{"id":18697,"date":"2015-04-27T17:52:17","date_gmt":"2015-04-27T22:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/?p=18697"},"modified":"2015-04-27T17:52:17","modified_gmt":"2015-04-27T22:52:17","slug":"gathered-waters-by-cara-luecht","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.daysongreflections.com\/?p=18697","title":{"rendered":"Gathered Waters by Cara Luecht"},"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\/1939023300\">Gathered Waters<\/a><\/span><\/center><center>WhiteFire Publishing (April 15, 2015)<\/center><center>by<\/center><center><span style=\"color: #006600; font-size: 130%;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.caraluecht.com\/\">Cara Luecht<\/a><\/span><\/center><\/p>\n<p><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:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-Z-0IAdZC8sg\/VT2u6V0E4kI\/AAAAAAAAHAY\/GGnj1KQYOE8\/s1600\/Cara.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-Z-0IAdZC8sg\/VT2u6V0E4kI\/AAAAAAAAHAY\/GGnj1KQYOE8\/s1600\/Cara.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"212\" height=\"320\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><b>A Word from the Author:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>I never planned to be a writer. In fact, it took me a while to finish college. But I did, and here I am. And I now I can\u2019t imagine not being a writer.<\/p>\n<p>By day, I am an English Instructor for a local college, Marketing Manager for Degnan Design Builders, Inc., mother to four amazing children, and wife to an eternally patient and supportive husband.<\/p>\n<p>In the evening, when I can squirrel away some quiet time, I read and write historical fiction.<\/p>\n<p>I have a B.A. in English Lit. from UW Whitewater and an M.F.A in Creative Writing from Fairleigh Dickinson University in Madison, NJ.<\/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:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-KW1HYBvG0B8\/VT2ujMwqriI\/AAAAAAAAHAQ\/gJNQqx2_WdI\/s1600\/GatheredWaters.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-KW1HYBvG0B8\/VT2ujMwqriI\/AAAAAAAAHAQ\/gJNQqx2_WdI\/s1600\/GatheredWaters.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"213\" height=\"320\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>They want to worship as their hearts demand&#8230;but is it something they can give up everything for?<\/p>\n<p>Brianna has only ever been what her life demanded. A wife, a hostess, a mother. But when a stand her husband takes ostracizes them from the Lutheran church that controls so much of life in Sweden, Brianna finds herself needing to find a strength beyond her station&#8230;a strength that will see her through prejudice and persecution and to a home she never dreamed she would find.<\/p>\n<p>Based on the true story of the author s family s journey from Sweden to America, this sweeping saga paints the brilliance of new faith, the bravery of a new land&#8230;and the beauty of plunging beneath the waters and emerging a new person, capable of what one never thought one could do.<\/p>\n<p>If you would like to read the first chapter of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1939023300\">Gathered Waters<\/a>, go <a href=\"http:\/\/thestorybeginnings.blogspot.com\/2015\/04\/gathered-waters-by-cara-luecht.html\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, theChristian Fiction Blog Allianceis introducingGathered WatersWhiteFire Publishing (April 15, 2015)byCara Luecht ABOUT THE AUTHOR: A Word from the Author: I never planned to be a writer. In fact, it took me a while to finish college. But I did, and here I am. And I now I can\u2019t imagine not being a writer. 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