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The Shenandoah Road

29 Tuesday Dec 2020

Posted by Kara Hunt in Book Showcase, Fiction, Writing Christian Fiction

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John Russell’s heart aches from the loss of his wife, but the Shenandoah Valley frontiersman needs to marry again for his daughter’s sake. At first he believes he has found the right young woman, despite their differences, but his faith falters when time reveals she isn’t quite what she seemed. Can he truly love her?

Unlike her disgraced sister, Abigail Williams obeys the Commandments. At least, she thinks herself a Christian until a buckskin-clad newcomer courts her. He treats her kindly but also introduces her to a sermon by the controversial preacher, George Whitefield. Her self-righteousness is shattered, and she wonders about their relationship. If she confesses her lack of faith, will John continue to love her?

Story Behind the Story:

The Shenandoah Road

by Lynne Tagawa

I picked up The Guns of Thunder by Douglas Bond and began to read. It’s a book for juveniles, but that never stopped me before. It’s set during the time of the Great Awakening (1740s) and George Whitefield makes a cameo appearance.

I marveled. The author had done a good job incorporating spiritual truth into a good story. But the only book set during this time period that I really liked was this one! It’s a time period that deserved to be explored at an adult level.

I began to do research. I had a vague idea that folks in Virginia were different from those in New England. Turns out, the differences were pretty big. I enjoyed exploring cultural differences in Shenandoah. What if a Scots-Irish frontiersman married a woman from New England?

Also, about this time I also scored a two-week free trial to a genealogy site. I made some discoveries, including the fact that the May name in our family wasn’t English, it was Scottish. Shenandoah includes some characters with that name and that’s why. History seems more real when it’s your own family—or what could have been family.

George Whitefield doesn’t make an appearance, but one of his sermons does. This Church of England minister made thirteen trips to the New World, preaching the new birth without regard to church affiliation or background. The Great Awakening of the 1730s and 40s wasn’t just a sudden flash in the pan. Whitefield was joined by Jonathan Edwards, Gilbert Tennent and Samuel Davies, Presbyterians, and a growing number of Baptists who carried on the work of solid gospel preaching.

When I thought on these things, I realized how important the Great Awakening was to the Revolution and the birth of our country. I decided to write a trilogy that included these themes. The Shenandoah Road: A Novel of the Great Awakening is not about George Whitefield, but his sermon affects one of my characters. And there’s a bit of romance too.

Honestly, this is the sort of book that I’d like to read. And so I wrote it.

Lynne Tagawa is an educator, writer, and editor who loves coffee and chocolate. Best of all, she is the grandma of five. Author of Sam Houston’s Republic and the Russells 18th century series, she lives in south Texas with her family.

Buy link to The Shenandoah Road: A Novel of the Great Awakening (the Russells, book 1): https://amzn.to/2XVm0kA

Link to her website, where you can sign up to her newsletter: http://www.lynnetagawa.com

Airborne

13 Friday Nov 2020

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Purchase your copy of Airborne here!

FBI agent Heather Lawrence’s vacation takes a turn for the deadly when an unknown pathogen is released aboard her flight. Quarantined with the survivors, Heather suspects the contagion was intentionally discharged by her estranged husband, Chad, a top expert on viruses. As the death count rises, will the killer—and an antidote—be found?

Pearl In The Sand

10 Tuesday Nov 2020

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Purchase Your Copy of Pearl In The Sand here.

This 10th anniversary edition of Pearl in the Sand includes new features that will invite you into the untold story of Rahab’s journey from lowly outcast to redeemed child of God. Rahab’s home is built into a wall, a wall that fortifies and protects the City of Jericho. However, other walls surround her too, walls of fear, rejection, and unworthiness… Years of pain and betrayal have wounded Rahab’s heart—she doubts whether her dreams of experiencing true love will ever come true…

A woman with a wrecked past—a man of success, of faith… of pride. A marriage only God would conceive! Through the heartaches of a stormy relationship, Rahab and Salmone learn the true source of one another’s worth and find healing in God.

Lulu’s Cafe

27 Tuesday Oct 2020

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Leah Allen is on the run from her violent past.  She decides on a small town in South Carolina, battered and broken, shes ready to start fresh.  Leah finds a small cafe.  Lulu, the owner, offers her a job and a place to stay.

Leah meets Crowley Mason, the most eligible bachelor in town. Crowley is Lulu’s friend and lawyer and finds it suspicious of Leah’s sudden arrival in town.  Despite his wall he built up between them, he soon finds sparks between them cannot be denied.  Leah has been through so much already.  Can she put her urge to run aside and take a second chance of love?

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Take A Moment Mondays

26 Monday Oct 2020

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Almighty God, as I cross the threshold of this day I commit myself, soul, body, affairs, friends, to Thy care. Watch over, keep, guide, direct, sanctify, bless me. Incline my heart to thy ways. Mould me wholly into the image of Jesus, as a potter forms clay. May my lips be a well-tuned harp to sound Thy praise. Let those around see me living by Thy Spirit, trampling the world underfoot, unconformed to lying vanities, transformed by a renewed mind, clad in the entire armour of God, shining as a never-dimmed light, showing holiness in all my doings.  Let no evil this day soil my thoughts, words, hands. May I travel miry paths with a life pure from spot or stain. In needful transactions let my affection be in heaven, and my love soar upwards in flames of fire, my gaze fixed on unseen things, my eyes open to the emptiness, fragility, mockery of earth and its vanities. May I view all things in the mirror of eternity, waiting for the coming of my Lord, listening for the last trumpet call, hastening unto the new heaven and earth. Order this day all my communications according to Thy wisdom, and to the gain of mutual good. Forbid that I should not be profited or made profitable. May I speak each word as if my last word, and walk each step as my final one. If my life should end today, let this be my best day. – Taken from The Valley of Vision: A Collection of Puritan Prayers & Devotions, edited by Arthur Bennett

The Words Between Us

21 Wednesday Oct 2020

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Fleeing the shadow of her family’s sinister past, Robin thinks she’s found sanctuary working in a Michigan used bookstore. But when she receives an eerily familiar book in the mail on the morning of her father’s execution, she realizes her cover is blown. Why won’t her ex—the “perfect boy” who ruined everything—just leave her alone? 

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I Am Restored

20 Tuesday Oct 2020

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Christian Non-Fiction by Lecrae

A powerful testament to making peace with unhealed wounds! With gut-wrenching honesty, hip-hop artist Lecrae shares never-before-told stories about the devastating effects sexual abuse, physical trauma, addiction, and depression had on his faith—and how he found a new relationship with God. Follow his transformational practices and remember that God is not done with you yet! 192 pages, hardcover from Zondervan.

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Take A Moment Monday

19 Monday Oct 2020

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Seconds To Live

16 Friday Oct 2020

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When cybercriminals hack into the US Marshals’ Witness Protection database and auction off witnesses’ personal details to the highest bidders, the RED Team led by FBI Agent Sean Nichols begins a high-stakes chase to find the hacker. But before he can even get started, the first witness is targeted and barely escapes with her life. Sean believes Phantom, an obsessed hacker who previously outwitted the top minds in the field, is behind the attack, and Sean needs this witness’s help, as she’s the person who has come closest to discovering Phantom’s identity.

Trouble is, she’s a witness under the care of US Marshal Taylor Mills, and Sean is reluctant to work with the captivating marshal who knows his deepest secrets. But Phantom claims he knows where the witness is hiding and will kill her, so to stop the hacker, Sean and Taylor must work through their personal pain and learn to trust each other. . . . The seconds are ticking down before someone dies.

Enjoy your copy of Seconds To Live today.

Do It Afraid

14 Wednesday Oct 2020

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#DoItAfraid, #JoyceMeyer, devotions

New release by Joyce Meyer. Do It Afraid Study Guide. Click the next sentence to purchase your copy. Embracing courage in the face of fear.

Do It Afraid
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