Saturday, October 17, 2026

The Glades: Author Guest Post + Giveaway

 

The Glades JustRead Blog Tour

Welcome to the Blog Tour for The Glades by Angela Hunt, hosted by JustRead Publicity Tours!

About the Book

The Glades

Title: The Glades 
Author:
Angela Hunt 
Publisher:
Hunt Haven Press 
Release Date: October 13, 2026 
Genre:
Suspense Thriller

When Katherine Armstrong arranges a birthday weekend on her husband's private island in the Everglades, she plans for everything: the guest list, the menu, the flowers, the careful distance between herself and the dark water beyond the dock. 

She does not plan for the storm. 

By nightfall, the power is gone, the mainland is unreachable, and something in the mangrove shadows has begun to move. Katherine has spent years building a life that looks flawless from the outside. Now, with her children beside her and the water on every side, she will have to decide what that life was actually worth. 

Sixty years earlier, a World War II veteran named Conrad Boone made a decision on these same waters — one that seemed containable, even necessary, at the time. He passed the consequence of that decision to his family. They learned to live with it. And the island learned to keep its secrets. 

Until the storm.  

The Glades moves between a Florida that no longer exists and a Florida that is drowning in its own inheritance, between a man who thought he could manage what he'd done and a woman who never knew there was anything to manage. What lives beneath the water has been patient for sixty years. 

It will not be patient much longer.  

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About the Author

Angela Hunt

Christy-Award winner Angela Hunt writes for readers who have learned to expect the unexpected in novels from this versatile author. With nearly six million copies of her books sold worldwide, she is the best-selling author of more than 160 works ranging from picture books (The Tale of Three Trees) to novels and nonfiction.

Now that her two children are grown, Angie and her husband live in Florida with Very Big Dogs (a direct result of watching Sandlot too many times). This affinity for mastiffs has not been without its rewards--one of their dogs was featured on Live with Regis and Kelly as the second-largest canine in America. Their dog received this dubious honor after an all-expenses-paid trip to Manhattan for the dog and the Hunts, complete with VIP air travel and a stretch limo in which they toured New York City. Afterward, the dog gave out paw-tographs at the airport. 

When she's not home writing, Angie often travels to teach writing workshops at schools and writers' conferences. And to talk about her dogs, of course. 

Readers may visit her web site at www.angelahuntbooks.com.


Author Guest Post

Once I was on a panel at a writers’ conference, and a man waved his hand and asked, “What inspires you to write?”  

I don’t know what kind of answer he was expecting—my muse? A sunset? The glory of God? But my answer was simple:  “The mortgage!”  

Because while a muse, a sunset, and God’s glory can inspire me, the thing that puts me at my desk every day is the mortgage. Writing is a job like any other, and that’s why and how I keep writing books. Does a dentist have to be inspired to work on people’s teeth? No.  Does a Christian dentist only work on Christian teeth? No.  

I believe writing is a job like any other, and a skilled writer can write anything for anyone—and should. Though some of my books are written about Bible characters and spiritual themes, my real passion is in writing stories for the world at large, “parable stories” that are great stories on the surface with a spiritual meaning underneath. The Glades is one of those stories.  

On the surface, it’s a story about a woman who throws a fancy birthday party on a private island in the Everglades. Beneath, it’s a story about how she has chosen to leave the truths she was taught in order to live an artificial life with an artificial husband on an island surrounded by creatures who don’t belong there—and neither does she.  

I hope you’ll enjoy reading THE GLADES as much as I enjoyed writing it. And if you visit the Everglades, whatever you do, do not go in alone.  


Tour Giveaway

(1) winner will receive a $50 Amazon gift card!

The Glades blog tour JustRead Tours

Full tour schedule linked below. The giveaway begins at midnight October 13, 2026 and will last through 11:59 PM EST on October 20, 2026. Winners will be notified within 2 weeks of close of the giveaway and given 48 hours to respond or risk forfeiture of prize. No delivery restrictions. Void where prohibited by law or logistics.

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