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Title of Book: A New Promise By Julie Eller BACK COVER: Life can bring us to the end of everything, especially hope. When times are uncertain and overwhelming, it’s easy to abandon God when it seems that He has abandoned us. In her debut novel, A New Promise, author Julie Eller brings you into the presence of an omniscient, omnipotent, and unconditionally loving God through the Parnell family’s struggle to survive the multifaceted, devastating effects of Huntington’s disease. As two adolescents endure the emptiness and pain from the absence of a dying mother, their father finds himself confronting God and pondering, “If I were to find myself in even remotely similar circumstances, would my faith remain in God, the Great Redeemer?” Would you trust that God brought you to this very moment in your life and that you’re right where you’re supposed to be? A New Promise exemplifies the truth of Proverbs 16:9, “We can make our plans, but the Lord determines our steps,” with an assurance that “His ways are higher than our ways,” and that His ways are always best. REVIEWER’S COMMENTS: Celeste is a beautiful, competitive, successful career woman in Seattle. She left her roots in the small town of Shuskan some years ago. But things are never what they seem. The joy of her condo, her job, her BMW, and her independence are somehow fading as Celeste feels drawn to return home. Her sister, Rachel, once a beautiful, active mother of 2, lies still and shrivelled, ravaged by Huntington’s disease. Celeste has a brother-in-law, a niece, and a nephew who suffer daily with Rachel’s absence, and yet they have not said goodbye and moved on, since Rachel remains in the land of the living. When Celeste goes home for a weekend visit and finds the family in dire straits, she decides to intervene. Scott is lost in a world of grief and regret, and survives day to day in a walking stupor. Tawnya, his daughter, is stumbling through the awkward time of early adolescence, desperate for a mother to love her, accept her, and show her how to become a young woman. Ty, led astray by anger, fear of Huntington’s, and peer pressure, is barrelling down the road to disaster. With great faith in God’s goodness, Celeste intervenes in the lives of those she loves, instilling hope as she gently deals with each one. She speaks the name of the Lord freely, and prays easily with each one, encouraging them to do the same. The result of her obedience to God’s leading brings healing and great blessing not only in the lives of Scott, Ty, and Tawnya, but also in her own. Julie Eller has addressed beautifully the struggles so many face in real life. Her characters are real, walking through real hurts, battling with a God who feels far away. The God of Julie Eller’s book is the same God who works miracles in all our lives, able to mold beautiful things from broken shards of our lives, or the very poorly shaped vessels we’ve become. I look forward to more writing by Julie Eller! . AUTHOR INFORMATION: Julie Eller is a life-long resident of Washington State, raised on a cattle ranch in Eastern Washington, spending 20 years in the Tri-Cities before relocating to the Seattle area nine years ago. Her early life amid sagebrush, Hereford-Angus cattle, horses, 4-H and FFA animal projects remain close to her heart, and she has great memories of an idyllic childhood, the renegade cattle that broke through the barbed wire fence late on the afternoon of Junior Prom notwithstanding. Julie has been writing for several years, first dabbling in the secular women’s fiction genre, finally becoming disheartened to the point of having “hung up her pen” for a couple of years, believing that whatever spark she’d had for writing had burned itself out. It was at this point that the Lord issued His “call to service.” |
