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About the Book

Book Title: Weaving Roots

Author Name: Heather Wood

Genre: Christian Historical Fiction with Romance

Release Date: June 25, 2024

Baltimore, 1828

Spinning. Turning flax to fine linen thread for her family’s weaving business keeps Betha’s hands occupied all day, but it’s the concerns spinning in her heart that never truly rest. How can she give her nephew Henry a secure, loving home when his father remains indifferent? How can she guide the boy who calls her “Ma” to know and follow the Lord for himself? And when past secrets and future changes collide, will she lose Henry altogether?

Colm Gallagher is passionate about teaching boys using innovative educational methods. But is his kind and thorough instruction enough if he is not allowed to give his students the ultimate truth of God’s Word? Confronted by his student Henry Young and the boy’s lovely but determined aunt, Colm considers if he has allowed practical considerations to outweigh his deepest-held beliefs.

Even as Betha and Colm are drawn to each other, family loyalties, financial pressures, and personal uncertainties push them further apart. Will the threads of their lives unravel or become knit together into something stronger?

Weaving linen is her family’s legacy. Weaving roots of truth and grace is her calling.

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Book Excerpt

August 1827

Baltimore, Maryland

Betha studied the two-story brick building before her, praying that this wasn’t yet another of Seamus’s bad ideas.

“Are you nervous?”

Her nephew’s voice pulled her gaze from the boxy red structure to the blue eyes tilted up beneath his plaid cap. A face that before much longer would stand eye to eye with her.

She smiled at how well Henry knew her, and wrapping an arm around him, pulled him against her best calico dress.

“Enrolling you in school oughtn’t be too frightenin’.” As long as they weren’t making a mistake by sending him to the Oliver Hibernian Free School. It didn’t matter how much she tried to convince her brother of the importance of a quality education for Henry; linen wasn’t selling the way it used to, and the expense of a paid school would make things tight for them. A sacrifice Seamus wasn’t as willing to make for his son as she was.

“Are you nervous?” Betha asked, turning the question around on Henry. Facing unfamiliar situations and people wasn’t her favorite thing to do, but she wasn’t the one starting a new school in a new city, and if she’d learned anything this year, it was that the ten-year-old by her side was far more resilient than she gave him credit for.

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Excerpt Two: https://www.amoderndayfairytale.net/2024/06/weaving-roots-epic-book-launch.html
Excerpt Three: https://blossomsandblessings.blogspot.com/2024/06/weaving-roots-by-heather-wood-epic-book.html
Excerpt Four: https://storiesbygina.com/2024/06/06/weaving-roots-epic-book-launch-with-celebrate-lit-publicity/
Excerpt Five: https://www.guildmaster97.com/posts/weaving-roots-epic-book-launch/
Excerpt Six: https://montanamade.weebly.com/tell-tale-book-reviews/epic-book-launch-weaving-roots-by-heather-wood

Excerpt Seven: https://carolkeen.blogspot.com/2024/05/weaving-roots-epic-book-launch.html

About the Author – Heather Wood

Heather Wood grew up in the Chicago suburbs, loving history, classic literature, writing stories, and Civil War reenacting. After obtaining her bachelor’s degree in Bible/Theology from Appalachian Bible College, she settled in Virginia with her husband David. Her early passions fuel her writing today, although she spends most of her days now working to infuse her love for God and good literature into the hearts of her four children.

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