Before I Wake – Dee Henderson

The huge Dee Henderson fan that I am, I looked forward to the release of “Before I Wake” most anxiously and have been reading it every night before bed for the last week. Rae Gabriella was a police officer before she joined the FBI. Bruce Chapel, her boyfriend, was sad to see her move to Washington DC in the course of her work, but he knew it would be good for her career. Eleven years have gone by since then, and Rae has resigned from the FBI due to a case gone terribly wrong. When Bruce contacts her and asks … Continue reading

True Courage – Dee Henderson

“True Courage,” book four of the “Uncommon Heroes” series by Dee Henderson, takes us away from the world of SEALs we entered in the first three books and immerses us in the workings of the FBI. Agent Luke Falcon is dating his cousin Mark’s sister-in-law Caroline and feels deeply for her, but his work keeps getting in the way. They first met when Mark married Caroline’s sister Sharon and hit it off right away, but a year has passed and their relationship just isn’t progressing. Luke’s job requires that he maintain emotional distance from his projects, and Caroline puts her … Continue reading

True Honor – Dee Henderson

“True Honor,” book three of the “Uncommon Heroes” series by Dee Henderson features Darcy St. James, a retired CIA agent with a million-dollar bounty on her head, placed there by an angry criminal. She has gone into hiding for her own safe keeping when she gets a call from her old partner at headquarters – a Russian spy wants to give some information to the CIA but he’ll only do it if Darcy is the liaison. She feels she ought to go – she and the spy have a long history together, but when she arrives at the meeting place, … Continue reading

True Valor – Dee Henderson

In volume two of the “Uncommon Heros” series by Dee Henderson, we get to know Grace Yates, a young woman who has known her whole life that she is meant to be a naval aviator. Now one of the foremost female aviators in the military, she has the respect of her peers, but very few close friends. Life dealt her a blow she couldn’t shrug off, and she keeps her distance from those around her. Bruce Stanton is a major, an Air Force Pararescue Jumper. He met Grace through his sister, who is Grace’s one close friend, and he found … Continue reading

True Devotion – Dee Henderson

After completing the O’Malley series, which was a tribute to our firefighters, social workers, and crime fighters, Dee Henderson wrote the “Uncommon Heroes” series, a tribute to our men and women who fight for us in the military. In “True Devotion,” the first book of this series, we meet Kelly Jacobs, a young widow of three years whose husband, Nick, was a SEAL. She was told that he died in a training accident and she was given a folded flag to remember him by, but nothing can erase the pain and hurt of his passing. She throws herself into her … Continue reading

Author Interview: Leigh Bale (part four) Plans for the Future

Thank you for joining us for our fourth installment of our interview with award-winning inspirational novelist, Leigh Bale. If you missed parts one, two or three, click here to see what we’ve been talking about. Leigh, I was hunting around on your website and found a reference to your very first book, which you describe as being pretty bad. Do you have any plans to polish it up and submit it? Absolutely not! (I’m chuckling here.) That book is so horrible, and would need such massive work, that I might just as well start over completely. But writing that book … Continue reading