Her Good Name ~ By ~ Ruth Axtell

I'd LOVE to share a copy of ~

                                                     ~ HER GOOD NAME by Ruth Axtell ~

                                                                        with one of you readers.

I have a free copy for someone who leaves me a comment WITH their email address...AND... can tell me something they KNOW about their name - the meaning, the reason they were named the name there were given ~ anything they may KNOW that someone else may not. . .etc.

Drawing will be held on Friday and the winning name will be announced here as well as to the winner

REPUTATION is important in our world today. . .but . . .imagine back to 1892 in a town or village where EVERYONE knew most every one of the residents. . .how much more important was one's reputation????  Class distinctions were oh so obvious....

LIES and SECRETS can spoil a woman's good name.

                                                           
Setting:      HOLLISTON, MAINE - 1892
                                     

 Characters:   Espy Estrada = Heroine,
                        Warren Brentwood = Hero
No matter how striking she is, a fisherman's daughter doesn't stand a chance with Warren Brentwood, the heir to the local lumber empire.

SCANDAL turns Espy's world upside down and she flees town in disgrace. Alone and penniless, Espy has nothing left but her faith when she is rescued by a missionary family.


Espy longs to return home freed from the lies that surrounded her departure. BUT. . .will ANYONE - particularly Warren -  believe in her professed innocence?



Ruth Axtell has done it again. . .her 2013 release has given me one more reason to keep her books on my TO BE PURCHASED list AND once I've purchased those same books go onto my KEEPER SHELVES - to stay.

This is a great story and one of those I didn't want to STOP reading until I'd hit THE END. . .even if it meant spending the night with a book light so my dearest hubby could snore in the dark while I read. A VERY GOOD READ from my point of view and since I READ HUNDREDS of books per year. . .I think I can safely say. . .IT'S WELL WORTH YOUR TIME and LOSS OF SLEEP to read HER GOOD NAME ~ By~ Ruth Axtell - published by River North - of MOODY PUBLISHERS 

Ruth Axtell knew she wanted to be a writer ever since she wrote her first story—a spy thriller—at the age of twelve. She studied comparative literature at Smith College, spending her junior year at the Sorbonne in Paris. After college, she taught English in the Canary Islands, then worked in international development in Miami, Florida, before moving to the Netherlands, where for the next several years she juggled both writing and raising three children. In 1994, her second manuscript was a finalist in Romance Writers of America’s Golden Heart competition. In 2002, her sixth manuscript took second place in the Laurie Contest of RWA’s Smoky Mountain chapter. The final judge requested her full manuscript and this became her first published book, Winter Is Past. Since then, Ruth Axtell has gone on to publish sixteen historical romances and one novella. Her books have been translated into Dutch, Italian, German, Polish, and Afrikaans. Her second historical, Wild Rose, was chosen by Booklist as a “Top Ten Christian Fiction” selection in 2005. Ruth lives on the coast of Maine where she enjoys gardening, walking, swimming, reading romances, and gazing at the ocean plotting her next novel.

With her next book, A Heart’s Rebellion, (Baker/Revell, March 2014), Ruth returns to Regency London.

Thank you, Ruth, for this book and the others you've entertained and taught me with. It's been a pleasure and I look forward in the very near future to reading A Heart's Rebellion. . .it may even show up here on StitchesThruTime. . . in another review!