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

Excerpt 4

Wouldn’t that just be the icing on a cow pie?

Everything I’d put my faith in had dissipated like summer fog in a holler. It left me standing in front of Nana and Pawpaw’s house with despair deep in my soul, much like I’d done twenty years ago. Except I was no longer a twelve-year-old girl, Nana and Pawpaw were gone, and the house would be more at home in a Flannery O’Connor story than on a quiet road just outside Shelbyville, Tennessee.

Nashville might only have been an hour’s drive away, but the gap between success and failure couldn’t be so easily traversed.

Climbing from my car, I tugged at the sweaty tank top stuck to my back and stared at the dilapidated house that sat in the middle of five acres. The sun was just starting to set, and its glow was a kindness. Nana always said ladies look much better in candlelight—and this old lady was no exception. The once-white exterior had blistered and peeled to expose gray weathered wood beneath. Termites must have feasted for years on the small balcony above the door, and it was now held together by spit and a prayer.

MISSED ANY EXCERPTS, GO HERE:

Excerpt One: https://travelerswife4life.com/night-songs/

Excerpt Two: https://blossomsandblessings.blogspot.com/2022/03/night-songs-epic-book-launch-by.html

Excerpt Three: https://carolkeen.blogspot.com/2022/03/night-songs-by-jennifer-sienes-epic.html

Excerpt Four: https://storiesbygina.wordpress.com/2022/03/24/night-songs-epic-book-launch/

Excerpt Five: http://montanamade.weebly.com/tell-tale-book-reviews/celebrate-lit-epic-book-launch-night-songs-by-jennifer-sienes

Excerpt Six: https://nannie3.blogspot.com/2022/03/night-sobgs.html

Excerpt Seven: https://splashesofjoy.wordpress.com/2022/03/07/night-songs-by-jennifer-sienes-epic-book-launch/

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.