. She can’t afford to lose any more pieces of the life she wants because of her own choices. When Kelsey becomes the target of a series of dangerous attacks, Trace steps in determined to protect his wife’s best friend. This hero breaks down all her resistance, but Kelsey can’t risk her own heart.

Even if it’s what will set them both free.

Another thrilling installment in the Last Chance Fire and Rescue series.

Last Chance Fire and Rescue

Book 1: Expired Return
Book 2: Expired Hope
Book 3: Expired Promise
Book 4: Expired Vows

Last Chance County by Lisa Phillips

Book 1: Expired Refuge
Book 2: Expired Secrets
Book 3: Expired Cache
Book 4: Expired Hero
Book 5: Expired Game
Book 6: Expired Plot
Book 7: Expired Getaway
Book 8: Expired Betrayal
Book 9: Expired Flight
Book 10: Expired End

To learn more about Sunrise Publishing go HERE.

To learn more about Laura Conaway, visit her WEBSITE and follow her on BookBub and GoodReads.

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Episode 522: A Chat with Jill Eileen Smith
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I’ve always had a soft spot for the woman at the well, and chatting with Jill Eileen Smith about her book, A Deeper Well just made me decide my Biblical fiction book of the year. Listen in and see why.

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Too often, the woman at the well gets a far worse rap than Jesus gave her, so I’m excited to see someone treating her situation with compassion AND Biblical truth. Eager to read.

A Deeper Well by Jill Eileen Smith

Her broken heart thirsts for acceptance and love that seem out of reach–until an encounter at the well reveals what her soul truly longs for. In ancient Israel, soon after Nessa is of marriageable age, her father gives her to a wealthy widowed friend, capitalizing on her beauty to bring in the highest bride-price he can find. Nessa is devastated, as she had begged to marry Lavi, who returned her love and saw more in her than her appearance. Nessa’s betrothal leads to Lavi’s departure, compounding her grief, and she can never forget her forbidden first love. Nessa tries to accept her fate, but after only a year of marriage, tragedy hits her new family. She is sent back to her father, who quickly finds a young man who wants to marry the most beautiful woman in Sychar. Misfortune follows Nessa as she is passed from one marriage to the next–until she meets an unusual Jewish rabbi at the town’s well one afternoon, and her life is forever changed.

You can get A Deeper Well at 30% off with free shipping (as of today, anyway!) at BakerBookHouse.com.

Goodreads Giveaway going on in March 2026.

Learn more about Jill at her WEBSITE. and follow on GoodReads and BookBub.

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