Grow Old With Me

Grow Old With Me
Novel # 1
The Quilt Trail Series

A modern day Beauty and the Beast meet in their fifties when a disfigured carpenter becomes a long-term guest in the western-style tourist town of Love Valley, NC.

Benjamin Pruitt plans to repair the church before retiring to a solitary life. Sarah Campbell longs for freedom since her task as caregiver has ended.

Can they piece the tattered remnants of their lives into a beautiful design?

Author Biography

Melinda Evaul is a North Carolina native transplanted to Tennessee. Her contemporary Christian romances give readers a unique view of rural life in both states. Not afraid to tackle tough questions, she writes about people who grow spiritually through the difficulties life tosses in their paths.

Melinda is a pastor’s wife, mother of two, and grandmother of three. She’s a registered nurse and water aerobics instructor. She is an award winning article writer. Grow Old With Me is a Dan Poynter 2011 Global eBook Award Finalist.

Avid photographers, Melinda and her husband enjoy traveling America’s back roads where rural culture and history are preserved through a unique art form—quilt barn squares. Each book in the Quilt Trail Series deals with some aspect of quilting and its influence in the Appalachian region.

Proceeds from her husband’s note cards, post cards, and prints contribute to the preservation of quilting and rural American culture. Melinda also donates money from her book sales to support various charities or quilting related projects.