Dear God, Thank you so much for sending your son Jesus so that you could be with us. Thank you for sending Jesus to die for our sins so that we could be your people. Remind us of your gift to us, humble us, and bless us during this season. Amen 親愛なる神よ、 あなたが私たちと共にいてくださるために、御子イエスを遣わしてくださり、本当にありがとうございます。私たちがあなたの民となれるように、イエスを私たちの罪のために死なせてくださり、ありがとうございます。この季節、あなたの賜物を思い起こさせ、へりくだり、祝福してください。 アーメン

I’m trying out the AI-narrated audiobooks on Amazon/Audible for my Lady Wynwood’s Spies series (it was free for me to produce so I figured there wasn’t any harm in trying it out). All 6 volumes now have AI-narrated audiobooks, as well as The Spinster’s Christmas. (I wasn’t able to do The Gentleman Thief because the audiobook is only available to my newsletter subscribers and isn’t on Amazon. However, I am looking into getting an AI-narrated audiobook for that too and will probably sell it on my website.) If you already have an Audible Plus membership, you can listen to the audiobooks for free with your membership . On Amazon, I priced the audiobooks at the minimum of $3.99, but Amazon also has the audiobooks for an additional 30% off. I didn’t do the sale on my end, Amazon decided to do it themselves, so I don’t know how long the sale will last—get it now if you think you might be interested. The button below will take you to the entire Lady Wynwood’s Spies series on Amazon. Cl...

Christine Henderson interviewed me if you’d like to read a little about how I came up with the idea for The Spinster’s Christmas and some tips on writing. Check out the interview. Christine writes Christian contemporary romance and is in the Once Upon a Starry Night box set with me. You can check out her book The Sweetest Delights in Life here .

“Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and they shall call his name Immanuel” (which means, God with us). Matthew 1:23 As we celebrate the birth of Jesus, let's remember the message of love and compassion he brought to the world. Wishing you a blessed and joyous Christmas.

My novel, The Lone Rice Ball , is in the multi-author box set, Once Upon a Starry Night . It’s book 5 in my Christian contemporary romance Sushi series , but you don’t have to read the other books before reading this one. I had a lot of fun writing The Lone Rice Ball because I set it in my home state of Hawaii, on the North Shore of the island where my mother grew up. Most of the places in the book are fictional, including my hero’s uncle’s restaurant, the Molokai Red Restaurant in Haleiwa. I named it after a hibiscus variant that grows in my parents’ yard, which my dad has lovingly tended to for years. This is the Molokai Red hibiscus. Isn’t it beautiful? It’s hard to see in the photo, but it has a rich, dark red color that’s unusual for hibiscus. In the book, I also had the Molokai Red hibiscus bushes growing along the path to the front entrance of the restaurant. But in actuality, it’s not a very common hibiscus variant. I hope you can imagine these lovely flowers whe...

Dear Lord, Thank you for being so merciful and forgiving to us no matter what we’ve done or where we’ve been. Thank you for loving us so much, even when we find it hard to love ourselves. Even if we have rejected you, you still reach out to us and want us to come to you for love and comfort and forgiveness. Thank you for your magnificent grace. Amen 主よ、 私たちが何をしようと、どこにいようと、私たちを憐れみ、赦してくださりありがとうございます。私たちが自分自身を愛することが難しいときでさえ、私たちをこんなにも愛してくださってありがとうございます。たとえ私たちがあなたを拒んだとしても、あなたは私たちに手を差し伸べ、愛と慰めと赦しを求めてあなたのもとに来ることを望んでくださいます。あなたの素晴らしい恵みに感謝します。 アーメン