Wounded:
a love story
by Claudia Mair Burney
David C. Cook
If a miracle happened to you, wouldn't you tell everyone?
What if they thought you were crazy?
Poor in health but rich in faith, Gina Merritt—a young,
broke, African-American single mother—sits in a pew on Ash
Wednesday and has a holy vision. When it fades, her palms
are bleeding. Anthony Priest, the junkie sitting beside her,
instinctively touches her when she cries out, but Gina flees
in shock and pain. A prize-winning journalist before drugs
destroyed his career, Anthony is flooded with a sense of
well-being and knows he is cured of his addiction. Without
understanding why, Anthony follows Gina home to find some
answers. Together they search for an answer to this
miraculous event and along the way they cross paths with a
skeptical evangelical pastor, a gentle Catholic priest, a
certifiable religious zealot, and an oversized transvestite
drug dealer, all of whom lend their opinion. It's a quest
for truth, sanity, and grace . and an unexpected love story.
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Zora and
Nicky: A Novel in Black and White
by Claudia Mair Burney
David C. Cook
Two Hearts, One God. Should Anything Else Matter?
Zora Nella Hampton Johnson knows exactly where she comes
from—and her daddy won’t let her forget. Of course for that
privilege he keeps her in Prada and Kate Spade, Coach and
YSL. He chooses her boyfriend, her car, her address, and
ignores her love of painting, art, and the old ways of her
grandaddy’s soulful AME church—where the hymns pleaded,
cajoled, and raised the roof. Her
daddy may be a preacher, but somewhere among the thousands
of church members, the on-site coffee house, and the
JumboTron, Zora lost God. And she wants Him back.
Nicky Parker, a recent graduate of Berkeley and reformed
playboy, also suffers the trials of being a preacher’s kid,
and he can’t remember the last time he saw eye-to-eye with
his white, racist, Southern Baptist father. What he does
remember—and it will be forever burned in his brain despite
myriad prayers to Jesus—is the way Zora looked the first
time he saw her. Like Nefertiti. Only better. When they meet
at a Bible study far from their respective home churches,
the first churlish, sarcastic sparks that fly sizzle with
defensiveness. But God has a special way of feeding the
flames, and though of different flocks, these two lost sheep
will find Him and much, much more.
Author Bio
CLAUDIA MAIR BURNEY is a freelance writer and author and the
creator of the Amanda Bell Brown mysteries, Murder, Mayhem,
and a FineMan and Death, Deceit, and Some Smooth Jazz. She
lives in Michigan with her husband, five of their seven
children, and a rabbit. For additional information visit
http://buzzplant.com/zoranicky/ecard1/#/intro/
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