Return of the Song by Phyllis Clark Nichols -- Blog Tour Review + Giveaway

​Welcome to the Blog Tour & Giveaway for Return of the Song by Phyllis Clark Nichols, hosted by JustRead Publicity Tours!

About the Book

Title: Return of the Song
Series: The Rockwater Suite #1
Author: Phyllis Clark Nichols
Publisher: Gilead Publishing
Release Date: September 18, 2018
Genre: Contemporary Women’s Fiction

When Caroline lost her love, she lost the music too.

Caroline Carlyle's dreams were crushed when her fiancé died six weeks before their wedding. For years she wrestled with aching loss and shattered faith, struggling to find the inspiration that once came so easily. Abandoning her half-finished piano compositions, Caroline trades her old ambitions for the comfort and familiarity of life as the town’s piano teacher.
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But Caroline's world turns upside down when a mysterious stranger enters her life. Filled with courage and fresh purpose, Caroline embarks on a quest to track down the beloved, rare piano she played as a child. Her search leads her to Rockwater, the Kentucky estate of a wealthy gentleman, where Caroline finds her heart may be composing a surprising new song.

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About the Author

Phyllis Clark Nichols’s character-driven Southern fiction explores profound human questions using the imagined residents of small town communities you just know you’ve visited before. With a strong faith and a love for nature, art, music, and ordinary people, she tells redemptive tales of loss and recovery, estrangement and connection, longing and fulfillment . . . often through surprisingly serendipitous events.

Phyllis grew up in the deep shade of magnolia trees in South Georgia. Born during a hurricane, she is no stranger to the winds of change: In addition to her life as a novelist, Phyllis is a seminary graduate, concert pianist, and cofounder of a national cable network with health- and disability-related programming. Regardless of the role she’s playing, Phyllis brings creativity and compelling storytelling.

She frequently appears at conventions, conferences, civic groups, and churches, performing half-hour musical monologues that express her faith, joy, and thoughts about life—all with the homespun humor and gentility of a true Southern woman.
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Phyllis currently serves on several nonprofit boards. She lives in the Texas Hill Country with her portrait-artist husband.

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Review

Return of the Song by Phyllis Clark Nichols is a beautiful and inspiring story.  This story is about love, loss, devastation, faith, and the lack thereof.  It’s about trying to move on when your heart and soul are still broken.  Nichols has written a story that dives deep into the emotions of its readers, as they too become invested in the journey of a woman’s aching heart as she strives to pick up the pieces of her shattered life and strives to cope and move forward.  It’s about overcoming an excruciating hardship and maybe just maybe bringing music back into her life and also once again finding love.  This inspiring story is one that will move and touch the heart of readers throughout the entire story.  
 
Series: Rockwater Suite
Genre: inspirational, romance, Christian, women’s fiction
Publisher: Gilead Publishing
Publication date: September 18, 2018
Number of pages: 400
 
A review copy of this book was provided by the publisher via JustRead Publicity Tours.  A review was not required and all views and opinions expressed are my own.

Giveaway

(1) winner will receive (US only)

• a print copy of Christmas at Grey Sage
• a print copy of Return of the Song

Enter via the Rafflecopter giveaway below. Giveaway will begin at midnight November 12, 2018 and last through 11:59pm November 19, 2018. US only. Winners will be notified within a week of close of the giveaway and given 48 hours to respond or a new winner will be chosen.
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