Thankful Author 2018- N. Christine Samuelson

To give thanks for the ‘customary things’ like family, health, career, home, friends, etc. is not, in my opinion, boring or unoriginal. Tragedy, loss and misfortune happens to everyone. Many people have not been blessed with the ‘customary’ things to be thankful for which makes me all the more grateful for every morsel of good fortune in every area of life. 

I’m thankful for the ebb and flow of both good and bad things that have happened throughout my life. Some blessings have been given and some hard-earned. The tragic or sorrowful things have taught me resilience, faith, and lessons from which to learn and grow. I’m thankful for the painful losses and situations for showing me by contrast how valuable and cherished the good things are, and for changing my path through life to make me who I am today, including being able to write and publish novels. 

From my first waking moment to my last before sleep, I give gratitude for all of it, and for the gift of life itself. Life is magical in all kinds of ways if we take the time to look, accept and appreciate them. I’m very thankful for the opportunities, teachers, life experiences and skills to be able to write about such things, things that lift us up out of the mundane into the mystical realms of living.

BLURB 

“A journey of love and life through time and tragedy that few have the courage to take, 

fewer live to remember & readers will never forget.” 

Eternal bonds of love surrounding the sea have been fulfilled and broken through generations of life. They haunt Ella and Daniel with secrets, lies, spirits, and memories of living in other times with similar fates. From Key West to Maine, the plot twists will keep readers fascinated from the first chapter to the end. 

EXCERPT 

“I promise, when I leave on a ship to fly jets, I will always come back to you. In one way or another, I will come back. In time, all ships must return to port. Ella, you are my home port.” 

In that moment, his words were truer than any she’d ever heard. But with eyes closed, her spirit lifted into another realm and through the potent energy passing between them, she detected a whisper. As had happened before, it did not emanate from her brain like a thought; it came from outside herself and drifted in. Just as she knew the light from a star took a thousand years to reach her eyes, she sensed this message was spoken long ago in some ancient time and had just reached her ear on this day. It was the familiar voice of a man who had loved her, and when he’d held her, he smelled of the salt air and the sea, and he had said, I promise I will come back to you.

She heard the words now, but her lover in that ancient time had never returned. And now the loss of him drifted back through time as well—it still had a home in her heart, a grief so deep and pervasive it would never leave. The pain was not just felt; it’d been imprinted on her, like a brand on the soul, marking her for life and obviously beyond it. There was no getting over that kind of pain.

Available in Print and Ebook on Amazon.com, The Wild Rose Press and most other online retailers.

BUY LINKS 

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B079KYG31P

https://www.TheWildRosePress.com

BLURB 

What if the mysteries of your life began before you were born, 

and echo into your future? 

Like echoes reverberating from lifetimes ago controlling their lives and futures, a woman and man are haunted by their pasts. They struggle with the reasons they were born to begin with—what makes their lives worth living? How do they move forward after losses so devastating they believe they’ll never love again? 

The unexpected power and beauty of their connection is as spectacular as the landscapes they walk through in Montana and Wyoming, but they are just as fated, unpredictable and complex. Even with best intentions, nothing is guaranteed except one thing, and only they can discover it.

EXCERPT

In the dead of winter, the earth and sky blended into one white, desolate scene, yet Carson saw a purity in it, a raw beauty. She thought the place wore death well even though she’d gone there in search of life; the life she was meant to live.

Each footstep she took onto the rickety wooden dock made it creak like old bones. Beyond the frozen lake, a towering mountain range clawed at the sky as if trying to escape. Neither had any chance of fleeing—the mountains stuck to the land, and Carson to the consequences of her choices.

Time seemed suspended there, the space so quiet Carson almost heard echoes, muted and far-off, like grieving voices of the past seeking a future. Breathing deep, she hoped to absorb the air’s ancient wisdom of the cycles of life, death and rebirth to start her life anew, just as this land would be reborn in spring. She shouted questions into the crackling silence but heard only the echoes of her own voice as it might’ve sounded lifetimes ago. They hinted of past mistakes, errors in judgment, weaknesses and misunderstandings, loss and regrets. They held her spirit in a death-grip so unrelenting that she knew in this place she could slip from the world as if she’d never existed at all.

Available in Print and Ebook November 12, 2018 on BookBaby.com, Amazon.com and most other online retailers. 

BUY LINK 

https://store.bookbaby.com/book/Echoes-of-Love

N. Christine Samuelson’s novels explore the eternal bonds of love that transform lives and transcend death. Her characters and storylines are realistic but laced with a touch of mysticism, mystery and suspense. Currently living in coastal South Carolina with family, she finds the sea to be a constant source of inspiration. She hopes readers of her books will be inspired to look at life and love through a different lens, expand their horizons, and learn and enrich different aspects of their lives.

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