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Christian novel attacks physical and spiritual heart issues
When two people marry with unresolved issues and unexpressed expectations that drive them deep in escapism, what you have is marriage mayhem on the magnitude that only God can solve. This may sound like the latest plot in a daytime drama, but this is the makings of Secrets and Lies, the debut novel of Christian fiction writer Rhonda McKnight.
In the book, Jonah Morgan is a driven pediatric cardiologist who works long hours to make sure his family doesn’t lack money like his birth family did when he was 10 and in great financial need. His frequent absence from home has his children longing for his presence and has drawn a wedge between him and his wife, Faith, making her lose faith and wondering if the marriage is worth saving. Jonah is also dealing with unforgiveness. With marital woes and an unthinkable accusation from one of Jonah’s co-workers, Secrets and Lies keeps readers on edge, wondering what the next move of each character might be.
Though fiction, Secrets and Lies has real people with real “heart” issues that affect them physically and spiritually. Because of this dual aspect of health, McKnight is promoting her book in connection with February’s “Healthy Heart Month” to get people to focus on physical heart conditions as well as spiritual ones. A reader on her blog tour will receive a kit from the American Heart Association (AHA), which includes a bag and cookbook. McKnight is also donating 10 percent of her profits to the AHA.
Originally titled Issues of the Heart, McKnight says she hopes Secrets and Lies gets people discussing “what little steps can we take to be more (physically) fit.” And “if anyone is struggling with unforgiveness, I hope they would pause and reflect and perhaps think about the next step” to get beyond unforgiveness. “There is a connection between the issues of overeating and alcoholism in people who have unresolved emotional issues,” McKnight said.
She believes that Secrets and Lies “exemplifies the power of faith and hope in overcoming personal pain and the power of forgiveness to set us free. “Forgiven is a decision,” McKnight said. “But once we make the decision to forgive, then we move on, then we heal. When we don’t, we just make ourselves unhealthy.”
About the author: Rhonda McKnight is the owner of Legacy Editing, a free-lance editing service for fiction writers and Urban Christian Fiction Today, a popular Internet site that highlights African-American Christian fiction. She’s a member of Faith Based Fiction Writers of Atlanta. When she’s not editing projects, teaching workshops about writing or penning her next novel, she spends time with her family. Originally from a small, coastal town in New Jersey, she’s called Atlanta, Georgia home for twelve years.
To interview McKnight or for more information, contact Tyora Moody at blogtours@tywebbin.com. Visit the blog tour schedule at http://bit.ly/HealthyHeartBlogTour.
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