Category: Novel
Letters to the Lord: Celebrations
This past week has been filled with celebrations. First we flew to the USA and made it here without any major misdemeanors and many masks: Then we got to meet our precious new granddaughter Lena! Of course, there was much to celebrate at being reunited with the rest of our family, too. And before quarantining with our ‘bubble’ here in the Chattanooga area, we … Read More Letters to the Lord: Celebrations
Letters to the Lord: Persevering in the Little Things
Oh, Lord, it’s so often the little things that trip me up. During the past month, I’ve been doing a Virtual Camino—a wonderful program that InterVarsity has set up for faculty and staff at universities during this strange and difficult summer of 2020. When I heard that this virtual experience was also open to others, I signed up since my new novel, The Promised … Read More Letters to the Lord: Persevering in the Little Things
Letters to the Lord: When We Write The Truth
Twenty years ago I penned a novel that I thought would get me in trouble. Instead it has brought me a tiny slice of fame. Here’s how it happened: I’d finished writing a trilogy about France and Algeria and knew my next novel needed to be about my hometown of Atlanta. I’d heard the adage, “Write what you know about.” Well, I’d pretty much … Read More Letters to the Lord: When We Write The Truth
Letters to the Lord: You Know Better
“Don’t wear yourself out to get rich; because you know better, stop!” Proverbs 23: 4 Ugh, Lord. Just ugh. Your Word got me right in the gut. And I couldn’t ignore it because I’d stopped and prayed before I opened my Bible for my heart to be tender to what I read this morning in Proverbs, Jeremiah, and Ephesians. And as so often happens, … Read More Letters to the Lord: You Know Better
Letters to the Lord: A Virtual Tour of the Writing Chalet
Here’s the link for the Facebook Live Video of the virtual tour. Enjoy!
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The Promised Land
From the author of The Swan House, a classic in the South, comes the continuing story of the Middleton-Bartholomew family. You’d be surprised at what can get through to you when everything else is taken away. Four pilgrims on a journey toward change… With her oldest son, Bobby, taking a gap year in Europe, her aging father losing his sight and his memory, and … Read More The Promised Land
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Transformational Fiction Giveaway Tour: How It All Began
In my other life, as a pastoral caregiver to missionaries, I had started an online Skype study with a small group of women from our mission using the Companion Guide to Sharon Garlough Brown’s novel, Sensible Shoes. Although I did not know Sharon personally, since we were both novelists, I got up my courage and asked her if she would be willing to meet … Read More Transformational Fiction Giveaway Tour: How It All Began
The Huguenot Cross: Celebrating the Symbolic
The Huguenot cross symbolize not only of my faith in Christ, but also of how He had answered my prayers over and above all I could ask or think.
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When I Close My Eyes
Won’t they find out about The Awful Year. . . ? There is one story novelist Josephine Bourdillion shirked from writing. And now she may never have a chance. Trapped in her memories, she lies in a coma. . . . The man who put her there is just as paralyzed. Retired military Henry Hughes failed to complete the kill. What’s more: he failed … Read More When I Close My Eyes
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The Long Highway Home
When Bobbie Blake gets the news that she is terminally ill, she decides to go back with her niece Tracie, to The Oasis, a ministry center for refugees in Austria where she worked years ago. Back to where there are so many memories of love and loss. Bobbie and Tracie are moved by the plight of the refugees and in particular, the story of … Read More The Long Highway Home
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Two Crosses
The glimmering Huguenot cross she so innocently wears leads her deep into the shadows. When Gabriella Madison arrives in the French village of Castelnau in 1961 to continue her university studies, she doesn’t anticipate being drawn into the secretive world behind the Algerian war for independence from France. And the further she delves into the war efforts, the more her faith is challenged. The … Read More Two Crosses
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Two Testaments
The slightest spark will ignite an explosion. The tinderbox of broken political and racial relations in France and Algeria provides plenty of kindling. And the growing friction, especially in Algeria, will soon combust. A tentative ceasefire offers little to cool the heat. And in the midst of the turmoil, Gabriella Madison guards the orphans in her care, while battling jealousy when Anne-Marie Duchemin, David’s … Read More Two Testaments
Elizabeth Musser 