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Janet Sketchley

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Janet Sketchley is an Atlantic Canadian writer who likes her fiction with a splash of mystery or adventure and a dash of Christianity. Why leave faith out of our stories if it’s part of our lives? You can find Janet online at janetsketchley.ca.

Random facts: Janet's super-power is untangling yarn and Slinkies™; there are over 50 varieties of tea in her house; she's Canadian but she worked at the busiest McDonalds in London, England; she's taken basic fencing lessons; and she once rode an elephant.

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Between the Sound and the Sea, by Amanda Cox (Revell, 2024)

Ostracized by their small town, her parents have sold the family home and moved south. Her father and brother haven’t spoken in years. And social pressure is about to kill her event planning business.

Josephine (Joey) needs distance—and maybe perspective. When she applies for a contract to restore an old lighthouse on North Carolina’s O

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“Somebody’d better pray for him, don’t you think? He IS a lost soul.
~Pastor John Linton”
Janet Sketchley, Heaven's Prey

“I don’t want God's forgiveness. And He’s not getting mine.
~Harry Silver”
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“Think often on God, by day, by night, in your business and even in your diversions. He is always near you and with you; leave him not alone.”
Brother Lawrence

“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“We look upon prayer simply as a means of getting things for ourselves, but the biblical purpose of prayer is that we may get to know God Himself.”
Oswald Chambers

“You can't get a suit of armour and a rubber chicken just like that. You have to plan ahead.”
Michael Palin

“After spending most of her life scanning the horizon for slights and threats, genuine and imagined, she knew the real threat to her happiness came not from the dot in the distance, but from looking for it. Expecting it. Waiting for it. And in some cases, creating it. Her father had jokingly accused her of living in the wreckage of her future. Until one day she’d looked deep into his eyes and saw he wasn’t joking. He was warning her.”
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