{"id":17767,"date":"2014-10-11T19:30:15","date_gmt":"2014-10-12T00:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/?p=17767"},"modified":"2014-10-11T19:30:15","modified_gmt":"2014-10-12T00:30:15","slug":"a-love-undone-by-cindy-woodsmall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/?p=17767","title":{"rendered":"A Love Undone by Cindy Woodsmall"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/5500\/1432\/1600\/CFBAreviewer_gif.0.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"cursor: hand; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/5500\/1432\/320\/CFBAreviewer_gif.0.gif\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><center><span style=\"font-size: 130%;\">This week, the<\/span><\/center><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianfictionblogalliance.com\/\"><span style=\"font-size: 100%;\">Christian Fiction Blog Alliance<\/span><\/a><\/center><center><span style=\"font-size: 100%;\">is introducing<\/span><\/center><center><span style=\"color: #993300; font-size: 130%;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/030773000X\">A Love Undone<\/a><\/span><\/center><center>WaterBrook Press (September 9, 2014)<\/center><center>by<\/center><center><span style=\"color: #006600; font-size: 130%;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cindywoodsmall.com\/\">Cindy Woodsmall<\/a><\/span><\/center><strong>ABOUT THE AUTHOR:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-AAQnnfuWxS0\/VDStSfLgxcI\/AAAAAAAAGys\/PLZ1U-4n9n8\/s1600\/Cindy%2BWoodsmall.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-AAQnnfuWxS0\/VDStSfLgxcI\/AAAAAAAAGys\/PLZ1U-4n9n8\/s1600\/Cindy%2BWoodsmall.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"320\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Cindy Woodsmall is a <i>New York Times<\/i> and CBA best-selling author who has written fifteen (and counting!) works of fiction and one of nonfiction. She and her dearest Old Order Amish friend, Miriam Flaud, coauthored the nonfiction, <i>Plain Wisdom: An Invitation into an Amish Home and the Hearts of Two Women<\/i>. Cindy\u2019s been featured on <i>ABC Nightline<\/i> and the front page of the Wall Street Journal, and has worked with National Geographic on a documentary concerning Amish life. In June of 2013, the <i>Wall Street Journal<\/i> listed Cindy as one of the top three Amish fiction writers.<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019s won Fiction Book of the Year, Reviewer\u2019s Choice Awards, Inspirational Reader\u2019s Choice Contest, as well as one of Crossings\u2019 Best Books of the Year. She\u2019s been a finalist for the prestigious Christy, Rita, and Carol Awards, Christian Book of the Year, and Christian Retailers Choice Awards.<\/p>\n<p>Cindy and her husband reside near the foothills of the North Georgia Mountains in their now empty nest.<\/p>\n<p>(Since that last line sounds sad and bare, I thought I\u2019d add an \u201cepilogue\u201d of sorts. Our two oldest sons are married and live only a couple of miles from my empty nest, and below are my three adorable grandchildren! ?)<\/p>\n<p><strong>ABOUT THE BOOK:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-Cgw6ogiRc9o\/VDStIo545jI\/AAAAAAAAGyk\/QTPycGu-fis\/s1600\/A_Love_Undone.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-Cgw6ogiRc9o\/VDStIo545jI\/AAAAAAAAGyk\/QTPycGu-fis\/s1600\/A_Love_Undone.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"213\" height=\"320\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><b>A husband and son abandoned to forge a path alone.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>A young woman who sacrificed her dreams.<\/p>\n<p>How will the God of grace and hope help them find their way?<\/p>\n<p>At nineteen years old, Old Order Amish Jolene Keim was on the brink of happily-ever-after when everything changed, stealing the future she expected and burdening her with an unbearable decision. For the next ten years, Jolene throws herself into family life\u2014and then she meets Andy Fisher. The horse trainer and father to a sweet nine year-old challenges her and holds up a mirror to issues Jolene has been unwilling to face.<\/p>\n<p>Andy is cautious about his deepening friendship with Jolene, but he believes she knows the truth about him \u2013 that he is a grass widower. As a man whose wife has abandoned him six years past, he is unable to divorce or remarry according to the Amish ways. Andy has wrestled with God concerning his reality, and he had found peace with the solitary future facing him\u2026until he met Jolene.<\/p>\n<p>As Andy and Jolene find themselves confronted by difficult choices, will they trust in God&#8217;s guidance\u2014or will the allure of their deepening friendship only lead to further temptation?<\/p>\n<p>If you would like to read the first chapter of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/030773000X\">A Love Undone<\/a>, go <a href=\"http:\/\/thestorybeginnings.blogspot.com\/2014\/10\/a-love-undone-by-cindy-woodsmall.html\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, theChristian Fiction Blog Allianceis introducingA Love UndoneWaterBrook Press (September 9, 2014)byCindy WoodsmallABOUT THE AUTHOR: Cindy Woodsmall is a New York Times and CBA best-selling author who has written fifteen (and counting!) works of fiction and one of nonfiction. She and her dearest Old Order Amish friend, Miriam Flaud, coauthored the nonfiction, Plain Wisdom: [&hellip;]<\/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":[38,8,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amish","category-books","category-romance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=17767"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17770,"href":"https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17767\/revisions\/17770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}