ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Christa Parrish graduated high school at 16, with every intention of becoming a surgeon. After college, however, her love of all things creative led her in another direction, and she worked in both theatre and journalism.A winner of Associated Press awards for her reporting, Christa gave up her career after the birth of her son, Jacob. She continued to write from home, doing pro bono work for the New York Family Policy Council, where her articles appeared in Focus on the Family’s Citizen magazine. She was also a finalist in World magazine’s WORLDview short story contest, sponsored by WestBow press. She now teaches literature and writing to high school students, is a homeschool mom, and lives with her husband, author Chris Coppernoll, and son in upstate New York, where she is at work on her third novel.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Her Rescue Might Be the Miracle They Needed Things like this don't happen in Beck County. Deputy Benjamin Patil is the one to find the infant girl, hours old, abandoned in a field. As police work to identify the mother, Ben and his wife, Abbi, seem like the obvious couple to serve as foster parents. But the newborn's arrival opens old wounds for Abbi and shines a harsh light on how much Ben has changed since a devastating military tour. Their marriage teeters on the brink and now they must choose to reclaim what they once had or lose each other forever. If you would like to read the first chapter of Watch Over Me, go HERE
BACK COVER REVIEW:
Ben and Abbi are so flawed, that their story is heart-wrenching and compelling in one braided thread. Watch Over Me is the story of a couple that can't have children, but they've been waiting for a chance - to give an unwanted child a second chance, to save their marriage, to mend their relationship with God and with each other - but when a baby and a teenager step into their lives, will their torched relationship be able to emerge from the ashes and become something stronger? Or, will it be the final push they need to walk away from each other and from God?
Christa has created another masterpiece of a novel in Watch Over Me. Her second novel. It might be even better than her first, if that's even possible! I don't know, I loved her first one! She has created a story that gets to the heart of so many issues in a tender clear-eyed way: struggling marriages, infertility, eating-disorders, unwanted children and abandoned babies. I highly recommend reading this one and all of her other books (Home Another Way and all novels yet to come)!!!
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