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Author Dawn V. Cahill writes “Stories of Victorious Faith for the 21st Century,” nearly always with a crossword puzzle, sudoku, or dark chocolate nearby. “The characters in my stories face situations that would have been unthinkable even 20 years ago. We live in a vastly different world than our parents did, and that's the world I write about.”
Seeing an unfilled niche in the Christian market for edgier fiction, Ms Cahill created Hot Topic Fiction at an intensive four-day writers conference. HTF isn’t afraid to explore the question, how does God want us to live out our faith in this not-so-brave new world? Without insulting the reader by offering pat or easy answers–because there aren’t any–HTF tells stories of ordinary Christians following ...more

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Average rating: 4.16 · 136 ratings · 45 reviews · 7 distinct works

	Sapphire Secrets (Seattle Trilogy #1) 4.40 avg rating — 43 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Moonstone Secrets (Seattle Trilogy #2) 4.36 avg rating — 22 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	When Lyric Met Limerick (Seattle Trilogy #0.5) 3.41 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Emerald Secrets (Seattle Trilogy #3) 4.25 avg rating — 16 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Paint the Desert (Golden State Trilogy #2) 4.29 avg rating — 14 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Paint The Storm (Golden State Trilogy #1) 4.33 avg rating — 9 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Paint the Sunset: A Christian Contemporary Novel (Golden State Trilogy Book 3) 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Dawn V. Cahill

Seattle Trilogy (3 books)
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Amateur writing, compelling story. The book needed professional editing. Too much telling. Even though it read like a high schooler wrote it, the story itself kept my interest. Nice surprise ending.
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Dawn Cahill liked Eve Markley's review of Pressed Together: A Post-WWII Romance in Rural Ohio (The Together Series Book 1): "This book is actually worse than I expected, and I didn’t expect a lot. Let me first make it clear that I am a genuine Christian. I’m not a pew-warmer and I truly love my Lord and my brothers and sisters in Christ. But it’s a painful reality that fin" Read more of this review »
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