CFBA: Raw Edge

This week, the Christian Fiction Blog Alliance is introducing Raw Edge Abingdon Press (September 17, 2013) by Sandra D. Bricker

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

For more than a decade, Sandra D. Bricker lived in Los Angeles. While honing her chosen craft of screenwriting in every spare moment, she worked as a personal assistant and publicist to some of daytime television's hottest stars. When her mother became ill in Florida, she walked away from that segment of her life and moved across the country to take on a new role: Caregiver.

The Big 5-OH! was released by Abingdon Press in the Spring of 2010, and the novel was very well-received, garnering a couple of nibbles from Hollywood.

Always the Baker, Never the Bride was released by Abingdon Press in September 2010. With its phenomenal reviews, the novel spawned a series of three more books based on the popular cast of characters at The Tanglewood Inn, a wedding destination hotel in historic Roswell, Georgia. The series cemented Sandie's spot in publishing as a flagship author of Laugh-Out-Loud romantic comedy for the inspirational market.

"Being allowed to combine my faith and my humor with my writing dream," says Bricker, "well, that's the best of all worlds, as far as I'm concerned!"

ABOUT THE BOOK

Grayson McDonough has no use for teal ribbons, 5k runs, or ovarian cancer support groups now that his beautiful wife Jenna is gone. But their nine-year-old daughter Sadie seems to need the connection. When Annabelle Curtis, the beautiful cancer survivor organizing the memory quilt project for the Ovacome support group, begins to bring out the silly and fun side of his precious daughter again, Gray must set aside his own grief to support the healing of Sadie’s young heart. But is there hope for Gray’s heart too along the way?

If you would like to read the first chapter of Raw Edge, go HERE.

 

MY THOUGHTS
LOVED the book!  I quilt, but reluctantly, and only to use up my endless fabric scraps, and my quilts are definitely not fancy now are they hand-quilted, so I could totally relate to Annabelle when she began her quilting venture!


This book is bittersweet, and little Sadie is just about the sweetest girl you could imagine, sweet, spunky and caring.  She takes care of her father with a heart of gold, but she's by no means perfect and has a few tricks up her sleeve while her father and Annabelle have some healing to do.

An extremely good, heartfelt read, there is sadness, and the beginning of the book lets you meet Sadie's mom and she is one wise lady.

A book I will enjoy sharing with friends and family.

*I received a complimentary copy of this book in exchange for review from CFBA