My Karen Kingsbury corner of books

In four days on March 27, Karen Kingsbury’s last novel “Loving” in the Bailey Flanigan series will be in stores.  I have followed this story ever since the Flanigan family was mentioned for the very first time in the fifth novel “Reunion” of the Redemption series.   This series started when I was in high school and is now ending when I have been out of college for more than two years.  I have literally grown up with the Flanigan family.

When I first read about the Flanigan family I could tell that it was based on Karen’s family.  It was like you were getting a sneak peek into the life of Karen Kingsbury.  In the next series Firstborn the Flanigan family played a slightly bigger role.  We meet Cody Coleman who is now one of the love interests for Bailey in the Bailey Flanigan series.

Instead of describing Cody, here is the video introduction. He has always loved Bailey, but he feels he is not good enough for her.

After Karen finished writing the Sunrise series she wrote the “Above the Line” series, where Bailey and Cody have a main storyline.  This series is where she meets Brandon Paul. His character is portrayed by Kyle Kupecky who is one of the singers in Anthem lights and is engaged to be married to Karen Kingsbury’s daughter Kelsey who portrays Bailey Flanigan.  (I did not realize how much of a soap opera this is, sorry about that.)


My point of this whole post is I am anxious to know who Bailey is going to end up with in this latest novel. I would personally like it if she would end up with Cody Coleman who throughout the entire series truly does love Bailey but I have my doubts because I believe Karen Kingsbury will have Brandon and Bailey get married.  I will be disappointed but I will have to try and get over it. If Bailey and Cody are the ones who get married I will be pleasantly surprised.

Here is the “Loving” trailer. 

Karen Kingsbury has signed a deal to write 10 novels with Simon and Schuster. Simon and Schuster  I am definitely looking forward to something new.  Karen Kingsbury is still my favorite author though.  

I hope everyone has a great weekend.