Welcome to the Blog + Review Tour for Miss Beth Bettencourt by Eva Marie Everson, hosted by JustRead Publicity Tours!
About the Book
Title: Miss Beth Bettencourt
Author: Eva Marie Everson
Publisher: Kregel
Release Date: May 12, 2026
Genre: Southern Fiction/Christian Fiction
Will an unlikely romance tear down Beth’s walls of indifference?
It’s 1962 in Bynum, Georgia, and Beth Bettencourt’s world is turned upside down when she wakes to a man snoring in the guest bedroom.
She’s home alone; her parents are traveling abroad, grieving her twin sister’s unexpected death. Instead of accompanying them, Beth stayed in Bynum to tend to her kindergarten and closely guard her own heart.
A beautiful and beloved member of the community, Beth is an unusual specimen for her time as she nears thirty and remains unmarried. She holds deep-seated unforgiveness toward her twin, Elise, who ran off with Beth’s beau. To make matters worse, Elise took their grandmother’s ring, which had been promised to Beth.
But now a stranger enters her home and her world. David Patrick Martin seems ready to break down her walls of indifference and find the core of Miss Beth Bettencourt. But can he be trusted with Beth’s past, her present, and more importantly, her future?
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Beth Bettencourt is grieving. Her twin sister Elise died unexpectedly, and that hurts enough. But their relationship was fractured when Elise died, which brings its own kind of pain to Beth’s heart. She mourns her sister’s death at the same time she carries an enduring grudge against Elise for stealing her sweetheart. And at twenty-eight, it seems less likely by the day that love and marriage and a family will be in Beth’s future.
Her parents are traveling, hoping to ease the pain of loss abroad, and Beth is at home in Bynum, Georgia, running her kindergarten and keeping a sturdy wall around her heart. Imagine Beth’s surprise and shock to awake during the middle of the night, hear snoring, and find a strange man asleep in her guest room! Daniel Patrick Martin may have entered a house other than the one he intended, but his presence in Beth’s life is no mistake. She gives him a chance and a job, and her life changes in ways she never could have expected.
This is such a wonderful story! Eva Marie Everson gives us an incredibly sympathetic heroine in Beth. Life has dealt her some hard knocks, but she’s still giving to the town she loves by teaching children. Molly, the family’s maid and Beth’s dear friend, is a joy. She isn’t afraid to speak her mind with Beth, often giving her wise counsel, and you can tell their relationship is much more than household staff and employer’s daughter.
And Mr. Martin. Marty, as he prefers to be called. My goodness, what a delight he is! He has a way of inspiring confidence in people, of helping them see things clearly, and Beth desperately needs that. Marty helps her face her past and reckon with it. But he’s got secrets of his own, and he fears those secrets will drive Beth away from him, not make their blossoming relationship stronger.
Faith is a constant thread in the story, but it doesn’t beat you over the head. It’s gently woven through the characters’ lives, and it sustains them through challenges. Beth and Marty both have opportunities to grow and develop as characters, and their faith in God is a big part of what helps them do that. Pretty sure it was no accident that Marty ended up asleep in Beth’s home, but something orchestrated by God for their good!
I would have loved to see an epilogue where Beth’s parents return home. What would they make of Marty? How would they feel about the way other events in the story unfolded? Inquiring minds want to know! But the lack of that final touch didn’t diminish my enjoyment of Beth’s story at all.
I highly recommend this for fans of sweet romance and good storytelling. I can’t wait to read more of the author’s books!
Disclaimer: I received a copy of the book through JustRead Publicity Tours. I was not required to leave a review. All opinions here are mine, and I don’t say nice things about books I don’t actually like.
About the Author
Eva Marie Everson is a bestselling, multi-award-winning author of nearly 50 works of fiction and nonfiction. Collectively, her novels have sold over 300,000 copies. She is the CEO of Word Weavers International, the director of Florida Christian Writers Conference, and a popular speaker at writers conferences across the nation. Eva Marie is a double magna cum laude graduate of Andersonville Theological Seminary (Associate of Biblical Studies and Bachelor of Biblical Exposition) and of Tzemach Institute (a two-year program in Biblical Studies). In 2022, she was awarded the Yvonne Lehman Legacy Award and presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by AWSA (Advanced Writers and Speakers Association). She and her husband live in Central Florida where they enjoy their children and grandchildren. They are owned by a Norwegian Forest cat named Vanessa.
Connect with Eva Marie by visiting evamarieeversonauthor.com to follow her on social media and subscribe to email updates.
Tour Giveaway
(5) winners will each receive a copy of Miss Beth Bettencourt (winner’s choice between ebook or print), Southern recipes, a Miss Beth Bettencourt bookmark, and a $10 Amazon gift card!
Full tour schedule linked below. The giveaway begins at midnight May 11, 2026 and will last through 11:59 PM EST on May 18, 2026. Winner will be notified within 2 weeks of close of the giveaway and given 48 hours to respond or risk forfeiture of prize. US only. Void where prohibited by law or logistics.
Giveaway is subject to JustRead Publicity Tours Giveaway Policies.
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This sounds like such a great read.
I would love to read this.
Thanks for the wonderful review.
great review, Lisa! thanks for being on the tour 🙂
Sounds fantastic
Im looking forward to reading this book. Thanks for sharing.