Kaye Redmond stages houses for resale, so masking trouble spots with strategic decor comes naturally. She does it in her personal life as well: her can-do attitude and ready smile disguising the emotional wear-and-tear of a failed marriage and raising a teenage daughter alone. But when her former mother-in-law comes back around, desperate for a place to stay while recovering from a botched facelift, Kaye begins to realize there’s a much more authentic way to brighten one’s countenance: look to God and His plan for her life.
Once in a Blue Moon Leanna Ellis Paperback, 320 pp., $14.99 B&H Books (March 1, 2010)
Bryn Seymour was nine when her mother died under mysterious circumstances on the day Apollo 11 made its lunar landing. Forty years later—divorced, an obituary writer, and cynical—she meets Howard, a conspiracy theorist who knew her mom and believes a small Texas town may hold clues to what really fueled her demise. Seeking closure, Bryn goes along for this men-in-black ride. But upon meeting Howard’s son Sam, an outspoken Christian, she can’t decide whose beliefs are more pie-in-the-sky. The gravity of life has pulled Bryn down, but a perfect love could set her soaring.
Dottie Meyers lives on a small Kansas farm that’s hit by a tornado. She awakes three months later in a hospital where her father, last seen when she was four, has left her a pair of ruby slippers. Unlike The Wizard of Oz, this isn’t a dream, and the journey she takes in search of her Dad shows the realities of a broken childhood. More importantly, everything connected to those sparkling red shoes proves to Dottie that there’s only one true wonder worker behind the curtain who can heal her wounds and prepare the heart for love.
Elvis Takes a Back Seat Leanna Ellis Paperback, 320 pp., $14.99 B&H Fiction (January 1, 2008)
When Claudia, a 40-something Texas widow, holds a garage sale to offload some of her late husband’s belongings, she discovers a note he scribbled in the last days of his illness, asking her to return a bizarre three-foot bust of Elvis Presley to Memphis. Reluctantly, Claudia embarks on a return to sender road trip to Tennessee with her 60ish aunt, who knew Elvis personally, and a caustic teenage girl who is harboring a secret.
Betty Lynne Davidson is planning her husband’s funeral. Problem is, he’s not dead.
When Suzanne Mullins gets the call from her father to come home, she knows it will mean exploring the faulty foundations of their marriage as well as her own. Looking her past in the eye once and for all, Suzanne hopes that trusting in God’s love and mercy will set all of this craziness straight—even if it does mean having to watch her father give the eulogy at his own funeral.
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