The Good Ole Summertime!

 

Summertime Exploring--And Research View in browser  July 2025 I am recovering from surgery but also remembering a great summer day doing research at Boone Hall plantation in Charleston, South Carolina,  for my first novel, Summer of Deception! Check out that front oak-lined romantic drive. It's a great place to visit this summer and is still a working plantation actually in Mt. Pleasant. Hubby Dwayne took this above picture and I took the one below. Grab Summer of Deception on Amazon for 2.99 and join Rachel York and wounded Marine hero Luke Barrett for a great Charleston romantic suspense on an historic tea plantation! https://amzn.to/40NknTv                           *** Faith Thought I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. Isa.48:10 If afflictions come, I can still be at peace for God has chosen me. Sickness, you may intrude into my life, but I have a cure standing ready--God has chosen me. Financial setback, you may creep through my door, but God is already in my house, and He has chosen me. So I stand and praise Him and know He's working all things together for my good. (Copied, edited) Have a blessed, exploring, safe July!  Elva Elva Cobb Martin, a multi-published author, is a retired school teacher, a mother, and grandmother who lives in South Carolina with her high school sweetheart husband, Dwayne. She grew up on a farm in South Carolina and spends vacations on the Carolina Coast and the Blue Ridge Mountains. Redirect links: Trailer to Summer of Deception: http://bit.ly/2D8Zzg1 Link to her books on Amazon https://amzn.to/3jdvHFu Connect with Elva  Website: http://www.elvamartin.com Elva Cobb Martin, Blessed Author  Anderson, South Carolina United States of America http://www.elvamartin.com ; You received this email because you signed up on our website, through a contest, or made a purchase from us. Thanks!

NEW RELEASE ALERT 50% OFF MARCH 24

New Release Alert!

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SUMMER OF DECEPTION inspirational romantic suspense. Discount is on publisher site only and for print and eBook   Click here :

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The cover for Summer of Deception, my debut romantic suspense novel, has my hero/heroine on the front cover, lovely southern azaleas and Boone Hall Plantation in Charleston, SC, my setting, that I renamed Barrett Hall. 

Summer of Deception 

A wounded warrior . . . a woman searching for truth.  

  Rachel Ann York has no idea that love, adventure, and a shocking revelation await her in Charleston, South Carolina. What can be better than spending a summer taking care of a five-year-old girl on a working tea plantation? Most importantly, she wants to investigate her brother's Atlantic plane crash and death reported by the Charleston Drug Enforcement Administration. 

        She arrives at Barrett Hall and discovers a handsome new owner and widower back from the Middle East War,the child's father,who knows nothing about her job offer by his deceased uncle. He threatens to send her home. 

        Even with his eye patch, bitterness and distrust, Luke Barrett captures Rachel's heart until the night she finds evidence he is following in the footsteps of his pirate ancestor, Captain Bloodstone, but in smuggling the white gold, cocaine, which cost her brother's life during his Carolina coastal investigation. 

         Rachel finds her faith tested by deception, danger and love. Will Luke find his faith again--and a second chance at love?     

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Blessings,
Elva Cobb Martin

​Author Elva Cobb Martin is president of the South Carolina Chapter of American Christian Fiction Writers (2014-2017). She is a former school teacher and a graduate of Anderson University and Erskine College. Decision, Charisma, and Home Life have carried her articles. Summer of Deception, her debut inspirational romantic suspense novel is to be released March, 24, 2017, by Pelican Books. She has also contracted an historical romance, In a Pirate’s Debt, slated for release by Lighthouse Publishing of the Carolinas in May, 2017. She has published a Bible study, Power Over Satan, available on Amazon.com, and she coordinates an internet Prayer Task Force. Elva is represented by Jim Hart of Hartline Literary. A mother and grandmother, Elva lives with her husband Dwayne and a mini-dachshund writing helper, Lucy, and a parakeet named Tweetie, in Anderson, South Carolina. She would love for  you to connect with her on her web site www.elvamartin.com, her blog http://carolinaromancewit helvamartin.blogspot.com on Twitter http://www.twitter.com/Elvacobbmartin , Facebook http://www.facebook.com/elvacobbmartin, and Pinterest https://www.pinterest.com/elva cobbmartin/