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WALKING ON BROKEN GLASS
Debut Novel: Release date February 1, 2010 Abingdon Press
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Leah Thornton, already sloshed from one-too-many at a faculty party, is cruising the supermarket aisles in search of something tasty to enhance her Star-bucks—Kahlua, for example. Two confrontations later—one at the grocery and the other with her friend Molly—Leah is sitting in the office of the local rehab center facing an admissions counselor who fails to understand the most basic things, like the fact that apple juice is not a suitable cocktail mixer. Rehab is no picnic, and being forced to experience and deal with the reality of her life isn’t Leah’s idea of fun. But through the battle she finds a reservoir of courage she never knew she had, and the loving arms of a God she never quite believed existed.
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Edge of Grace, October 2011
When her brother becomes the victim of a brutal hate crime, a woman faces her hypocrisy regarding his sexuality, and begins to rebuild their relationship only to discover her decision may result in losing her business.
Works in Progress
A Matter of Trust, prequel to Walking on Broken Glass
Unlike their neighbor Abby across the street whose housepainter husband comes home drunk and repaints their front door almost weekly, Bob and Delores Adair live a contentedly ordinary life. High school sweethearts who marry a year after graduation, their first child, Leah Anne, is born a week before their second wedding anniversary. They purchase a home in the suburbs, so Delores returns to work as a legal secretary not far from the appliance store where Bob hopes to move from floor manager to store manager. After Delores’ first year at the firm, the attorneys celebrate the close of an important case. Too much to drink and too little food later, Delores finds herself in Logan Henley’s office suite. Harmless. One kiss. The party’s over. For everyone but Logan and Delores. When Peter is born, months of lies and secrets reveal themselves. A slave to guilt, shame, and regret, Delores wears her sin like a shroud that distances her from everyone she loves.
A Matter of Trust examines the consequences when the sinner cannot bear to surrender failure to the God of second chances. If reconciliation and undeserved healing are matters of trust, can a couple find grace to heal one another through the will to forgive?
Picking up the Pieces, sequel to Walking on Broken Glass
Carl and Leah Thorton’s marriage survives the second year of her sobriety, balancing on the tightrope of children, family, and business. Their fragile stability is threatened when Leah’s brother’s accident unlocks decades of deception, revealing secrets that didn’t die with their mother. Leah barely has time to readjust when she’s plunged into a sadness so unexpected, so wrenching that she resorts to the one numbing comfort that’s familiar.
Carl struggles to find his own footing in his relationship with his wife, his parents, and his children. On the threshold of self-discovery, Carl realizes change may require more of himself than he’s willing to give. Faced with the seemingly impossible task of repairing their relationship, Carl and Leah prepare themselves for what appears to be the inevitable. Sometimes, though, to come together, we have to come apart. Sometimes, the only way to the safety net God provides under the highwire of life is to trust. And let go.