HOW SWEET THE SOUND by Vanessa Miller is a wonderful story, filled with love, adventure, heartbreak, and the guidance of God. We are taken on a journey with Shar Gracey, a gospel singer from Chicago. Shar has enchanted the heart of her Pastor, Landon Norstrom with her anointed voice, but he is not the only one captivated by her God given talent. As Shar explores her dreams of becoming a famous gospel singer, she gains a bit of life and loss. Illness, death, and despair finally bring Shar back before the Lord. With the help of Pastor Landon and Shar's parents, Shar finds her way back in to the palm of God.
HOW SWEET THE SOUND brings you into a time period that may be different in some ways, but holds the same lessons and truths. Vanessa Miller's talent shines through as she guides Shar and the reader to find faith and hope in the Lord. HOW SWEET THE SOUND is exactly as the title reads, how sweet the sound, and I'm not talking about sugar sweet. It's a kind of sweet gets deep inside your soul and beckons you to reach for the pain and trouble you may have buried. It doesn't stop there. By the end you will have thrown those past pains aside and begun running head long in to the love of the Lord. I would recommend any one, who has fallen away from God or seen things crumble around them, read this book, I'm sure glad I did.
Shar Gracey wants nothing more than to sing the Lordβs
praises, so she jumps at the chance to join a traveling
choir led by the father of black gospel music, Thomas A.
Dorsey. Better yet, the opportunity will give her money to
pay for her ailing motherβs medical care.
While on tour she falls under the tutelage of gospel great
Mahalia Jacksonβand falls for the handsome but not-so-great
Nicoli James, whose desires for Shar are fueled by his own
greed. Shar would do anything for Nicoliβand he knows itβso
when his life is threatened after a night of gambling, Shar
agrees to help pay Nicoliβs debt, only to have her faith and
dreams shattered.
Reeling from the betrayal, Shar loses her voice and she
believes that she will never sing again. She has no place to
run except back home to her seriously ill motherβand the man
she left behind, who would move heaven and earth to make
Sharβs pain go away. Even if it means he has to let her go .
. . again.
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