About the Book
Book: Alabama Days
Author: Daphne Self
Genre: Romantic Suspense
Release date: June 16, 2020
Paramedic Scott Wilson believes he can chase death away, but his spirit is shattered when people he loves are taken from him. As a paramedic, Scott sees every day the pain that people suffer, and he wants no part of a God that would allow bad things to happen to good people. As a result, he hides behind his work and addiction to ease the pain within his soul.
But once newspaper reporter Angela Mabry and her son, Max, move into town, Scott can’t help but notice the feisty redhead. Angela is determined to uncover the town’s seedy underbelly and reveal the strange coincidences of so many car accidents at one location.
When a prominent city official dies in a car wreck, Scott and Angela find themselves tangled in intrigue and deception. Together they search for the truth and discover that not all is what it seems.
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"Alabama Days" by Daphne Self is about how good people, in this case a paramedic could become hooked on drugs. I how to admit that both of the books made me tear up at the beginning because of death. But the more I read I realized that these books were "Real Life "
I am glad that I am on this book tour because I am sorry to say that I have actually had "Mississippi Nights" for years and have never read it because I have always had others books to read but since I had to write a review for "Alabama Days" , I decided to read it first and I am so happy that I did. I will definitely read any more books by this author if she writes them.
This is a novel of romance, mystery, suspense, and gentle exploration of drug abuse. It also talks about "Why does God allow some people to die and others are allowed to live. It is also a mystery that puts the hero and heroine in danger.
I really appreciate that in the midst of all the suspense and the questioning and "real Life" is a Strong Christian message. This book just might make an unbeliever start to rethink their unbelief. The book talks about how each person finds God in his own way when he searches for Him and how God gives us free will. I have to disagreed with one statement in the book through,
About the Author
“Then He arose and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, ‘Peace, be
still!’ And the wind ceased and there was a great calm” (Mark 4:39).
This verse is the promise made to Daphne.
Daphne Self, formerly published under the name D.M. Webb, resides in Iowa. As a Mississippian transplant, she spends her days in the Midwest state writing, editing, reading, antiquing, and planning adventures with her husband and sons. She pursues her dream as an editor and author with one goal in mind: To Glorify His Name. Daphne is also an avid reader who devours books in many genres.
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Why Did I Write What I Wrote?
One question that is always asked of me: “How did you come up with your book?”
Well, it is simple and complex. Like the helix shape of a DNA strand that holds four proteins in an infinite combination, my ideas are a lot like that. My first book, Mississippi Nights, started off as a book from my childhood. I wrote One Big Happy Family when I was about 16. It was buried and put aside for so many, many years. And after the line-of-duty death of my husband in 2005, the idea of resurrecting that novel percolated for some time. Finally in 2010, I took the story, revamped it, and drew from life to create a story about the prodigal son who returns home to family. It wasn’t just his story, but a story about his brother, a family friend, and a little girl. Mississippi Nights brought to life the story of alcoholism and how a person can fall into that addiction.
After that book was published, I started thinking: “What if someone saw death, hurt, and sorrow on a daily basis? What if that person didn’t have Jesus to lean upon? What would he do?”
And that’s how Alabama Days was born. While Mississippi Nights dealt with alcoholism, Alabama Days dealt with drug abuse, and in this case, prescription drug abuse.
Yet it was much deeper than that. What if the person was a really good guy? He was likable, generous, loving, yet he lacked that one relationship that would bring him peace. If he were someone who did what was right, no matter what, what would happen if he committed a wrong act only to find that his wrong act saved the life of another?
I had so many ethnical questions thrown at my characters. How would a Christian and a non-Christian react to certain circumstances. Because life isn’t always clear-cut, yet the Bible is, I wanted to show the messiness of being human.
We know that as Christians, we all fall short. We all sin at times. The difference is that when we sin, we know we can receive forgiveness and “Go and sin no more.” But how would a person who ran from God think? How would I react if I were like him?
Writers play around with what-ifs. We see the many facets of humanity. And that’s how our stories are born. And why we write what we do. For me, I want to show the many sides of human nature and behaviour and show that in all things, Jesus is the answer. Jesus is there for us all.
So, why do I write what I do? To bring glory to His Name and hope that through my words, people will come (or return) to Christ.
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Among the Reads, February 18
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Inklings and notions, February 25
For Him and My Family, February 26
Happily Managing a Household of Boys, February 26
deb’s Book Review, February 27
Locks, Hooks and Books, February 28
Pause for Tales, February 28
Artistic Nobody, March 1 (Guest Review from Joni Truex)
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Giveaway
To celebrate her tour, Daphne is giving away the grand prize package of a copy of Mississippi Nights, a copy of Alabama Days, a floral mug, a leather Is. 40:31 bookmark, 2 mini notebooks, and a Paramedic Prayer keyring with velvet pouch!!
Be sure to comment on the blog stops for nine extra entries into the giveaway! Click the link below to enter.
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Camy
writes Christian contemporary romance and romantic suspense as Camy
Tang and Regency romance as USA Today bestselling author Camille Elliot.
She lives in San Jose, California, with her engineer husband and
rambunctious dog. She was a staff worker for her church youth group for
over 20 years and she currently plays on one of the Sunday worship
teams. Visit her websites at http://www.camytang.com/ and
http://www.camilleelliot.com/ to read free short stories and subscribe
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Besides being an Indie Author, I’m a wife, mother of four, children’s Sunday School teacher, sweet tea drinker, history fanatic, romantic, bubbly, lover of broccoli, and a retired cake decorator who has a soft spot for Christmas trees, Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, and sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ.
After
being unjustly expelled from the Boston Conservatory of Music,
Amaryllis Brigham sees her dreams of founding a music academy in her
hometown of Seattle, Washington, disappearing before her very eyes. Now,
the only way to achieve her goal comes with high stakes for someone set
on avoiding men as much as possible: Marry within the year to inherit
the immense fortune of her estranged grandmother. Amaryllis reluctantly
moves in to her aunt’s Boston home and rubs shoulders with fashionable
society. Despite her own misgivings, she soon finds herself quickly
falling in love with the most unlikely of men–Nathan Everstone, the envy
of every eligible female, whose father has haunted her dreams for the
decade following her mother’s tragic death. However, Nathan turns out to
be much more than he seems…and everything she never knew she wanted.
But just as everything Amaryllis has recently hoped for comes to
fruition, it all falls apart when she finds that the real culprit who
has been managing her life isn’t who she thought at all.
Dawn Crandall’s debut Gilded Age Victorian romance, The Hesitant Heiress,
was a 2015 ACFW Carol award finalist in the debut category and received
the 2015 Gayle Wilson Award of Excellence, the 2015 Write Touch
Reader’s Choice Award and the 2015 Romancing the Novel Reader’s Choice
Award. Her follow-up novel, The Bound Heart, received the 2016
Laurel Award from Clash of the Titles. Dawn earned a BA in Christian
Education from Taylor University. She’s been balancing books and babies
lately as her two sons were both born as the four books of her Everstone
Chronicles series were being released from Whitaker House from 2014 to
2016. Dawn lives with her husband and two young sons on a hobby farm in
her hometown in northeast Indiana.
“Swear on something else. Swear on your humanity.”
Nicki is a twenty-something author of clean YA speculative fiction. She has been writing since she was eleven years old, and has published several works including portal fantasies such as A Week of Werewolves, Faeries, and Fancy Dresses and A Certain Sort of Madness; as well as Winter Cursed a dark fantasy Snow White retelling.
Joey
Fuller is still mourning three years after his wife’s death, so much so
that he leaves his four rambunctious young children to throw himself
into the Civil War as a Union captain. But his kids are so ill-behaved
that nannies keep quitting—and now, his mother has a broken leg and
can’t handle them either. In desperation, Joey decides to advertise for a
wife.
Born
and raised in west Michigan, Sharlene MacLaren attended Spring Arbor
University. Upon graduating with an education degree in 1971, she taught
second grade for two years, then accepted an invitation to travel
internationally for a year with a singing ensemble. After traveling for a
year, she returned to her teaching job, then in 1975, she reunited with
her childhood sweetheart, and they married that very December. They
have raised two lovely daughters, both of whom are now happily married
and enjoying their own families. Retired in 2003 after thirty-one years
of teaching, Shar loves to read, sing, travel, and spend time with her
family—in particular, her adorable grandchildren!