It Happens In A Book

 As you may or may not have noticed, my blog received a mega makeover. A new name, format, and purpose. My initial blog name was Pages, Pets, & Pianos (where I would post about the "pages", my mom about the "pianos", and my sister about the "pets") but I soon became the only one who posted on here. I decided that since the blog shifted to become solely mine, it deserved a name change :) Anyway, the new purpose of this blog is to post mainly book reviews, but also parts of random stories I write (whenever I actually write them, that is!), personal updates, and an occasional challenge or fun holiday stuff.  If you do not know who I am (which I seriously doubt, because at the moment, I know every single one of my subscribers!), I am Katelynn Nutzhorn. A midwestern girl waiting to go to nursing school next year, and in the meantime has a full-time career reading both new and old books (just kidding...mostly!) :) My greatest thing in life is my relationship...

  The Conqueror by Bryan Liftin      It is AD 312. Rome teeters on the brink of war. Constantine's army is on the move. On the Rhine frontier, Brandulf Rex, a pagan Germanic barbarian, joins the Roman army as a spy and special forces operative. Down in Rome, Junia Flavia, the lovely and pious daughter of a nominally Christian senator, finds herself embroiled in anti-Christian politics as she works on behalf of the church.      As armies converge and forces beyond Rex's and Flavia's controls threaten to destroy everything they have worked for, these two people from different worlds will have to work together to bring down the evil Emperor Maxentius. But his villainous plans and devious henchmen are not easily overcome. Will the barbarian warrior and the senator's daughter live to see the Empire bow the knee to Christ? Or will their part in the story of Constantine's rise meet an untimely and brutal end?      Travel back to one of the most...

The Key to Love by Betsy St. Amant      The only thing Bri Duval loves more than baking petit fours is romance. So much so, she's created her own version of the famous Parisian lovelock wall at her bakery in Story, Kansas. She never expects it to go viral--or for Trek Magazine to send travel writer Gerard Fortier to feature the bakery. He's definitely handsome, but Bri has been holding out for a love story like the one her parents had, and that certainly will not include the love-scorned-and-therefore-love-scorning Gerard.      Just when it seems Bri's bakery is poised for unprecedented success, a series of events threaten not just her business but the pedestal she's kept her parents on all these years. Maybe Gerard is right about romance. Or maybe Bri's recipe just needs to be tweaked.      Novelist Betsy St. Amant invites you to experience this sweet story of how love doesn't always look the way we expect--and maybe that's a good thing. Oka...