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Helsinki
Sunrise, a Passport to
Romance, blog tour follows on from yesterday’s return stop in Zambia where
Beauty
for Ashes host, Aldyth Thomson,
posted a book review on Helsinki Sunrise.
The
island retreat belongs to Mikko and Eveliina’s grandparents. Mikko promised
Adam a three week, solitary retreat for his preparation for the mission field.
However, Eveliina decides to escape her stressful job, relationship, and life
without knowing the cabin is occupied. Mayhem ensues in the war of who gets to
stay on the island.
Eveliina
has been running from God since the death of her parents on the mission field.
She is living the glamorous city life, loving her boss, and thinking she has it
all. Without God in her life, she finds little pleasure in any of it. Adam represents
everything from which she has tried to run away. Her brother Mikko has followed
in his parents’ footsteps into mission work. Adam is a friend of Mikko who
continues to ask others to pray for Eveliina and her relationship with God.
Eveliina takes delight is torturing Adam offering coffee, pie, home-cooking, and
even herself to him to try to break his devotion to God.
Adam
tries to bring her words from God. He has often prayed for her when Mikko had
asked for prayer. He feels he has been given an opportunity to be God’s
ambassador and bring her back into relationship with God. However, her
temptations become more and more difficult to resist. He finds himself
attracted to Mikko’s worldly sister, even as he is attempting to focus on God
and his mission. Eveliina becomes God’s mission for him.
I
was blessed to read this story as a part of ACFW’s Scribes. In submission after
submission, Marion created the drama and Christian passion for God as well as
for each other in Eveliina and Adam. I was sorry to finish the story.
Spoiler
Alert! God wins, as He always does.
Be
sure to follow this blog across to the UK tomorrow at Clare Revell for an interview with Helsinki Sunrise heroine, Eveliina
Mikkola.
Helsinki Sunrise release-day half-price
special tomorrow, 22 August—only $1.99 from Pelican Book Group.
There will
be an eBook of Helsinki Sunrise up for grabs on this blog. To be entered into the draw, please
leave a comment with your email address.
To
increase your chances of winning one of the many copies of Helsinki Sunrise that will be given away, take a journey to each of the stops on
this three-week blog tour and leave a comment. Don’t forget to include your
email address.
Watch the Helsinki Sunrise book trailer on YouTube.
Watch the Passport to Romance book trailer on YouTube.
Marion Ueckermann’s passion
for writing was sparked in 2001 when she moved to Ireland with her husband and
two sons. Since then she has published devotional articles and stories in Winners, The One Year Devotional of Joy and Laughter (Tyndale House
Publishers), and Chicken Soup for the
Soul: Miraculous Messages from Heaven. Her debut novelette, Helsinki
Sunrise, releases August 22, 2014 by White Rose Publishing, a Pelican
Book Group imprint, Passport to Romance series.
Marion
blogs for International Christian Fiction Writers and Beauty for Ashes. She
belongs to Christian Writers of South Africa and American Christian Fiction
Writers. She lives in Pretoria East, South Africa in an empty nest with her
husband and their crazy black Scottie, Wally.
Connect with Marion Ueckermann: Website / Amazon / Facebook / Twitter / Pinterest
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