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V.S. Carnes
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Please visit the links below to view my book trailer, and then let me know what you think. Thanks, Nick!!!
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Sand for Dreams
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Sand for Dreams (Literature & Fiction)
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Caine Garnette is a Strategic Service officer accepting of his own fate. Jaded by his past, he embarks on a quest to save a small child from destruction, only to find his own salvation deep in the sandy heart of Arabia.
He also finds an Englishwoman stolen from the streets of Jerusalem.
Although she has lost her spectacles on the slave market, Virgilia Wessex soon discovers that the man of her dreams is right before her eyes. But the disguised American known as Caine Ali Hakira is anything but the charming prince she had been expecting. Secretive, unfriendly and haunted by an irreconcilable tragedy, Caine further acquaints her with the reality of the world in which she has been thrown. In turn, she introduces him to the possibilities of wishes made on stars... and to the same God he’d abandoned as a boy.
Spanning post-World War One England, America, and Africa, they encounter sandstorms, dangerous revolutionaries, and charming locals. Imprisonment, risk and friendship. Aching loss and glorious redemption. The course of this man and this woman will ultimately merge into the same: a life of forgiveness, of love… and of realized dreams.
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“She was an extension of his dreams. A sprinkling of magic dust, of unfeasible wishes, on his stable existence. The one thing-the one bright, marvelous thing-he wanted more than the world, but didn't deserve. However much he was tortured for her sake, however much blood he had spilled to protect her, the bruises to his body and the thrashings to his sanity, it would never be enough to make a wretch like him worthy of such a miracle.”
― V.S. Carnes, Sand for Dreams
― V.S. Carnes, Sand for Dreams
“And what was to become of what he had taken from her? He had dashed her heart to the ground and danced on it with combat boots. Did he sit in that seditious palace day after day and not even bother to scrape it off of his soles with a passing thought of her?”
― V.S. Carnes
― V.S. Carnes
“I learned...that inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic striving, but it comes into us slowly and quietly and all the time, though we must regularly and every day give it a little chance to start flowing, prime it with a little solitude and idleness.”
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― Brenda Ueland
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― Frank Peretti
“Staying alive is nice, but you can’t do that forever. It’s how you live the life you have while you have it.”
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― Frank Peretti, Monster
“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
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Thanks to all my new friends for accepting requests and sending them. Great to meet you all! Find me on Facebook. http://facebook.com/vscarnes
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Howdy doody VS! How did we go so long without meeting? I read up on your book, and then I watched (and "liked") your youtube trailers.Here is a link for my most-watched trailer...(also Christian Fiction)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDXTyk...
Please go see!
I clicked you as a fav author on GR and I hope I get to read your book soon. It's on the shelf and sounds wonderful.
Hugs and blessings!
ellen
Thank you very much for including me on your friends list, V.S. Sand for Dreams looks very interesting. I really hope I can get around to reading it at some point.If it's not too forward, I'd also like to ask you to consider my spiritual allegory, Song of George: Portrait of an Unlikely Holy Man for your list--certainly fictional, but very much inspired by my personal experiences.
Namaste and best wishes to you, Truly, jesse
p.s. Thought also that you may be interested in our group: God Realization (Sincere Non-Religious Spirtual Literature)
Thanks for accepting my friend request, V.S. It's greatly appreciated. If you love a good mystery, and you have either a Kindle, Nook or iBooks, I encourage you to try a sample of my first novel. It's called FORBIDDEN STEPS and it's getting raves and 5 stars across the board. Check out what folks are saying by clicking on the link below, then scroll downward. http://www.craftweb.org/web/ed/book.html
Also, here's the link to my YouTube promo vid.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4c21_S...
Enjoy and have a wonderful day, Ed
Hey, V.S...thanks for the invite into your circle of friends...looking forward to sharing chats, reviews and any/all recommendations...Happy Reading :-)
Hi V.S. - Thank you for your friendship!Please visit my website http://www.peteradarkenedfairytale.co.uk
to view a sample page and many other snippets about the book.
Expected release date Feb/Mar.
Best wishes, William
V.S. Carnes!! You're amazing!! I love your sample chapter and can't wait until your book is available:)
