Night Songs

By Jennifer Sienes

Description:

What’s a girl to do when her life resembles the lyrics for a country-music hit?

Charlotte Van Cleave’s hissy-fit reaction to her husband’s infidelity causes her world to sour like a pot of boiled chitlins. She’s left with no husband, no job, and no home, other than the dilapidated farmhouse inherited from her nana.

But Charlie learned early that southern girls dig deep when things go sideways. She’d climbed out of the mire when her missionary parents were killed in the Congo, survived two late-term miscarriages, and the death of her nana and papaw. Too poor to paint and too proud to whitewash, Charlie finds a new path for her interior design skills.

Derek Daniels spent his life serving his country until a helicopter accident ended his military career. Now back home on the family farm, he’s stuck between his philandering brother, Nicky, and the only girl he’s ever loved—sweet Charlie Van Cleave. Unwilling to cross a line, he vows to keep his feelings to himself. Easier said than done when Charlie discovers a mystery surrounding her parents’ death and asks him to help investigate.

Book Takeaway:

God can and will redeem every poor decision we make if we put our faith in Jesus.

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Why the author wrote this book:

Night Songs is the first book of my new Bedford County Series which is set in middle Tennessee. It was inspired by my move from Northern California (where my previous series is set) to Lewisburg—about an hour south of Nashville. The desire to write in this setting (which I now know is Southern Fiction) started with an evening walk through my new Tennessee neighborhood. The fireflies were blinking like twinkle lights at Christmas, and our neighbor’s magnolia tree was in full bloom. The sights, the smells, the summer storms…I wanted my readers to experience all of this and more.