New cover art!

This morning I was sent the final cover art for an upcoming (March 2026) Love Inspired release entitled "The Amish Baker's Redemption." I love it!

It's always a chancy thing whenever I see that email in my inbox with the prototype for cover art. Harlequin's Art Department does their absolute best, and they deal with hundreds and hundreds of covers across many different lines over the course of a year.

Some of my covers have been "okay," and some have been spectacular. While this cover is not my Number One favorite, it's close.

I've heard chatter on the Love Inspired forum about authors who were terribly disappointed by their cover art. One woman, who had written a suspense set in a Western state, received a cover with a Western-themed ranch setting in the background, and a rattlesnake (coiled and ready to strike) featured prominently in the foreground of the image. The cover was meant to convey some menacing event experienced by the heroine in the book, but instead it was an ophidophobic's nightmare. As a result, her sales for that book were terrible (anyone with a fear of snakes literally wouldn't even pick the book off the shelf).

Thankfully, I've never had anything even remotely that bad. For the vast majority, I'm very pleased with the cover art I've been assigned. This one is especially nice. So kudos to HQ's Art Department.