A Distant Shore, Karen Kingsbury
A Distant Shore, Karen Kingsbury
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A Distant Shore

Bestseller

Author: Karen Kingsbury

Narrator: Kirby Heyborne, January LaVoy

Unabridged: 9 hr 28 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/27/2021


Synopsis

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Baxter Family novels and “inspirational fiction superstar” (Publishers Weekly) presents this high stakes love story of danger, passion, and faith.

She was a child caught in a riptide in the Caribbean Sea. He was a teenager from the East Coast on vacation with his family. He dove in to save her, and that single terrifying moment changed both of their lives forever.

Ten years later Jack Ryder is a daring undercover agent with the FBI and Eliza Lawrence still lives on that pristine island. She’s an untainted princess in a kingdom of darkness and evil, on the brink of a forced marriage with a dangerous neighboring drug lord, a marriage arranged by her father. This time when Jack and Eliza meet, there’s a connection neither of them can explain. Both of their lives are on the line, and once again, the stakes are deadly high.

Can they join forces in a complicated and dangerous mission, pretending to have a breathtaking love…without really falling? Sometimes miracles happen not once, but twice…along a distant shore.

About Karen Kingsbury

American author, Karen Kingsbury, is the country's bestselling, inspirational storyteller. She has over twenty-five million copies of her books in print. She knew she wanted to be a writer as soon as ten years old, falling for the Dr. Seuss at the age of 5. She was born in Fairfax, Virginia, but given her dad's computer programming job, the family of seven moved quite often. When Karen was 10, they moved to the San Fernando Valley of Southern California. Just thirty minutes from the beach, she spent hours sitting on the sand, reading her books, and dreaming of being a novelist.

Karen's journalism teacher placed her on the newspaper staff at Pierce College, and told her to never stop writing. She graduated from California State University at Northridge with a degree in journalism. She immediately began a job as a sports writer for the Los Angeles Times. She wrote mostly high school sports articles in the beginning, but later wrote for college and national professional sports. It was during this time that she met her future husband, Don. He was a handsome young man with an extraordinary love of Jesus Christ. Karen tells the story that he came to pick her up for their first date, with Bible in hand. It became what she considered annoying after three months, so she confronted him about it. Don left that day, but God would bring them back together. She unknowingly came to understand Don's thoughts about life as a Christian. They married and lived their married life as God would see fit. When she found out she was pregnant after six months of marriage, she did not know how she
would take care of a baby with such a busy work schedule. Don said that God would show them the way to write at home. Later, she submitted an article to People Magazine, and they thought the article would make a great book. Karen submitted a book proposal, a bidding war resulted, and she ended up with a book deal that paid her a little more than she already made in one whole year of work. She has been home writing books ever since.

Karen wrote four books in the crime genre, then decided to switch to books that glorified God. Her first novel in the new genre was ......Where Yesterday Lives. It was published in 1997, the same year their third child was born. Ever since her first novel, she wrote life-changing fiction. She said God puts a story on her heart and in her mind. Many of her books are under development with Hallmark Films and as major movies.

Karen and Don now live in Tennessee. She is an adjunct professor of writing at Liberty University. In 2001, they adopted three boys from Haiti, very quickly doubling their family. They are now empty nesters, living near their five adult children.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Bonnie on April 22, 2021

Lizzie James is just 8 years old when she is told her mother and brother have drowned. She is taken to her father's "palace" in Belize and her name is changed to Eliza. She soon learns her father is in the sex trade and trafficks young girls. She is always told she is being saved for "something spec......more

Goodreads review by Paul on May 29, 2021

This novel started with an interesting plot where an FBI agent goes undercover to bring down a child trafficking ring. After an action scene, the story continued to build on character development and was setting up a predictable yet satisfying love story. For some reason, in the middle of the novel,......more

Goodreads review by Gloria on April 29, 2021

Oh my. This is definitely not a Baxter story that the author has written in the past! But the message is still an emotional and thought provoking one. The main subject of the book deals with the tragic issue of human trafficking, in particular, young girls. Eliza, grows up in Belize with a ruthless,......more

Goodreads review by Barbara on April 03, 2021

The blurb on this story starts ten years ago when Jack Ryder was sixteen vacationing with his family at the shore, he sees a child struggling in a dangerous currant and swims out and saves her. But it turns out to be so much more than THAT. The little girl Eliza Ann Lawrence was once called Lizzie Sus......more

Goodreads review by Megan on June 03, 2021

This book was a quick, fun read. I did, however, have some issues, from the depictions of sex trafficking (I saw the brief mention of the wayfair conspiracy parroted as fact) to the assertion, whenever anyone “good” was mentioned, that they believe in God or are a churchgoer. I liked that these char......more