A Redemption Story

When I accepted the offer to write my first book in a multiple-author project in 2021, I had two rough drafts completed. Remarkably, one already fit the MAP's category I was writing for. All I had to do was change the heroine's name and entitle it Walnut Cake for Wylene. I haven't been able to use the other one in a MAP, but it is a wonderful standalone Western story set in Redbud, Arizona in 1895 and has the themes of not judging others, redemption, and the power of faith.

Danielle Gregory grew up in the saloons, where her mother worked, and she has never been able to escape that lifestyle. However, she’s promised herself never to work upstairs the way her mother did. When she goes to Redbud, Arizona, to work in a saloon that doesn’t have soiled doves, the sheriff mistakes her for his mail-order bride. She would have liked to marry him and have a normal life, but she’s too honest to deceive him for long. As she expected, he has problems with her past. But when a godly pastor and his wife accept her, she has hope for the first time. Now that she's become a new child of God, what will her future hold?

Mistaken Bride publishes on April 4 and is on preorder now. The print edition is already out, and it will also be on KU and Audible. I love stories of how God works in lives to bring about healing. Remembering the woman at the well, the adulteress caught in the act, and the harlot who washed Jesus' feet, we should treat others the way Christ indicated, with love. I hope you enjoy Mistaken Bride as much as I did writing it.

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