The Torch Keepers RELEASE

Today's the day!!!!

A little dream is becoming real. And yes, it feels crazy. XD

Like how even?! How does God give me one small idea and stretch it to more until it's a book and it's releasing and the world gets to know these characters that hold so much of me?!

This last month has been crazy too; learning to trust, surrender, give myself to Jesus. There's been stress and missed deadlines and distractions and fangirling moments.

So last night I stopped, remembered what this release was really about.

And the answer: Him.

FRIENDS - The Torch Keepers is RELEASED!! You can order it on Barnes & Noble and soon also on Amazon! You can throw copies at your friends or hide in your closet and look at the beautiful cover that Alea created! Or host a giveaway, share with the world, write a million reviews!

I'm SO excited, so blown away, so thrilled that God chose to write this book through me!

But, dear friend, in all that (before you go hide in your closet with the novel), here's my heart:

The Torch Keepers isn't about the book.

It isn't about the author or the reader or the people who helped make it. It isn't even about Kadira or Emyir or Nura or Rekém.

The Torch Keepers is about a King. This King loves His people in a radical, huge way. He treasures them, from the smallest, disabled orphan girl to the Prince who seeks to use his power to take over the kingdom.

It's a King who is bigger than fantasy. Bigger than the world I created. It's the King who gives me every single breath and is with me with every beat my heart pounds out.

It's this King who sees you. All of you. The good, the bad, the secrets you try to hide. And in that, He. Treasures. You.

You're His princess, His prince. He sees you as His own. His child. His beloved.

And when things are worst, when you can't do it yourself, He bled and died to give you life.

That's what The Torch Keepers is about.

YES - it's one of my favorite books (I might be partial), and YES, I might be seriously fangirling over here. (eep!) Go grab your own copy, hide in the world of Érkeos, and wrap yourself in the story!

But when the book closes, friend, you are a treasure. Not because of who you are, what you've done, but because of the King. He cherishes you!

HAPPY RELEASE DAY! I'm bursting over here! *throws dark chocolate to everyone*

Now let's go change the world.

The Creator of the universe calls you beloved. ♥

And the ransomed of the Lord shall return,

And come to Zion with singing,

With everlasting joy on their heads.

They shall obtain joy and gladness,

And sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

- Isaiah 35:10

~♥~