This week, the Christian Fiction Blog Alliance is introducing The Search Avon Inspire; Original edition (June 19, 2012) by Shelley Shepard Gray
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Since
2000, Shelley Sabga has sold over thirty novels to numerous publishers,
including HarperCollins, Harlequin, Abingdon Press, and Avon Inspire.
She has been interviewed by NPR, and her books have been highlighted in
numerous publications, including USA Today and The Wall Street Journal.
Under the name Shelley Shepard Gray, Shelley writes Amish romances for
HarperCollins’ inspirational line, Avon Inspire. Her recent novel,
The Protector, the final book in her “Families of Honor” series, hit the New York Times List, and her previous novel in the same series,
The Survivor, appeared on the USA Today bestseller list. Shelley has won the prestigious Holt Medallion for her books,
Forgiven and
Grace,
and her novels have been chosen as Alternate Selections for the
Doubleday/Literary Guild Book Club. Her first novel with Avon Inspire,
Hidden, was an Inspirational Reader’s Choice finalist.
Before writing romances, Shelley lived in Texas and Colorado, where she
taught school and earned both her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in
education. She now lives in southern Ohio and writes full time. Shelley
is married, the mother of two children in college, and is an active
member of her church. She serves on committees, volunteers in the church
office, and currently leads a Bible study group, and she looks forward
to the opportunity to continue to write novels that showcase her
Christian ideals.
When she’s not writing, Shelley often attends conferences and reader
retreats in order to give workshops and publicize her work. She’s
attended RWA’s national conference six times, the ACFW conference and
Romantic Times Magazine’s annual conference as well as traveled to New
Jersey, Birmingham, and Tennessee to attend local conferences.
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ABOUT THE BOOK
In
the second book in her Secrets of Crittenden County series, New York
Times bestselling author Shelley Shepard Gray delivers another
page-turning romance set in Amish country
The serenity of the quiet Amish community of Crittenden, Kentucky is
disrupted when Abby Anderson discovers the body of Perry Borntrager in
an abandoned well. Perry had been missing for months. Everyone figured
he had left the order during his rumspringa. As friends and family reel
from this news, and are faced with the first death by mysterious
circumstance to occur in their small town in over 20 years, a homicide
detective arrives to help solve the crime
Before Perry disappeared, Frannie Eicher and Perry had been secretly
courting. Now that it’s common knowledge that he was murdered, it’s up
to Fannie to decide whether or not to tell everyone about the secrets he
told her.
After much deliberation, she decides to tell Luke Reynolds, the visiting
police officer, what she knows. At first, the two meet only on the
context of discussing Perry’s death. Then, Luke begins to feel more and
more at home, both with Frannie, and in Marion. The only problem is that
he feels a romantic pull toward Frannie. Frannie feels that same
attraction toward Luke, but is afraid to give her heart to him. After
all, she doesn’t want to leave her faith.
As Luke uncovers more secrets about Perry and the case draws out, his
time in Marion runs out. He has to decide whether to go back to his job
with the Cincinnati Police Department…or stay in Marion.
If you would like to read the Prologue of
The Search, go
HERE.
