A guest post by Christina Sinisi
First, thank you, Brave Authors, for hosting me today. I truly appreciate the opportunity to share with your readers.
Second, I am excited to share about my new release coming this fall, Hope of Hatteras, the third book in the Outer Bank series. This is two years late—the book was all set to be published in November 2024, but my publisher closed a few days before the
publication date.
Here is a blurb: Hope of Hatteras is a Christian contemporary romance set on Hatteras Island and the Outer Banks of North Carolina. The story centers around a college student coming home to visit her big brother—the one who dropped out of college so he could take care of her after their parents died in a car accident. Since then, Megan Kingsley has tried to be the perfect sister, student, everything–until she passes out onto her brother’s kitchen floor. Now, she must earn his trust—and that of the sexy EMT who seems to resent everything about her—money, privilege, and self-destruction.
In all my books, probably based on my psychology professor background, I often—make that always, whether I intend to or not—deal with some serious issue. In Hope of Hatteras, Megan is anorexic but hasn’t admitted it and doesn’t do so until the end of the book. Realizing she has a life-threatening mental illness is shattering.
Another side of my books is that God is the answer.
That’s also the foundation of my life.
By the way, I just realized that the hero is given short shrift in the blurb—something I’ll have to work on). Jackson Lee grew up on the wrong side of the tracks on Hatteras with a mother who bounced around from man to man. His own father lives on the island but refuses to have anything to do with his children, ashamed of his past indiscretion. Jackson rebels by going in the opposite direction—serving others and trying to live a good, moral life.
You might even say they have the same flaw—perfectionism.
We might not think of perfectionism as a sin, but when we kill ourselves in pursuit or judge others mercilessly, then, yes, yes, it is.
Hosea 6:6 (ESV) “For I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice, the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.”
Ah, you might have wondered when I began this post and saw the title, here’s the steadfast love. Here’s the point. God doesn’t want or expect us to be perfect. We shouldn’t expect others to be, either.
We just need to hang in there and love the Lord—and accept His steadfast love.
More about Christina:
A member of American Christian Fiction Writers, Christina Sinisi writes stories about families, both the broken and blessed. Her works include a semi-finalist in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award contest and the American Title IV Contest where she appeared in the top ten in the Romantic Times magazine. Her published books include Christmas Confusion, Sweet Summer, Why They Call It Falling, and Christmas on Ocracoke. By day, she is a psychology professor and lives in the LowCountry of South Carolina with her husband, two children and her crazy cat Ember.
