Happy Monday! The purpose of memorable Monday is to showcase a book that you’ve read in the past and share how/why it has stuck with you.
This week I’m featuring:
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This past Friday I shared Christina suzann Nelson’s new release More Than We Remember for First Line Friday. I haven’t read it yet but will be soon. It reminded me of the first book that I read by the author, which was the reason I was excited to get a copy of her new one. Swimming in the Deep End was such an emotionally gripping novel and held me captive from cover to cover. I knew from this book that this would be an author I’d be keeping up with in the future. If you haven’t read it yet I highly, highly recommend it!
If you’d like to check out my full review you can view it HERE.
About the Book:
A moving novel entwining the many faces of motherly love
Jillian Cline has the perfect daughter: loving and smart, she’s an Olympic hopeful with a bright future. But when Izzy becomes pregnant, Jillian fears that future is lost. Worse, she must confront her own secret past and hope the decisions she’s made don’t drown their whole family.
Izzy can’t believe God let this happen to her. She knew the risks, but who thinks about that when they’re in love? Now she has to face the consequences–and the disappointed stares from everyone who thought she was the perfect Christian girl. At least she has the baby’s father, Travis. Nothing can tear them apart, right?
Margaret Owens had determined dreams for her son. She’s furious that Izzy’s pregnancy jeopardizes his college baseball scholarship and terrified that Travis will be trapped in a life of struggle and poverty–the life she’s tried so hard to save him from. She’ll do anything to protect him–even if it means forcing him to leave Izzy.
Stacey Frey is aching for a child of her own. But the son she was meant to adopt was taken before she could hold him in her arms. It feels like she’ll never stop mourning; even the move to this new town hasn’t distracted her from the pain. How can she and her husband find peace? Is there any hope of a family in their future?
And in the midst of all this . . . an unborn baby. Whose arms will hold him in the end?
About the Author:
Christina Suzann Nelson is a member of Oregon Christian Writers. Her essays have been published in the Cup of Comfort series. Nelson lives in Oregon’s Willamette Valley with her husband and four children.
I’m new to this author. I read More Than We Remember. It’s due out next Tuesday. Such an excellent book. I need to read this one too. I didn’t know she had written other books!
I believe it was self-pub and remembering being shocked that it wasn’t picked up by a more well-known publisher. So when I saw she got a deal with Bethany House I wasn’t shocked in the least and was super excited for her 😊
This was such an emotional story, great choice Becca.