This week, the Christian Fiction Blog Alliance is introducting The Longing Season (Bethany House July, 2006) by Christine Schaub.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Christine Schaub is the author of the MUSIC OF THE HEART series, including Finding Anna, the “rest of the story” behind the writing of the hymn “It Is Well With My Soul” (October 2005) and The Longing Season, the story behind “Amazing Grace” (July 2006) with Bethany House Publishers, a division of Baker Books.
ABOUT THE BOOK: All of the books in the MUSIC OF THE HEART series are based on a hymns and their histories. The Longing Season is about one of the greatest redemption stories of all time: John Newton and his song, Amazing Grace.
Nature conspires against him, tossing the ship like a toy. Directionless–just like his life. It seems his odyssey will end here, in the cold Atlantic.
Grief and terror grip his heart, but he will not surrender…not yet.
She reads the sentence again and again.
The first day I saw you I began to love you.
He’d written the words, sealed and posted them, then vanished.She has a choice–turn toward the future, or wait, wating and hoping.
And so begins her season of longing.