ENCHANTING NICHOLETTE: Cover Real Time + GIVEAWAY!

My newest novella, Enchanting Nicholette, is a historical romance written from First Person Point of View, like all of my other books. It is part of The Everstone Chronicles Series, but is also a stand-alone story. And not really that short, compared to most novellas... it's sitting pretty at 50,000 words, so it's more like a shorter novel. :)

It hits bookstores October 9, 2018! 

And not only do I have the cover for you here, but so much more! 

If you simply cannot wait to read my long awaited offering to the published book world, there is a way you can read it EARLY. 

Like, on June 19th. 

(which also happens to be my husband's birthday!) 

And for practically FREE. 

Well, almost free. 

For 99 cents... but for those 99 cents, you also get six other novellas by some author friends of mine! And it sort of feels like we're giving them away, because not a single one of us is actually getting paid, but instead we're donating the proceeds to charity. 

If you want to know more about the different novellas and their authors right now, click here. 

And here, if you want to add it to GoodReads?

If you want to pre-order this fabulous collection of novellas by well-established and award-winning authors, click here. 

If you want a chance to win a $30 Amazon Gift Card AND the full set of The Everstone Chronicles in paperback... keep scrolling down.

And if you want to see the full version of The Everstone Chronicles/Whitaker House cover of Enchanting Nicholette.... 













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I promise, it's worth it!














And... here it is! (squeal!)

What do you think? 

Personally, I LOVE IT. 

And if you want to PRE-ORDER this lovely, darling book just so you can have this fabulous cover on your bookshelf to grab and re-read anytime you feel like swooning and sighing... or your kindle... because it will look great there too... click here!

I know October is a million years away... oh, how I know. But you can at least add it to your reading list on GoodReads until you're able to have that baby in your hands.   

CLICK THE $30 AMAZON GIFT CARD TO ENTER TO WIN IT...

AND ALSO THE COMPLETE EVERSTONE CHRONICLES SERIES IN PAPERBACK!

The blurb

Young, widowed, and newly out of mourning, Nicholette Everstone is an heiress yearning to know true love. She’d been fortunate her parents had arranged for her to marry her loving late husband, but the marriage ended tragically on her wedding day. Bereft and alone, she returns home to Boston after being away for two years, to find there’s someone new to her set of friends and family she can’t help but fall for. But when she learns of the danger and sacrifices this man takes on for the safety of others, will her heart be strong enough to keep her fears of “what if” at bay?

About the author

Dawn Crandall’s debut Gilded Age Victorian romance, The Hesitant Heiress, was a 2015 ACFW Carol award finalist in the debut category and received the 2015 Gayle Wilson Award of Excellence, the 2015 Write Touch Reader's Choice Award and the 2015 Romancing the Novel Reader's Choice Award. Her follow-up novel, The Bound Heart, received the 2016 Laurel Award from Clash of the Titles. 

Dawn earned a BA in Christian Education from Taylor University. She’s been balancing books and babies lately as her two sons were both born as the four books of her Everstone Chronicles series were being released from Whitaker House from 2014 to 2016. Dawn lives with her husband and two young sons on a hobby farm in her hometown in northeast Indiana. 

My First Barnes & Noble Book Signing is Soon!

I talked to the PR person from a local Barnes & Noble yesterday and everyhing is set! The book signing for the first three of my books--The Hesitant Heiress, The Bound Heart and The Captive Imposter--is in a little over a week! It's still sort of surreal to be signing books at the very B&N I used to work at 14 years ago! 

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Talk about a dream come true! And, of course, I'll be almost 8 months pregnant too! I waited longer to get pregnant (with my first, three years ago) than I did to find a publisher for my novels! For the few years I spent writing THH, TBH and the first half of TCI (2010-2013) before I received my three book contract for them, I'd given up on having children.... but then there I was, so surprisingly six months pregnant with my first born while signing the contract! Which yes, made things a little more complicated than they were when I was simply a stay-at-home-writer!

And just in case you're wondering, there will be another book signing at the other Barnes & Noble in the fall when The Cautious Maiden releases in paperback/ebook on October 4, 2016! 

If you'd like to see more details, here's the link to the facebook event!-->

https://facebook.com/events/1529907387315124

GoodReads Giveaway Winners Announced!

The GoodReads Giveaways for all three of my current releases ended yesterday, and here's the list of the winners! There were over a thousand entries for each book! 😍

THE HESITANT HEIRESS:

Connie Hendryx

Sharon Timmer

Nickcole Elwell

Lisa McKee

Suzi Stephenson

THE BOUND HEART:

Cathy Lykens

Teri Ratcliff

Kelly Ennis

Emily Hagman

Elizabeth Darlene Taylor

THE CAPTIVE IMPOSTER:

J'Nell Ciesielski

Sarah Krening

Cindy Colean

Peggy Roberson

Joyce Albinson

Congratulations, ladies! That was my big giveaway for a while, but watch for the release of THE CAUTIOUS MAIDEN this fall--in paperback and ebook! There will be more giveaways around then--of my books and piles of other inspirational historical romances I have saved up! ❤️

I'm just finishing up the manuscript for THE CAUTIOUS MAIDEN, and we'll have an official release date very soon! Yay! ❤️

GoodReads Giveaways of The Everstone Chronicles ~ and a New Release Coming Soon!

     

In celebration of Valentine's Month I'm giving giveaway 5 copies of all three of my currently release paperback books on GoodReads!

Click on the book covers to be 

redirected to GoodReads to enter!

Have you heard about the newest Everstone Chronicle being released this fall in paperback and eBook from Whitaker House?

 

 I'm super excited about this story about Vance Everstone and Violet Hawthorne! The release date and official back cover blurb will be available soon! If you'd like to keep up-to-date on more books coming out in the future, I have an email newsletter you can sign up for! Just click on the graphic!

COVER REVEAL for The Cautious Maiden + a Giveaway!

Happy COVER REVEAL day
for The Cautious Maiden!

Fall 2016 (paperback & eBook)
Release from Whitaker House!

Add The Everstone Chronicles to your GoodReads reading list today!

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If you are a Book Review Blogger and would like to review The Cautious Maiden, or would like to be a part of the blog tour celebrating it's release in the fall, please contact my Facebook Author Page with your name and the link for your blog. 

Book Contracts and Bookstores!

I have some great news! I signed a brand new book contract with Whitaker House! It will continue on with some of the characters readers have met in The Everstone Chronicles series, but will technically be the start of a brand new series! The title is The Cautious Maiden, and it's about Vance Everstone and Violet Hawthorne! Here is the link to the GoodReads listing --> https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27874379-the-cautious-maiden ❤️

I also made it out to Barnes & Noble to check out the two of my three books that are in select stores! Not every store carries every book that's available, but if you're looking for print versions of The Everstone Chronicles you can call them and have them order the books into the store in case they don't have them! The Captive Imposter should be available to B&N very soon! It seems they are always about a month behind on getting my books. 

Also, if you'd like to order signed paperback copies of my books, I'm working on making a PayPal option on this blog. The books will be around $17 each, which includes tax and shipping! If you buy the three-book set, it will cost $45 total, including tax and shipping. ❤️

And don't forget to enter the giveaway going on right now for a print signed copy of The Captive Imposter! --> a Rafflecopter giveaway

Oh, and I'm going to have another baby in 2016! Can't let another book release without throwing that into the mix! 

Happy Thanksgiving! ❤️

The Captive Imposter is Now Available in PRINT! Plus a Giveaway!

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Sent away for protection, hotel heiress Estella Everstone finds herself living undercover as a lady’s companion named Elle Stoneburner at one of her father’s opulent hotels in the mountains of Maine—the one she'd always loved best and always hoped to own one day, Everston. The one thing she doesn't like about the situation is that her ex-fiancé is in the area and is set on marrying someone else. Reeling from her feelings of being unwanted and unworthy, Estella reluctantly forms a friendship with the gruff manager of Everston, Dexter Blakeley, who seems to have something against wealthy young socialites with too much money, although they are just the kind of people Everston caters to.

When Estella finds herself in need of help, Dexter comes to the rescue with an offer she can't refuse. She sees no other choice aside from going back home to her family and accepts the position as companion to his sister. Throughout her interactions with Dexter, she can't deny the pull that's evidenced between them every time he comes near. Estella realizes that while she's been hiding behind a false name and identity, she’s never been freer to be herself than when she's with Dexter Blakeley. But will he still love her when he finds out she's Estella Everstone? She's not entirely sure.

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WHAT SOME OF MY FAVORITE AUTHORS HAVE TO SAY ABOUT MY BOOKS!

"Delving deep into the human heart with prose as polished as beach stones, THE HESITANT HEIRESS is a marvelous romance and an impressive debut."
--LORI BENTON, Award winning author of Burning Sky, The Pursuit of Tamsen Littlejohn and The Wood's Edge
 
"A love story to savor, THE HESITANT HEIRESS is a gentle Gilded Age courtship that delightfully teases, taunts, and takes the heroine--and the reader--by surprise with a tale of mystery and true love revealed."
--JULIE LESSMAN, Author of The Daughters of Boston, Winds of Change, and Heart of San Francisco series

"THE HESITANT HEIRESS features a rich cast of characters set in a world of intrigue, faith, and drama. Dawn Crandall is a new author to watch!"
--ELIZABETH CAMDEN, Award winning author of Against the Tide and With Every Breath

"If you enjoy reading inspirational romance, you'll love THE HESITANT HEIRESS!"

--MELANIE DOBSON, Award-winning author of Chateau of Secrets

"What a heart-stopping work of art! The first chapter was all it took to captivate this eager reader!"
--SHARLENE MacLAREN, Author of Heart of Mercy and Threads of Joy

"Readers of Laura Frantz' dramatic historicals and Julie Lessman's twist-filled sagas will love THE EVERSTONE CHRONICLES."
--RACHELLE REA, Author of The Sound of Diamonds

"An intense, powerful journey of one woman's search for true love and true forgiveness. Absolutely beautiful."

--PEPPER BASHAM, Author of The Thorn Bearer

"Dawn Crandall creates a cast of broken characters whose struggles spoke to me from the prologue. This story will send you on a passionate search for the Healer of all hurts."

--CARA PUTMAN, Author of Shadowed by Grace

"Dawn Crandall is a fresh new voice in inspirational romance, and her latest offering, THE CAPTIVE IMPOSTER, does not disappoint! Estella is sweet but imperfect, intelligent but not harsh. Blakeley is handsome: mysterious and contradictory, the perfect Byronic hero. As more and more people learn the truth about this imposter, that coming reveal might just change everything."

--SANDRA BYRD, author of Mist of Midnight

"Set in late nineteenth-century America, the Everstone family is wealthy, powerful, and used to getting their own way. Visit a bygone era filled with romance, intrigue, and characters who will stay with you long after you close the book. Dramatic and engaging, this is one series you won't want to miss."

--MICHELLE GRIEP, Author of Brentwood's Ward 

"Romantic! Engaging and absorbing! Dawn Crandall brings America's Gilded Age to life on the page with vintage amour and emotional depth."

--KRISTY CAMBRON, Author of The Butterfly and the Violin

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Paperbacks of The Everstone Chronicles... better late than never.

Wow, so that year—the craziest year of my entire life—is over! Sorry I checked out for a while! It was so amazing to get to the end of April and finally be able to do whatever I wanted in my spare time again! In case you aren’t aware, I had my first baby {the cutest baby boy ever, too!} just months before The Hesitant Heiress released last summer, and then of course, my publisher had me on a very tight release schedule with The Bound Heart coming out only three months later... AND then I didn’t have The Captive Imposter finished until January (which then released April 1st!)!

In the last ten months since my debut novel released, I’ve heard from many readers regarding the fact that the series was only being released as eBooks, asking if they would ever be available in paperback.  Honestly, it’s been difficult for me to see the books be received so well but remain only available as eBooks. Once I began really gearing all of my focus on finishing The Captive Imposter and planning the blog tour this spring, I didn’t let myself think of the paperbacks. I had a copy of The Hesitant Heiress and The Bound Heart from a print run they did to enter the books into a few 2014 book contests, but it broke my heart every time I laid eyes on them. Yes, I loved them! I adored them! But it made me so incredibly sad to know that they weren’t available to all of the readers, friends and family members who also wanted to have the paperback versions. Even a large number of the readers who’ve read the books as eBooks have wanted the paperbacks for themselves and also to buy for gifts for their friends and family. 

Well, it looks like things might finally be working out—and it’s funny, because just the other day I was awake in the middle of the night (for the baby) and thinking about this for the first time in a long time. I’d basically come to the point that thinking about it was just too painful. I’d tried to console myself over the months with the fact that at least I have tons of amazing readers who love the stories I’ve written, but I still felt like God was saying “No” to one of the biggest requests of my heart. 

Well, soon printed books will be available to readers! Here’s the quick-release schedule:

The Hesitant Heiress ~ September 1, 2015
The Bound Heart ~ October 1, 2015
The Captive Imposter ~ November 1, 2015 

Inside The Hesitant Heiress

I’m so thankful to my publisher for the wonderful experience I’ve had going through the editing process with the amazing Courtney Hartzel, and that their graphic design department made three of the most gorgeous covers I’ve ever seen for my books! And I cannot wait for you to see them—and read them!

Day #15 of The Captive Imposter Blog Tour!

Amazon finally has my series listed correctly! Isn’t it just gorgeous? And only $20 for all three!

WHAT NEW READERS OF THE CAPTIVE IMPOSTER ARE SAYING!

“The Everstone Chronicles are books that are both fascinating…and beautiful.”—RACHELLE REA
 
“I love everything about Dawn’s writing—lyrical prose, first-person POV, rich characterizations, and captivating story-lines that stay in my mind long after the last page is turned. Dawn’s writing style is beautifully unusual, refreshing, and reminiscent of an atmospheric style from the past.”—CAROLE JARVIS, The Power of Words

“I loved book one, then book two, and now book three. It’s a rare treat to find a series that just keeps getting better.”—TERRI WELDON

WHAT NEW READERS OF THE HESITANT HEIRESS (#1) ARE SAYING!

“Thoroughly enjoyed this book and hardly put it down! At first, I was reluctant with it being written in first person and no perspective from the male...BUT! I hardly missed it! I absolutely loved Nathan and their chemistry! Beautiful ending and I love when there’s a good epilogue!! Well done! I found a new favorite author!”—nbrooke22, Amazon 5-Star Reviewer

“I loved this story from page one. I rarely read books in first person, but this one is written so personally. It really feels as if a close friend is telling it.”—Kari reviews in MN, Amazon 4-Star Reviewer

And in case you haven’t heard,  

The Hesitant Heiress is now marked down to 

$3.82 for Amazon Kindle! That’s over 60% off!
 

WHAT NEW READERS OF THE BOUND HEART (#2) ARE SAYING!

“I loved the whole thing! Had a hard time putting it down. I enjoyed the historical elements but mostly I loved the strong redemption story.”—Stephanie, Amazon 5-Star Reviewer

“The Bound Heart is easily one of the best books I’ve read so far this year!”—Becky Ritta, Amazon 5-Star Reviewer

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