Hi lovelies! It gives me great pleasure today to host Janie
DeVos and her new book, “Beneath a Thousand Apple Trees”! For other stops on her Goddess Fish
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and to increase your chances of winning!
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Wishing you lots of luck in this exciting giveaway!
Beneath a Thousand Apple Trees
by Janie DeVos
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GENRE: Fiction
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BLURB:
As the 20th century dawns, the world is transformed in
dizzying ways. But nestled in North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains is a place,
and a family, out of time—where one young girl will grow to face the challenges
of each generation before her—and discover whether she has the strength to
overcome them…
The eldest surviving daughter of Anna Guinn, Rachel
rarely ventures far from her home in the Appalachians, aside from an occasional
trip into town to trade a penny for a peppermint stick. Sometimes she yearns
for more, but as much as she fears her mother’s unstable mind, she is anchored
by the strength of her grandmother, Willa. Freed from an abusive marriage,
Willa holds the family together through hardship, all the while fulfilling her
role as keeper of her neighbors’ carefully guarded secrets—the most painful of
which may be her own.
In this isolated, eccentric world where people depend
on moonshine to put food on the table, hang talismans to chase away ghosts—and
tragedy can strike as suddenly as a coiled copperhead—Rachel wonders what life
has in store. Most of all, she worries whether she and her sister have
inherited the darkness that lurks inside their mother. Her one respite is the
town’s apple orchard, the ally she finds there—and the revelation that she can
take her destiny into her own hands, decide what to leave behind—and what is
truly worth carrying into the future…
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EXCERPT ONE:
I wasn’t born with a bad right foot.
Instead, I’d been dealt a bad hand when an accident at Papa’s timber mill
crippled me. The man known as the off-bearer was busy stacking boards that had
just been cut by the spinning, sharp-toothed saw and didn’t see me walk up
beside him. With his mind a million miles away, he was simply repeating the
tedious pulling-off-and-stacking motion of yet another board when he turned and
dropped it on my foot.
It seemed to happen in slow motion.
The off-bearer, who was a stoic Irishman named Rusty Flaherty, saw me standing
there just a fraction of a second after he’d let the board go, and the look of
horror on his face was one I would never forget, and which froze me in place. I
was lucky, they said, because it had narrowly missed my head. But I wasn’t
lucky enough, for even though Papa immediately threw me in the wagon and hauled
me over to Doc Pardie’s house, my foot had never healed right.
The doctor wouldn’t operate because
I was only four and “still had growin’ to do, and there ain’t any use but to
wait ’til she’s done a-doin’ it,” he’d told my father. I heard Papa tell Mama
later that he wouldn’t have let Doc do it anyway, since he smelled like he’d
“dived into a bottle of one hundred proof. Maybe it’ll just straighten out on
its own,” he’d said, without too much conviction in his voice. And it had
healed, just not straight enough or strong enough, and there’d never been
enough money to do anything to correct it.
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AUTHOR BIO:
Janie DeVos is a native of
Coral Gables, Florida. She attended Florida State University, then worked in
the advertising industry for over a decade, including radio, cable television,
public relations and advertising firms. Though her career changed over the
years, one thing didn’t—her love of writing. She is an award winning children's
author. Beneath a Thousand Apple Trees is her adult debut.
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CONNECT WITH JANIE:
Website: http://janiedevos.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/janie.devos
Twitter: https://twitter.com/JanieDeVos/
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BOOK BUY LINKS:
Amazon: http://amzn.to/2c5RHOV
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GIVEAWAY INFO:
Janie
will be awarding a digital copy of Beneath a Thousand Apple Trees to a randomly
drawn winner via Rafflecopter during the tour.
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ReplyDeleteThanks, Fabulous and Brunette. Great job - and great moniker!!
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