JustRead Publicity ToursRendezvous with readers and writers in Nashville on November 7, 2026, to celebrate stories and enjoy encouraging fellowship.
Meet Tamera Alexander at Read Write Rendezvous ‘26
Tamera Alexander’s stories blend emotional depth, immersive storytelling, and spiritual insight to create journeys of love, healing, and hope that resonate long after the book is closed. With a gift for bringing both the past and present vividly to life, Alexander invites readers into stories that entertain, inspire, and gently point hearts toward God’s grace. She also has the distinction of being one of the keynote speakers at the very first Christian Fiction Readers’ Retreat (after which Rendezvous is modeled) in 2016, so we are thrilled that she is our keynote speaker at this year’s Rendezvous too!
About the Writer
Tamera Alexander is a USA Today bestselling novelist and one of today’s most popular authors of inspirational historical romance and women’s contemporary fiction, including A Million Little Choices, Rekindled, and Within My Heart. While being Gram Tam is her current favorite role, she’ll never turn down a stroll through an old cemetery or browsing through antique shops.
Her works have been awarded numerous industry-leading honors—among them the Christy Award, the RITA Award, the Carol Award, Library Journal’s top honors—and have earned the distinction of Publisher’s Weekly Starred Reviews.
In 2020 she was inducted into the Christy Award Hall of Fame which recognizes authors for their legacy and contribution to Christian fiction. Her deeply drawn characters and thought-provoking plots have earned her devoted readers worldwide.
Tamera and her husband love living in Nashville, Tennessee, and treasure the time spent with their grown children and grandchildren. They live a short distance from the Southern mansions that serve as the backdrop for many of her critically-acclaimed novels.
Tamera views her writing as a way to grow closer to the Lord Jesus Christ—and her deepest desire is that those who read her novels will take steps closer to Him as well.
Genre: southern fiction, historical fiction, dual/multiple timeline fiction
Currently reading: The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife by Anna Johnston
About the Featured Title
In These Hills
A young suffragist on the run finds more than refuge in the hills and hollers of Tennessee in this gripping historical romance from USA Today bestselling author Tamera Alexander.
1905. Josephine Dunham is running for her life. After a women’s suffrage rally in Atlanta turns deadly, she buys a one-way ticket on the first train out and lands in rural Tennessee. There, Dodge Coburn―a rough-edged stranger with undeniable appeal―begrudgingly offers her a ride to Lynchburg, a speck of a town where Josephine hopes to disappear.
Battered and desperate, Josephine has little to say when Dodge delivers her to Miss Mary Bobo’s Boarding House. Hoping to work in exchange for room and board, she soon discovers the only job matching her skills is at Jack Daniel’s Distillery, an irony not lost on a suffragist committed to prohibition.
Dodge is skeptical of Josephine’s claim that she’s on the run from an abusive husband. But between running Jack Daniel’s cattle farm and raising his young niece, he has little time or inclination to press her . . . at first. But when Josephine’s convictions and compassion draw him in, Dodge begins to reconsider the life he’s chasing, while Josephine must face a world far more complicated than the principles she’s held to.
As Jack Daniel’s Distillery gains national recognition, Josephine’s secrets resurface. In a place where whiskey making takes time but justice is too often hurried, Dodge and Josephine must decide what―and who―they are willing to risk everything for, and whether faith will hold when the cost is high and time is running out.
Also Available: A Million Little Choices, From a Distance, Beyond This Moment, Within My Heart
All featured Rendezvous titles are listed on the JustRead Amazon Storefront, or visit the author’s website for more information. Learn more about Read Write Rendezvous… why (About page), what, where, who, and how (Event page). We invite you to join us and/or support the event (Sponsorship and Promotional Opportunities page).
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