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If you liked Violet Dawn, be sure to check out:
251052: Dead of Night, Hidden Faces Series #3

Title of Book: Violet Dawn
Author: Brandilyn Collins
ISBN Number: 0310252237
Publisher: Zondervan
Publication Date: Sep 2006
Reviewer: Mary Connealy

Violet Dawn
By Brandilyn Collins
252237: Violet Dawn, Kanner Lake Series #1

Paige lay back, sinking up to her neck in the hot water and pillowing her head against the black vinyl headrest of the hot tub.
Something sinuous brushed against Paige’s knee. She jerked her leg away.
What was that?
She rose to a sitting position, groped around with her left hand. Fine wisps wound themselves around her fingers.
Hair?
She yanked backward, but the tendrils clung. Something solid bumped against her wrist.

Excerpt from Violet Dawn.

Paige is just trying to relax so she can sleep. She’s lived a life so lonely that her dreams are haunted at night by thought of a sister. She believes it. She prays for it. She keeps her past a secret because so much trouble could be pursuing her if anyone knows who she really is.

And then the trouble starts.

This book starts out with such a great hook that your are, in my humble opinion, guaranteed to be hooked hard at the end of chapter one. I know Brandilyn Collins just the littlest bit. We’ve met and what she writes is ground breaking in Christian fiction. Absolute thrillers. I love what she’d accomplished as doors open to Christian fiction in all genres. There are still sweet Jennette Oke-esque prairie romances out there, plenty of them. But Christian fiction is everywhere and it just keeps pushing the limits. Why shouldn’t there be thrillers with Christian characters? Why shouldn’t there be Chick Lit books about the woes of single Christian women?

If Left Behind can be one of the best selling series of all times and The Passion of the Christ can be one of the highest grossing movies of all time, there there’s a huge audience for Christian fiction in all genres and the publishing world is figuring that out at last. Brandilyn is really paving the way in thrillers and she does a great job of continuing that in the first book of her Kanner Lake series, Violet Dawn.