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Rose in the Desert by KM Daughters




Blurb:
Anna Babic Robbins, dubbed "The Rose Of The Adriatic" by pilgrims to her village, leaves her home bound for America. She is to deliver secrets concerning the fate of the world to a Chicago priest who will shepherd mankind to prepare to hear God speak. 
Four women travel to Las Vegas, and while there, snow begins to fall during triple digit heat. They soon learn that the non-accumulating snowfall is a worldwide phenomenon—a universal sign from God preceding the gift of a permanent sign inexplicable by earthly standards. 
With the culmination of these miraculous events, all their paths intersect, and God will reveal His plans to each soul on earth.
Will mankind listen?

Extract:
Matt clasped Anna’s hand and led her to the bench. “She’s speaking English today? My poor Anna, you’re outnumbered in this family,” he teased.
“For three days in a row now, she abandons Croatian. My English has improved since I married my American doctor and became a mother.”
Matt brushed the back of Anna’s hand with a soft kiss. “Your English is perfect.”
His penetrating gaze was clinical, characteristic of his acute intelligence, his M.D., and Ph.D. degrees. “Doctor-Doctor” Matt Robbins never missed a thing.
“But you’re not yourself today, love. I don’t think I’ve ever seen that expression on your face. What’s troubling you? Did our little rose really scare you that much?”
“No…yes…” Anna shook her head. “Everything confuses me today. I was frightened and a little amused, too. Seeing her try to go up the wall made me think of your first visit here. Remember how you climbed the garden wall to steal a rose, so you could analyze it and prove that I’m a big liar?”
Matt chuckled. “I do remember every second with you.”
He smiled sheepishly. “I poked and prodded and tested you. You passed the lie detector test with flying colors.”
“Colors fly?”
He gently rotated her hand and kissed the palm. “That means you weren’t a liar, and I was a skeptical scientist. I confessed what I was up to that night before I resorted to thievery. And, eventually…I believed.”
 “Yes.” The heaviness around her heart lightened, remembering all that led her to fall in love with the man who made her dreams come true.
“And I married the most extraordinary woman on the planet and have been graced beyond measure. Just look at our little miracle,” he said, grinning from ear to ear.
Ruža sat in the dirt, inspecting a smooth stone. She peered at the rock and spun it around in her hands as if deciphering its composition.
"She is so like you," Anna remarked.
Matt smiled, his eyes twinkling as he gazed at their daughter. "Maybe in some things. But, thank God, she looks just like you. Beautiful. Those soft brown eyes melt me every time. And she has your shiny, honey-blonde hair. We’ll have to beat the boys off with a big stick when she’s grown."
“I don’t understand,” Anna said. “You’d strike her suitors?”
He turned his attention to Anna and gazed deeply into her eyes. "I love you," he said.
Anna's spirits lifted, thrilled at the expression in her husband's sparkling eyes that mirrored their abiding love. "I love you, too."
Giving her hands a squeeze, he asked, "Feel better now?"
More at ease, she replied, "Yes, thank you. I feel foolish."
"Good."
She knitted her brows and he chuckled.
"Good that you feel better...not that you feel foolish," he clarified.
Stretching out his legs, he relaxed on the bench. “Aren't you going to ask why I'm home in the middle of the day?"
Widening her eyes, she joked, "Because you missed me too terribly to bear it."
He beamed a smile and replied, "There's that. But...Anna you won't believe it. All five terminally ill patients at Mir House were spontaneously cured! It was magnificent. I wish you had been there to see it. Harry and I are left with nothing to do."
An obscure dread colored Anna's elation at the unprecedented, wondrous news. Her thoughts whirled as she considered this event’s possible connection to her lingering apprehension all day.
Matt's voice muted in her consciousness.
"There's a procession up Gospa Hill planned this evening,” he said. “I thought we could hike up Salvation Mountain now for reflection and thanksgiving. Just us three..."
"Anna. Come."
The sweet, beloved voice she knew so well blotted out earthly reality, and Anna shot off the bench.
"What? Anna!" The shock in Matt’s voice penetrated the haze.
Breaking into a run Anna shouted, "Our Lady comes. Matt. Quick. Bring the baby. The chapel..."

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Author interview:

How does your faith affect your writing?
Our Catholic faith is central to everything we write - especially, of course, our Christian fiction. The true genesis of the Adriatic prequel and sequel novels and the Gospa Journeys novellas that precede Rose In The Desert was during prayer in a Eucharistic chapel in a Marian apparition site. Kathie emerged from her communion with Christ in the Blessed sacrament having received the clear message that K.M. Daughters HAD to write about this place. The fictional Valselo was born from that.
If you were a pair shoes, what style, brand, and color would you be?
Most any brand of comfy walking shoes. Kathie usually opts for white and Pat likes day glow yellow. We literally walk the soles off shoes when we're together.
What’s more important to you, to be original or to deliver to readers what they want?
To be original, for sure, because we think that if we are original we deliver the best possible story to Readers.
What do you love about this story?
We love the ultimate connectedness of plot lines and character arcs in the end. Truthfully, we had the most difficulty connecting all the dots as we worked through the plot outline process. But through the shared, global experience of the main characters in the story with humanity, everyone connects to God, love itself.




Comments

K.M. Daughters said…
Thank you for hosting us, Clare. We are so excited about this new release. Blessings!
LoRee Peery said…
Such imagination. I can hardly wait to read this story!
K.M. Daughters said…
Thank you, LoRee. All our best, Pat and Kathie

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