About the Book
Book: Shilo
Author: Jennifer Lynn Cary
Genre: Sweet Romantic Comedy
Release Date: May 1, 2025
From Breck Girl to Hippie to Jesus People…
…It’s been a long journey back home
But can her heart truly find peace where it all began?
When free-spirit Shilo Anderson inherits two million dollars with an unexpected condition—marriage—she refuses to be bound by her grandfather’s will. Until her beloved aunt faces cancer with no insurance to cover chemotherapy.
She won’t marry for money for herself, but to save her aunt’s life? She’ll make that sacrifice in a heartbeat.
Maybe.
Jesse Franklin never forgot his first love. When her grandfather’s will brings Shilo back to their hometown, he discovers his love for her has only deepened with time. Offering to marry her to help save her aunt, no problem.
Keeping it a marriage of convenience, that might be a problem. More like impossible.
As their feelings grow stronger, Shilo faces her greatest fear: revealing the truth about her past decade. Can she make Jesse see she doesn’t belong on anyone’s pedestal?
Return to 1973 Kokomo, Indiana, where faith shapes the journey and the legend of the cardinal in the sycamore still proves true love endures all seasons.
You will enjoy this sweet, quirky tale of second chances, because sometimes the rough patches prepare us for the wildly wonderful.
Insight from the Author
In the first chapter, Shilo gets cleaned up and dressed in her best outfit—a cotton peasant blouse and a denim skirt that she’d made from a pair of jeans. Do you remember making skirts from jeans? I don’t think I ever made one for myself, but I did help a friend in college make one. Some of those French seams were hard to sew around, which might be the very reason I never made one for myself.
Shilo also enjoyed macrame. Did you ever make anything with jute and beads? I made a few planters and small odds and ends, but I had great respect for those patient enough to make chairs. My sister-in-law had one that hung from her ceiling, and I sort of had that in mind for Shilo.
I know I’ve spent a lot of time talking about the title character, but it’s not because I prefer her to Jesse, our hero. And he is a hero. I got a lot of his personality by listening to the song and imagining the lonely little boy who grew up to be a lonely man. He has such depth but is too uptight to let anyone get close enough to see his tender heart.
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About the Author
Historical Christian Romance author and three-time Selah Award nominee, Jennifer Lynn Cary, likes to say you can take the girl out of Indiana, but you can’t take the Hoosier out of the girl. Now transplanted to the Arizona desert, this direct descendant of Davy Crockett and her husband of forty-plus years enjoy time with family where she shares tales of her small-town heritage and family legacies with their grandchildren. She is the author of The Crockett Chronicles series, The Relentless series, and The Weather Girls trilogy, as well as the stand-alone novel, Cheryl’s Going Home, her novella Tales of the Hob Nob Annex Café, and her split-time novels The Traveling Prayer Shawl and The Forgotten Gratitude Journal. Her current spin-off series, The Weather Girls Wedding Shoppe and Venue, contains standalones with a common thread.