In Prairie Center, Kansas, all of Prairie County gathers After the Harvest for its first organized fair, and Judith Timmons hopes it's the last event she has to attend before moving back East. But a certain Rylan Gaines has taken a fancy to the berry tea she sells at the fair. What might that mean to Judith's plans? As Anita Gaines prepares entries for the 1905 fair, she also faces A Test of Faith. Will she find the love of her life only to lose him in the upheaval of adding a new stepmother and stepsister to her family? Garrison Gaines enters Prairie County society as a judge at the 1946 fair cook-off. Will he find a Goodie Goodie there to benefit his new catering business - and his life? At the fair's "beautiful baby" contest rehearsals, old high school friends Zachary Gaines and Beth Whitrock renew acquaintances. Can a committed career woman and a man who has vowed never to marry again have A Change of Heart? Like the longstanding Prairie County Fair love has a way of enduring - not only over the years, but across the generations.
Award-winning Arkansas author Christine Lynxwiler lives with her husband and two daughters in the beautiful Ozark mountains. She has been writing toward publication since 1997 and sold her first story in 2001 to Barbour Publishing. Since then she's written sixteen Christian romance novels and novellas including the best-selling Arkansas, which has sold over 150,000 copies worldwide. Christine is a four-time winner of the prestigious American Christian Fiction Writers Book of the Year Award.
Christine's newest release, The Reluctant Cowgirl, received a 4 1/2 star review from Romantic Times and was an RT Top Pick for April, 2009. Besides The Reluctant Cowgirl, her latest novels include Promise Me Always, Along Came a Cowboy, and Forever Christmas, which recently hit the CBA Fiction Best-seller list. Also just out is Alibis in Arkansas, three cozy mysteries complete in one volume, co-written with two of her sisters Sandy Gaskin and Jan Reynolds.
When Christine isn't at her computer, you'll often find her cheering and coaching at one of her daughters' softball games, kayaking down beautiful Spring River with her family, or getting together with friends from church.
