Embrace Me by Lisa Samson

This week, the
Christian Fiction Blog Alliance
is introducing
Embrace Me
(Thomas Nelson March 4, 2008)
by
Lisa Samson

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Lisa Samson is a Christy Award-winning author of 19 books, including the Women of the Faith Novel of the Year, Quaker Summer. Lisa has been hailed by Publishers Weekly as "a talented novelist who isn't afraid to take risks."


In Embrace Me, the latest novel by acclaimed author Lisa Samson, readers are privy to the realization that regardless of outward appearances…hideous, attractive, or even ordinary…persons are all looking for the same things: love, forgiveness, and redemption.

This story explores a world that is neither comfortable nor safe, a world that people like Valentine know all too well. Masterfully crafted by Samson and populated by her most compelling cast of characters yet. It is a tale of forgiveness that extends into all spheres of life: forgiving others, forgiving oneself, forgiving the past.

She lives in Lexinton, Kentucky, with her husband and three kids.

ABOUT THE BOOK

Biting and gentle, hard-edged and hopeful...a beautiful fable of love and power, hiding and seeking, woundedness and redemption.

When a "lizard woman," a self-mutilating preacher, a tattooed monk, and a sleazy lobbyist find themselves in the same North Carolina town one winter, their lives are edging precariously close to disaster...and improbably close to grace.

Valentine, due to her own drastic self-disfigurement, ahs very few friends in this world and, it appears as if she may be destined to spend the rest of her life practically alone. But life gives her one good friend, Lella, whose own handicap puts her in the same freakish category as Valentine. As part of Roland's Wayfaring Marvel and Oddities Show, a traveling band of misfits, they seem to have found their niches in an often curiously cruel world.

Residing in a world where masks are mandatory, Valentine has a hard time removing hers, because of her disfigured face but more so because of her damaged soul. It is much easier for her to listen endlessly to different versions of a favorite song, Embraceable You, and escape reality. Yet, life has more in store for her when she meets Augustine, replete with the tattoos, dreadlocks, and his own secrets. With his arrival, Valentine's soul takes a turn.

If you would like to read the first chapter, go HERE


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The book link is: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1595542108

Author's picture is:
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The code for this post is: <div align="center"><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5500/1432/1600/CFBAreviewer_gif.0.gif"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5500/1432/320/CFBAreviewer_gif.0.gif" border="0" /></a></div><br /><center><span style="font-size:130%;">This week, the</span></center><br /><center><a href="http://www.christianfictionblogalliance.com/"><span style="font-size:100%;">Christian Fiction Blog Alliance</span></a></center><br /><center><span style="font-size:100%;">is introducing</span></center><br /><center><span style="font-size:130%;color:#993300;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1595542108">Embrace Me</a></center><br /><center><span style="font-size:85%;">(Thomas Nelson March 4, 2008)</span></center><br /><center>by</center><br /><center><a href="http://lisasamson.typepad.com/">Lisa Samson</a></span></center><br /><br /><br /><div align="left"><span style="font-size:100%;color:#ff6600;">ABOUT THE AUTHOR:</span></div><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAB_B9up4wEiCABYMPkKt5z-g7K8vcJRUlYD8haSIcniYInKeXYXXdmdyn1ZkX0yVzwBgh2Ll0Z1IgoX92m_48N6ZcdqNZ-5cqtXb35GNGKoKkZ3hfUVrzAT4SGFR6pLV3E_Wh/s1600-h/lisa.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5201888099213672642" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAB_B9up4wEiCABYMPkKt5z-g7K8vcJRUlYD8haSIcniYInKeXYXXdmdyn1ZkX0yVzwBgh2Ll0Z1IgoX92m_48N6ZcdqNZ-5cqtXb35GNGKoKkZ3hfUVrzAT4SGFR6pLV3E_Wh/s320/lisa.jpg" border="0" /></a>Lisa Samson is a Christy Award-winning author of 19 books, including the Women of the Faith Novel of the Year, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1595543694">Quaker Summer</a>. Lisa has been hailed by <em>Publishers Weekly</em> as "a talented novelist who isn't afraid to take risks."<br /><br /><br />In <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1595542108">Embrace Me</a>, the latest novel by acclaimed author Lisa Samson, readers are privy to the realization that regardless of outward appearances…hideous, attractive, or even ordinary…persons are all looking for the same things: love, forgiveness, and redemption.<br /><br />This story explores a world that is neither comfortable nor safe, a world that people like Valentine know all too well. Masterfully crafted by Samson and populated by her most compelling cast of characters yet. It is a tale of forgiveness that extends into all spheres of life: forgiving others, forgiving oneself, forgiving the past.<br /><br />She lives in Lexinton, Kentucky, with her husband and three kids.<br /><br /><div align="left"><strong><span style="font-size:100%;color:#ffcc00;">ABOUT THE BOOK</span></strong></div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht0I9k_S7HUVtI7ShyE3QYRBvkBswIMqN7FYuVj_3r-m6pwqYQhN5QB8JUQh_x6EzR77vmkiIU2o4P4yC5JAmTc2TNiZ-rucJopOydrjgeTUYK-xB-2Mhw8lCFdVOYkJG5NZ-t/s1600-h/embraceme.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht0I9k_S7HUVtI7ShyE3QYRBvkBswIMqN7FYuVj_3r-m6pwqYQhN5QB8JUQh_x6EzR77vmkiIU2o4P4yC5JAmTc2TNiZ-rucJopOydrjgeTUYK-xB-2Mhw8lCFdVOYkJG5NZ-t/s320/embraceme.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5201911605569683682" /></a><em>Biting and gentle, hard-edged and hopeful...a beautiful fable of love and power, hiding and seeking, woundedness and redemption.</em></span><br /><br />When a "lizard woman," a self-mutilating preacher, a tattooed monk, and a sleazy lobbyist find themselves in the same North Carolina town one winter, their lives are edging precariously close to disaster...and improbably close to grace.<br /><br />Valentine, due to her own drastic self-disfigurement, ahs very few friends in this world and, it appears as if she may be destined to spend the rest of her life practically alone. But life gives her one good friend, Lella, whose own handicap puts her in the same freakish category as Valentine. As part of Roland's Wayfaring Marvel and Oddities Show, a traveling band of misfits, they seem to have found their niches in an often curiously cruel world.<br /><br />Residing in a world where masks are mandatory, Valentine has a hard time removing hers, because of her disfigured face but more so because of her damaged soul. It is much easier for her to listen endlessly to different versions of a favorite song, Embraceable You, and escape reality. Yet, life has more in store for her when she meets Augustine, replete with the tattoos, dreadlocks, and his own secrets. With his arrival, Valentine's soul takes a turn.<br /><br />If you would like to read the first chapter, go <a href="http://thestorybeginnings.blogspot.com/2008/05/embrace-me-by-lisa-samson.html">HERE</a>

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