We Interrupt Our Regularly Scheduled Program...

I have a friend.

This girl:

She's pretty awesome.

Maybe you've met her online. Her name is Amber Stokes and she runs a rockin' blog: Seasons of Humility. That's not all she does though. 

She also has an English degree and freelances edits. And writes. Oh yeah, she also writes. ;-) 

And guess what?? She is debuting a novel!

Yep, you heard it here first. (okay, maybe not first, but pretty close to it!).

Today is the debut release of Amber's debut novel's cover. Oh goodness. It's sooo pretty! The book will become available later this summer and I can't wait to finally read what I'm sure is going to be one awesome story by an avid lover of story. 

Are you ready?

Check this out...

Gasp!

I. LOVE. It!!!

There is just something about an awesome cover and something about the character's expression...I could look at this cover all day. Don't you love it?

My favorite part? My friend's name on the bottom right hand corner. SUPER proud of her as she takes this big first step. 

To celebrate the release of her novel cover, she's throwing a little party and what's a party without prizes? Be sure and enter the Rafflecopter giveaway and check out the prizes:

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Five bleeding hearts. One profound journey.

Summer 1886

Sally Clay’s livelihood has been snatched away, but in its place arises an opportunity to escape from her sordid past and an unrelenting, unwanted suitor. Boarding a train with a heartsick rancher and an enigmatic miner, she leaves Virginia City behind and heads to Northern California, waiting for the chance to make right what went wrong three long years before.

But the road to revenge is far from smooth. Sally soon learns that the jagged pieces of a broken heart can far too easily wound the hearts of others – and hers isn’t the only heart that’s broken. Tragedy and fear dog her steps as she flees from the redwood forests to the high desert and back again. Will her bleeding heart ever find a way and a place to heal?

A desperate soiled dove. Three men who come to care for her. One man determined to claim her.

All on a journey that will show them what true love really involves.

Inspirational Historical Romance

The Book’s Blog

In conjunction with the cover reveal, Amber’s doing a “blog reveal,” as well! You can find all the latest news about Bleeding Heart, along with book extras, at the Bleeding Heart blog

AND! Amber is including a teaser...check it out!!

Prologue

Breaking hearts should be considered a crime. That would make Elizabeth Lawson an outlaw and Joe Clifton the victim. And that wasn’t a far stretch in Joe’s mind. She had rounded up his heart, branded her name across it when it should never have belonged to her, and then left him high and dry. Still, he was getting sick of hanging around the scene of the crime. He just didn’t know where else to go.

Lake Tahoe had once been his favorite get-away destination, a place where he could go to just sit back and enjoy the view of water as clear as a shined-up mirror. Now those crystal depths and the unmoving boulders along the water’s edge taunted him, bringing back memories of a happy proposal and a less-than-happy scene where his heart was handed back to him on a silver platter – bruised, broken, and bleeding.

He didn’t want to make any more memories like that. So he made a promise to himself: He would never let anyone break his heart again.