Thursday Sisterhood with Leann Harris

 Family Status:  married/with children out of house

 What Is Your Favorite Beverage:  sweet tea

 What Is Your Favorite Food: cheese enchiladas

 What Is Your Favorite Thing to do During Free Time:  garden and shopping
   
 Who Has Been the Most Influential Person in Your life: my mother. She has the heart of a lion
and the gentleness of a dove. She told me there was nothing I couldn't do.

 First Book You Fell in Love With:  Honor's Splendor, by Julie Garwood 

A Book You Wish You’d Written: Wow, that I can't name. I've enjoyed so many other writers and books.

 First Book Published: Bride on the Run

 Most Recent Book:  A Ranch to Call Home

 Out Next:  The book doesn't have an official name. I call it Joel's Journey

 How Many Have You Written: 17

 What Do You Know Now That You Wish You’d Known Then: Don't stress. And enjoy your children when they are young.


 What is Your Favorite Bible Story:  Jonathan and David.

 What is Your Favorite Bible Verse: Romans 8:38-- For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angles nor demons, neither present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, not anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

 What is Your Favorite Hymn:  Growing up Catholic, I don't remember too many hymns (I can sing them in Latin), but one of the songs that touch me the most right now is Where I Belong by Building 429.

 What is an Ongoing Prayer Request You Have: To continue healing from my lymphoma and get back to normal.

Interview for A Ranch to Call Home

How exciting to have Captain Brenda Kaye the heroine from A Ranch to Call Home written by Leann Harris, a March 2014 release from Love Inspired Romance .

1. Captain Kaye, tell me the most interesting thing about you.

    It’s ex-captain, since I resigned my commission the first of this year. One of the most interesting things about me was when I was in the army, I was part of an all-female team. We met with the Iraqi women, seeing what their needs were and tried to address them.

2. What do you do for fun?

    Fun?  It’s been a while since I’ve done anything for fun.  I worked hard to recover from the wounds I received when Iraq.  Fun?  Every place I was stationed, I found a stable and rode.  Since I grew up on a Texas ranch, riding is the way I relax.

3. What do you put off doing because you dread it?

     I put off facing the memories of my parents’ and grandmother’s deaths. They were killed by a drunk driver on New Year’s Eve coming home from church.  That’s the reason I joined the army the day after I graduated from high school.

4. What are you afraid of most in life?

    Again dealing with those memories.  I ran.  How could God allow those wonderful people to die when the drunk driver lived?  I’m also wrestling with the memories of the Iraqi women who were meeting with me when the suicide bomber walked into the restaurant and blew himself up.  I was the only survivor.

5. What is the most important thing to you?

     I want to help other soldiers deal with flash backs and guilt of living when so many died.  I know how they feel.  Maybe helping others will help me.

6. Do you read books? If so, what is your favorite type of book?

     I love reading.  If I can get my hands on a book, I read it.  I grew up reading Zane Grey.

7. If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?

    To have courage to face the hurts in my life. If I faced those wounds, I wouldn’t have married my ex.  He wasn’t the answer to my turmoil, but only added to my problems. I ended up being a meal ticket for him.

8.  Do you have a pet? If so, what is it and why that pet?

    My horse wouldn’t be considered a pet.  Midnight is a friend and an outstanding counselor.  She’s a great listener and makes me think.

9. If you could travel back in time, where would you go and why?

    I would like to go to 1066 and talk to King Harold Godwin of England who first defeated the Vikings at Stamford Bridge, and then turned around and fought The Duke of Normandy at the battle of Hastings and lost.  What was it in the battle that changed and allowed William to win?  The soldier in me is interested in the tactics.

FEATURED BOOK: A Ranch to Call Home by Leann Harris

A Cowboy's Promise 

The thrill of the rodeo is gone for cowboy Caleb Jensen. Nowadays, he helps out at a Texas ranch, keeping bad memories locked away. Then the ranch owner's granddaughter unexpectedly returns home—with a request he can't accept. Former army captain Brenda Kaye is organizing a charity rodeo, and she needs Caleb to get back in the saddle. She's determined to save her family's ranch, even if it means working with the smart-aleck cowboy—and uncovering the mysteries that lie in their pasts. Brenda's used to the dangers of war, but if she trusts Caleb, could the next casualty be her heart? 

Rodeo Heroes: Only love can tame these cowboys