Wednesday, February 08, 2012

CFBA Blog Tour - "Ruth's Redemption" by Marlene Banks

The
Christian Fiction Blog Alliance
is introducing
 
Ruth's Redemption
Moody Publishers (February 1, 2012)
by
 
Marlene Banks
#christianfiction


ABOUT THE AUTHOR:


Marlene Banks worked 30+ years in nursing and the business arena. Her goal as a writer is to create inspiring, gripping and realistic stories with an emphasis on African American literature. She believes her gift and desire to write is from God and desires to use it to fulfill His purposes. Marlene lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where she is a member of Bethel Deliverance International Church.




ABOUT THE BOOK:

Set in the 1800s, Ruth's Redemption, is an unusual depiction of the lives of slaves and free blacks in pre-Civil War America. Bo was educated while enslaved and given his freedom. He now owns a farm where he buys slaves for the sole purpose of giving them their freedom.

Bo is also a man of God and a widower whose life is destined to change when he meets the proud and hard-hearted slave girl, Ruth. She has known nothing but servitude and brutality since being separated from her mother at age thirteen. Purchased and sold primarily for breeding, Ruth struggles to adjust to life outside of bondage. She wants no part of Bo's Godly devotion. Yet, Bo is unlike any man she's known and her experiences with him will leave her forever changed.

A gripping slave era novel, Ruth's Redemption is a story of love, forgiveness, and redemption. Set against the backdrop of the Nat Turner Rebellion in Tidewater, Virginia, this novel shines the light of God's unconditional love in the darkness of a culture's cruel socially accepted inhumanity.

If you would like to read the first chapter of Ruth's Redemption, go HERE.

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