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Welcome To My Website!

I'm Laurie Kingery, an author of inspirational historical romance. Some of you may have known me as Laurie Grant when I wrote historical romance for such publishers as Harlequin Historicals, Leisure, and Warner Popular Library. I'm especially happy if you made your way here through a link on my old website at www.sff.net/people/LaurieGrant.

As my biography indicates, I've written and published sixteen historical romances. I'm an evangelical Christian, however, and the Lord has now opened the door for me to write for Him—that's how I view writing inspirational fiction. To me, one man + one woman + faith =one dynamic story.

I'm also a native Texan, though I now live in "exile" outside that wonderful state. While Heaven is my soul's eventual home, Texas is my heaven-on-earth.  I'm never so happy as when I'm gazing at a field of glorious field of bluebonnets in the spring, breathing in their faint, somewhat peppery scent, or staring in awe at the rolling blue hills in the distance in the Hill Country, watching a roadrunner streak down the side of the road, riding a horse through liveoak groves or over cactus- and mesquite studded hills, dishing into some wonderful Texas "soul food"—steak, blackeyed peas, Tex-Mex dishes, or visiting with my relatives who still live there…

As this website is being constructed, the release of my first book with the new Steeple Hill Love Inspired Historical line, Hill Country Christmas, is still months away—October '08. It's the story of Delia Keller, who is left destitute when her grandfather, the town preacher, dies, and Jude Tucker, a drifter who brings her the startling news that she is now an heiress. Jude's been scarred by the Civil War and he's running from the job the Lord's given him to do, and from love. I hope you'll find the story of how these two fulfill their destiny as enjoyable as it was to write.

Currently I'm working on "The Simpson Creek Brides," a series that takes the "mail order bride" idea and turns it around. In 1865, the Civil War has ended, but the single ladies in the small Texas town of Simpson Creek are faced with a dilemma: no unmarried men have returned from the war. Milly Matthews is not willing to meekly surrender to spinsterhood, nor does she want to leave home to find her mate, so she organizes the ladies to advertise for mail order grooms. In "MAIL ORDER COWBOY," which comes out in mid-November 2010 from Love Inspired Historicals. Milly Matthews is the first lucky lady to find the man God has chosen for her husband, but town disapproval, a grasping neighbor who covets her ranch, bigotry and Comanches stand between Milly and Nick and their road to happiness.

Its sequel, THE DOCTOR TAKES A WIFE, which will be out in mid-January 2011, deals with Milly's sister Sarah and the town's new physician. Sarah's fiancee is one who never came back from the war. Can Sarah learn to love a new man--even if he's one of the hated Yankees? The book I just finished, THE SHERIFF'S SWEETHEART, will be out in mid-April 2011, and deals with Sarah's friend Prissy Gilmore, the vivacious strawberry blond daughter of the mayor of Simpson Creek, the richest man in town. She is in love with love--but what if her true love, who's supposedly come to be the new sheriff, is really a down-on-his-luck gambler on the run?

Next I'll be writing Caroline Wallace's story. She's the new schoolmarm, and after the death of her fiancee, has vowed to devote herself only to her schoolchildren. But can a new man with two motherless children make her change her mind?"

Laurie Kingery