Favorite Author: Shelley Shepard Gray

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10/14/2024

by Carla

This week my focus is on one of my favorite authors, Shelley Shephard Gray. Gray is a New York Times and USA Today Best Selling Author. For those of you who are not into the Amish Romance the way I am, she does write contemporary clean, closed-door romances as well. She also knows how to bring the suspense. Gray doesn’t always give the neat and tidy ending your looking for. For example, if a character is looking to become Amish, that may or may not happen. I’m always one to root for the conversion but in real life that’s highly unlikely to happen and she seems to incorporate this reality into her books. Here are some of the books I’ve reviewed on the blog but I’ve read so much more.

A is for Amish This is the first in the new series Amish ABCs. I can’t recommend the series enough.
B is for Bonnet The second in the series Amish ABCs. I can’t wait for number three!
The Christmas Gathering Collection This is a collection of novellas and there is one by Gray. I review each story seperately so you can see my thoughts on hers.

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2 responses to “Favorite Author: Shelley Shepard Gray”

Lisa R. Howeler

10/14/2024

I have that Christmas one with her novella in it to read and I enjoyed reading about her others. I am going to go read the other reviews as well!

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1. Carla Bruns
  
  10/15/2024
  
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I’m Carla

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