Cover Reveal: House of Courage!

I hope you don’t mind, but I’m a little bit excited.

Make that a lot excited.

Dreams coming true are what dreams are made of. Wait. What? Dreams are good, exciting, but the fulfillment makes the dream worthwhile. I’ve waited fifty years for my first work of fiction to be published.  The cover reveal just makes it seem real!

Next month, my first novelette, House of Courage, will be released. It’s the first of a series of novelettes related to my upcoming novel, Faces of Courage. Get to know some of the novel’s other characters and witness their acts of courage while you’re waiting for the main event, hopefully sometime next year.

What’s House of Courage?

Some think courage belongs only to mythical superheroes. Others think courage is simply a matter of the will. Where does courage come from—really?

Marissa Cinzano shouldn’t have trouble finding courage. After all, she was brought up on it. As a single woman, she’s relied on it her entire adult life, especially during her breast cancer journey. But when her father wants to sell Orange Tree Farm, the only home she’s ever known, she believes saving the farm is her responsibility. If only she could work up enough courage—mind over matter.

Cousin Dante tries to help, but financial troubles with the family-owned restaurant make it hard, and solutions are complicated by her father’s aging and her mother’s failing health. A fire fueled by dangerous Santa Ana winds in the canyons of Orange County, California causes a major setback. Will Orange Tree Farm be saved?

Marissa’s story challenges us to remember our plans may not be God’s plans and courage is found at the intersection of faith and grit.

   And here, as promised, the cover reveal.

Talk to you soon.

Blessings,
Susan K. Beatty