Instead of trying to find your perfect match in a dating app, we bring you the “Author-Reader Match" where we introduce you to authors you may fall in love with. It's our great pleasure to present Amanda Cox.
Writes:
Amanda writes award-winning and best-selling inspirational women’s fiction. She takes characters on a journey of hope, healing, and finding a place to belong. Her background is in professional counseling, and she loves using her education and experiences as a counselor to create characters who work through the trials of the past to find a healthier way forward. Her latest book, BETWEEN THE SOUND AND THE SEA, is about a Tennessee girl who takes a temporary position restoring an abandoned lighthouse in the Outer Banks of North Carolina to escape scandal in her small town. She discovers that the old beacon holds more than a few mysteries from the 1940s, aching to be solved. She hopes that while restoring the lighthouse and untangling secrets of the past, she’ll figure out how to get her life back on course.
About:
A Tennessee girl, through and through, I love exploring new places, but the foothills of east Tennessee will always be my home sweet home. When I’m not writing, I love exploring the great outdoors and keeping bees in my backyard. Fueled by copious amounts of coffee and chocolate, I pen tender stories that tug on all the heartstrings, digging deep into family dynamics. Swipe right if you are looking for an author who writes books to savor while sipping sweet tea on your front porch.
I’m looking for a reader who craves:
- Books that feature family dynamics
- Stories with a bit of sweet romance, but prefers for it not to take center stage
- Books with an easy-to-read literary feel
- Stories that gently unfold, unearthing long kept secrets
- Southern United States fiction
What to expect if we're compatible:
- Stories that blend the past with the present
- Lyrical writing
- A dash of humor lifting characters who have experienced pain in their past
- Authentic growth and healing journeys
- Fun niche topics incorporated into the story like beekeeping, running a small-town store, and restoring abandoned lighthouses
Every family has its secrets. Josephina Harris wouldn't mind if her family still had a few of their own after a lawsuit tarnishes their name. When an opportunity opens to become a temporary keeper of a decommissioned lighthouse on a North Carolina island, she jumps at the chance to escape her small town to oversee its restoration.
As the work begins, "Joey" discovers strange notes tucked deep in the crevices of the old stone walls--pages torn from a lighthouse keeper's log signed by someone named Mae who recounts harrowing rescues at sea. Fascinated by a woman lighthouse keeper, Joey digs into the past only to discover there's never been a record of a lighthouse keeper by that name.
When things start to go amiss on the island, locals are convinced that it is the ghost of the lighthouse keeper and his daughter who were lost at sea during World War II. As Joey sifts through decades of rumors and legends and puts together the pieces of the past, what emerges is a love story--one that's not over yet.
Multiple Christy Award winner Amanda Cox is your guide upon the raging seas of young love, heartbreaking loss, and learning to risk it all for a chance at happiness in this timeless novel.
Women's Fiction | Romance | Christian [Revell, On Sale: August 6, 2024, Paperback / e-Book, ISBN: 9780800742744 / eISBN: 9781493445509]
Amanda Cox is a blogger and a curriculum developer for a national nonprofit youth leadership organization, but her first love is communicating through story. She holds a bachelor's degree in Bible and theology and a master's degree in professional counseling. Her studies and her interactions with hurting families over a decade have allowed her to create multidimensional characters that connect emotionally with readers. She lives in Chattanooga, Tennessee, with her husband and their three children.
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