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Greta Picklesimer: Spotlight on The Rejected Mail-Order Bride & a Giveaway

June 19, 2024 /

I hope you enjoy this week’s spotlight on Greta Picklesimer and her Historical Romance, The Rejected Mail-Order Bride.

Be sure to leave a comment below by June 25 for a chance to win her book. US winner’s choice of an ebook or paperback OR an ebook for an international winner.

My book, the second in the Love in the Kentucky Hills series, The Rejected Mail-Order Bride is about two wounded souls finding solace in the Lord and each other in 1871. The heroine, Rose Henderson, is running from a tainted future. The hero, Harl Adams, is running from his past. Can these two discover true love with each other or will scorned love tear them apart?

The reason I chose to set the book in a fictitious town in southeastern Kentucky is because I was born and raised in Michigan by Kentucky transplanted parents. My father was part of the great northern migration to find work in the 1950s. 

Once our family was settled in Michigan, we spent many happy summer vacations visiting family in eastern and southeastern Kentucky. I loved exploring those hills and sitting on porch swings listening to stories about the history of my ancestors. I loved listening to the song of the elusive Whippoorwill who flitted about in the trees on the hill across the way at dusk while we sat on straight-back, cane-bottom chairs on the front porch.  

Even though I wasn’t born or raised there, Kentucky has always held a special spot in my heart. It’s a place of peace, faith and hope that I want to share with readers.

Thanks so much for sharing the inspiration behind your novel’s setting, Greta. My husband and I visited our daughter in Louisville years ago when she and her husband lived there. It was beautiful!

Comment on @GretaPicklesime’s spotlight post by June 25 for a chance to win her book, The Rejected Mail-Order Bride. (Paperback or ebook for US winner or ebook for international) #giveaway

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Join the conversation. Are you a Historical Romance fan? What about mail-order bride stories? Have you visited Kentucky? Do you have any questions or comments for Greta?

Be sure to comment below by June 25 for a chance to win Greta’s book! One US winner will receive their choice of an ebook or paperback, or an international winner will receive an ebook.

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The Rejected Mail-Order Bride by Greta Picklesimer

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When Rose Henderson steps off the train at the Harrisville Depot, she is confident that she can make a new start as a hatmaker and create a home for herself as far away from her father and his plans for her as possible. But when she meets the man who has promised to marry her, she suddenly finds her plans beginning to unravel. With barely any money to her name and an unstable future ahead of her, will Rose be able to find a place for herself in Harrisville, or will she have to succumb to her father’s will instead?


Harl Adams is a self-proclaimed bachelor, content to live on his family’s apple orchard and take care of his mother and the farm. Harl’s past as a soldier in the Civil War still haunts him, keeping him from any possible future with a wife and children. But when he meets Rose Henderson, Harl sees things quite differently. Rose is unlike any woman he has ever met before, and she challenges him to see things in a whole new way. Unfortunately, Rose has come to Harrisville to marry someone else, and Rose does not share the same faith that Harl does.


With a past chasing at her heels and an unsure future in front of her, what choice will Rose make?

Greta Picklesimer is a Christian historical romance author with two traditionally published books under her belt and another one in the works. She was raised by Kentucky transplanted parents in Michigan.

When she is not writing, she spends her time working on her art/scrapbook journal, listening to audiobooks and dreaming up her next novel.

She is owned by one rescue cat she named Pearlie Blue after one of her father’s favorite Bluegrass songs.

By day, Greta works as an office assistant. At night, she writes.

Connect with Greta: Newsletter / Facebook / Twitter / TikTok / Instagram

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If you missed last week’s interview with Terri Reed, find it here.

As a Jesus girl for more than thirty years, Deena Adams understands how important hope is to daily life, which fuels her passion to inspire others through hope-filled fiction based on true to life stories. She is represented by Tamela Hancock Murray of the Steve Laube Agency and is a multi-award-winning writer, an active ACFW member, and ACFW Virginia president. Connect with Deena through her website, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

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23 Comments

  • Cherie J
    June 24, 2024 at 7:16 pm

    I enjoyed the spotlight. Enjoyed being introduced too this new to me author. I do enjoy historical romance and mail-order bride is one of my favorite tropes. Never been to Kentucky.

  • Faith D. Cox
    June 23, 2024 at 3:37 pm

    I enjoy historical romance and mail-order bride stories! Thank you for offering the opportunity to win a copy of “The Rejected Mail-Order Bride.”
    I’ve been to Kentucky as my husband has taken our family through the contiguous 48 states through various vacation road trips. Many great memories!

  • SARAH TAYLOR
    June 19, 2024 at 10:52 pm

    Yes. I have visited Ky. as one of my daughters lived in Kentucky! I Love reading Mail Order Brides and this book sounds like such a great story!

  • Roxanne C.
    June 19, 2024 at 1:11 pm

    Christian historical romance is my favorite genre, and mail-order brides are always a favored trope.
    Rose and Harl’s story sounds wonderful, and since she is not his mail-order bride, it will be a different type of romance.

  • Jeanette Davis
    June 19, 2024 at 10:08 am

    I have not read any of this series, but would love to start. Sounds like a good read. Thanks for sharing and offering a book. If chosen, I would like a paperback book.

    I do love books set in Kentucky not sure why have never even been there but there is something about Southern states. That being said, I also love stories set in my home state of Massachusetts (which I never left!)

    Again that you for sharing and offering this give away, as always with a book I am interested in, I am putting your book in my TBR list on Goodreads!

    • Deena Adams
      June 19, 2024 at 10:12 am

      Hi, Jeanette. I love books set in the south too, but I’m originally from Georgia so that may be why. Thanks for reading and commenting!

    • Greta Picklesimer
      June 20, 2024 at 7:33 am

      Thank you for your comments Jeanette.
      Kentucky is beautiful anytime of year. I’m sorry you never visited. Maybe one day. Thank you for adding my book to your TBR pile on Goodreads.

  • Kera bell
    June 19, 2024 at 9:18 am

    I do like mail order bride series. I have not visited Kentucky. I would like to visit every state and I would like to read her book because I have not read any of her books before.