ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Mary E. DeMuth is an expert in Pioneer Parenting. She enables Christian parents to navigate our changing culture when their families left no good faith examples to follow. Her parenting books include Authentic Parenting in a Postmodern Culture (Harvest House, 2007), Building the Christian Family You Never Had (WaterBrook, 2006), and Ordinary Mom, Extraordinary God (Harvest House, 2005).
Mary also inspires people to face their trials through her real-to-life novels, Watching The Tree Limbs
(nominated for a Christy Award) and Wishing On Dandelions (NavPress, 2006).
Mary has spoken at Mount Hermon Christian Writers Conference, the ACFW Conference, the Colorado Christian Writers Conference, and at various churches and church planting ministries. She's also taught in Germany, Austria, Monaco, Italy, France, and the United States. Mary and her husband, Patrick, reside in Texas with their three children. They recently returned from breaking new spiritual ground in Southern France, and planting a church.
ABOUT THE BOOK
She touched Daisy’s shoulder. So cold. So hard. So unlike Daisy.
Yet so much like herself it made Emory shudder.
Burying her grief, Emory Chance is determined to find her daughter Daisy’s murderer—a man she saw in a flicker of a vision. But when the investigation hits every dead end, her despair escalates. As questions surrounding Daisy’s death continue to mount, Emory’s safety is shattered by the pursuit of a stranger, and she can’t shake the sickening fear that her own choices contributed to Daisy’s disappearance. Will she ever experience the peace her heart longs for?
The second book in the Defiance, Texas Trilogy, this suspenseful novel is about courageous love, the burden of regret, and bonds that never break. It is about the beauty and the pain of telling the truth. Most of all, it is about the power of forgiveness and what remains when shame no longer holds us captive.
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BACK COVER REVIEW:
Hixon’s adopted Mom speaking to him when they first met.
“Hixon, this cornbread is the bread of God. More than daily bread, it’s his grace. Not just sustenance, but perfect flavor too. Isn’t that just like God? He gives us what we need, then surprises us with flavor.”
Big Earl speaking to a congregation of church-goers.
“The Bible says that for the joy set before Jesus, he endured the cross. Ever think that way, folks? That there is immense over-the-top joy awaiting you in glory? And in that anticipation, if you picture it just right, you can endure any sort of hardship because you know. You know. You know what’s happening today in Defiance, Texas, can’t compare to the hip-hop-happy joy that awaits you on dancing streets of gold.”
Hopefully the quotes that jumped out and grabbed my heart do this book justice. These are the ones that met me where I am. You may very well have to read it to find your own. ;)
Mary E. DeMuth has a strong poetic-style of vivid imagery that blooms on the page with the force of a spring bouquet from page one. Some of her ideas are so fresh that you’re forced to pause and savor it, like a flower with its own individual voice, beauty and scent. A Slow Burn is her second book in the Defiance Texas Trilogy. It stands strongly on its own back-binding – and I think I may like it even better than the first? Perhaps, that’s because the main character is a paradox of a woman, a woman forged with strength in the dust and dirt of Defiance, Texas and yet so broken by the fires of life that you wonder how she will find her way home to the heart of a loving God. But in Mary’s writing, as with life, no matter how much tragedy, there is always hope. And that hope pursues the broken with the relentless love of a smitten Lover – and even more it speaks of the relentless love of God, the one who desires an unbroken relationship with each and every one of us. God, the one who sees what we can be, not what we are. God speaks that very thing to Hixon’s heart, the man that He sends Emory Chance’s way. She won’t be as she is now. He tells her as Hixon struggles to embrace Emory and her prickly-pine hurtfulness. That word from God met me too. Isn’t that what so many of us want the world to know? I won’t be as I am now. God is still refining, chipping, molding and polishing me. Well, Mary wrote those words of hope into her characters’ hearts and into mine, an ordinary reader with a boat load of promised hope.
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