Friday, July 31, 2020

Celebrate Lit Blog Tour: Love's Mountain Quest by Misty M. Beller

Book: Love’s Mountain Quest
Author: Misty M Beller
Genre: Historical romance
Release Date: June 30, 2020

After losing her husband in the Rocky Mountain wilderness, young widow Joanna Watson is struggling to make a new home for her five-year-old son, Samuel, in the little mountain town of Settler’s Fort. When she returns home from work to find Samuel and the woman watching him missing–and the sheriff dead–she enlists a man she prays has enough experience in this rugged country to help.

Isaac Bowen wants nothing more than a quiet, invisible life in these mountains, far away from the bad decisions of his past. But he has a strong suspicion of who’s behind the kidnapping and murder, and if he’s right, he knows all too well the evil they’re chasing.

As they press on against the elements, Joanna fights to hold on to hope, while Isaac knows a reckoning is coming. They find encouragement in the tentative trust that grows between them, but whether it can withstand the danger and coming confrontation is far from certain in this wild, unpredictable land.

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Misty M. Beller has become one of my favorite authors. I have read a few of her books in the past. Love's Mountain Quest is book 2 in the Heart of Montana series. I have read the first book in the series, Hope's Highest Mountain. I must say even if you start with Book 2, you will understand the book as it is a great Stand Alone book.

Love's Mountain Quest, brings back Joanna Watson, who was a small part of Book one and also Isaac Bowen. Isaac becomes an intergeral part in helping to find Joanna's 5yr old son when he and his babysitter are kidnapped. They face many obstacles in their search and at some points it is dangerous. Isaac wants to keep the focus on finding the Babysitter and JoAnna's 5yrs old son, but also finds himself seeing their friendship turn into something more. Isaac has some issues from his past that has him believing that he is not good enough for JoAnna. Will he be able to overcome his past and seek forgiveness for his past? Will they find JoAnna's son and Babysitter? Will the friendship turn romantic? I would say READ the book and you will not be disappointed!

I really enjoyed the book and was very focused on reading it from the minute I picked up the book. The twists and turn kept me reading and wondering. GREAT BOOK!

After working for 13 years in the corporate world, Misty M. Beller (mistymbeller.com) is now the author of fourteen independently published Christian historical romance novels. Raised on a farm in South Carolina, she combines her love for Christian fiction and the simpler ranch life by writing historical novels that display God’s abundant love through the twists and turns in the lives of her characters. She lives outside Charlotte, North Carolina, is an active member of ACFW, and teaches regularly at conferences and writing groups on effective book marketing.

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The Story Behind the Story: Love’s Mountain Quest

Love’s Mountain Quest was one of the hardest books I’ve ever written, even though I LOVE Isaac and Joanna and their story. What made this book so hard was the fact that I wrote most of the story during my third trimester of pregnancy with our son!

Our little Matthew is our fourth baby (and first boy), so I was VERY heavy with child during the last three months I carried him, and that was the time that I’d scheduled to write Love’s Mountain Quest. Needless to say, the words were not flowing very well. My creativity was as exhausted as the rest of me! I could see Isaac and Joanna’s story in my mind, but showing it for readers using real words was the hard part.
Thankfully, I have an amazing editor at Bethany House (waving at Jen Veilleux!) who helped me massage the first draft, pushing both me and the story to be the very best we could be. Unfortunately for her, the edits for this book were the first bit of writing I did after taking a short maternity leave after the birth, so my brain was still a bit mushy from all the post-partum hormones and lack of sleep a newborn always brings. Jen’s patience through the process was remarkable, yet I so appreciate her determination not to stop until we had the very best book possible.
Our little Matthew just turned one, and Love’s Mountain Quest is finally making its way out into the world. Because of Jen, I’m so excited to share it with you! I can’t wait for you to meet the characters and story I love so much.