FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Nashville, Tennessee—WordCrafts Press is pleased to announce the addition of established novelist Jan Cline to its family of authors. WordCrafts Press will be the new home for Jan’s American Dreams series of novels that focus on stories of the people and events during the Great Depression up to the outbreak of World War II. The Pruning; American Dreams, Book 2, is slated to release to retail on Wednesday, July 24, 2019, from WordCrafts Press.

Clarissa Wilding and her family have just arrived at the train station in Kennewick, Washington. Their decision to move from the drought and dust storms on the Kansas plains seemed like a good one, until Clarissa sees her husband Frank embrace his half-brother William—the man who has offered them the chance to start fresh on his vineyard.

Clarissa knows this man, but by a different name. And it is obvious that William also recognizes her, though he says nothing of their past together. She is about to cruelly discover that you cannot always escape your past. A clandestine meeting will test her faith and expose secrets that could challenge her marriage. Will Clarissa and her husband cling to God’s promise for a new beginning? Or be destroyed by tragedies and trials?

“My father instilled in me a love for history at an early age,” Jan explains. “I found myself drawn to the stories of events and people from the eras of the Great Depression and WWII. As I compiled information about my own family during that time period, I stumbled on the American dust bowl. These stories just cried out to be told. The American Dreams series was birthed from that fascination. The first novel in the series, Heaven’s Sky, focused specifically on the dust bowl, and The Pruning is the continuation of that story. I’m currently working on the third book in the series that leads up to the outbreak of WWII.”

“At WordCrafts Press, our motto is We Tell Stories," said publisher Mike Parker. "Jan Cline is a natural storyteller, with a gift for making bygone eras come alive. You can almost feel the fine dust grit between your teeth when she writes about the dust bowl. We’re thrilled to bring her stories of America’s past to a generation that may have no conception of what life was like for their grandparents and great-grandparents.”

“I firmly believe in sharing with our young people the stories of events their grandparents and great-grandparents lived through,” Jan adds. “But I find that even my target audience, women from 35-65, don’t know a lot about America’s most difficult years. It’s time to tell more of those stories."

The Pruning, which will be available in hardback, trade paperback, and all major ebook formats, is already generating a buzz among readers. The Kindle version, which is available to pre-order through Amazon.com, debuted on multiple Amazon Hot 100 New Releases charts, including the Religious Historical Fiction, Historical Christian Romance Fiction, and the Christian Historical Fiction categories.

The Pruning follows on the heels of Heaven’s Sky, American Dreams Book 1 (Cherry Blossum Publishing), which released earlier this year to industry acclaim. Publishers Weekly declared it to be a “…strong series launch [that] will appeal to fans of Janette Oke.”