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
I also learned that Lonnie Frisbee moved his group home in California up to Oregon (I think) and he named the place Shiloh House. That struck me funny—no way could I have planned that one.
The research into Breck girls was very cool. Did you know that Kim Basinger and her mother had the only mother/daughter portrait ever done? Most of the Breck girls were connected to the company. They were after wholesome over professional models though a several women were able to parley that into a modeling or entertainment career. Here are a few names you might recognize:
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- Cheryl Tiegs
- Cybill Shepherd
- Jaclyn Smith
- Kim Basinger (as mentioned above)
- Brooke Shields
- Farrah Fawcett
- Christie Brinkley
- Erin Gray
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Now there is a section in the Smithsonian devoted to the Breck girls and this no longer available shampoo. One thing that surprised me in my research of this was that the portraits were watercolor and not photographed. In my memory they were lovely pictures done in a photography studio. But no, these models had to sit for their portraits to be captured by a professional watercolor artist. Funny how memories get tweaked.
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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.