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BABY, BABY,
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Book One Family Heirloom: Accepting God’s will A Proverbs 31 wife wonders, does “submissive” mean giving up having anything of her own? Thirty-seven-year-old Tamara Wolfe married her childhood sweetheart, Robert, right out of high school and proceeded to have a passel of children who fill her life to capacity. With the last of her children in preschool, Tamara decides to make a business out of her long-time love of creating designer gift baskets. She doesn’t expect Robert to be against it from her first word. Robert has always prided himself on giving Tamara the option of staying home to raise the children, just as his father did before him. Since birth, it’s been drilled into him that a man who doesn’t provide for his family is the worst kind of loser. What will happen if her business takes off? She won’t have time to take care of the family. Worse, maybe she won’t need him anymore. Although they’d agreed years before their family was complete, Robert considers that perhaps the cure for Tamara’s restlessness is another baby. Tamara prays for wisdom. All she wants is a small space of time for herself. Is she being selfish? Or is God leading her to continue being an outdated model of the Proverbs 31 wife--submissive, but never equal?
Read an excerpt! 5 Hearts! "I was pleased to find out Ms. Wiesner is doing a series of this community of Peaceful, Wisconsin. There are many supporting cast members who were screaming to be acknowledged during Tamara and Robert’s story. The sub characters were very important to the telling of the Wolfe family saga. Even though Tamara and Robert were deeply in love and took care of their family, they were constantly involved in their community and church. These characters, both siblings, parents, neighbors, and townsfolk were such loving and believable people that it was as if I was living in that small town. "Tamara and Robert Wolfe’s story was told so beautifully. It was apparent at the beginning, even throughout their problems, that they each loved the other to distraction. This late-thirties couple was struggling not only financially but also emotionally. The expertise in revealing Ms. Wiesner’s storyline created a spell-binding tale that I just could not help but love. She is truly a gifted author with a remarkably talented way of expressing her story. I cannot wait for her next installment in this series. I highly recommend you read this book." ~reviewed by Brenda Talley for The Romance Studio http://theromancestudio.com//reviews/reviews/babybabywiesner.htm
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SHADOW BOXING,
5 hearts and finalist for the
Book Two Family Heirloom: Building love
Joined before God and family out of a sense of responsibility? Or love? As a teenager, Justine Morris’s escape from the pressures of caring for her dying father was stolen moments with Joshua Samuels. But their tender, desperate liaison found them facing teen pregnancy. Afraid of their Christian families’ responses to the situation, they married quickly and built a life for their child. But now that their daughter is ready to fly the nest, Justine can no longer ignore the truth: She and Joshua haven’t had a real marriage for a long time. Maybe they never had one at all. Joshua is only too aware that his busy, professional attorney wife is an independent woman who never really needed him. After nearly two decades of marriage, he’s quit trying to get more than a piece of her at a time. Without their daughter holding them together, he knows the chasm between them will grow to epic proportions. Their empty nest looming, they face the hard questions. Had they married in love…or out of a hasty sense of responsibility? Was it God’s will for them to be together? And now, is it worth the effort to learn to become one as the Lord intends for a man and a woman…or better to simply let go?
Read an excerpt! Top Read of Excellence! "Mmmmm, how to find the words to do this story justice? This book has a slow steady pace but it’s deep--really deep. Well rounded, three-dimensional characters and not too many secondary’s mean that you can really get into the nitty-gritty of the relationship. Ms Wiesner has a great writing style--very polished, tight and not too flowery so that you are absorbed and carried along on the current without being aware of the process. I felt really emotionally involved in the characters’ relationship and loved them both and I loved the way they gradually worked towards a resolution. I also enjoyed the little development towards the end of the book. I have to admit that on the down side I did find myself wondering, could two people who have been married for eighteen years really be this obtuse about each other? Yes, I believe they could and Ms Wiesner makes the conflict one hundred percent believable. I loved the physical scenes. They happen but you are never taken into the detail, they are extremely tastefully done without losing any of the impact and without being explicit. I cried buckets reading this. If you want a moving, poignant and tender story about two people finding each other again then this is for you. Definitely recommended." ~reviewed by Vasiliki Scurfield for WRDF http://blog.lyndacoker.net/2009/02/02/wrdf-review-of-shadow-boxing-by-karen-wiesner.aspx Read reviews!
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FOOLISH GAMES,
Book Three Family Heirloom: Healing Falling in love will take letting go of their fears. That, or a miracle… A year after he lost his beloved wife, Peter Samuels still struggles with overwhelming grief. As the sole caretaker of growing children, the first anniversary of her death hits especially hard as he faces the world without a partner. There is only one man for Kimberly Wolfe. Her boss, Peter. But he’s taken. First, by a marriage she envied from afar. Now by his grief. However, she’s used to the idea that happily-ever-after may never happen, not with a childhood haunted by a domineering father who used the Bible to justify his God-given place as the head of their household. A father who still refuses to repent for the wrong he’s done. Kim has tried, but forgiveness comes hard when trust is in short supply. An innocent kiss on New Year’s leads to a growing awareness—of each other, and of the gaping holes in their lives that only love can fill. But before they can take the first steps on the road to healing, first they have to build a bridge…
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GLASS ANGELS, Book Four Family Heirloom: Forgiving A young Christian woman struggles with whether it’s possible to forgive but not forget, and does not forgetting nullify the forgiveness extended? Three years previously Samantha Samuels had suffered under the violent hands of Ryder Feldmann, a parolee her pastor father had been counseling. Now she’s completed her training and returned to her hometown of Peaceful, Wisconsin, planning to join the crisis and intervention center her best friend has started to help other victims of violent crimes. Unexpectedly, she finds herself sharing an office building and Sunday services at her new church with the older brother, a divorce psychiatrist, of her attacker. Many years previously, Kyle Feldmann’s unfaithful wife had divorced him and left him to care for their now teenage son. In the time since Kyle’s brother was jailed for his crime against Samantha, Kyle had wished he could apologize to her personally. He’d never sided with Ryder, whom he’d spent countless years trying to befriend and reform without success, just as Samantha’s own father had. Seeing Samantha again after so many years, being near her, talking to her only increases his desire to make up for the loss and pain she’d experienced at his sibling’s hands. She’s the most beautiful woman he’s ever met, inside and out. Both he and his son quickly grow to love her for her gentle loving-kindness to everyone. More than anything, Samantha had wanted her father’s approval, but his selfish part in putting her in a dangerous situation has led her to a painful place of desperately needing to forgive her father and her attacker…and being unable to in all the time since the traumatic event that changed her life. As she grows to love Kyle and her solid relationship with the Lord is tested, she wonders if she’ll ever truly believe that healing starts with a leap of faith that won’t shatter her.
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Status of this book: Finished writing. Plan to revise in July, polish and submit in August 2009.
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SHARDS OF ASHLEY, Book Five Family Heirloom: Re-learning trust
Ashley Savage grew up in a troubled home with a competitive sister and an abusive, ridiculing mother who played at being a Christian when she needed to...and led Ashley to more addictions than one teenager could handle. As an adult, she tells herself she’s put the past behind her, but she spends most of her time repairing the crumbling wall holding back extreme fears she’s not willing to face ever again. She’s become a woman against the world. The one man who has the annoying habit of getting through her defenses is Jay Samuels, a Marine and soon-to-be pastor. Much as Ashley wants to leave him behind like she believes she has the rest of her past, Jay is ambitious to a fault where she’s concerned. He hears only what he wants to hear, and he doesn’t want to hear that she doesn’t love him as much as he loves her. But even Jay doesn’t realize the extent of all she’s buried deep inside her own subconscious…and what keeps her from giving herself willingly to the God she knows is drawing her inexorably to Himself, where she can’t run, where she can no longer hide...
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Status of this book: Brainstorming in preparation for outlining, writing, revising, polishing and submitting in 2010.
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WORLDS COLLIDE, Book Six Family Heirloom: Persevering in adversity
Dr. Marcus Samuels is a man with a heart for seeing the world come to Christ. As a missionary in Japan, his life has been God’s work. Until he meets Keiko Oichi, a volunteer at the Christian Children’s hospital he runs, the idea of a wife and family is remote at best. Keiko’s family sees her as little more than a possession to sell to the highest bidder. All her life, she’s been groomed for the purpose of a marriage that will provide her family with financial security and social status. She isn’t free to make her own choices…not even when it comes to God. Her family has no idea she volunteers at the hospital to serve Jesus Christ and to give a cup of cold water in His name. Until Keiko heard the way to salvation through Jesus, she’d accepted her role in her family without question or concern, just as she’d accepted her betrothal to a rich Buddist. Knowing Christ, as well as meeting and falling in love with Marcus, has altered her detached acceptance radically. When her parents learn of her conversion and feelings for a Christian man, Keiko and Marcus face a crossroads in love and faith that will change both of their lives irrevocably.
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Status of this book: Brainstorming in preparation for outlining, writing, revising, polishing and submitting in 2010.
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