About the Book
Book: Night Songs
Author: Jennifer Sienes
Genre: Women’s Christian Fiction/ Romance
Release date: April 12, 2022
What’s a girl to do when her life sounds ripped from the lyrics of a country music song?
Charlotte Van Cleave’s hissy-fit reaction to her husband’s infidelity sours her world like a pot of boiled chitlins. She’s left with no husband, no job, and no home—well, besides 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 Congo, endured two late-term miscarriages, and survived the death of her nana and papaw. Too poor to paint and too proud to whitewash, Charlie follows a new path with 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.
What’ll Charlie and Derek have to do to turn those lyrics into a country hit?
BOOK EXCERPT
Night Songs Excerpt 2
“You’re late.” Patrice clamped a hand around my bare upper arm and dragged me into her office.
With gritted teeth, I stepped out of her grasp. “I apologize. It couldn’t be helped.” Confessing that the only thing holding me together was web-thin determination would be pointless. She wasn’t that kind of a boss.
“Juliette Delacroix is here. Again.”
And the hits just kept coming.
Patrice, hands planted on generous hips, leaned toward me. “She’s your client, Charlotte. No more changes. She’s going to run my business into the ground if she keeps this up.”
Your client. My business. Patrice couldn’t have it both ways. “What do you want me to do?”
“I don’t have a clue, but if she costs me any more money, it’s coming out of your commission. Do you hear me?”
Two minutes later, I faced Juliette, Patrice’s bone of contention. She was a challenge, I’d have to agree. But stuck in the middle of Patrice’s mantra, “Give the client what she wants”, and a client who couldn’t make a decision to save her soul left me more confused than a turtle on a center stripe.
I didn’t have a chance to utter a greeting before Juliette jumped in.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Jennifer Sienes holds a bachelor’s in psychology and a master’s in education, but discovered life-experience is the best teacher. She loves Jesus, romance and writing—and puts it altogether in inspirational contemporary fiction. Her daughter’s TBI and brother’s suicide inspired two of her three novels. Although fiction writing is her real love, she’s had several non-fiction pieces published in anthologies including several in Chicken Soup for the Soul. She has two grown children and one very spoiled Maltese. California born and raised, she recently took a step of faith with her real-life hero and relocated to Tennessee.
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