Fabulous Friday Feature-Rebecca Demarino

Today we welcome author:

Rebecca Demarino

One commenter will win a copy of
Rebecca's book:

 To Capture Her Heart

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Mary here. I'm so glad you joined us today. Sometimes we give so much then watch something fall apart. Heartache can overwhelm us. Today, Rebecca shares from the inner sanctum of her heart, words that may even bring healing to you. I asked Rebecca to share how God had lead her on her writing journey. This is what she said:

It Was In This Place

Thank you, Mary Vee, so very much for inviting me to join you on Let’s Talk! When I reflect on my writer’s journey, I know it was more about learning to walk with God than the writing itself.

With my passion for reading novels and a creative writing class as a senior in high school, I dreamt about writing my own book someday. But two years later I married my high school sweetheart, and in another couple of years he joined the military service as a career. During the next eight years our three daughters were born across the United States—literally. Florida, Alaska and Nebraska, in that order. With all the household moves and three little girls, I didn’t have time to think about writing. Or my walk with God.

Oh, I was a Christian, and we’d always found a church home wherever we went. But on a daily basis I tucked God into my nightly prayers and in the morning rush forgot to meet with Him or seek blessings on the day. Giving thanks was relegated to mealtime. I longed for a deeper relationship with God, but I didn’t know how to find it.

God found me. And as so often happens, it was in the midst of despair. When our daughters were almost grown, I found myself in the midst of divorce. I didn’t want it, and sought counseling and everything else I could think of to change the course, but it happened. And all I could see in the future was a big void. I asked God why?

My daughters kept me strong, and within a year I moved back home—closer to family. My sister knew my pain and suggested now was the time to write my novel, that many stories grow out of our pain. I believe that might be true, but I was in too much pain—I wasn’t ready yet. God had plans for me.

Over the next few years I traveled with my mother to discover our Horton roots on Long Island and discovered the wonderful history of our family. There was much information about my ninth great-grandfather, but none about the woman who was my ninth great-grandmother. I wondered about her and her story. And I knew I wanted to write it.

I met and married a wonderful man who lived out in the gorge of the Columbia River, and when the commute to my job proved too arduous in the winter, I retired and then wondered what would I do in this small town? A tiny ad in a newspaper caught my eye. “Office manager – tell me what you read.” And though the paper proved old, and the position filled, two months later (when the first applicant did not work out) I went to work for one of the most successful literary agents in the business. Talk about wonderful! And so, out of a place of joy, I began to write my novel, early every morning. And I began to seek God before I typed a word on the page.

It was in this place that I began the walk with God that He longs for each of us. I began to meet Him in the morning and sit at His feet. There is something magnificent about watching the sky turn pink in a sunrise or the clouds bursting with rain and lightning, and I know God has given us nature to reveal His glory. He put an order to my day that I couldn’t find before. I felt His presence in a way I’d never known before and sought His knowledge. And in the moments I failed, I knew that He was there to pick me up. Today, I believe the pain I endured enriches emotion in my writing, but because of God’s love for me, I write from a place of joy.

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Rebecca DeMarino writes love, legends and lore as a historical romance author and lives in the beautiful Pacific Northwest. To Capture Her Heart released from Revell in July, and is book two of The Southold Chronicles, a series based on the true lives of her ninth great-grandparents. She inherited her love of baking and gardening from her mother, a love of horses, reading and writing from her dad, and the wanderlust gene from both parents. Her travels have taken her from Alaska to Nebraska and Florida, from Long Island to England and Italy, and from Washington DC to Texas, California and Guam. But usually you can find her at home baking crisp little ginger cakes.

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In an uncertain time, Heather Flower faces a choice that will change her life forever

It is 1653 and Heather Flower, a princess of the Montaukett tribe, is celebrating her wedding feast when a rival tribe attacks, killing the groom and kidnapping her.  Though her ransom is paid by an Englishman, she is bound by her captors and left to die—until she finds herself rescued by handsome Dutch Lieutenant Dirk Van Buren.

Still tender from her loss, Heather Flower begins to heal in the home of the Hortons, English friends of her people. Torn between her affection for Dirk and her longtime friendship with Ben Horton, Heather Flower must make a difficult choice—stay true to her friend or follow her heart.

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