Perhaps a book shouldn’t be judged by its cover. But we all do it!
The cover can draw us in, compel us to take the book from the shelf or click on the image to find out if it’s a story we’re interested in reading. The cover image almost always tells us something about the genre, the setting, and the tone of the story. And the title and the author, too, of course!
This is the cover that spoke to me.
Because of other reading commitments, I haven’t started reading Flame of Mercy yet, but I’m excited to do so. I already know that Eleanor Bertin is a thoughtful and engaging writer and the story sounds amazing.
All Lynnie Min ever wanted was to be a wife and mother. But when tragedy strikes her family, she’s left with nothing but her faith to begin life again. While pursuing a career she never wanted, can the precious faith she was raised on withstand betrayal by a hostile former friend, now a professor whose ideologies conflict with her own? And why do her puzzling dreams feature only one of her daughters, not both?
Out of a smoking ruin in northern Nigeria, Ihsan bin Ibrahim stumbles upon the solution to his wife’s barrenness and longing. But family ties have a long reach. Will he make the ultimate sacrifice to follow his conscience, even if it means losing the child he loves?
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