Sunday, April 18, 2021

Celebrate Lit Blog Tour: Courage in the Mountain Wildnerness by Misty M. Beller

Book: Courage in the Mountain Wilderness

Author: Misty M. Beller

Genre: Christian Historical Romance

Release date: April 6, 2021

Keeping her son safe on this epic journey may be harder than she imagined.

Caleb Jackson is on a journey. And not just the mission he and his friends have embarked on to fetch the Nez Perce chief’s runaway daughter. Maybe someday, he could also find God’s plan for his life. He’d once thought being a small town minister was the Lord’s will for him, but he’d proved a failure at living under the scrutiny of his congregation. Yet the chief’s niece and her feisty toddler accompanying them on this expedition make him feel like he might be able to make a difference yet.

Otskai is eager to take on a challenge. She’s lived under the shelter of other’s choices her entire life, especially when she was betrothed to one of the village braves at the tender age of eight. Now with her husband dead, she’s finally found the freedom she always craved—even with a two-year-old to raise. She’s built her camas root harvest into a thriving trade to provide all she and her son need and more, yet she can’t seem to keep her active child safe. When she agrees to accompany her new friends on a trip to bring back her wayward cousin, she knows she’ll have her hands full managing her boy.

The journey turns out nothing like Otskai expects, and for the first time in her life, she’s thankful to have others around to help. Especially Caleb, whose gentle attentions captivate her son and occupy him for hours at a time. But as the danger escalates and her worst fears come to light, she must find the courage to choose between freedom and a love more liberating than she imagined possible.

From a USA Today bestselling author comes another epic journey through breathless landscapes and adventure so intense, lives will never be the same.

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I really enjoy Author Misty M. Beller, I discovered her books about 5yrs

ago. Courage in the Mountain Wilderness is Book 4 in the Call of the

Rockies series. I have not read the first 3 in this series, but I can

say, I want to now.

The setting is 1831 in the Idaho Territory. Book 4 is the Caleb's story.

Caleb Jackson used to be a Minister in a small town, but he and the

congregation were not a good fit. He is now on a new mission with

his friends. They are out to find runaway daughter of the Chief of

Nez Perce tribe. Otskai is a widow raising a 2 yr old son. She has

been "sheltered" since she was 8 and never really had a life where

she can decide her goals in life. She is wanting new challenges

and decides to take the journey with her new friends, Caleb and his

crew, to find her runaway cousin. The journey is a struggle at times,

as her 2yr old son is very active. She is grateful that the crew is

adoring of her son and helps her with him. Caleb especially adores

her son and Otskai. Otskai is now at a pointwhere she must make a

choice due to danger. Will she choose Freedom or will she choose

LOVE? Will Caleb choose LOVE even though Otskai doesn't believe

in Jesus?

I can honestly say this book reads great as a Stand Alone. I

had no problem jumping into this book and understanding the

storyline and the theme as soon as I began reading. Caleb and

his friends really make a great team. Though the journey was

dangerous and difficult at times, they endured. I really LOVE

how Caleb connects to Otskai's 2yr old son. The relationship

between Caleb and Otskai is heartwarming. Misty M. Beller

has another GREAT book! I highly recommend this to anyone

who enjoys Christian Historical Fiction.

Misty M. Beller is a USA Today bestselling author of romantic mountain stories, set on the 1800s frontier and woven with the truth of God’s love.

She was raised on a farm in South Carolina, so her Southern roots run deep. Growing up, her family was close, and they continue to keep that priority today. Her husband and children now add another dimension to her life, keeping her both grounded and crazy.

God has placed a desire in Misty’s heart to combine her love for Christian fiction and the simpler ranch life, writing historical novels that display God’s abundant love through the twists and turns in the lives of her characters.

More from Misty

Mom Guilt—it’s real, no matter what your race or tribe.

One of the things I love about writing the Call of the Rockies series is the cast of characters that covers almost more races than I can count on all my fingers! From Spaniards, to Frenchman, to Southern Americans, to Blackfoot, to Nez Perce, to Salish, to Shoshone. And let’s not talk about the various sectors within some of the tribes (Peigan Blackfoot, Blood Blackfoot, Pikunin of the Nez Perce…oops, we weren’t going to talk about those!).

But what I love the most about so many people groups represented is learning how much we really are alike, down deep in our cores! Sure, some are introverts, some are extroverts. Some like to swim, some hate to swim. Some like to cook, some like to play with the kids (okay, maybe most like to play with the kids!).

Yet there are common threads that connect us all. As I was writing Courage in the Mountain Wilderness, I discovered a new thread that I have in common with Otskai, the Nez Perce hero of the story.

Mom guilt.

Yep. Our situations are a little different—I’m married with four kiddos, and she’s widowed with one very energetic two-year-old son. But we both struggle with that same push and pull. That same set of conflicting longings. When I’m with my kiddos, sometimes I just desperately want time alone. Time to actually get things done. But then at night when they snuggle close at bedtime, wrapping their sweet arms around my neck and not just saying, but showing, how much they love me, I can’t imagine how I could ever want to do anything but spend time with these sweet little ones God has trusted me with.

Thus, the guilt.

Maybe Otskai and I are the only ones who’ve ever experienced that particular strain of Mom Guilt. But I’ll bet there are other ways you can relate—both to these very real fictional characters who may or may not be the same race as you. And also to the very real real-life characters you meet every day.

The great news is that God loves each and every one of us, Mom Guilt and all.