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Newest Release . . . MOLTO MAYHEM

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Summary
"I have already had a golden life, Aiden.” Lucia breathed, forcing herself not to cry. "I couldn't survive losing it again.”

​Home again in Italy, fifteen years after her parents’ tragic death there, Lucia is determined not to lose anything more to the passionate chaos of the beautiful country. The problem is that a part of her she has locked away for years both fears and yearns for that passion. Soon after her plane lands, she's confronted with the mayhem of an aunt who manages the family construction business using mismatched Godfather quotes; the intensity of an uncle who approaches Italian ingredients as if they held the answer to creation; and the love of a quirky English guy whose crumbling villa takes them on a journey around Italy in search of his missing religious icons.

​It all makes Lucia wonder, is it possible to find, rather than lose, your life through passion?

Betting Jessica

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Hung over and tired, twenty-four year old Jessica finds she has made a crazy bet to get a date with her favorite celebrity, Ian Drake. Of course the bet would be unthinkable except for the small problem that she made it with her enemy, Erik. She decides to use the bet as a way to prove to herself and others that when she  sets her mind to something she can truly accomplish it. (more...)

Review
Betting Jessica is a book that is a fun and light read. Wilsted certainly has a gift with the development of her characters... The Book Worm's Library 

Untangling the Knot (Same sweet story, updated cover.)


Summary
“I did what?”
Twenty-eight year old Gabriella Bessu is St. Therese’s meticulous wedding ceremony coordinator. So the fact that she has mistakenly signed her newest couple up for an annulment, rather than a wedding, sends her Catholic guilt into overdrive. 

But who can blame her? The groom is gorgeous and his two kids tug at Gabriella’s heart in a way that overcomes all her best intentions. Before long, she’s in over her head, fixing her mixed-up plans and helping the children and dad come to terms with their haunting grief for the mother and wife they lost years earlier.

Can Gabriella untangle her own fears and accept the messy life that God has handed them?
Reviews
Kathy Dunnehoff - Bestselling author of THE DO-OVER
The perfect wedding cake balances the right amount of sweetness and substance. And let me  just say if Deanne Wilsted's latest novel, Untangling the Knot, was a slice of wedding cake… I'd be  glad I was invited to that wedding! (More...)

Catholic Sentinel - Feb. 12, 2013
WEST LINN — Deanne Wilsted's  new book is so Catholic that it opens in a confessional. But Untangling the  Knot (Soul Mate Publishing) actually has more to do with another sacrament — marriage. 

It's also about human foibles and the dignity of the human spirit, matters that often arise at weddings, for good or ill. The main character, Gabriella, is a wedding planner at St. Therese 
Church in Boston. She begins to organize a wedding ceremony for Ryan and Mandy, only to find that, because of her feeling for Ryan and his kids, she is subconsciously sabotaging plans. She, Ryan and his children all need to come to terms with death, God and love in order to accept the family that is meant to be rather than the one Ryan is trying to create.

The kids' mother — Evie — is a catechist who died young of an aneurysm. Her presence is felt in the book, but not in a ghostly way. One publisher wanted Wilsted to hype the paranormal in 
the book, but she refused, intent on making it a Catholic read.

Wilsted, who lives in West Linn and attends Resurrection Parish, is to be lauded for 
straightforward sentences and paragraphs that read gracefully. . . . (More...)

Other Formats (Including epub for Nook, iPad and Kobo) at - Soul Mate Publishing
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What I'm Reading (or my favs)

Jayber Crow: A Novel by Wendell Berry. Finding self within community. A story of one man's life journey near the river that frames his world. Thought provoking in our current fast-paced lives.

In This House of Brede: A Novel, by Rumor Godden. A beautifully written account of sequestered life in an Abbey. Very inspiring story, rich with descriptions of a peaceful, meditative life... the power of prayer... and fulfilling our purpose.

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows - Hey, fyi, I'm obviously not still reading this.... but I keep it up because it was the last great book I read and I think everyone should read it also.:>)

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