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    • The Reason I Wrote Sofi’s Bridge

      Guest post By Christine Lindsay The aspiration behind all my novels is to share journey the Lord took me on through my own canyons and valleys of loss to eventual emotional healing in Him. I share different aspects of that journey in my books to encourage others in their own struggles. And there you are: The valleys and canyons of Washington State are another set of the metaphors in Sofi’s Bridge. Here is an excerpt from a favorite character of mine, Kiosho, a delightful elderly Japanese man who in his youth mined for gold with Sofi’s grandfather shortly after they both immigrated to the US in the late 1800’s. Sofi watched her sister drift from pillar to pillar on the wraparound porch, a look of perplexity stamped on her face. Kiosho dried his hands on a tea cloth while Sofi pushed out a sigh. “I don’t know anymore, Kiosho. So little improvement in Trina.” Kiosho took her elbow and shook it. “Remember, Sofi, what I used to tell you. The love of God, all around. Like these mountains that circle this valley. First, Trina and you must go through different canyons of sadness, but He will bring you out to open spaces.” I live in a valley exactly like the fictional valley in the Cascade Mountains that Sofi and Neil escape to with her sister. Except, my real valley is just across the border in Canada, but still in the same beautiful range of mountains and glaciers. One day as I was going through a personal heartache, our pastor preached on the love of God, and used the metaphor of the mountains that encircle our real-life town nestled in the Fraser Valley. I know these mountains. I know this valley. I know each change on the faces of my mountains as seasons come and go. I also know how God can use our greatest heartaches to bring forth our greatest joys. If we let Him. I leave you with this last excerpt, when Neil, on a high alpine meadow starts to feel hope for his set of trying circumstances. He’s on the journey to God and healing, and doesn’t quite recognize it yet, but only feels the comfort and love coming from his Creator in the majesty around him. At the summit Kiosho reined the Clydesdales in and settled them under a shady tree. The wind, carrying a clean pine fragrance, blew unimpeded as though they’d reached the top of the world. Trina jumped from the wagon to run along a pathway strewn on either side with blue and purple lupine, pink phlox, yellow arnica, and red Indian paintbrush. Only a few feet to Trina’s right, the path dropped to plunge into a flower-dotted meadow. Grasses swayed in the breeze. Neil stayed behind with Sofi, sweeping his gaze three hundred and sixty degrees. Above the tree line, gray peaks scraped the sky, some still capped with snow. In the distance, pale blue and turquoise ice from glaciers filled crevices between serrated granite heights. Quiet awe filled his face. As Sofi watched him, she could only hope that up here for a while he could let go of whatever pain he was hiding from the world, and from her.   About Christine: Irish born Christine Lindsay is the author of multi-award-winning Christian fiction and non-fiction. Readers describe her writing as gritty yet tender, realistic yet larger than life, with historical detail that collides into the heart of psychological and relationship drama. Christine's fictional novels have garnered the ACFW Genesis Award, The Grace Award, Canada’s The Word Guild Award, and was a finalist twice for Readers’ Favorite as well as 2nd place in RWA’s Faith Hope and Love contest. This author’s non-fiction memoir Finding Sarah Finding Me is the true-life story that started this award-winning career in Christian fiction and non-fiction. This book is a must for anyone whose life has been touched by adoption. Christine is currently writing a new fictional series set on the majestic coast of Ireland and loaded with her use of setting as a character that will sweep the reader away. Subscribe to her newsletter on her website www.christinelindsay.org About the Book: Seattle Debutante Sofi Andersson will do everything in her power to protect her sister who is suffering from shock over their father's death. Charles, the family busy-body, threatens to lock Trina in a sanatorium—a whitewashed term for an insane asylum—so Sofi will rescue her little sister, even if it means running away to the Cascade Mountains with only the new gardener Neil Macpherson to protect them. But in a cabin high in the Cascades, Sofi begins to recognize that the handsome immigrant from Ireland harbors secrets of his own. Can she trust this man whose gentle manner brings such peace to her traumatized sister and such tumult to her own emotions? And can Nei, the gardener continue to hide from Sofi that he is really Dr. Neil Galloway, a man wanted for murder by the British police? Only an act of faith and love will bridge the distance that separates lies from truth and safety. Buy Now:  Amazon Barnes & Noble Visit all the stops along the tour

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April Gardner, Founder & Senior Editor

A military spouse, April has performed the art of homemaking all over the world. Currently, she lives in Georgia with her children and her USAF husband.  In no particular order, she dreams of owning a horse, visiting all the national parks, and speaking Italian. 

April writes Christian historical romance with a focus on our Southeastern Native Tribes. Her latest release is Beneath the Blackberry Moon, which is a Native American Romance. She is also the award-winning author of Lizzie and the Guernsey Gang, (winner of the Selah Award). 

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Michelle Massaro, Assistant Editor

Michelle is married to her high school sweetheart, Mike, and they have four amazing children ranging in age from 4-18. They attend Living Truth Christian Fellowship in Corona, CA where they have taught Jr High studies and where Michelle is involved in the worship ministry. She loves a strong french roast and can crochet anything--as long as it is a rectangle. Michelle was a 2012 Genesis Finalist in the Contemporary Fiction category. 

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Joanna Davidson, Administrator


With a love for hearing people's life stories, Joanna writes historical Christian fiction based on true stories. Her favorite Valentines Day ever was spent at a nursing home, asking her favorite question--"what's your love story?"-- and discovering amazing, heart-wrenching tales as people lit up in the retelling. She currently works for a nonfiction publishing house in Chicago while at home with her new baby Elena. She previously wrote for newspapers and a pharmaceutical company after earning a journalism degree. Her unlikely Prince Charming, hubby Vince, serves as brainstormer, model for fictional heroes, and the most honest critiquer.

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Lisa Lickel is a Wisconsin writer who lives with her husband in a hundred and fifty-year-old house built by a Great Lakes ship captain. Surrounded by books and dragons, she is a multi-published novelist, has written dozens of feature newspaper stories, magazine articles, radio theater, and is a freelance editor and top Goodreads book reiewer.

Lisa is the author of A Summer in Oakville, co-authored with Shellie Neumeier, Meander Scar, Everything About You, The Last Bequest, The Map Quilt, The Newspaper Code, "Three Rings for Alice" in Brave New Century, and Healing Grace
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Gail’s husband, Rick, says she’s the only person he knows who can go in the grocery for a loaf of bread and come out with someone’s life story. That’s probably because she inherited her mother’s love of people and enjoys talking to them. Working as an editor and freelance writer, Gail published a couple hundred articles. While some of them are in anthologies, two ended up in museums. In 2004, the American Christian Writers Association named Gail a regional writer of the year. She recently published her first romance, Love Turns the Tide. When she isn’t writing she likes reading, swimming, and getting together with friends and family. Gail wants to write books of faith that show God’s love. She and Rick live in Georgia.
Gail is the author of Love Turns the Tide.
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A born-and-bred California girl, Delia Latham currently lives in East Texas with her husband, Johnny. She loves to read and write in their country home, and gets a kick out of watching her husband play Farmer John. The author enjoys multiple roles as Christian wife, mother, grandmother, sister and friend, but especially loves being a princess daughter to the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. She loves to hear from her readers. 

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Patty Wysong homeschools three of her five children. From the corner of her living room she writes inspirational fiction, devotionals, blog posts, and teaches online blogging workshops. She learned about blogs and blogging the hard way and now delights in teaching and helping others, sparing them that frustration so they can focus on what God has called them to do.


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