Regina Rudd Merrick returns to Novelists Unwind to share the inspiration behind her latest novel, Heart Restoration. This is the first book in Regina’s RenoVations Series, though the characters were introduced in her novella, “Reno-Vating Christmas,” in Hope is Born: A Mosaic Christmas Anthology. 

Heart Restoration is also the latest novel in The Mosaic Collection–our 13th!–and celebrates our first year of bringing top-notch faith-based stories to our growing community of readers.

Regina dedicated her novel to her parents, writing:

You instilled in me a love of home from day one, and were never afraid to try something just because it was hard.

During our chat, Regina and I talked about how this love for home has influenced both of us in our writing. And we talked about a whole lot more!

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Purchase Links: Heart Restoration and Carolina Grace

Heart Restoration

For interior designer Lisa Reno things go from bad to worse when her contractor-brother falls off a ladder and breaks his leg. Now she has to deal with the past coming back to haunt her, an old house with a corpse in the creepy cellar, and her best friend trying her best to fix her up with any man that moves.

Nick Woodward is willing to do his old college roommate a favor – especially since it involves renovating his own inheritance. The last thing he wants is to get involved with anyone. When he lost his wife and unborn child so suddenly, he had made the decision to keep God and everyone else at arm’s length.

So far, so good.

Ah, the difference a trip to a dingy basement makes.

Carolina Grace

First-year Special Education teacher Charly Livingston demonstrates God’s love on the outside but is resentful that God allowed back-to-back tragedies in her family.

Rance Butler is a top-notch medical intern. He’s on his way to the top, and when he meets Charly, he knows things will only get better. When he discovers family secrets and a dying father he never knew, his easy, carefree life seems to disintegrate.

Even in the idyllic ocean breezes and South Carolina sunshine, contentment turns to bitterness and confusion except for God’s amazing grace.