Author Archives: Norma Downing

About Norma Downing

Christian romance author Norma Downing has been writing for years. She writes both contemporary and historical. She currently has a contract with CrossLink Publishing for her first novel, A Promise Made, set in Kansas in 1899.

Book Review: With Every Memory, by Janine Rosche

Posted on July 5, 2023 by Norma Downing

From the Back Cover Is the life she can’t remember one she’d rather forget? One year after her family was in a tragic car accident that killed her teenage son, Lori Mendenhall returns home with a traumatic brain injury that … Continue reading →

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Book Review: The Long March Home, by Marcus Brotherton and Tosca Lee

Posted on May 1, 2023 by Norma Downing

From the Back Cover: Jimmy Propfield joined the army for two reasons: to get out of Mobile, Alabama, with his best friends Hank and Billy and to forget his high school sweetheart, Claire. Life in the Philippines seems like paradise–until … Continue reading →

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Book Review: The Maid of Ballymacool, by Jennifer Deibel

Posted on March 7, 2023 by Norma Downing

From the Back Cover Brianna Kelly has worked at Ballymacool House and Boarding School since she was a wee girl and will likely die there. Despite a sense that she was made for something more, Brianna feels powerless to change … Continue reading →

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Book Review: The Secrets of Emberwild, by Stephenia H. McGee

Posted on November 8, 2022 by Norma Downing

From the back cover: A gifted trainer in a time women are not allowed to race, Nora Fenton prefers horses to men. They’re easier to handle, they’re more reliable, and they never tell her what to do. After her father’s … Continue reading →

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Book Review: A Quilt For Christmas, by Melody Carlson

Posted on October 5, 2022 by Norma Downing

From the Back Cover: Christmas should be celebrated with family. But for Vera Swanson, that’s not an option this year. Widowed and recently relocated, she is lonely in her condo-for-one–until little Fiona Albright knocks on her door needing help. With … Continue reading →

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Book Review: The Master Craftsman by Kelli Stuart

Posted on May 9, 2022 by Norma Downing

From the back cover: In 1917, Alma Pihl, a master craftsman in the House of Fabergé, was charged to protect one of the greatest secrets in Russian history–an unknown Fabergé Egg that Peter Karl Fabergé secretly created to honor his … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Until Leaves Fall in Paris

Posted on April 4, 2022 by Norma Downing

From the Back Cover Paris, 1940When the Nazis march toward Paris, American ballerina Lucie Girard buys her favorite English-language bookstore to allow the Jewish owners to escape. The Germans make it difficult for her to keep Green Leaf Books afloat. … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Beyond the Tides, by Liz Johnson

Posted on August 28, 2021 by Norma Downing

From the back cover: About the Author Liz Johnson is the author of more than a dozen novels, including A Sparkle of Silver, A Glitter of Gold, The Red Door Inn, Where Two Hearts Meet, and On Love’s Gentle Shore, … Continue reading →

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Book Review: facing the dawn, by Cynthia Ruchti

Posted on March 16, 2021 by Norma Downing

From the back cover: While her humanitarian husband Liam has been digging wells in Africa, Mara Jacobs has been struggling. She knows she’s supposed to feel a warm glow that her husband is eight time zones away, caring for widows … Continue reading →

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Book review: When Twilight Break, by Sarah Sundin

Posted on February 25, 2021 by Norma Downing

From the Back Cover Munich, 1938 Evelyn Brand is an American foreign correspondent determined to prove her worth in a male-dominated profession and to expose the growing tyranny in Nazi Germany. To do so, she must walk a thin line. … Continue reading →

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