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Searching for Home #newrelease #importantread #addiction

10/28/2024

 
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Home is a safe place. It's filled with people I love. But what happens when you don't have a home? Author Laurel Houck explores home in her new release SEARCHING FOR HOME. This book is an important read- life changing. 

SEARCHING FOR HOME is available now in ebook and print. It tells the tale of a homeless woman who has fallen on hard times after dealing with an addiction. Most of America is only one month away from being homeless. A large expense can send families from their home. 

While SEARCHING FOR HOME has a gritty reality, it also has a wonderful message of hope and faith as GOD is present in the heroine's life as she fights for her very soul. Don't miss this life-changing book.

Blurb:
Life on the streets is hard but it’s deadly when a young woman battles addiction…

Where is home…when you’re homeless?  

Selah gets through life using lies, sex, and faux concern as a veneer to forget the past and to achieve personal gain. She barely tolerates her job bringing medicine to the streets. Will is the only man who has refused her body. She resents that his God stands between them.

Will pastors the homeless no matter who or where they are. He conceals a past that is anything but pure. His biggest temptation is his love for Selah. But he refuses to compromise his faith.

When Selah’s deceased husband appears to her—more dangerous in death than in life—the careful control she has used to cope slips away. Evil takes control as she falls far from the life she had carefully planned. And then farther still.

Selah must make a radical choice as an epic spiritual battle rages. Because she has finally found a love worth protecting at all costs.

Is there redemption at the intersection of brutal reality and saving grace?
 
Searching For Home is a gripping and too-real tale of love, addiction, and redemption; written by the one woman, Laurel Houck, who has championed salvation for hundreds of people. This amazing tale will have you brushing tears from your cheeks and will show you a hidden world our eyes have skipped over as we travel through big cities and small. Fans of realistic fiction like Ruby (Between the Cracks, #1) by P.D. Workman and Broke(n) by S.T. Jones will love Searching for Home.
 
All proceeds from the sale of this book will benefit homeless outreach, Light In My City,
www.lightinmycity.org

 
EXCERPT
I don’t give a crap about your name came to Selah’s mind, but she managed a smile. “God help me, that’s why I asked. But you don’t have to tell me.”

He shrugged and pulled up one sleeve to display a crude tattoo of a wrench. “Torque.” After surveying her for a moment he added, “Do you always ask God to help you? And does he?”

“Just a figure of speech. No real meaning. I always refer God questions to the pastor over there.” She gestured toward Will; his arms loaded with a stack of take-out boxes he added to a pile already on a bench beside his SUV. “Let’s get you something to eat.”

“Cool.” Torque touched Selah’s hand. “Thanks.

Selah pulled back from him.

“Oh, got it. No touching.”

“It’s just…” Selah reached out and clasped his hand with a firm grasp.

Her palm tingled, a mixture of fire and ice that shot tremors up her arm. She wanted to let go but she couldn’t. Her eyes focused on his fingernails, encrusted with dirt and grease, red lesions on his knuckles—scabies perhaps—and frayed cuffs of a flannel shirt peeking out from under the sleeves of a dirty brown Carhartt jacket.

The sight, familiar. The feeling, unknown. Electric. But not sexual. How was that even possible?

Torque let go first. “I’m hungry.”

“Oh. Of course. Follow me.” They walked together toward the packaged meals. “How old are you?”

“Want to guess?” Torque stopped and gestured up and down his six-plus feet.

Selah figured he wouldn’t be honest, but took a shot. “Eighteen?”

“Close enough.”

Which meant he might be younger and not want to get involved with juvenile agencies. In spite of his strength and appearance, he didn’t seem all that ready for street life. “Maybe we can get you connected to some people. Help you find your way home.”


BUY LINKS:
AMAZON- https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DDCMCVQZ
KOBO- https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/searching-for-home-22
BN- https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/searching-for-home-laurel-houck/1146182562
APPLE- https://books.apple.com/us/book/searching-for-home/id6642655098

Be Sure to Read Other Great Faith-Based Reads by Laurel Houck

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About the Author:
Laurel has traveled the road of writing since, at the age of six, she penciled her first book, Crawls the Caterpillar. With stops along the way for newspaper and magazine articles, she has published two Young Adult paranormal romance novels and one Christian Devotional of original poetry. She loves complex characters and intricate plots that mesh into multifaceted books, often melding romance, mystery, adventure, history, and the reality of today’s society.

Along with advocacy for the homeless, her foreign travels--often to provide medical care in the most remote regions of the world--and her belief in relationship as foundational, underscore her writing process. That, and a lot of Kenyan tea.
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When not deep into a project, Laurel hangs out with family and friends, reads, volunteers, and hikes with her Cavachon puppy, Lucy. And she just happens to be the biggest fan ever of chocolate milkshakes. And hugs.
 
Facebook:  @laurelhouck
Instagram:  laurelscottage
Website:     laurel-houck-author.com
 


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