{"id":249,"date":"2012-12-13T18:52:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-13T18:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/blog\/2012\/12\/13\/christmas-holiday-extravaganza_13\/"},"modified":"2023-05-26T09:28:16","modified_gmt":"2023-05-26T15:28:16","slug":"christmas-holiday-extravaganza_13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/christmas-holiday-extravaganza_13\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Holiday Extravaganza Spotlight #13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Ransomed Hope by Deborah Pierson Dill<\/b><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pelicanbookgroup.com\/ec\/ransomed-hope\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"RansomedHope_w11247_120\" height=\"120\" src=\"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/ec\/images\/stories\/covers\/RansomedHope_w11247_120.jpg\" style=\"float: left; margin: 5px;\" width=\"73\" \/><\/a>\u201cHope deferred makes the heart sick\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Seventeen<br \/>\n years ago, Ashley Turner lost her father as well as Manuel Vega, the<br \/>\nman she loved. Since then, she\u2019s been trying to make the best of a bad<br \/>\nsituation. Now a widow, burdened with the alcoholic brother who<br \/>\nbankrupted the family ranch, and days from foreclosure, she\u2019s beyond<br \/>\nhoping for her situation to improve. Ashley knows God allows adversity<br \/>\nfor a reason, but she can\u2019t begin to comprehend the purpose in her<br \/>\ntroubles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026But a longing fulfilled is a tree of life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When<br \/>\n Manuel makes good on his promise to return after having been harshly<br \/>\nturned out so many years ago, Ashley dares to hope that all is not lost.<br \/>\n His intention is not to rescue her, however, but to pursue revenge for<br \/>\npast wrongs. He soon discovers that his hardened heart is no match for<br \/>\nher renewed hope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ransomed Hope by Deborah Pierson Dill \u201cHope deferred makes the heart sick\u2026\u201d Seventeen years ago, Ashley Turner lost her father as well as Manuel Vega, the man she loved. Since then, she\u2019s been trying to make the best of a bad situation. Now a widow, burdened with the alcoholic brother who bankrupted the family ranch, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[512,746],"tags":[776],"class_list":["post-249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-about-books","category-holidays","tag-holiday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}