STORY BEHIND THE COVERS—By Christine
Lindsay
Some readers
may already know that the model on the front cover of Shadowed
in Silk is Sarah, the daughter I relinquished to adoption in 1979, and
was reunited with when she was twenty in 1999. Relinquishing Sarah was the
hardest thing I’ve ever done, but it was the only way at the time I could give
her the life she deserved.
God
was so good to me in the years following my loss of Sarah. A year after giving
up Sarah, the Lord sent me my sweet husband David and gave us our three
children.
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David and I in November
1980
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Me and Lana--the
daughter God gave me to keep in 1981.
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Kyle when he was
little. My Sonshine.
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Our youngest, Rob, when he's all grown up and being the apple of my eye.
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Skip ahead . . . twenty years later when Sarah, and I were
reunited—wonderful and terrifying at the same time. One of my deepest heart desires
was that my two daughters, Sarah and Lana, become close. I used to pray they’d
become like the bookends they were in my heart.
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The day of the reunion
for Sarah and I. Wonderful and difficult. This is Mark (Sarah's fiance),
Sarah, me, Lana, and Rob in front. Kyle was too shy.
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Adoption
reunions are not easy for anyone. To my heartbreak, it didn't appear that the
long desired special relationship would develop. A few months after meeting
Sarah, my husband caught me crying and placed a brand new pen and journal into
my hands. “Here honey, write it.”
One
day as I was journaling, a Bible verse jumped out at me and for the first time
I understand the love of the Heavenly Father. Isaiah 49:15, 16.
“Can a woman forget the baby at her
breast, and have no compassion on the child she has borne. Though she may
forget, I will not forget you. See…I have engraved you on the palms of my
hands.”
A few
years later I felt the Lord encourage me to put the emotional and spiritual
healing that He had given me into fictional stories to help others. In 2011 my
debut novel was about to be released, and in a serendipitous way God arranged
for Sarah to be the model on the cover of Shadowed
in Silk.
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Me
with a group of Christian students in India, 2010.
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Sarah in the sari
material I bought in India.
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Sarah teaching hygiene
in Africa with Global Aid Network
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A few
months after Shadowed in Silk was released, my birthdaughter Sarah and
her husband Mark announced they were joining Global Aid Network to work with organizations that help
widows and orphans.
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Sarah and Mark as
medical missionaries
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One
of those missions was the Ramabai Mukti Mission in India. When I heard this I nearly
fell off my chair. I had never told Sarah that the true-life Ramabai
who started the Mukti mission in India was the inspiration behind Shadowed in Silk and Captured by Moonlight.
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Many
years ago, I had prayed for the Lord to give Sarah, Lana, and me, a special
relationship. It took a while, but He knit our hearts together in the
respective work He gave each of us to do.
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Sarah with the orphan children
she loves
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When
it came time to release Captured
by Moonlight I asked for my daughter Lana—the daughter God gave me to
keep—to be the model on the front cover.
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| Lana dressed up as the character Laine |
A
long time ago, I had prayed that one day I’d see my two daughters together like
bookends. Thanks to our Awesome, tender-hearted Heavenly Father, He gave me
just that.
Both my beautiful
daughters on the books God inspired.
Author Bio: Irish-born Christine Lindsay writes award-winning historical novels. In Shadowed
in Silk and Captured by Moonlight, Christine
delights in weaving the theme of the Heavenly Father’s redemptive love
throughout stories of danger, suspense, adventure, and romance. Christine is
currently writing Book 3 of that series to be released August 2014, Veiled at Midnight. The Pacific coast of
Canada, about 200 miles north of Seattle, is Christine’s home.
Book Blurb: Captured
by Moonlight
Prisoners to their own broken dreams…
After a daring rescue
goes awry, the parched north of India grows too hot for nurse Laine Harkness
and her friend Eshana. The women flee to the tropical south…and run headlong
into their respective pasts.
Laine takes a new
nursing position at a plantation in the jungle, only to discover that her
former fiancé is the owner…and that Adam has no more to say to her now than he
did when he crushed her years ago. Why, then, is she still drawn to him and to
the tiger cub he is raising?
Eshana, captured by
her traditional uncle and forced once more into the harsh Hindu customs of
mourning, doubts whether freedom will ever again be in her future, much less
the forbidden love that had begun to whisper to her. Is faith enough to live
on? Or is her Savior calling her home?
Amid cyclones and
epidemics, clashing faiths and consequences of the war, will the love of the
True Master give hope to these searching hearts?
Christine Lindsay would love to
connect with you on her website www.christinelindsay.com
Christine posts inspirational
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