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Welcome to the Blog Tour for Texas Divided by Sherry Shindelar, hosted by JustRead Publicity Tours!

About the Book

Title: Texas Divided
Series: Lone Star Redemption #2
Author: Sherry Shindelar
Publisher: Wild Heart Books
Release Date: March 25, 2025
Genre: Christian Historical Romance

He thought he was rescuing her from the Comanche. Now the Civil War soldier must prove he isn't the villain she thinks he is. 

Driven by the looming expectation of becoming a suffocatingly proper lady, Morning Fawn is determined to escape the confines of her uncle’s plantation and return to her adoptive Comanche tribe. But with each failed attempt, her hopes dwindle, and she wonders if she'll ever find her way back home or if that world is forever lost to her. 

Devon Reynolds, disillusioned by the price of affluence and the horrors of war, leaves his privileged life to join the Texas Rangers and later the cavalry. In the military service, he finds purpose . . . until he loses his wife during childbirth while he is away. In an attempt to redeem himself, he takes one last fateful mission to rescue Morning Fawn from the Comanche. But the results force him to question the righteousness of his actions and the cause he serves. 

When Devon returns to Texas as a Yankee spy, his path crosses with Morning Fawn once more. Determined to save her from the prison of her uncle's house and to recover Texas from the Confederacy, Devon is drawn to her fierce spirit and unwavering resolve. But can two wounded souls, each fighting their own battles, find solace and love amidst the chaos of war?  

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Book Excerpt

Stepping through knee-high sedge grass, First Texas U.S. Cavalryman Lieutenant Devon Reynolds hooked his small shovel on his saddle horn and smacked his gloves together. His shoulders and neck muscles ached as if he’d just finished digging a grave. If they found his buried Federal uniform and his cache of weapons beneath the gnarled roots of the giant elm tree, it’d be his own final resting place. 

He swiped his butternut-colored sleeve across his sweated brow. Leave it to East Texas to be warm even in late November. Tonight, he’d camp beneath the stars miles from here. Somewhere by a creek so he could bathe and clean up. Tomorrow, he’d find Robert LeBeau’s plantation near Columbus, and the act would begin. He’d have to play up his position as a stepson of a planter-class gentleman, even if his slave-owning stepfather was the last man on earth he wanted to emulate. He needed LeBeau to view him as an equal and introduce him as such to the other well-to-do men of Colorado County, not just as the scout he’d hired seventeen months ago to track down his niece and help kidnap her from the Comanche. 

Morning Fawn. How had she fared since she’d been taken to her uncle’s? What would it be like to see her again? For all he knew, she’d managed to escape and return to her people. 

Stubborn. Defiant. During the journey to Fort Belknap, she’d grabbed a gun from one of the younger hands, and Devon had to wrestle her to the ground to get it away from her. Mostly, he’d kept his distance. 

Her eyes haunted him still.

Had he ruined her life or saved her? He prayed to God it was the latter.

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About the Author

Originally from Tennessee, Sherry Shindelar loves to take her readers into the past. A romantic at heart, she is an avid student of the Civil War and the Old West. She fell in love with writing when she was nine-years-old dreaming up stories while playing on her swing set. Decades later, she is living out her dream of writing stories from her heart and sharing them with the world. When she isn’t busy writing, she is an English professor, working to pass on her love of writing to her students. Sherry is an award-winning writer: 2023 ACFW Genesis finalist, 2021 & 2023 Maggie finalist, and 2022 Crown finalist. She currently resides in Minnesota with her husband of forty years. She has three grown children and three grandchildren

Connect with Sherry by visiting sherryshindelar.com to follow her on social media or subscribe to email newsletter updates.

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Tour Giveaway

(1) winner will receive a $25 Amazon gift card, a signed copy of Texas Divided, and two Texas blue bonnet woven coasters!

Full tour schedule linked below. The giveaway begins at midnight March 24, 2025 and will last through 11:59 PM EST on March 31, 2025. Winners will be notified within 2 weeks of close of the giveaway and given 48 hours to respond or risk forfeiture of prize. US/CAN only. Void where prohibited by law or logistics.

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