Purple Turtle Reads

✨ When the Day Comes by Gabrielle Meyer ✨ How will she choose, knowing all she must sacrifice? Libby has been given a powerful gift: to live one life in 1774 Colonial Williamsburg and the other in 1914 Gilded Age New York City. When she falls asleep in one life, she wakes up in the other. While she's the same person at her core in both times, she's leading two vastly different lives. In Colonial Williamsburg, Libby is a public printer for the House of Burgesses and the Royal Governor, trying to provide for her family and support the Patriot cause. The man she loves, Henry Montgomery, has his own secrets. As the revolution draws near, both their lives--and any hope of love--are put in jeopardy. Libby's life in 1914 New York is filled with wealth, drawing room conversations, and bachelors. But the only work she cares about--women's suffrage--is discouraged, and her mother is intent on marrying her off to an English marquess. The growing talk of war in Europe only complica...

✨ The Forever Cowboy by Jody Hedlund✨ After running away from her wedding and hiding for months, Violet Berkley is back home in the high country of Colorado. Her father’s gambling debt has caught up to him, and he wants Violet and her sister to help him pay it off by working as dancing girls in a saloon. Rather than face such degradation, Violet seeks out the one man she hopes might be willing to help her. Sterling Noble doesn’t want anything to do with Violet after being jilted at the altar by her. He doesn’t want to see her, be near her, or even speak to her. But when she shows up on his doorstep in desperate straits, he’s too kind—and maybe still too in love with her—to do anything but protect her. Violet knows she doesn’t deserve another chance with Sterling, but she wants to prove she’s a new woman. But has she really changed, or are the insecurities still there? Sterling tries hard to resist his old feelings for Violet because his broken heart can’t take another beating. But as t...

✨ December 2025 Reads ✨ Books Read: #1. 12 Days And A Deadline by Jenny Lake #2. 11 Fans Swooning by Jenny Lake #3. 10 Teammates Toasting by Jenny Lake #4. The Call of the Living Water by Alexis M. Melvin ✨ Books: 4 ✨ Pages: 623 ✨ Average Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ ✨ Author(s): Jenny Lake & Alexis M. Melvin ✨ Ebook (75%), Physical (25%) -Christmas (3) -Contemporary (3) -Sports (3) -Romance (4) ✨ Favorite Read of December: The Call of the Living Water by Alexis M. Melvin ✨ I ended 2025 off right with three wonderful Christmas-themed reads by Jenny Lake, accompanied by a faith-filled novel in Alexis M. Melvin's The Call of the Living Water! Excited for what 2026 will bring! Stay tuned for my 2025 reading overview! Happy New Year! 🎉🎉🎉