B. J. Bassett's Early Christmas Gift -- Great Gift Idea

B. J. Bassett received an early Christmas gift. Her books, Gillian’s Heart and Sweet Charity have been republished and are available on Amazon. Signed copies with an invoice are also available. Email her at bassett106@charter.net with an order. Books are $10 each plus $3 for shipping. Put Book Order as the Subject. Signed books make great gifts.

Gillian’s Heart

Book Blurb

     

       Gillian Grant, abandoned by her alcoholic parents, is raised by her grandmother in a beach house overlooking the Pacific in Reagan Beach, California.

As a tribute to Gram’s memory, Gillian is determined to restore the house to its original beauty and hires Dusty, a handyman and surfer, to help her. Dusty shares the apartment above the garage with Gillian’s childhood friend, Josh.

Gillian and Dusty have nothing in common, except the restoration of the house. Later they discover their shared grief for beloved grandparents. But Gillian also suffers from anorexia and abandonment, and is in denial. While she has a strong faith in God, Dusty is an unbeliever. Concern for his salvation, they agree he will attend church if she will attend a twelve-step program.

It is during a twelve-step meeting Betsy, Gillian’s mother, arrives and announces the house was left to her, not Gillian, and she plans to sell it.

Gillian always dreamed of her wedding in her grandmother’s garden overlooking the Pacific. Will there be a wedding? Who will capture Gillian’s heart—stable Josh or can she trust Dusty, a new Christian, who has kept secrets from her? And who holds the deed to the house?

Sweet Charity

Book Blurb

Dr. Nancy St. John has a well-kept, twenty-year-old secret.

A pregnant high school senior, she is banished by her parents to live with her spinster aunt in Chicago.

            Heartbroken, Nancy concentrates on her work and avoids intimate relationships. Hope, the daughter Nancy gave up for adoption twenty years earlier, finds her. A bond blossoms between them but is challenged by Hope’s leukemia. Hope needs a bone marrow transplant, but she has a rare blood type. Nancy is not a match. Nancy is determined to find Skip, Hope’s biological father, who never knew about Nancy’s pregnancy or why she disappeared so mysteriously.

B. J. Bassett is an author, teacher and speaker. Her books include a historical novel Lily,Gillian’s Heart, and Sweet Charity. She coauthoredMy Time with God with over 55,000 copies sold (out of print).

As a contributing writer, publications consist of Writer’s Handbook 2000, The Writer, and The Focus on the Family Guide to Growing a Healthy Home, Wolgemuth & Hyatt, Publishers, Inc.—consistently on Bookstore Journal’s Best-selling Christian Books List from November 1990 - February 1991, and voted the 10 Best Books for 1990 by Today’s Christian Woman.

Magazines, devotional booklets, curriculum and newspaper publishers include Focus on the Family, Woman’s World, The Quiet Hour, Pathways to God, Devotions, Harcourt Brace, WordAction, Gospel Publishing and Times Standard (newspaper).

She teaches writing workshops at Umpqua Community College, Roseburg, OR, and at writer’s conferences and is a speaker for Stonecroft Ministries. Her speaking also includes book talks on her historical novel, Lily.

Memberships include American Christian Fiction Writers (ACFW) and Oregon Christian Writers (OCW).