Title: Moonbow
By Sheila Hollinghead
Genre: Inspirational Romantic Suspense
Blurb:
A widow, a doctor, an unborn child. Three lives are at risk in this high stakes suspense. Die Auserwahlten, the Chosen Ones, have impregnated Gisa with an embryonic clone. Is it evil or just a child? It's up to Dr. Rayden Brooks to untangle the web that keeps them captive and save their lives. But will Gisa trust him?
Excerpt:
The opening of her door startled her. She looked up into Rayden's face.
"What are you doing?" she asked, gulping down a sob.
He reached in and placed her hand in his. His hand was warm and dry, and his strength seeped into her. She allowed him to pull her out until they stood face to face. He wrapped his arms around her, and she cried into his shoulder while he stroked her hair.
With a shuddering breath, she pushed back to peer into his face. He brushed her tears away with a tender touch. Even with the tumult of emotion crashing through her, her skin tingled each place his fingers trailed.
She pulled back to escape the sensation and searched his eyes. "Why? Why did they choose me?"
"I don't know." His voice was gentle, his lips agonizingly close.
She wanted to remain like this, in his arms, safe and secure, enshrouded where nothing could ever harm her. "If I have an abortion, at least they'd quit following me?" She said it tentatively, as more of a question than a statement.
He sighed. "I told you that's not going to happen."
"Why? I need to know why."
"Maybe you know?"
She shook her head again. "I don't know! I'm nobody. Nobody at all..."
My Review:
I received a free copy of the book from the author for my honest opinion.
Gisa lost her parents both of her parents at the same time in a car accident. After losing both of the parents Gisa never had many friends in high school. When she went to college just made a few friends but not many. Gisa was the kind of girl who just stayed to herself. Then she met David and fell in love. Not long after they were married David was sent to Afghanistan. He was killed in the war. Gisa wanted to have David's baby her one and only connection that she would have of her husband. You know something to remember him by and to also have a piece of him with her always.
Gisa had earned her teaching degree and was teaching small children with autism. She loved her job and her kids. She loved being with them and helping them. But she wanted this one last thing from her husband, a baby. So she is artificially inseminated with David's sperm. Then one day one of her Doctors pulls up at her school saying they had to leave and they had to leave now. Gisa couldn't just leave some of her kids were still there at the school and she waiting with them on their parents to pick them up. No way was she going to just leave those children there, standing on the curb by their selves. Gisa and Rayden are being chased by these guys who want Gisa's baby. Rayden is trying to save her from the men that are after her. He is only trying to get her away before they get to her and kidnap her. Gisa doesn't know if she can trust him or not but something tells her that it is ok to go with him.
Rayden and Gisa go on the road and travel across several states trying to stay one step ahead of the men that are after her and her baby. They finally end up ditching them or so they think. Well maybe they did and maybe they didn't even though they didn't see them or think they didn't. With so many members in this group of people there are probably someone from this group in every state they come to. They are more than likely being followed or they actually know where they are the whole time and maybe just playing with them knowing they can catch them anytime they want but they probably need a place where there would not be many witnesses before they take or kill them.
Moonbow is full of mystery, suspense and Christian values. Rayden is a Christian and Gisa is an atheist. She tells Rayden that her parents were agonistic and she was atheist. Rayden is telling her that god will take care of them and keep them safe. He is also telling her about people in the bible but Gisa has no idea who or what is talking about. Being raised agonistic she has never read them bible. But Rayden tells her about the bible, God and Jesus, he is not only trying to save her life he is also trying to save her soul and get her to turn her life over to God.
Moonbow is a great story and I would recommend it to anyone who likes a good mystery with a lot of twist and turns. Rayden and Gisa are two very wonderful people that care about other people and will put others first. They will put their own lives in danger if that is what it takes to save the lives of others. They both come to care about each other so much that they both put their own lives in jeopardy trying to get to the other one to keep them safe when they are torn apart.
About the Author:
Sheila Hollinghead, an army brat, was born in Nuremberg, Germany. When she was ten, her father was stationed in Toul, France where she discovered a treasure trove of books hiding in the furnace room. The house was rumored to be the former headquarters of the Nazi Party with bullet holes decorating the foyer as evidence. The books, sci-fi, mysteries, fantasy, and the classics, opened her mind to the power of story. Today, she is married and lives on a farm in south Alabama with dogs, cats, and chickens. She agrees with Emily Dickinson who said, "I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it until it begins to shine."
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A NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR:
Moonbow began as a literal dream. Bless (or curse) my husband. When I told him the strange story, he encouraged me to turn it into a book. I'm not sure if the final manuscript resembles the first shadowy images in the least. Writing morphs and grows into things we cannot imagine when we first put pen to paper. I hope to continue the growth of the story and further explore the question from my dream: "Are some men born evil? What if they got a second chance?"
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