Promising News (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781977292360)

Can a promise change hate to love?

As a second-chance book, Promising News turns a young man's redemption journey into a spiritual awakening story. After making the biggest mistake of his life, writer/photographer Paul Neal struggles with how to reconcile his own personal growth needs with those of the entire community he has wronged. Sacrifice is called for as he moves from the pulsing Dallas, Texas, metroplex to what his friends consider a racist and redneck rural town. He finds himself twisted into emotional knots by a multitude of moral dilemmas while serving as the town's only newspaper editor. As national attention focuses on his work, he is soon embroiled in relationships more fast-paced and challenging than any he could have dreamed of when pursuing his former urban ambitions.

Blending realism with contemporary Christian fiction set in the early 1980s, this novel follows the promise Paul makes at the grave of the man he killed as he tries to turn the hate he rightfully deserves into a legacy filled with love. While keeping the crime a secret, guilt and grief haunt this lonely man who finds himself falling in love with those who might never forgive him. He senses a divine Presence offering him choices -- the power to seduce his new companions, shatter them or set them free.

The list of questions included for book clubs and faith-based discussion groups creates a reading experience that highlights a cross-genre appeal of romance, mystery, faith and fantasy.