A lot can happen to the heart, mind, and soul in…fifteen years.

Having overcome a rough childhood and teenage years to rise to the top of the corporate ladder, it looks as though Josiah (JT) Tucker knows exactly what it means to forget those things that are behind and look only at what lies ahead.

However, at one of the highest points of his life, JT finds himself at his lowest, and it’s clear he has not forgotten.

He has not forgotten the many forgotten the many foster homes he’d been in and out of as a child. Nor the Smiths, the one foster care family who loved and cared for him, giving him a sense of stability and imparting spiritual truth in his life. He has not forgotten the years of working, while going to school and worrying about his birth, wondering when she would come home and in what condition. Nor the news he received the day after his high school graduation.

It was years later and it was all behind him. But the memories were present, torturing him in his brokenness.

When he finally realizes that sometimes moving forward means going back, he goes on a journey. JT’s faith is challenged as he discovers secrets about his past and the love he’s been longing for.

About the author: Kendra Norman Bellamy is a national bestselling author and founder of KNB Publications LLC. Her award-winning titles have been featured in Essence, Upscale, EKG Literary, and HOPE for Women magazines. She has been a contributing writer for Precious Times and Global Woman magazines, among others. Kendra is also a motivational speaker, the organizer of Visions In Print and The Writer’s Hut, and the founder of Crusin in Christ. Kendra is the author of One Prayer Away, Crossing Jhordan’s River, and A Love So Strong. A native of West Palm Beach, Florida, Kendra now resides in Stone Mountain, Georgia with her family. For more information, visit www.knb-publications.com.

I’ve always admired Mary at a distance until one day a good friend of mine, T. Suzanne Eller, introduced us at the SheSpeaks conference in North Carolina in August. Up until that point I could never muster up the courage to contact her to invite her to be a guest on Books A Latte. However, I chickened out…again.

My daughter, T accompanied me on this trip to the conference. Sometime during the teen portion of the conference, T met Mary. She won an autographed copy of Mary’s book Daisy Chain (the sequel is entitled Slow Burn). Well, on the entire trip home the name Mary DeMuth seeped from her lips more times than I can remember. I made the mistake of thinking that the excitement would slip away as time distanced her from the memorable occasion…NOT! This child gave new meaning to the word “relentless.” She would not allow me to wallow in my fear that Mary was too important to take the time to talk with me.

We met Mary in August and I didn’t interview her until November. Is T persistent or what?

Check out our interview – you may want to take notes, Mary shares quiet a bite of valuable information (she also talks about her next book):

To learn more about Mary DeMuth visit: www.MaryDeMuth.com or www.WannaBePublished.blogspot.com or www.MyFamilySecrets.org.

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As Virelle Kidder reflects on where God has taken her and her family, she looks ahead with excitement to see what He still has in store for them. Her journey takes her from a dysfunctional childhood where secrecy was the family code – to adulthood, where she leard to serve the God of truth.

Learning that following God requires a surrendered schedule and a willing heart, she tells in her humorous, poignant, inimitable way how He stretched her through experienceds like lost furniture, a husband who was histil to her newfound faith, mother issues, health challenges, house guests, and all manner of everyday life.

Join Verelle and I as we discuss her recently relsease book entitled, The Best Life Ain’t Easy, But It’s Worth It – indeed.

Ladies and gentlemen we have an awesome guest on the show today. She is the racial reconciliation “rectifier” a.k.a. Linda Leigh Hargrove. The Lord has given this woman a great ministry and the courage to reach out to an area that seems to be “taboo” – especially among the church.

Linda has written two novels that deal with her passion, which is racial reconciliation. When this began, she and her husband spoke on topics dealing with such issues. Linda began to pray for the Lord to raise someone up that would deal with this “hushed” subject and guess what? You got it, the Lord sent her! What an amazing story she has to share with the world!

When Linda began this ministry she realized that their were many who didn’t quite “get it.” They didn’t understand her ministry. This concerned her and she wanted the Lord to show her how she could demonstrate this issue to the world around her. Well, being the prayer answering God that He is, He birthed in her the book entitled, “The Making of Isaac Hunt” and the second book in this series is the recently released, “Loving Cee Cee Johnson,” and the third book is soon to come. WOW!

To learn more about Linda Leigh Hargrove please visit www.llhargrove.com and also visit 17 Seeds where more topics regarding her passion are posted.

Now, tune in as we discover more about Linda Leigh Hargrove.