Out of Their Element

Our own IBLF-er Robin Lee Hatcher and I, along with authors Angela Breidenbach and Vickie McDonough, have a fun new collection of four full-length novels that released earlier this month. Available for your Kindle (or any reader that uses the Kindle app), Out of Their Element features four mismatched couples who find unexpected romance.

I’m especially partial to our beautiful book cover because it was designed by my husband, Ken Raney.

Here are sneak peeks at the four novels included:

Whispers From Yesterday

(Christy Award winner and RITA Award finalist) 
by Robin Lee Hatcher

Following her father’s death and her own attempted suicide, pampered socialite Karen Butler reluctantly seeks refuge at the home of Sophia Taylor, the grandmother she has never known. Determined to escape Sophia’s broken-down ranch as soon as she can, Karen resists connecting with its inhabitants – especially Dusty Stoddard, the driven director of the Golden T’s summer camp for at-risk youth. For through their kindness and acceptance, along with the diaries of a remarkable woman who died twenty-eight years before she was born, Karen will discover hidden secrets and amazing truths that could lead her to the greatest love of all.

Footprints On Her Heart

(A brand new novel)

by Angela Breidenbach


For fans of A Healing Heart, Footprints On Her Heart features an all grown up Cadence Keegan in her own love story. She’s a fitness coach thrown into an impromptu relationship with Jackson Campbell, a computer whiz and game designer, when a troubled girl causes a fire damaging both businesses. After the teen delinquent is ordered into restitution work, Cadence and Jackson are brought face-to-face with a choice between individual dreams and a future together. Can love overcome all their obstacles or will her heart be trampled?

A Wagonload of Trouble

(Finalist in Heartsong Presents Favorite Novel Award, previously published in Wyoming Weddings)

by Vickie McDonough

A computer geek is completely out of his element in the wilds of Wyoming. While his sister stays home with her sick son, Evan reluctantly accompanies his niece on a two-week wagon train tour with her history class, despite a pressing business deadline. The pretty gal heading up the tour thinks he’s a total greenhorn, but he can’t help being attracted to the competent woman who seems to have it all together. When the tour is sabotaged, will Evan’s unique skills help solve the mystery?

All the Promises

(a Carol Award finalist previously published as Silver Bells)

by Deborah Raney


Michelle Penn has dropped out of college to work as a reporter for a tiny weekly newspaper. The boss’s handsome son, Robert Merrick III, is quickly making her forget all about her former sweetheart, but Rob is forbidden by office policy to date Michelle. His father is standing firm on that policy, but if Rob leaves the company he’ll have nothing to offer the woman he’s quickly falling in love with. It seems they need a small miracle to be able to keep all the promises they’ve made—to themselves and to each other.

The four of us shared ideas on a Skype call back in October of 2017. These things don’t happen overnight so you can imagine how excited we are to see our book finally available to readers!

We had so much fun putting this collection together—from a Skype call to work out the details, to many hours of email exchanges, to (of course!) the months spent writing and editing our stories. Angela’s story is brand new, never before published, the other three stories are award-winning reader favorites that we’re excited to share in this new format.

You can order your copy here for only $6.99. That’s four full-length novels for under $7! And if you happen to be a Kindle Unlimited member, you can read all four novels for FREE with your membership! As always, if you enjoy the collection, we hope you’ll tell your friends and family about it, and maybe even write a review for amazon.com.

We appreciate our loyal readers more than you’ll ever know, and we’re excited to have this collection of sweet romances to share with you. There’s still a sliver of summer left… Why not spend it reading great books!

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Deborah Raney

DEBORAH RANEY's first novel, A Vow to Cherish, inspired the World Wide Pictures film of the same title and launched Deb’s writing career. Forty books later, she's still creating stories that touch hearts and lives. Her novels have won RWA's RITA Award, the ACFW Carol Award, the National Readers Choice Award, and the HOLT Medallion. She is also a three-time Christy Award finalist. Deb is on faculty for several national writers’ conferences and served on the executive board of the 2,500-member American Christian Fiction Writers organization for 18 years before retiring in 2022. She is a recent transplant to Missouri, having moved with her husband, Ken Raney, from their native Kansas to be closer to kids and grandkids. They love road trips, e-biking, Friday garage sale dates, and breakfast on the screened porch overlooking their wooded backyard.

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