{"id":12231,"date":"2012-06-27T00:57:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-27T05:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/?p=12231"},"modified":"2012-06-27T00:57:00","modified_gmt":"2012-06-27T05:57:00","slug":"the-search-by-shelley-shepard-gray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/?p=12231","title":{"rendered":"The Search by Shelley Shepard Gray"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This week, the<\/span><\/center>
Christian Fiction Blog Alliance<\/span><\/a><\/center>
is introducing<\/span><\/center>
The Search<\/a><\/span><\/center>
Avon Inspire; Original edition (June 19, 2012)<\/center>
by<\/center>
Shelley Shepard Gray<\/a><\/span><\/center>ABOUT THE AUTHOR:<\/strong><\/p>\n
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Since 2000, Shelley Sabga has sold over thirty novels to numerous publishers, including HarperCollins, Harlequin, Abingdon Press, and Avon Inspire. She has been interviewed by NPR, and her books have been highlighted in numerous publications, including USA Today and The Wall Street Journal.<\/p>\n

Under the name Shelley Shepard Gray, Shelley writes Amish romances for HarperCollins\u2019 inspirational line, Avon Inspire. Her recent novel, The Protector<\/em>, the final book in her \u201cFamilies of Honor\u201d series, hit the New York Times List, and her previous novel in the same series, The Survivor<\/em>, appeared on the USA Today bestseller list. Shelley has won the prestigious Holt Medallion for her books, Forgiven<\/em> and Grace<\/em>, and her novels have been chosen as Alternate Selections for the Doubleday\/Literary Guild Book Club. Her first novel with Avon Inspire, Hidden, was an Inspirational Reader\u2019s Choice finalist.<\/p>\n

Before writing romances, Shelley lived in Texas and Colorado, where she taught school and earned both her bachelor\u2019s and master\u2019s degrees in education. She now lives in southern Ohio and writes full time. Shelley is married, the mother of two children in college, and is an active member of her church. She serves on committees, volunteers in the church office, and currently leads a Bible study group, and she looks forward to the opportunity to continue to write novels that showcase her Christian ideals.<\/p>\n

When she\u2019s not writing, Shelley often attends conferences and reader retreats in order to give workshops and publicize her work. She\u2019s attended RWA\u2019s national conference six times, the ACFW conference and Romantic Times Magazine\u2019s annual conference as well as traveled to New Jersey, Birmingham, and Tennessee to attend local conferences.<\/p>\n

Check out Shelley’s Facebook Fan page<\/a>
\nABOUT THE BOOK:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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In the second book in her Secrets of Crittenden County series, New York Times bestselling author Shelley Shepard Gray delivers another page-turning romance set in Amish country<\/p>\n

The serenity of the quiet Amish community of Crittenden, Kentucky is disrupted when Abby Anderson discovers the body of Perry Borntrager in an abandoned well. Perry had been missing for months. Everyone figured he had left the order during his rumspringa. As friends and family reel from this news, and are faced with the first death by mysterious circumstance to occur in their small town in over 20 years, a homicide detective arrives to help solve the crime<\/p>\n

Before Perry disappeared, Frannie Eicher and Perry had been secretly courting. Now that it\u2019s common knowledge that he was murdered, it\u2019s up to Fannie to decide whether or not to tell everyone about the secrets he told her.<\/p>\n

After much deliberation, she decides to tell Luke Reynolds, the visiting police officer, what she knows. At first, the two meet only on the context of discussing Perry\u2019s death. Then, Luke begins to feel more and more at home, both with Frannie, and in Marion. The only problem is that he feels a romantic pull toward Frannie. Frannie feels that same attraction toward Luke, but is afraid to give her heart to him. After all, she doesn\u2019t want to leave her faith.<\/p>\n

As Luke uncovers more secrets about Perry and the case draws out, his time in Marion runs out. He has to decide whether to go back to his job with the Cincinnati Police Department\u2026or stay in Marion.<\/p>\n

If you would like to read the Prologue of The Search<\/a>, go HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This week, theChristian Fiction Blog Allianceis introducingThe SearchAvon Inspire; Original edition (June 19, 2012)byShelley Shepard GrayABOUT THE AUTHOR: Since 2000, Shelley Sabga has sold over thirty novels to numerous publishers, including HarperCollins, Harlequin, Abingdon Press, and Avon Inspire. She has been interviewed by NPR, and her books have been highlighted in numerous publications, including USA […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[38,8,67,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amish","category-books","category-mystery","category-romance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12231"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12231"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12235,"href":"https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12231\/revisions\/12235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}